Show POWER PLANT ACTION DELAYED Petition B Being e i n g Checked Against Official List of Vote Voters rs Formal consideration by bi the city commission of an an initiative petition setting in motion machinery looking to establishment of a municipal electrIc electric elec elec- inc power plant will be delayed several several sev sev- eral erat days it w was s announced Monda Monday Sponsors of the petition have withdrawn withdrawn withdrawn with with- drawn it from the office of City Recorder Re corder Ethel Macdonald and filed it with County Clerk Alonzo Mackay for the purpose of checking the signatures against official registration lists of which the clerk is legal custodian custo custo- dianThe dian The action is the result of a more careful study of the initiative and referendum ref law by City Cit Attorney Fisher Harris and S. S Young representing the sponsors' sponsors commit commit- tee Signers of the petition were he headed head head- d. d ed by A. A C. C Todd 1183 Fifteenth East street secretary of the committee and R. R H. H Docile Doelle West Sixth South street committee chairman It is against the law for one who is not a Qu qualified voter to sign the petition Thus to carry out that provision of the law the petitioners' petitioners names must be officially checked before the petitions petitions pe pe- pe- pe can be formal formally formally- considered Miss Macdonald challenged the right of the committee to the file pe petitions at the time they were present on July 20 but yielded to the petitioners petitioners' petitioners petitioners' peti petie w wishes hes pending a legal opinion ion Harris Checking of the petitioners' petitioners lists against registration rolls is expected to start Tuesday in the county clerks clerk's office Under the law the city commission is required to adopt the proposed ordinance ordinance ordinance or or- which accompanies the petition petition petition pe pe- pe- pe within 30 days after its filing It may however adopt a substitute ordinance but is precluded from amending in any respect the law submitted submitted sub sub- by the petitioners Failure of the commission to adopt the ordinance or take any a action tion whatever whatever what what- ever on its results in Jn the ordinance being placed automatically on the ballot for a vote of the people people people-at at the next municipal election Action on the initiative petition does not affect the petitions of Mr Docile Doelle and Mr Todd declaring themselves cand candidates dates for city commissioner atthe at atthe atthe the coming election These petitions ns s were filed with the recorder at the same time the initiative petition was filed and still remain intact It is un understood understood un that both men seek commissionerships commissionerships commis- commis for the purpose of fathering father father- in ing the municipal power plant legisla legisla- tion |