The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-29
LUCKING PRAISES LAWSON
TRACTION SETTLEMENT PLAN
Says He Can't Understand How
Any Citizen Can Oppose
Its Main Features
URGES "DETERMINED
STAND FOR OUR RIGHTS"
Believes Company Can BE Com
PEELED to Accept Ordinance
-HutchinS Is Mum

let the-city officials stand firm
and let the people back them" is the
advice OF Alfred Lucking, regarding
the Lawson ordinance. Mr. Luckina
said. Wednesday morning:
As Mr. Lawson has publicly stated
we were confronted with the problem
what 10 advise the city to do ifteI
the decree ia the FOREST case should
be entered by the supreme court. This
naturally led To a good dear of dis
cussion and TO conferences between
him and myself and also with Judge
iIally. This proposed ordinance Is the
result
Except ia some minor details, II
has my entire approval number
OF It's provisions were written by my
self So far as ! know or believe. no
person connected With the ID. L. X.
know anything about II until Mr..
Lawson read il In the meeting Tues
day. The minor details mentioned
can easily be iroaed out by the COM
mon council.
"The great and important features
of the ordinance must receive the APP
proyal OF every citizen. They are
lower fares, pending final sale TO the
city, the agreement ty the railway
company TO sell at any time 10 the
city at its option, the agreement 10
sell at a fair and reasonable price,
the right to have this price fixed by
the chancery court in case OF failure
10 agree, the right on the part OF the
city 10 terminate The arrangement al
any time immediate extensions and
the securing OF the railway against
loss i'm making such extensions In
case the city decides not TO buy and
orders the company off the streets.
ut puts the rate OF tare throughout
the city on the same basis as the
tnree-cent line so-called. This may
not be as low as we may be entitled
to, but ii affords reasonably low
rate. pending the final sale TO the
city.
How any citizen can oppose this
ordinance in its main features, | can
not understand. The difficulty will
be to get the railway TO accept II.
But this can be done II the city ofti-
Gals will stand firm, and II the people
will back them We have only 10
take determined stand for our rights
as fixed by the supreme court In the
Fort-st. case, and the railway com
pany can be compelled 70 do anything
in the premises which is reasonable.
PERSONALLY | wanted this whole
matter held up Until the decree in
the FOREST. case should be actually
signed, and until the railway came
TO the council asking for mercy. but
the desires OF citizens for immediate
extensions have forced the mayor and
the council 10 immediate action.
This ordinance gives immediate re-
lief and does not tie the hands OF the
city for "A single day
Would Gain Strategic Position.
Many who have read and consider
ed the Lawson ordinance believe that
it's passage can do no harm. and will
on the contrary place the city in a
fine strategic position
The presentation of the ordinance
az this time has brought the FOREST
rental case again into the public
mind. the people are wondering what
mas delayed the supreme court In
signing the decree ordering the ID. Z.
Il. out OF that thoroughfare, Wherever
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