The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-04-21
CITY COUNCIL.
SpeeIal AIeelLng-seeond branch.

Special Neeting-SeeOnd Branch.
A special meeting Of the City Council
was held last evening. Present in Second
Branch; Beltz, Goering, Hanson, Hork-
heimer, He'll, Handlan, Hanke, Hoge,
Kingdom, Myles, McGaw, Pollock, Pryor,
Reitz, Sylyis, VogleF, Werner.
Mr.. Horkheimer was called to the
chair.
After the reading Of the minutes Mr..
John Handlan, member elect from the
Eighth Ward, appeared and took the
prescribed oath Of office,
The President stated the object Of the
meeting was to consider an ordinance es-
tablishing the rates for licenses for the
year commencing the first Monday in
May next, The ordinance was read, and
the blanks filled with the same figures as
those OF last year, with but few excep-
tons,
LIQUOR LICENSES.
The license for wholesale and retail
liquor merchants was last year $500,
Mr.. Pollock moved 70 gil up the blank
with $500, and Mr., Kinghorn with $3.50.
The larger number was taken first, and the
ayes and nays resulted as follows;
AYEs-Hoge, Hanson, McGaw, Pol
lock, Reitz, Sylvis, Handlan-7.
NoEs = Bcltz, Goering, HOrkheimer,
He'll, Hanke, Kingdom, Long, Myles,
Pryor, VOger, Werner-ll,
So tho motion was lost.
Mr., Pollock then moved to Gil the
blank with $3.50, which was lost by the
same vote Us the first,
A motion by Mr.. Hanson, to fill the
blank with 5000, was also lost by The
same vote,
The vote was then taken upon Mr.,
kinghorn's motion to I'll the blank with
$3.50, which was carried.
.LIQuoR MEN IN THE LOBBY.
During they voting on the above motions,
the members Of the Council who sat near
the railing were much annoyed by liquor
dealers in the lobby, who were very dem
onstrative inexpressing their views upon
the license question. Mr.. Handlan
observing them, called the attention Of
the President to the fact and
ask that they DO compelled to
retire. The liquor men therefore pre-
cipitately retired, without waiting for
the police to compel them to fall back, as
requested by the President.
COFFEE HOUSES,
The license for Ordinaries, which was
last year $3.50, was, upon motion Of Mr..
Long, fixed at $l25.
The coffee house licenses were fixed at
$3.50 each, The license was last year
$500,
The applications for licenses for coffee
houses and Ordinaries, some fifty or
sixty in number, were read and laid over
for future action, MS required by an or
dininance.
The President stated that the Mayor
Ind called his attention to tho fact that
tho vote on tho liquor licenses had only
been carried by majority vote, and that
those sections would accordingly have to
lay over for another week.
An ordinance changing the grade on
Main street, north Of 18th, was received
from the First Branch and ConCurred In.
PETITIONS.
A petition for the extension Of the, wa
ter pipe on South Huron street was re-
ierred to the Committee on Water Works,
and the petition Of retail liquor deal
ers for reduction Of license, which should
have been read before tho license was
fixed by the Council, was referred to the
Committee on Ordinances.
Adjourned.
First BrnncII.-IIXtra Session.
Mayor Sweeney called the Branch to
order, aud Messrs. Baird, Blair, Butter
field, Cowen, Dunning, Egerter, McAdams,
Shnmbra, Ulrich, Wallace and Wilson,
answered the calling Of the roll. Minutes
Of the last two meetings were read and
there being no objections, were signed.
An ordinance changing tho grade Of the
pavements on the eust side Of Main It,,
north Of 18th st., for distance Of 1862!
feet was read and adopted.
A resolution ordering q crossing to he
placed across 10th st., opposite Gherings
grocery, on the corner Of Alley Il, was
referred to the Committee on Streets and
Alleys. On motion the Branch adjourned
until Friday evening.
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