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Show HEAR PRO AD d I AS TO 'JITNEY' BUS , County Commissioners Listen Lis-ten to Arguments for Half Day. Arguments for and against the "jitney "jit-ney t! bus ordinance, now under cnnHid-eration, cnnHid-eration, were made, to the county commission com-mission all yeesterday afternoon. Representatives of the Bingham Railroad Rail-road company, the Denver & Rio Grande and the Salt Lake Route opposed the ordinance in its present form as being too lenient to the operators of the "jitneys." Representatives of the companies operating the busses were satisfied with the ordinance aa it stands. N'o action was taken by the commission commis-sion and none probably will be taken until after the return of Jesse H. Wheeler, the third commissioner, who is now out of the city. The railroad attorneys argued that the bond provision of the proposed ordinance or-dinance is defective in that it offers no adequate insurance to passengers in case of injuries or death. The ordinance; requires a bond of $500 for each car. It was contended bv the railroads that a bond of at least $5000 should be imposed. The "jitney" operators replied that such a bond "would be utterly prohibitive prohibi-tive arid would be tantamount to confiscation. confis-cation. They pointed out that in the city a bond provision of $2000 proved such a burden that all the operators had to withdraw from the business. One of the arguments advanced by the railroads was that inasmuch as the railroads pay a large portion of the taxes spent in improving roads it is not fair to allow individuals who pay little or nothing for road improvements to profit by those good roads at the expense ex-pense of the railroads. "We believe in the extension of good roads, for thov help to develop the country, ' ' said .folin Xf. Haves, representing repre-senting the Bingham & Garfield, 1 ' but we do not believe it is fair to tax us heavily for those roads when the pet result to us is a loss of business through unfair competition. ' |