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Show XjlJfrcr Thought! Krnest About MHOLDING MtONTRACT PLAN (Miive Becomes yfjfiule on His fljffpal ownership plana pW"' cencs and provoked N"ctleag CUV company ! :U3lr h!s "nuMt ror a L,jy nsked seriously, , 5SBBor wlln vhlch 10 5? l own message was fWjfnj without money -ffeoldiPS Company." I lW&& City Mtnrany would L JJgr ordlnonca if Its 5!lBt! & that of tho Mayor's I'S-rMd ..a nwswitatlvM ofTer JEccititntJ In tho tentn-' tentn-' 'fKfltt a unWtU. up-to-dato felBjjaMTicT at tho next )E;m questions covering Ekf'nstiUvo ordinance. Ki: prcpo'ltln 10 ,ne 1 ,u at wonted, It em- I 'dtnet plan" ordinance j in action reatln: to gaiiiks Passed. ( ea lxl transportation (iCcfjlxcani boisterous ieU frt oJ educations and & lj xdtcd Aldermen. fcel) Coucrol Bliss of tho Hf cenpany occupied tho . 01 HU made sarcastic ftft $1X3, and Insinuated ic'fciiran Mayor Dunne ftt maraty questions that bisrr, tehU dlKascj for tome M tr AHaman Bennett ki mtrai.. transfers, and lies tits question of tho jaiflt purchato the street jMfr Hot Serious. a yfttiuoa yoa asked when - im ttst a price foe our property." raid Col. Bliss, turning to Mnvor Dunne. -I want to bo rnlr nnd frnnk to Motor Dunno ond r;ot to bo orfonslvo to Ed Dunno when I say w never considered thnt question seriously. bocnui.o wo did not consider that i" was asked seriously. I assume that tho qups-tlon qups-tlon was not uskod ccrlounly, bocauso tho cit: l.i not n a nnancl.il position to buy theso propel lies. Ab tho less Is Includod In tho irrcnt-cr. irrcnt-cr. I tuko It that, not being nblo to buy. tho clt- ennnot make nn agreement to purchase" Col. Ill Iss quoted from the mcssaBo of tho Mayor to tho City Council. July 6 last In which ho said the city's Indebtedness prevented further bond lssuos. and that payment for tho properties must bo mndc in Mueller law certiilcates. ...'ilI.hnV0 nMUmV' continued tho Colonel "that you wanted our price, meaning to pay money. Knowing thl, I must nssumo that you wonted our prlco for your company. I cam" to tho conclusion that thq question you nsked r.bout tho price of our properties was not pany " by 80010 ,,rtvat0 COfn- ZVIayor Interrupts Speaker. "Supposes wo Sot your price and sold Mueller law certificates and Kot tho money, would it malco any difference to you whero wo got the money?" interrupted Mnyor Dunne. "I am not talking about Muollur Inw certificates certifi-cates " replied Col. mil "When you ask n man to narno a price for-hls property and ho knows you haven't got tfia money to my fn? It. ho must assumo cither tl.p.t you do not want to buy for yourself, but that vou "ro you will dlBdoso your principal, or that you intej,d to put up a bond or sum of monoy to bind the ngrccmont." iu "I Ins any ono Intlmnlod to you that I was acting for any ono oxcept tho city of Chicago?" Chi-cago?" angrily inquired tho Mnvor i.i.Vt ?m1,,"?t. bocn tuiy s"'cl1 Intimation. rai Vhla n'"B lnL lslIon." raid Ool miss. Theixj Is no objection to maklnB a traJn. If any one comes to us with a cash of-f of-f r for pur proportloe. out we can't accept an o.7r which enables tho city to come In and t.M;o over our linos at tho end of sorno Inde-urmlnnte Inde-urmlnnte rerlod." iu muo- ; Offers to Be Holding Company. Thf.ro is an ordinance pending beforo this committee that w 11 fettle this whole matter." ?ald Col. nilrs. "I nm In hopR tho Mayor w U TV m bubs,u"o tho name of the ClHcago City Railway company for his company n his ordinance. If ho will do that I think v Option will be MltlMl quickly If you Vm a&ffUr. flvo HCCtlon- |