Indiana daily times., 1920-11-02
LOOP PROBLEM
PUT OFF AGAIN
Councilmen Resent Being
SheIved by Jewett Bunch.

The ordinance to establish a downtown
street car loop outside the congested dis
trict was saved from death in the city
council last night when it was made
special order of business for the hrst
meeting in February.
Councilman Louis W. Carnefx. after
explaining that the limit Of time after
Introduction in which an ordinance must
be acted upon before automatic death
would result moved the measure go over
until February and that special COM
mittee to confer with the board OF pup
lie works and officials of the Indianap-
oils Street Railway Company, to work
out some downtown street car rerouting
plan satisfactory TO all interests, be ap-
pointed
Both motions passed, and President
Gustav G. Schmidt will appoint the COM
mittee later.
ORDINANCE LEFT
WITH COMMITTEE.
"If the street car company doesn't
want to cooperate on q loop plan, and
will not. thcn the council can act, Mr..
Carnefx said.
The oordinance was left in the hands
Of a committee Of the whole, to which
Il was referred several weeks ago.
w z QOu want luAS tAhAAAoANS ~ N-NS
but we want to give the street car COM
. pany and the board of works an oppor'
tunity to work out something" Mr.. Car
nefx said.
President Schmidt warned city officials
negotiating with the Citizens Gas Com
pany for the amendment CT the gas fran
chise that If they continue to ignore the
special committee of the council all
their negotiations may go for naught.
Mr. Schmidt, as chairman of the spe-
cial committee. told the council there
was nothing to report. adding:
CONSISTENTLY
IGNORED.
AT might say that this committee has
been consistently ignored to the present
time.
isn't that right Mr.. Miller7" he said.
turning to Councilman Jesse E. Miller
of the committee.
"T guess that's PRETTY generally
known.' Mr.. Miller replied.
al viii say further" Mr.. Schmidt con-
tinued, ''that II won't stay ignored"
The councilmen resent being left out
Of the discussions, particularly because
they were instrumental in starting the
movement.
How adriotly they have been shelved
by the Jewett administration is shown
by various moves that have been made
since the end OF September when II
sudden shortage OF gas caused both the
board Of works and the council TO de-
mand better service of the comnany
Following a public hearing before the
board of public works. at which officials
Of the company were given a grilling,
the council, led by President Schmidt
decided to go clear to the bottom of the
gas situation. much being said. among
other things, about ascertaining whether
there was any connection between oTi-
cials Of the gas company and the DOM
hoff-Joyce Company, which has the con-
tract for the disposal of the utility's
coke.
PROCEDURE IN
GAS CONTROVERSY.
Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby
Oct talked the council out Of making
any independent investigation which
might have uncovered any unwelcome
facts and the special gas committee was
appointed to confer with the public serv-
ice commission and city officials upon
what might be done to prevent a recur-
renee Of the shortage
This conference was held at the State
house Oct. II.
The public service commission told the
city officials they had the right TO order
the gas company to render adequate
service and IL was decided to find some
means Of affording temporary relief from
shortage until the company could in
cre"se its gas producing aud storage ia
cllities.
Then began long series OF conferences
between city and gas officials.
The council committee was called into
these conferences until the negotiations
reached point where II was decided an
amendment to the franchise. rather than
a rationing ordinance would do more
good.
The corporation counsel and board of
NVrks, both composed OF administration
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