62M TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. - THE DAILY NEWS The Daily News The Leading Newspaper and the Largest Circulation in Northern B. C. Published by the Prince Rupert Publishing Company, Limited DAILY AND WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES—To Canada, United States and Mexico—Dalxy, 50c per month, or $5.00 per year, inadvance. WEEKLY, $2.00 per year. All Other Countries—Daily, $8.00 per year; Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly in advance Contract rates on application. HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B, C, Telephone 98. BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES New Yorx—National Newspaper Bureau, 219 East 23rd St., New York City. SEATTLE—Puget Sound News Co, > LONDON, ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar Square. DAILY EDITION. aie ‘WiRiRRDAKY Ane AN OUTRAGE AGAINST GOOD CITIZENSHIP Two important bylaws are to be submitted to a vote on Saturday. One is to bind the city to a ten years’ assessemnt agreement with the Grand Trunk Pacific. The object of the other is to place in the hands of the present city council a sum of $550,000 of public money for the vague purpose of building a hydro-electric system by dribs and drabs and petty disbursements. The city council have so arranged the conditions of the vote as to disfranchise a large number of property owners. They have so arranged it that a large number of lawful and registered property owners will be refused votes, while a number of persons who do not own a cent’s worth of property in the city will be given votes. This outrage against the citizens, repellant alike to justice and the intent of the law, is being secured by keeping the Court of Revision open until after Saturday's vote is taken. One of the objects of 4 Court of Revision is to ensure that lawful property owners only secure the right to vote. Clause 76 of the Mun- icipal Clauses Act provides for the assessment roll to be revised up to within five days of a vote on a money bvlaw, so as to ensure that only lawful owners of real estate will be entitled to vote. On June 5th a Court of Revision was opened in Prince Rupert to revise the assessment roll. Those revisions have all been entered. But instead of closing ihe Court when their labors ended, the Court of Revision, composed of the Mayor, Alderman Hilditch, Alderman Clayton, Alderman Smith and Alderman Kirkpatrick, adjourned until September 5th. Then the city council fixed September 2nd as the day for taking the vote. As a consequence of keeping the Court of Revision open until after the vote is taken, every citizen of Prince Rupert who has purchased property since December 1910 is disfranchised, and all those persons who have sold their property since De- cember 1910, though they have not a cent of interest in the city are to be given votes instead. Upon this false and iniquitous vote the city council hopes to pass the G. T. P. agreement and secure $550,000 to spend in entrenching themselves in power. By this false and iniquitous vote they hope to force upon the disfranchised property owners, money bylaws which the disfranchised ones will be called upon to pay. In the case of a piece of property purchased in January 1911 by one citizen, where the transfer was duly registered, and where the lawful owner's name appears on the City Hall register and on the new assessment records as the owner, the vote for it is given to a man who is not a citizen of Prince Kupert, is not a British subject, and who has not owned any property in the city since September 1910. There are hundreds of property owners in Prince Rupert in the same plight, most of whom will not discover the trick played upon them until they ask for their votes on Saturday. The action of the council in disfranchising hundreds of property owners, and awarding their votes to people who have no property interest in the city makes it imperative that both bylaws be voted down on Saturday by every bona-fide property owner in the city|t whom it has been impossible to deprive of their votes. It will be in the interests of economy as well as of fair play, for all decent citizens to unite to stamp out this attempt to establish ring-rule by méans of a manipulated voters’ list. p- — ——— a — The Continental Trust Co., Lid. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $500,000 | OFFICERS: WM. T. KERGIN, M.D., President DAVID H. HAYS, Ist Vice- Pres. M. J. HOBIN, 2nd Vice- , and Manager JAY KUGLER, Secretary- Treasurer c. B. PETERSON, Ass't.-Manager Receiver or Assignee Farm Lands and Mines Real Estate and Insurance | Agent For Care of Real Estate Escrow Agents Fiscal Agents Trustees Registrar and Transfer Agent Trustee Under Mortgage and Deeds of Trust Safe Deposit Vault and Boxes Collections SAVINGS DEPARTMENT, 4 per cent. on Deposits We will be pleased to answer any inquiries regarding investments in Prince Rupert and Northern British Columbia. Executor and Administrator SECOND AVENUE... PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. The Continental Trust Company, Limited, THE ‘CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE SIR EDMUND WALKER, C.V.O., LL.D., D.C.L., Presipent ALEXANDER LAIRD, GENERAL MANAGER CAPITAL, - $10,000,000 REST, - $7,000,000 DRAFTS ON FOREIGN COUNTRIES Every branch of The Canadian Bank of Commerce is eatgpet to issue drafts on the Spal cities i i the the following countries without dela reece Siberia i A Blew epic Sar oupes Panama South Africa fe a ripe ata oan , Formoss apan che fe es ST ae ndies, etc. The amount of these 6 is stated in thie inoney of the whare they = eeoed Sas 30 hey ore conee is SOUS: Manca, marks lire, og as case ensures that the poe Mayr emy yer povhoer . intended. ran eng ms J. M. Christie Manager a “Being property holder in Prince Rupert and representing outside capital invested here, I have both a direct and an indirect interest in the G. T. P. assessment agreement, and believe that a few words of comment upon the same would be timely. “Clause 1.—Objection may be taken to Clause 1, upon the ground that some of the property set out is property which according to the sale maps appear to be vacant spaces, and upon that understanding, people purchased adjoining lots and gave com-pe tition priccs therefor. Now the Development Company intends to convey the land to the city in fee. | This is in effect selling this land twice, and if the legal aspect of the matter were gone into, I should think it most likely thai the company could be restrained from such an action. Ig’any event, the .| Development Company should know that certain of these vacant pieces of land adjoining property which has been sold has been paid for by the people. If these vacant places are to be alienated to the city, which I think quite proper, it should be for park purposes only. Clause 4a.—‘‘Why should the city not have the assigning or subletting this prop- erty for limited periods for athletic purposes and other kindred rec- reations without being under the necessity of referring to the De- velopment Company and to the Province for their consent. Surely the city is a responsible trustee for the public and _ sufficiently rational to be entrusted with the management of this land within the sphere of park and_ public purposes. “Clause 4c.—Here the restriction appears to be too great. If the city wished to start a wild animal garden and to fence off again and to build animal sheds and privilege of | lis merely an imaginable gratuity, portions of land for that purpose, | Why I Will Vote Against G.T.P. Assessment Bylaw By A PROPERTY OWNER | : was well advertised in London| financial papers. Companies do not fail to take advantage of every opportunity, the letter 0 the law and technical limita‘ included, when their ends served thereby, and there is n¢ reason why the citizens of Prince | Rupert should think that the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway C “ pany is an exception. tions | are} Clause 5 .—''Why should a| cemetery site, of all places, not be granted in fee simple for cemetery purposes? “Clause 7.—This clause means nothing. The railway company is not bound to do anything by this section at all. It is a well known aspect of human nature that engineers do as their masters tell them, and if the railway company does not wish to grant any easement at all, all it has to do is to’ instruct its engineers accordingly and there is an end to the matter. The powers of expropriation are statutory and unaffected by this section, which so much tinsel held up by the railway company to the electors of Prince Rupert. Clause 8.—‘‘This clause means nothing. The most self evident of all axioms that the com- pletion of a task may further removed in point of time from its commencement than the end of eternity. The railway company has to commence these works and any one of them (for nothing requiring the railwey company to work at the various buildings concurrently) within three months, and end them when it likes or never. ‘With all reasonable dispatch’ is beautifully is be it may be there 1s i its pens, consent would have to be obtained. Is not this an awkward and unnecessary provision? effect that such consent shall not be arbitrarily withheld. No more petty hold-up tactics have ever | been practised than when President of the Grand Pacific Railway Company wired (as I am informed) to the council to the effect that unless the council desisited from tempting to float debentures in London, England, that he would see to it that the disagreement in, regard to the assessment between the railway company and the city last at-| Fur- | ther, there is no provisivun to the} the | Trunk | indefinite and depends for meaning upon the point of view taken; for the company it will mean when needed, for would jit not be unreasonable for the | company to expend money on buildings for which it would have thereby being out the on the money, also the of upkeep and loss by jdeterioration. Truly it would be lunreasonable for the company to be guilty of any such thriftless |improv idence. Further, if the com- to commence no use, interest | expense | pany is prepared these buildings, etc., within three | months, where are the plans, speci- have no recollection of ever reading a more indefinite and futile agree- ment, and I have no faith that the railway company will go out of its way to do anything that is & . minimum cost be inserted? I i mebbetnedy $e - ah ee rere, ‘ine verte eo? Lowest Prices in : not ‘so nominated in the bond’ Its solicitude for Prince Rupert as distinguished from its own ad- vantage will be nil. Self interest is the creed of corporations and | they’ have neither soul or honor | for the citizens of Prince Rupert {to bank on. Clause 9.—"The same criticism applies to this section only the railway company reveals a little more of its plans. Everyone ex- + er ~>} . SAMUEL HARRISON (NOTARY PUBLIC) Prince Rupert Generel M Merchandise . ae rT? ,* ——— rs ey ters rt - Largest Stock Northern B.C. ~ ~-d- Samuel Harrison & Co. Real Estate and Stock Brokers APPROVED AGREEMENTS _ FOR SALE PURCHAS! and Stewart pects the railway through in about two years, hence it will be necessary to have this hotel to take care of the traffic. If it were not so, the railway company would never build it. The City of Prince Rupert is just as sure of an hotel if no such clause were inserted. The railway company not state a minimum cost or give any other information about it. This clause is merely so much word padding to make the citizens feel less keenly the fall from an annual of about $100,000 to does taxation $15,000. Clause 10.— is inserted here, other than item The agreement between the Dominion Government and the railway com- pany stands upon its own founda-~ tion and will have out by the railway gardless of this agreement, inasmuch as the railway company is bound to build this dry dock anywey, there is no consideration for a reduction in taxation and this here “Why this section I know not, as an of news. to be carried company re- hence section has no right to be at all. “Clause 11.—If sections 7, 8, 9 and 10 are worthless, this clause, I believe, is dangerous. The rail- way company is to pay $15,000 per annum ‘in respect of all its property, real or personel, within the city limits." What property does this include? Probably both the railway company and the city council would say the land held by the railway company and the buildings hereafter to be erected thereon. That may be what the city council meant, but I do not think that is the reading of the section. 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