Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-12-29
1929 81
S3,739 60

$500 90

Balance due, $3.50 81
New York, January 5th, 1852.
There was considerable debate upon the report,
the giSt ofwhich will be found below:
Aid. SturteVant wanted to know how it was that
this additional appropriation OF $500 was now ask
ed for, when it was understood that the $4,000
appropriated originally was to satisfy MI. HowardS
claim in full. tN.as never understood that the
Common council was to pay for the accommodate
ton of more than five or six OF the Hunganans who
accompanied CoSsuth. Mr. Howard undertook the
responsibility If keeping the rest of the party HIM
self, relying upon the seLat which it would give
his house to make up to him what he might lose.
AID. Oakley explained, as one oil the Committee,
that when the bills were signed by the Committee,
he thought the Common Council was legally bound
to pay them. ~
AID. Smith also explained. When the Kossnth
Committee had the bills presented, the Mayor was
called in, and as he had made the agreement with
Mr.. Howard, was asked what was the price agreed
upon; and he stated that he originally understood
iii. Howard to say two dollars per week, but he had
since been informed by that gentleman that he said
two dollars per day. He (AId. Smith, supposed that
the reason for the opposition to the bill by Aid.
SiurteVant, was from the fact that the gentleman
| boarded nj the AStor House, and the Chairman of
the Committee at the Irving House; that both
houses wantedto get CoSSuth, and as the Chair
man Of the Committee obtained him, of couTa:
thereafter Aid. Sturtevant opposed every bill brett
up.
Aid. Sturtevant here interrupted Aid. Smith by
saying that the statement of the IOrmer gentleman
was untrue.
Aid. Smith replied that he had much more gen.
tlemany feeling about him than Aid. Sturtevant.
Everything he had before said true. AID.
Sturtevant had opposed the bills ever since it was
decided that KoSSuth should go the Irving House.
| Aid. Sturtevant said he never voted against the
payment of any bill incurred by the HungananS.-
These men, or greater portion of them, perhaps,
in their country, had never lived at an expense
OF over Sixty-two and half cents per day. When
they arrived here they sent to of our laTg
est hotels, and keptat an expense Of two dollars
per day, and while there they concluded they had
the liberty of the city, and went into all sorts of
excuses. They would walk up to the bar In the
morning, drink bottle of champagne piece, and
fill their pockets with SegaIs which cost sixty dol
| lars per thousand, and come in at noon on rainy
day, and lay down on the clean beds with their
dirty boots on, and the Common Council were call
ed upon to foot their bills.
Aid. Denman thought that the Common Council
at the time they appropriated the $4,000, WINGED
under the laTgeneSS of the amount, and he there
fore hoped this bill would not be paid unless every
item was sent in. He therefore moved reference,
with view to gaining this information, which mo-
ton, however, was lost, by vote OF nine 10 five,
| as was also a vote to lay on the table.
Aid. Boycc thought the Common Council were
bound, in honor, to pay this bill This movement
against the payment of this bill diSgraceful and
disreputable to the city. He hoped the bill would
be paid.
Aid. Alvord thought the Common Council were
bound to pay any bills which were incurred by Com
| as in this case. The proper course would have
been to limit the amount of expense the Committee
should incur.
The report was finally adopted by vote of 12to
4. Aid. Sturteyent, Ban, Francis, and Peck yo-
ting in the negative.