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Show I! FRANCHISE GRANTED. I Thank goodness, tho francblso nint- 1 tor Is at last settled, tho council hnv- jj ing adopted Blnck's amonded ordl- ij nanco, which consolidates all fran- i chiscs now hold by tho Consolidated j Light & Railway company and ox- i tonds thorn for a term of forty-live years, or about threo years longer ' than tho longest c thorn would havo I run. Tho ordlnanco was amonded in two or threo respects, ono alteration ) providing that tho company should i haul gravel for tho city at reasonable . rates; another compelling tho Consol- idation to grant traffic arrangomonts I j to any inter-urban lino or any other j street car lino tho council might j !1 award a franchise, in ordor that it may reacli tho important business centers of the city. On all questions affecting tho mat-tor mat-tor tho voto was 8 to 7, but when it camo to a question of passing tho ordinance, or-dinance, Fornstrom was tho solitary member who voted in tho negative. Tho debate was acrimonious at times and tost vote3 woro frequent. lion. Lo Grand Young, counsel for tho corporation, In an address to tho council declared It as his belief that tho company would not accept tho terms offered. n |