History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . ose was the vote, and so disap-pointing was the showing made by the antis,that by mutual consent the joint charter com-mittee, provided for in Representative JohnWashers consolidation bill, was duly appointedfrom each side of the river, including the re-spective mayors and comptrollers, several al-dermen and three business men, both sides be-ing equally represented. After many sessionsthey approved and submitted the consolidatedcitys charter; it was duly passed by the Legis-lature without any further protest, and the citi-zens bre
History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . ose was the vote, and so disap-pointing was the showing made by the antis,that by mutual consent the joint charter com-mittee, provided for in Representative JohnWashers consolidation bill, was duly appointedfrom each side of the river, including the re-spective mayors and comptrollers, several al-dermen and three business men, both sides be-ing equally represented. After many sessionsthey approved and submitted the consolidatedcitys charter; it was duly passed by the Legis-lature without any further protest, and the citi-zens breathed easier. They now felt certainthat the long sought for union of mutual inter-ests would be completed along those lines inApril, 1905, and a stone of obstruction removedfrom the path of both cities. State Senator Heine and RepresentativeJ. E. Brockway were both placed on record be-fore the election of 1904, and both claimed un-equivocally to favor the consummation of theunion. In January the first mutterings of astorm were heard, and rumors began drifting.
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