Arizona republican., 1914-03-31
Defers Action for Two Days On Application of Pro posed New Railway to Occupy Portion of Madi- son Street
ATTORNEYS URGE
 IMMEDIATE ACTION
Report of Investigating Committee InQuiring Into Graft Charges EXonerates Councilmen Warren and Cisney

l. arises before the meeting of the 1 common council to be held tomor- 1 row evening, it is likely that an or | dinance giving an entrance to Phoe- nix of the Tucson, Phoenix and l Tidewater railway. will be adopted under suspension of the rules. Whether this ordinance will permit i the use of five or six Dlocks oI 1 Madison street, from Third avenue | tu Ninth avenue. or whether the or 1 dinance will require that the com- ,any confine it's track-laying opera ' tons entirely to Jackson street is a matter that is to be decided at the special meeting. But in any event l fl was demonstrated at the adjourned meeting held last evening that the members of the common council are quite in d mood at this time to do ! all in it's power to reach an eqult- shle adjustment of the difficulty that confronts it and to grant the rail- road company privileges which 1t can utilize in coming into Phoenix. l Two matters were the order oi business before the common council when it convened last evening. The first was that of receiving the report of the joint committee of the Board Of Trade the Merchants and Manu- lecturers. the railroad promoters, the property owners and the council, re- lating to the granting of the prIvi-
 lege to lay tracks for the proposed railway in Phoenix; the other was
 that of receiving the report of the oouncilmanic committee relating to the charges of graft that had linked | the names of two members of the council
 As chairman of the joint commit tee, Dr. Ancl Martin presented a verbal report stating that after due consideration it had been decided that the best possible solution was that embodied in the proposed or dInance reads:
 That permission is hereby given to the Tucson, Phoenix and Tidewater
 Railroad Company, it's successors
 and assigns. to lay, construct, main ltain and operate single track stan-
 dard gauge steam railroad and all necessary switches, side tracks and turnouts in certain of the streets and alleys of the city of Phoenix. that
 is to say:
 Tn and along Jackson street. be- ginning at the east boundary of the
 said city; and thence west along said Jackson street to and across Ninth avenue; thence by a conven- tent curve southwesterly to Harrison
 street: thence west over and along said Harrison street to the west boundary of he city: and also a turnout from Jackson street by convenient curve west of Third ave- nue. northwesterly to Madison street;
 thence west along Madison Street to
 Ninth avenue; thence by convenient
 curve southwesterly to Jackson anc
 Harrison streets; and also a turn out
 from Jackson street west of Thiro Eavenue by a convenient curve north
 esterly to the alley between Jack
 son and Madison streets; thence west along said alley to Sixth avenue. l This, pr. Martin said, solved thu
 
 , the suggestion that the company bt permitted to use that portion oi 7 Madison street between Third anu l Ninth avenues was only to provide : means for the company to utilize it's property on Madison street fo = depot. warehouse and other purposes
 The reading of the proposed or , dinance raised storm from tn : property owners who crowded tn council chamber to it's capacity 5 Thomas Armstrong. Jr., representing 9 the. property owners. was on his fee in an instant:
 f T represent ninety five per cent O S the property owners. along Madison $ street." lie said We had expecte
 that the proposition to utilize Madi son street had been definitely aban
 doned. This proposition to utiliz
 this much of Madison street come
 lpoeket a petition asking that Madl , sen street be not given over to tn / building of a railroad. The spr
 ;of that petition would oppose the us
 of even portion of Madison stree n for such purposes It was tn a claim of Judge Armstrong that til
 giving up of many streets to diffei l, ent railroads would be a means {. defeating the hopes of Phoenix ft , q union station He said it woul
 be q positive injury to the bushes |. district of Phoenix to bring a raj [, road to within two blocks of Il q center Of the city He asserted tn; = offices and mercantile business ( ,s not remain near steam railroads. H
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