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Show The New York Car-Drivers' Ordinance Ordi-nance Won't Stick. New York, January .7. A strike has for some time been contemplated by the conductors con-ductors and drivers of the surface railways of the city. As a prospective safeguard to themselves, the men secured the passage by the Board of Aldermen of an ordinance requiring re-quiring the drivers of street cars in New York to have a license, which could be secured se-cured only by men who had lived a given time in the city and State. Before signing the ordinance, the Mayor submitted it to the corporation counsel to determine if it was constitutional. The latter official to-day submitted to the Mayor an opinion in which he holds the ordinance unconstitutional, in that it requires persons seeking a license to be residents of the State, and that citizens of other States are entitled to drive railroad cars or transact any other business in this city upon the same terms and conditions as any citizens of this State may. |