, 1874-12-29
TI:IIl CITY.
THE COUNCIL.


DAD IrcK or rttE WEST s1pE RAILWAY COMPANY.
Tue Common Council met last eyaning, rscst-
dent Dixon in tho chair.
TLo Con,mitteo on EHro aud 1Nator reportctl,
recommending tho confirmation Joln n. Drake
AZ a member OF tho beard Of Police and Fire
Commissioners.
AID. stoue moved 10 concur In tho report, but
It was taitl over nud published on domnpd Of
AID. AIahr.
Tho Conr,tttco on Streets md Alleys, Wost
Division. reported, recommending thns pegmia-
sion be granted for laying hstroet-railyaY tracI.
on West North ago,luc. Tie report was laid
over.
THE wEsr 1SptAaA STREET RAILWAY.
An engrosscl ORDINANCE was taleu TIP author
izng tho layinG OF horsernllroat1 track on West
Indiana streot, from Haiatcd stroot to Wostcrn
ayenuo.
AID. Wits moved to poatnono action IN the
ordinance until tho first Monday In Docombor,
1875.
Aid. Qnirls urged tho passago Of the ordinance,
s.atIng that, will, tho exception OF few people
in the Eleventh Ward, there was unanimous
tlosiro Tint tlloyo should te track on Wost In-
diana street,
Kid. Guptcrson mado hiB first speech IN tho
Council, opposing tho ordinance OIL tho gtountl
that tho reorle III the vicinity Of Indiana street
AID. Culicrton tool; n ahrcnstic turn. saying
that ho was worry fond Of lorao-railway ortinan-
ccs, n,,s. liRcd To soto tnr them.
AID. Scnafrner earnestly advocated tho passage
Of tho ordinance as T. rlntter Of convenience to q
iargo number Of reupte.
Nld, Campbell saia TINT 10000 people ought
not to t,n deprived Of transportation simply be-
cauao of tho se,.isAncss Of u fow property y-own-
cln, representing, frontage Of but five blocks.
Tho ordinance ought to 10 paaHcd.
The motion to postpone year Was lost by d
vuto Of 81 tot.
AID. Ryan moved to recommit tho ordinance
to the Com,nittco on sttocts aud Alleys, West
lid. White said tl,cro was already IN s'abto -
bus limo Gil Indiana street.
Tho motion to rcconllnit was lost by yoto Of
The "senator iron, tho Eleventh" sought to
throw another iabnHtcsi1'E obstacle In tho wey
of tho ordinance by moving that tho track bo
laid on Fourth 8treot. but to no purpose. tho
motion being ignolniulousIy voted aDw'..
as follows:
Ieas-Foes. nsc'aar'son, coes, stous ot flo
Foassh. stosel Ut .ha Fifth, Clarke Of tlle Fifth,
E5ck,atlt, stant Mnhr, Iengacher se'alltor Lynch,
Tass-Fitzgeratl, C,sorton. atcoiory, Hi1drcih,
olir!s'' White, annaer4on, rsan, Murphy. swreucy,
So the ordinance failed for lacs Of tho charter
majority.
4 tmotion to reconHidcr thia yoto was made md
carried. and tho ordinance wns reeom1nttcA to
tho Committee Oh Streets aud Alleys, West Di.
yiHion.
NORTH AVENUE RAILWAY.
Tho Council Next took up tho ongrossed ordl-
name granting tho right to lay q horsn-rnilway
track Oh North avenue, from milwaukee, avenue
to Humboldt Park.
Thiu1.ing tho project would moot with bottor
euereaA If T. ehaNgo woro 1uato, Aid. Fitzgerald
moved to graut tho permission to tho South CHI
cngo City Railway Company. Tho motion WE
not entertained.
TIE vote OH tho ordinance failed to secure its
passage for lack of tho requisite minority, md It
was referred back to the Committee OH Stponsa
nt,d Alleys. Nost Division.
Tho ordnance regulating tho clearing Of
Eviyy-eaulta WIS passed. aud tho Council ad-
joufl.el,