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Aid. No. 1 : "I think the delay was made to give the traction companies a chance to raise, their bids. There will be a lot of money passed in the next 24 hours." " Aid. No. 2: "They just wanted a delay because it would give them a chance to reform their lines. I don't think anything crooked will be done." Aid. No. 3: "The delay will give the traction companies 20' hours in which to work. A mart can change his mind. They saw they were hope lessly defeated here tonight. But if they can get enough aldermen to change their minds over night they may be able to send the Fisher bills down to the legislature." Aid. No. 4: "I think the forces in favor of Aid. Capitain's traction proposition wanted the recess be cause they saw their bill didn't have a chance tonight. Then, too, some of those who voted for postponement were sincere in that they wanted to do some campaigning." Aid. No. 5: "Let them delay. They can't put this thing over on the council. It's an insult to the alder men to introduce it. I could have told you this a week, ago. A delay won't change the attitude of the council a bit." r Aid. No. G: "I was very much sur prised to see the turn taken by the council I thought they had 40 votes for it." I have my doubts now wheth it will go over. I wouldn't be sur prised if these is considerable money or pressure exerted tonight on some aldermen. We can tell by the vote tomorrow." ' Long before voting started alder men private expressed opinions that the measure would fail because al ermen up for re-election were not willing to go to the polls with addi tional burden of a 50-year franchise vote on their backs. Aid. Byrne tried hard to get an amendment of his before the council, but didn't get a chance. It provided that the Fisher bill be called an out- and-out 50-year franchise without any disguises. The stiff opposition to the bill was a surprise to almost every one in the7 council chamber. Forty votes had been counted for the measure and al dermen who opposed it were very quiet in doing so. A packed gallry, expressing its position against the franchise by applauding and hissing, helped defeat the measure. The council was scheduled to meet again today at 2 p. m., when Aid. H. D. Capitain, father of the Fisher bills, has promised to give the aldermen a speech at least an hour and one-half long, telling why they should hand over the city's streets to the same traction interests to pack Chicagoans into filthy, slow cars for 50 years longer. Aid. Miller voted against delay with the promise that if the bills came up for a vote the council would rebuke the traction hogs. "Let me get a chance at the propo sition. I'll vote to bury ij so deep it never will be brought out again. I'm not owned by any corporation." Aid. Byrne said he would vote against it to "fight the barons of Wall street." PREPARE RESOLUTION WHICH WILfc DECLARE WAR Washington, March 27. The reso lution to be introduced in congress on April 3 immediately after the pres ident concludes his address to the joint session will. declare that time has come whei United States must vindicate decisively its honor and its rights. It will declare that by the acts of Germany a state of war exists and that congress places 'at disposition of president the means of vigorously prosecuting war, and thereby hasten ing restoration of peac. While Pres. Wilson is completing his indictment of Germany this wek, the house foreign affairs committee is preparing the war resolution.