Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-19
CITY COUNCIL.
In Special Session Last Night
Reports OF Committees and
Other Business.
SECOND BRANCH.


Other Business. .
SECOND BRANCH. h'- o
This branch was called to order by
President Logan.
There being quorum present, the
journal of the previous meeting was
read and approved by the signature OF
the President.
The chair then announced the names
OF Messrs. Waite, Peters and Pollock as
a committee of conference TO meet
Messrs. Cracraft, Schultz and Hall, a
committee OF a like nature from the
First branch, IN order to consider a dis
agreement in relation TO granting IL
censes for the ensuing year.
A resolution from the First branch
prohibiting the sons of the keeper OF
the lookup from attending to his duties
was received and concurred in.
A resolution from the First branch
granting the Mayor the privilege OF tenn
porarily appointing weighmasters for
the BOdley scales in the Fifth and
Eighth wards was concurred in.
The amendment nf the First branch
on the report OF the Committee on
Scales was received and cOncurred in.
POLICE.
The Committee on Police, to whom
was referred a resolution inquiring into
the expediency of increasing the police
force of the city, and the additional eX-
pense incident thereto, reported an or
dinance to amend and reOrdain section
5 of an ordinance, entitled an ordinance
in relation to the election, duties and
compensation of the Sergeant OF the city
OF Wheeling:
Section ). The Sergeant shall, with
the consent and appreciation OF the
Council, appoint twenty-five deputies,
who shall continue in Office during
his pleasure, and shall in all things, per-
tanning TO their official duties, be amend
able to his control. Each OF the
deputies shall be paid $50 per
month, except that one of their number
be selected and known as the lieutenant,
who shall be paid So per month for
his services.
The committee further reported that
the present cost of maintaining the
police OF the city per annum to be $3.50
and by the change recommended eleven
more police are secured at an additional
| expense of $500. The aggregate ex-
pense under the proposed change Will
be Sl4,3S0, the Sergeant's pay being ex-
elusive of these estimates. The matter
was referred to the Committee on Ordi-
nances.
PROPOSED REDUCTION IN SALARIES.
The Committee on Salaries recon-
mended a reduction OF ten per cent
on the salaries of the Street Commits
sioner, City Clerk and Superintendent
of WaterwOrks and OF 500 per year
from the City Sergeant's salary, the sum
being as near 10 per cent. reduction as
could be Appropriated.
The following resolutions were sub
| mitted:
Resolved, That the salaries of the Of
| fcers hereinafter mentioned be as FOL
| lows: Street Commissioner, 1850 per
year; City Clerk, 81 $50 per year; Super
| intendent of Waterworks, $500 per
year. That ost of the sum SO apprO-
priated TO the Superintendent of the
Waterworks, he be required to pay two
| engineers SO per month each and two
| firemen SO each, and that the City Ser
/ geant he required to pay out OF the sum
SO appropriated to him eleven depu-
| ties, at So per month each.
The resolution was amended by fix
| ING the Street Commissioners salary at
| $1,000 per annum; City Clerk, 81 800
per annum; Superintendent of Water
Works, $500; City Sergeant, $3.50.
Alter this action the vote pertaining
| To the salaries of the first two named
officials was reconsidered, and another
| spell of voting was gone through with
which resulted as follows: Salary of the
Street Commissioner, $1,000; City
Clerk, 1900 The resolutions as
amended was then rejected on a vote
Of IL 90.
Mr.. Ankle then moved that the sal
aries of the several officers in question
be fixed at what they were last year.
Carried by vote of - ayes to noes.
GAS INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE.
The Joint committee appointed to in
vestigate the affairs of the Citylias works,
reported that their work had been and
| is receiving their diligent attention.
| The committee recommended the pay
| ing of the following bills: Harry Cald-
well, $345; Alfred Rheinstrom, S35l.50;
NJ. b. g. Wright, S75; JnO. Goldenburg,
| $50; Jos. Greaves, 500. u. Mendel X
Co, S7.25; X. Crothers. s.; total $3.50.
| All Of the bills, the committee reported,
had been incurred by the committee in
the discharge OF their duty in the inyes-
tigation. The report was adopted.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The joint standing Committee on Fire
/ Department reported for the Considera'
ton Of Council a comparative statement
of the cost of the Fire Department as at
| present constituted, and also the cost as
proposed by the ordinance creating a
paid department.
The following is the expense OF the
! existing organization:
Chief Marshal, $50; two Assistant
Marshals, SO each; four hostlers, S720
each; three engineers, $50 each; seven
iOremen, $50 each; three tiremen, so
each; twenty-nine extra men, $50 each,
Total 81, 100.
Expense of the proposed organization:
Chief Marshal, $50; two Assistant
| Marshals, $50 each; four foremen, 5000
each; four hOStlers, $500 each; three en-
gineers, $500 each; three firemen, $50
each; thirty-two extra men, $50 each.
F. Total -, 200.
Additional expense by adopting the