The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-17
TME CITY CHARTER.
Defects Fonnd-Last NlEhps COMMITTEES
sEeetins-The Washington Hall Issso-

Defects Fonnd-Last NIEhps Committee
lIeetins Tho Washington HAL nsso.
lutions.
When the Council legislative Committee
last Wednesday evening II did 80
to meet Monday evening in the First Branch
and at that meeting the Washing.
ton Hall and County Commissioners Legisla.
tive Committees were invited to DO present
and join In the deliberations, It being under.
stood, Of course, that members Of neither Of
them would have any vote.
Itwasnot untilab0 O. o clock last night that |
quorum Of the Council committee was pres. |
ent, and at that time Mayor Egerter took the
chair and called the body TO order There
were present on behalf OF the Council. Com.
ly, NJ. Reilly, VIM. Hastings, Robt. Simpson,
]. A, Miller, 7. H. Logan, Samuel Laughlin
and Capt Schockeyi from the Washington
Hall Committee, Casper Hell, BENZ Fisher,
A. J. Clarke, @. d. Caldwell, J. II. Hobbs,
Capt Andy Wilson and City Solicitor Cald.
well. Squire Schultze, Of the County Com.
missionerS' COMMITTEES, appeared later.
The Mayor In taking the chair said be pre-
sumed that all were aWAre Of the purposes
and intens for which this committee had
been formed. At the Gst meeting be had
not been present, but he understood that he
had been selected as chairman and such be.
ing the case he would declare the meeting
ready for business.
AT the first meeting OF the committee q
subcommittee consisting OF MeSsrs. Miller,
Kimberly and the City Solicitor was ap.
pointed 10 go over the city charter and its
va Rint1R N nj ante and nsnaa4aES, ,tbntaIF,
1t C0niliCted with the present ordinances.
This committee now reported through
Solicitor Caldwell.
The first thing that the subcommittee had
discovered and desired to call attention to,
was that in the charter OF 1880 It was provided
that the representation In Council should DO
based on the number OF free phite residents.
As the colored brethren were voting II was
no more than fair that tho number OF Council
men should be based on the entire population
irrespective Of color.
The next point touched and shown 10 the
committee was that by the same charter the
number Of wards in the city was limited to
eight, and this the Solicitor stated, notwith.
standing various amendments, was still In
force.
The present state OF the laws requires the
ward lines and places OF voting to be the
ha lie c sS M il " o9t
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III, = ~ Sne Jaw wa.
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fSoconJ IS S"S ,,,or,ba " Soa"S thint,.
Nil hos not hoa, Ii,.aa Ss W "fef '"lES'
Hno III, ~ ,,,oS,',..,,Si,, w w.
could be elected to Council Second Branch)
even provided he was not o resident of the
aIa,S,,s ~. ans.int ~ risS Ss!l WI
a m1rj :" 00H''S' Vi TWO members tfotn etch
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r,;,tno,S inLn1 ,s,L ts leauto u tns Suo'coh'
Tss cSs; ,a S nat Nus sn /. aF9uous 9he:
vaS SnaiIy 5oto VIA SI ~ ~ oe aone aug
s W. r ra.oIy uee run q take up eacn point
'ef H. 2,o anu o HSS upon IL ,,,.h 80.
odOnted tscommand;nr " %,,n m1'S y. was
80. 49,, ~ T'n 70 SOIuGh Lot Pr
,it sIH " .ue LesatnFe plll striking
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s;on n. no.a alu 1 ,sc
49,, ~ noST enat ete aSts % % IN
H. ~ s"S ~ iiaes anu YOUNG paCeS
" ptopeEl atnenued, and II was also re-
sotyoa 70 ask tne legislature IN pill, lor the
liz. u VI CnaEseF privileges IN oFuer 70
"t n.. VI more wG t IL
On ;no''S S Vi ME. Laughlln the section
p10stH LIE igE lsapPot1onmeht every hye
80 We UaHcteu ataenGed 50 as 70 proVide
SnS as IeapPo['i9n .H should take place be-
~ 1IStaay i 1920, And once every Ten years
Hs e...,, ,,.,.., ~. .,...-
c,o.,,. ~: tI0sdn moved that every member OF
Council should be resident of the ward
from W " ne was elected, and also that an
9ye ah1 nay Vote should be recorded in the
Jou , on the demand Of two members,
oOtn VI when were adopted.
a., Lcsolutioh was also adopted empowering
t5e aay9f 20 administer oatIs and ackuowf-
euHe ueeaS IN the city.
~ Hlu .SI W UNDERSTOOD that AL oil the above
WORK wiz De embraced in bills, which will
ge plesent 20 10 Council Tor approval and
tnSu so 70 inc Legislatufe;
"a AZ H sns iass meeting o. the committee bill
W. gtdeted drawn changing the law that
0 o .'at city oCets shall be elected Tor
go 49, W ~, ~ H - -. IHe1t SuCGeSSVIs 9Ie
eIeeteo ana quained; The charter was also
EeSSoniinenpeu 70 DC changed in its provisions
Es eis! 70 hre companies, so as to conform
VIII M 'ne orulnance on FIRE Department
!He pS9eeHesaihgs taas tar had been very dry
tor StS w, hali committee, but they
S CrIcsH j. Up IN Eooo styie when Dr. Logan
s' ~. wv ~ tne lasE meeting Of the commit
' sSe .ne Masnlnsvon nan people had been in
sIeu 70 oe present, and he would Ike TO hear
n .tCni , tHeh. CHAIRMAN caldwell Of that
t"t + nee How zane tgfwafd ana stated
tnaG ~ was tne desire OF bis committee to sub
Wa sss W tor ehe Present management OF the
poe. ~ sI aG streets Alleys and Trades,
liz tb. " ~ t H. cru russs on general plan
h IsHe s"as oI !ne Gas WORKS lie could not
.Snrosou 1877 r. 're onloh 9l tnose ne
TX, eSe'eI tnaH ~ Leaaihg Tue preamble
;M0 .ef,;,i a. tnS washington HAL meet
tLSS' n %.S iaterp tofee1eo % 90. u feeites
S en- psss nIS Moy Oh 1ns wafer WORKS and
. .9emonS AiIeys anu TRADES anu as the
IN, 1as scheme upon which the
SIsI S"S wo I'm, aEe run comments ltsel 70
S'nsnI,. a h experience now 70 separate
t tuS ,ie1gy business department OF the city
1lottt PoAIASs' uuu 70 pace Them on nom