South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-11
BUS
ORDINANCE IS
PUT TO SLEEP
Measure Providing Prohibitive
License Fee and Excessive
Bonds for Automobiles
for Hire Knocked Cold.

Amid cheers from persons who /
packed the galleries OF the council /
chambers Monday night. the much |
/ talked-of jitney bus ordinance |
I dropped of into a deep slumber /
/ from which il will probably never /
] awaken. Catcalls and Kisses greet /
ed the efforts Of three lone repub- /
lican councilmen 10 keep the meas /
ure alive.
Long before the members OF the |
I council arrived for the regular /
/ meeting, citizens were at the city !
/ hall waiting for the meeting 10 /
/ open. They were all interested in l
the ordinance providing for 50, coo |
bond and a heavy license fee for I
/ jitneys.
/ Councilman Maurice Nennet. !
! democrat. struck the blow that put /
I the measure TO sleep. When the /
! ordinance was called up for its third |
! reading and hnal passage. Council |
/ man Nennet made some pertinent |
/ remarks. He said that there were /
many clauses in the measure that
( aid not suit him. and declared that /
/ there was already under course Of |
/ preparation an ordinance regulating /
| jitney busses in "A much more equit-
able manner He then moved that !
action on the ordinance then before !
I the council be postponed indeh- !
nitely
JudsOn Supports Vcnnct.
Councilman Sherman c. Judson, !
! republican. seconded Mr.. Vennets
motion. Pres't Olejniczak ordered /
an ayes and nays vote IL did not |
seem satisfactory. so he called for /
rising vote Immediately those
in favor of postponing action on the
measure stood up. There We're
seven OF them. six democrats and
one republican. Councilman Jud-
son voting with the democrats. I'M.
mediately there broke from the
galleries sudden cheers that ratified
the rafters and caused City Atty.
Thomas Slick 10 start like some
thing very much unexpected had
happened.
Then the chair called for the op-
posing vote. COuncilmen William
Hagey G. A Beyers and William
GOebel stood up. Noises from the
galleries also greeted them. but
they were not the same kind that
followed the vote Of Councimen
Luther Nennet. Bailey. Kuss Wis
nieswski. Olenjniczak. democrats.
and JudSOn, republican. They were
perfectly good limitations of catcails
and Kisses. Pres't Olenjniczak had
TO restore order. 1t was all over
then. and the erstwhile Interested
throns. composed Of jitney owners.
jitney lawyers street car company
representatives. Chamber OF Com
merce DELEGATES and innocent by
ISLANDERS went home. There seemed
TO he nothing more at the meeting
TO interest them.
Beyers Makes Motion.
After the smoke OF the jitney
battle had cleared away. Council
man Beyers made motion II was
20 the effect that the advertising i'm
South Bend should be censored. Mr..
Beyers expressed his deep dis
approval of desecration OF the
country's heroes by chewing sum
and tobacco advertisements. and he
asked that an ordinance be pre-
pared by the city attorney prohibit
ing the display in South Bend Of
any advertisement employing Il ma
tionai emblem or the picture Of any 4
famous American. or OF lithogra phs
i'm advertisements representins
sailors and soldiers OF Uncle sam.
Mr.. Beycrs also requested that
the proposed ordinance carry sug-
sestive clause to the newspapers of
the city that they refuse 20 print
advertisements of this character
He said that he did not like to see
Gen. Grant represented as a tobacco
advertisement or sailors and sol ;
diers as advertisements for partic-
ular brands of chewing gum
Then "a motion was read from
Councilman Wisniewski that mem
bers OF the council be placed on the
same basis as Mayor Carson. mem
bers of the police force and the
police and fire commissioners by be-
ing provided with suitable ,adges
II is provided in the motion that
the city shall pay for these badges
The matter was referred 10 the com
mittee OF the whole.
Poor street Car service.
Councilman Judson then arose TO
vice on Madison and Michisan SITS
and on MishaWaka av. He said
that men employed i'm the factories
OF the city are forced 10 walk 10
work on account of the poor trac-
tiou service provided by the street
car company. Tie declared the Off
cials OF the company should nc
called before the council and forced
10 explain the reason for what he
termed 10 be miserable service
he declared that the company could
not give snow and ice as an excuse.
Upon motion OF Mr.. JudsOn. City
Atty. Slick was instructed 70 take
the matter up with the street car
company
An ordinance appropriatins ST.
zoe Ca the park board FOR band con-
certS IA the parks during The sum I