The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-08-20
WHY NOT NcIuLlOlGH:
This II the Question Which Is Br
ing Asked by Many OF the pubi;r
Has His hcsn t'sr speA the Rf
calIpI~e

callers?
The CaucaSiaas has at Aana a com
municati"n fvom = kuIsIi" AvIritr'
citizen ~ pr"nsNrnce who 6'5lIs>
to know WAY 9oIsn MeuIIOugh
Commissioner A pllblc Utilities
mas been eXsnptei from recall
when, a. tas r.cOrAS will &SelNSe
g. Wa fhc main instigatnr of thc
electric light deal, maEs W,tb To-
Shreveport a'as, Electric aigh an'
Power COmpanS.
Besidps the GorIeapoNG'nt, scores
OF me CaucaSian'S frRnds ha\e sX
pressed thp wish tN kI,sW why Com
missioner McCulINlgh Was mol
made Q part Of the Irrsi OF 'hr
Mayor ant the Othtr Two UHrnting
commissioners, Rlves amt fnsl'loVr
Che CaucaSian Go"Ii Not explain
nos give ttR reason Whirb may ~
unraveleh ~ Ihr resaII.rs BY wtsom
the recall has h."N nstipaIna
90 tz cised in 10" petition for ~
call, ag@nst NE Mayor: 'GaGk Of in
itiati<c capacity IN handling thc gas
we'll at the Fair grounts ana failure
t" Keep his campaign plehgcs, "t'
Against RSeS: "Be D. arcus'1 -,
having Made an rtiss h@ht in O"
half of the gas company in cOnnrr
ton with the six year lighting con
tract which was 3ough by the Mu
| nicipal Ownership teagus," etc.
Against tulIiIov- ii Is alleged that
"He is Incompetent To- enforce the
law"
In this contention me Caucasian
will not rush 20 the front, Is thr
champion of the recalled nor of the
would d-like-tOgetin, but it would
seem singular that Commissioner
Mccullough has been excepted from
the recall when he, as we'll as the
other commissioners, has been
equally at fault in whatever d"rP-
LECTION of duty of which they are
charged.
It was several weeks preceding
the active consideration of the pro
posed contract with the Shreveport
Gas. Electric Light and Power Com
pany that number of citizens,
named as a committee, A. Querbes,
Leon r. Smith and Y. GrOsjcan, to
call on the City Council and to sub
nit the all important issue of The
reduction of the price Of light. il
was not the intent at that time OF
the lighting company to reduce the
rates then prevailing.
The lighting company had assert
ed that they could not and they
would deviate from their rates.
It was about that time that Com
missioner Mccullough was rather
pronounced as to his stand in favor
of the lighting company. There fol
lowed another meeting of this Citi-
zens Committee ! with representa-
tives of the lighting company and
the council. At this meeting, on the
motion of Commissioner Rives, there
was named joint committee com
prising Mayor Eastman, Rives and
Mccullough with A. Queries, Leon
r. Smith and V. Grosjean. Subse-
quently the lighting company de
lclined to treat with the committee
YwhO were struggling for what the
people should have. It was an
nounced that the lighting company
would not recede from their rates
except for public lighting. The at
titude of the lighting company at
that time was an indirect insult to
the commissioners and to the citi-
zens Committee, who declared en-
IphaticalIy that they would have no
dealings with the company.
At this stage of the proceedings
there was threatened rupture. The
contention was for contract Tor
one year at the rates then prevail
ing or contract Of four years at
| the rates suggested by the commit
| tee. The committee opposed strenu-
ously the proposed contract for SIX
years, as it was beyond the term
fixed for the tenure of the commits
sioners.
In all these proceedings Commits
sioner Mccullough was always ac
| tive towards the lighting company
and on one occasion he declared
himself in opposition to the municI-
pal ownership of the gas or electric
lights. He favored the six years con
tract with enthusiasm. Subsequent
ly there was offered compromise
which is now in force, and which al
the time was believed to have ema
mated from the lighting company
but was credited to Commissioner
Mccullough.
The Citizens Committee was Op
posed to the six years contract, but
at an election following, the con
tract was ratified, under a misap