Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-10

/ read and approved.
The City Clerk reported as follows:
The various committee expenditures
were, from Nav to December |, 1879:
streets Alley and Grades 327 50
Fire DcpaLtment,.......... l,SOy ~
/ Water NOrks-.............. 9,3lS ~
Lights 10 ~
Leaving to the credit OF each, these
balances:
Streets, Alleys and Grades. ...........S 2,672 a
Fire Department. 2,GlO Gu
Water Works $3.50 80
| Lights. ......... l,UO3 81
The report was ordered filed.
The Committee on Streets, Alleys and
| Grades made its usual monthly report.
Bills and expenses amounting to 1900
were ordered paid, and a number OF res
Olutions of minor importance were
adopted
The Committee on Fire Department
reported bills aggregating S4S9.22, which
were ordered paid. 1t recommended
| that the purchase OF a bell for the Eighth
/ Ward hose house be postponed for the
/ present, which recommendation was APP
/ proved.
The Committee on Finance reported
| as follows: 1t had settled with the com
missioners OF the 1890 loan, and had
turned over to the City Clerk AL cou-
pons, or $500, being interest paid
| March ! and September |. Mr.. Jones
| had been ordered to mutiate five one
/ thousand dollar bonds, which had not
] been issued.
The committee had also settled with
| the Commissioners of the Public Build
/ ing Loan, receiving twenty bonds of
! 500 each, with 306 coupons, all of which
! had been turned over TO the City Clerk.
Accompanying was a bill of Sl33.3O OF
| John }. Jones, percentage, &c.
The committee further recommended
that it had arranged with the Exchange
| Bank for the loan of such amount as the
city might require, for 80 days at & per
| cent.
The bill of W. d. English, assessor,
amounting to SD, was recommended
paid. -
The report was adopted.
The Committee on Accounts reported
! that it has examined the books and ac-
counts of the Clerk and Receiver, and
had found them correct. The commit
| tee reported that in some instances per-
sons doing work for the city had been
| paid directly, instead of by order on the
| Receiver, an irregularity that it would
recommend should be corrected. Bills
aggregating 500 0l were ordered paid
| The bills of Jas. b. fancy and w. ID.
| English, for extra service, were returned
as not properly accounts against the
city.
The Committee on Water Works and
Superintendent reported as usual. The
| latter had bills amounting TO SGGl. 30,
and the former, S3,G7O.S7, which were
ordered paid.
Various persons We're allowed reduc-
| tons in water rents.
The committee reported that it would
| be improper TO make any change in his
| coal contract.
This created a long discussion, in
| which Mr.. kimberly's position was set
| forth on one side, and the inviOlabilty
| of contracts OH the other. Finally, Mr.
/ Ewing offered Us a substitute, that the
| present contract be annulled and that
| the clerks advertise for new bids.
This was lost and the original adopted.
The Committee on City Prison re-
ported bills aggregating S225.G4, which
were ordered paid, together with $500,
other bills.
The superintendent report was re-
| Ceived and filed.
An unimportant report from the
Health Committee was received and
adopted.
The Sexton reported Is interments
and bills amounting to S27, which latter
were ordered paid.
The report of the special committee
on Gas Investigation was received and
read. The full text will be found in an
other place. The discussion arose over
the resolution TO pay Clerk Wright S545,
a query arising as to how he got i'm so
much work. Mr.. LarkIn demanded the
ayes and noes. and vote was taken, as
follows:
Ayes-Arkle, Caldwell, Caldwell, Ew-
ing, Goodfellow, handlan, Halter, Ham
ilton, McNash, Reeves and Logan-ll.
Noes-Fisher, Nockler, Simpson, Lar
kin, Wait and Waterhouse-6.
Various resolutions, of no particular
importance, were adopted.
4 number of petitions were read and
appropriately referred.
The following charge was preferred
against officer MalOney and referred to
the Committee on Police, after which
Council adjourned. The paper is as fol-
lows;
WHEELING, Dec. 9, 1879.
10 the Honorable Mayor and Members Of
the CiiV Council ofthe Cdy If Wheeling
GENTLEMEN last Sabbath evening,
December I, | left the store where |
am employed, on Main street, and, in
company with MesSrs. q. o. Smith and
| :. h. Faris, walked to the Opera House
| 10 attend the spiritual seance. We left
| the store ut precisely nine minutes of
| seven o'clock. At about seven minutes
of seven, we arrived at the Opera House
and found an immense crowd trying to
obtain admission. Just as we were
turning Oft the pavement to ascend the
steps OF the Opera House gentleman
| coming down street crowded in between
my two companions and myself and
showed them over To the gutter. then
was on the lower step and turned
around to see where my companions
were. and saw Policeman Maloney vio-
lentlv shove Mr.. Kirk Faris into the
street. l called to him Kirk to come
with me and we would go into the
Opera House. Policeman Mallory then,
in loud and violent tone, told me
10 shut up or | would 20 in some
other place. l replied, "No, sir. am
going into the Opera House He then
said: "Well, | want no more words out
of YOU" said, what is your number?
| will report YOU when he arrested
me, caught fast hold of my arm and
marched me up the street, through
crowds of people, and on the
way threatened to "mash my head"
When We got into the court house yard
Mallory proposed to release me, which
refused, rs his arrest had been too pub
lie TO submit 10 without complete vim
dication. When Mallory proposed to
release me in the yard OF the court
house, | distinctly smelt liquor on his
breath and consider that his being I'M
der the influence OF liquor the sole rea-
son for his violent and abusive conduct
in arresting me. | therefore charge
Policeman Mallory of conduct un-
becoming an officer of the city, with be-
ing under the influence of liquor, with
threatening to club prisoner without
Just cause, and with offering to dis
charge prisoner from custody without