The Detroit times., 1913-11-12
DEPOT LOOP PLAN
Is REJECTED BY.
COUNCIL, l6TOl4
Aldermen Refuse to Knuelkle
Down to d. u. n. In Matter
Of Terms
SQUABBLE IS NOW JUST
WHERE 1T STARTED
A. H. Frazer Presents Bill of
$4.822 for Services as Special
Counsel in Traction Matters

, The common council. Tuesday
night. refused to ratify the agreement
suggested by Mayor Marx and the
members Of the railway commission,
and submitted as a report u ,ihs pub
lie utilities committee, persnitting the
.. U. r. 70 construct 3 lcbp from
the AichisanAve line to the new
Michigan Central depot on . seven
for-a~quarter fare basis. BY q vote
Of 16 to II, the. aldermen rejected
the committees report.
A majority Of the sAldtfmen an
nounced that they would stand pat"
on the city's demand for an sxten-
sion OF the Fourteenth threeAcelt r1ne
to the depot. and there 10 little hope
now Of breaking the deadlock between
the company and the council. The
controversy Is just where It was ave
weeks ago, and the new terminal will
open next month without street car
facilities.
Mayor MARKS second rebuff at the
hands Of the aldermen came as an
unpleasant surprise to the friends OF
the administration. It was thought
that whom Aid. Lodge, chairrha6 az
the com6ilttSe o. Iublic .uli)lt$ei,
gave in t3lAf the ebstscle ptsssrtie
. speedy 3Sttlamaaf az tie .ioop mat.
ter had been removed. But Aid.
9 Rrten, who has heen untiring IN HE
night for the Fourteenth line exten-
sion. refused to hack down, and it
was through his efforts that the pro-
posed agreement was rejected.
Under the agreement OF Aug. z, the
common council, It seems. has no
power to compel the d. U. r. to build
extensions except on the company.s
terms. 1t was thought at the time
the agreement was adopted that the
extension OF Pingree lineS was pro-
vided for on three-cent fare basis.
Later Joker" was discovered In the
agreement. permitting the company
to build all extensions on q seven-for-
a-Quarter fare basis. Rather than al.
low the company to dictate terms, the
council has decided 70 refuse to per-
NIT extensions Of Pingree lines un-
less the company agrees TO- the. terms
that the aldermen thought" the
agreement contained when they voted
for 1t at the urging OF the mayor.
The vote on the extension resOlu-
tion was az follows:a
For--Ald. Allan. Behlow. Bleil, De
Galan, Freiwald. Guthard, Hindle.
Jakel, Keating, Lodge, Nowc. Owen,
Schemansky. Vernor--l4.
Against Barnett, Dlll. Dingeman,
Field, Coldner. Litt.eneld, O,Brien,
Reid, Reinhardt. Rutter, Schultz,
Skrzycki, Thompson, Wartell, Wen.
cell. Wilson-16.
Allan n. Frazer. special counsel for
the mayor In the street car matter,
presented a bill Of 94.S22.S for legal
services from March until November.
The bill was referred to the COM
mittee on claims and accounts. The
city, on request of the mayor. appro-
priated $1,000 for the services OF q
special counsel.
Aid. George Fields ordinance re-
strlcting the entire Sixth ward was
referred to the liquor committee. The
council confirmed the appointment of
Joseph A. Marks as poor commission.
er to succeed the late Ignatz Freund,
ana of DIR. Frank Neifas as -seheoi In
spector to succeed Jay c. Hudson in
tho Sixteenth ward.
Aid. Barnett's effort to raise the re-
strlction on Wholesale liquor places
to permit the establishment Of . store
at No. 227, Gratiot.Ave.. was again
referred back to the committee on
liquor regulation.
The protest Of the Detroit Fedora.
tion OF Labor against city employees
receiving pay from the city while In
the sekyIce Of the state doing strike
duty in Calumet, was referred to the
committee ON ways and means.
Aid. Field, by resolution. asked the
corporation counsel to attack the
validity of the state automobile law
which takes SIC. 100000 OF the city as
sossment rolls.