The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-09
By Vote Of 6 to 2 Council Passes
Ordinance Confining En- to
East Of SIKH Except
Norlhsf Choctaw
BOND OF $500 PER
CAR Is REQUIRED
McRae Protests Against Passage
and Declares Car Owners will
Fight IN Courts; Emergen-
cy Clause Fails

The fight for and against jitneys IN
Chickasha camesto an acute head last
night when the city council passed an
ordinance requiring bond OF $500
for each jitney. auto bus or other mo
tor vehicle used for hire. and prohibit
ing jitney cars with regular routes
from running in the district west OF
Sixth street unless north OF Choctaw
avenue
The ordinance was passed by vote
OF to 2. councilmen Neal and Hayes
voting no and Caneman. Cayett. Du.
Bose. Lorenson, Linn and Mckay vot-
ing yes. Penalty is provided for in the
ordinance making violator liable to
q fine OF from s25 TO 500 or to Jail
sentence OF 30 days
James McRae, driver OF jitney, ap-
peared before the council to protest
against the passage OF the ordinance.
He declared that fight would be made
against 1t in which the jitneys knew
that they could win, but which would
waste much money for both the jitney
men and for the city. II is said that
the jitney men will fight the ordIn-
ance on the grounds that the city does
not have the right to restrict vehicles
to particular section OF the town.
In speaking OF the requiring u a
bond. he declared that this feature
would do nothing but drive out OF bus
mess several Of the men who canno.
raise the money and give a monopoly
to the man who could raise it. He
intimated thai there was but one
owner OF jitney or service car in
Chickasha who could make such a
bond. the other men having no re.
sources other than their cars.
"And II two jitney cars" he said,
in speaking OF the street car protec-
tive feature OF the ordinance, "can
make the Chickasha Street Railway
company losing proposition. let Us
put on another car and do all Of the
transportation business in Chickasha
by the most economical method
When Councilman Csneman asked
Mr.. McRae what he would do in case
OF an accident il he did not have bond
protection. the iitney man replied tha.
he would do just as Councilman Neal
would do II his deliery wagon ran over
some one or another councilman would
do il he injured some one with his an
tomobile. He would do the best he
could"
Councilman Lorenson Immediately
after the adoption of the ordinance,
moved that the emergency clause be
attached This motion was lost, all
but Mr.. Lorenson voting against IT,
When the original ordinance came up
for vote. Mayor coffman questioned
the right of Mr.. Lorenson to vote on
the question on the grounds that he
was an interested party. The council
man stated that he was no longer in
terested personally in the matter since
he had sold his transfer and storage
business
II was rumored this morning thai
the ordinance would probably bs
changed before it had had time to 81
into effect. Mayor Coffman state'
that similar ordinances have beer
passed by other cities and they arr
now being tested out in the courts.
Monthly bills amounting to ss4s4.s'
were allowed at the meeting Th'
records shog this to be. the smalles
amount allowed for any one month Il
year. Following the regular session
the councilmen heard discussion c
motor fire apparatus. given by rer
resentative of a manufacturing hous
of Cincinnati. He declared that b
spending $4,000 on triple combinatio
hose and chemical wagon. the cit
could get rating from the insuranc
companies by which almost this SUI
could be saved to the payers of insa
ance every year Besides this, he sai'
more efficient protection would grea
" decrease the actual fire loss OF III