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Show FRANCHISE PRINCIPAL TOPIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HOLDS LENGTHY DISCUSSION. Committee Appointed to Confer With City Council atSpCclal Meeting Meet-ing Friday Night. , t The Ogden Chamber of Commerce held an interesting meeting last een-Ing een-Ing the principal topic of dl3cussion being the proposed granting or a franchise fran-chise to the Ogden Rapid Transit company com-pany over Wall avenue, troni Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street to Thirty-third street Tho discussion entered Into at tho meeting may bt summarized in the following manner: The question as to whether a street car company, holding a. franchise over the streets of Ogden City, can hold said franchise for an indefinite length of time upon the streets that are not being used by tho company; In other words, over streets upon which they have not constructed a car service, and whether the city council does not havo the power to revoke thos franchise fran-chise under such conditions. Whether it is not a fact that any franchise granted by Ogden City to any and all street car companies on Wall avenue would be detrimental to tho better interest of the taxpayers and to the city ns a whole by rendering render-ing it Impossible for a trunk railroad line to enter the city and would it not be better for the city to withhold the granting of the franchise to the street car company so that it would be free to grant a franchise at some future time to a railroad company that might desire to build a trunk lino into the city. These questions were thoroughly discussed dis-cussed by the members present, somo taking ono view of tho matter and others another view. The conclusion finally arrived at was that the public utilities committee of the Chamber ot Commerce be instructed to meet witn the committee of the whole of tho city council Friday night when that body will consider the franchise asked for over Wall avenue by the Ogden Rapid Transit company. The committee com-mittee was instructed to take a stand cither for or against the proposed franchise, but to discuss the question with the city fathers as might seem best to them. Tho franchise in question has passed ita second reading berore tho city council and the meeting of the committee com-mittee of the whole Friday night Is to further discuss the merits of the question ques-tion that a report favorable or against the third and final reading of the ordinance providing for the franchise as the case might be mado at the regular reg-ular session of the city council next Monday night and thereby finally dispose dis-pose of it. A member of the council stated last evening that those Iv. favor of granting grant-ing the franchlso and those opposed to it would have the opportunity Friday Fri-day night of expressing their views on the question and that it Is hoped by the solons that a frco discussion of tho bill will bo entered Into at that time. He said that . the council desired de-sired to act wisely In tho matter and that they could better do so If all tho phases of the question were threshed out before them. |