GOING ON ANOTHER TACK

Special Water Company Has a Secret Session

ANOTHER ORDINANCE

Likely to be introduced - and still no move for Municipal Ownership

The special water committee were in conference with City Attorney Sawyer at his office Wednesday and the rumor has it that a new water rate ordinance will probably be introduced and the one passed last December repealed.

The ordinance passed and which is supposed to go into effect in April but which is stopped by a temporary injunction is so ridiculously low that probably no court would sustain it and it would mean that the city would lose the suit.

Undoubtedly Mr. Sawyer fully appreciates this and has been very likely advised a new ordinance that the courts would be more apt to uphold.

This means that the water company will file another bill of complaint and get an injunction and then maybe the special water committee, the mayor and the city attorney will think it over and conclude to draw up and pass another ordinance.

The Ann Arbor Water Company can probably file bills of complaint about as fast as the city can pass ordinances and the litigation is almost interminable. 

In the language of Alderman Brown, after the city gets all through the courts it will find that municipal ownership is the only solution and the quicker municipal ownership comes, the cheaper will the city get the plant.