Republican farmer., 1920-07-16

be withdrawn.
 protest swept over the city today when the travelling public heard of the action of the Board of Aldermen in passing an ordinance which If lived up to would banish all jitneys from the streets of this city.
 Many expressed their intention of walking if they were unable to get 4tney transportation.
 . The officers of the Bus Associations were loud in their denunciation of tht action of the Mayor and Alder men and predicted that the Republi- can party would feel the effect of this knuckling to the demands of a foreign corporation against their own citizens and voters of the city.
 Jake Massoth, formerly president of the Park City Bus Association af- ter looking over the routes left to the 1itney men said that the only way that the jitneys could cross town un- der the new ordinance would be by using the Grand street bridge.
 The officers of the Bus Association said that the jitneys run over the old routes notwithstanding the new ord1- nances as all of the jitneys have h- censes which do not expire until next year and that the men Will run al- though they may be arrested every minute. Their counsel having in formed them that the ordinance was entirely unconstitutional and illegal The Park City Bus Association will meet this afternoon to take definite action looking to a concerted move ment to insist on their legal rights and they will then formulate their campaign for meeting the situation.
 In case arrests are made an appeal will be taken and if the men are threatened with continual annoyances and arrest injunctions will be sought against the city and it's ponce com missioners and officers
 L. s. Storrs president of the Con- necticut Company, and one of the other officers of the company were in conference with Mayor Wilson this morning and were awaiting certified copy of the ordinance to be submitted to the company's chief counsel in New Haven for his opinion as to whether the company would agree to run the cars after the l 9th under the condi- tions set forth in the ordinance pass ed by the aldermen last night when President Storrs discovered that the last paragraph of the ordinance which was on file in the city clerk s office nullified the entire ordinance from the Connecticut Company 8 point of view and took the matter up with Mayor Wilson who brought the or1siuai back to the city clerk and said ,, that the word mot" should be insert ed before he would sign. The mayor said: You know this was spoken of last night and it should be in there" The word was then inserted and the ordinance was signed
 The original copy also failed to contain a provision stating the time the ordinance went into effect and also repeating inconsistent ordinances but Assistant City Clerk Robert Jones stated that 1t was agreed after the original draft had been accepted to insert the following clause: This ordinance shall take effect July 15 1920, and all ordinances or parts o1 ordinances inconsistent herewith are l, repealed This provision was at tached to the copy signed by the Mayor.
 President Storrs said this morning that even with the passage of the new ordinance the Connecticut Com pany did not intend to operate 1t! cars in Bridgeport more than thirt! days longer unless the receipts of the company increased so materially dur ing that time that the operation O the road here was no longer lostn. proposition.
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 its works and pomps was renounce and denounced by most of the speaK CTS at the session of the Alderme last night with such fervid eloquenc and array of facts in opposition t the proposal of Mayor Wilson to fore the jitneys out of business that tn plan adopted in the caucus proceed ing the meeting to force the matte through was so thoroughly shake that the mayor hastily called the eS saved the day by talking to his Al dermen when there was no one pres ent to counteract the effects of hi exparte plea.
 i. More than a thousand were pres ent at o'clock the hour schedule for the opening but the crowd wa kept waiting for an hour in the hu
 mid and tobacco smoke laden air ( mayor held the members of the Boar trying to convince them that the 2 trolley company.
 When the aldermen at the end the session pushed their way throug
 the packed center aisle to their sea
 they wore that hang dog look of jury panel which is about to announc
 . verdict of guilty to a condemne
 murderer.
 They hardly looked at the gre.
 audience and held little or no COT yN versation among themselves and dul
 ing the reading of the mayors mes