The daily gazette., 1883-01-03
NOT YET FINISHED.
WRESTLING WITH THE MAR
kET PROBLEM.
GOING BACK ON WORK ONCE DONE.
Council Like the Goat Climbing From a
WelI. Making Two Feet One Day and
Failing Back One the Next.


evening 10 consider the market ordinance,
81 members occupied their seat with Presi-
dent Conrad in the chair.
Mr.. Eastburn asked II It would be In order
to introduce any other subject outside of the
market question. He had a couple of little
matters he wanted to settle, but II was de-
cided out Of order 10 take up foreign
matters.
Mr.. Mention moved to reconsider the vote
by which section of the market ordinance
was passed ON Saturday night.
Several members asked upon what
grounds reconsideration was soughs and
were informed that the section as passed
conflcted with section l.
The yeas and nays were called, all voting
In the affirmative excepting Messrs. East
burn and Grubb, who asked to be excused,
pleading Ignorance Of the question. q
The section as amended by Mr.. Mentor
was then read as follows and q motion made
TO take 1t up:
SEcTIoN Q. It shall he lawful for any farmer
or trucker TO sell from his vehicle ON King
street, and on the public market days, within
the market hours prescribed by this ordinance,
which were raised and fed on the lands owned
or rented by such sellers thereof, either by the
the whole quantity, or In cut pieces
which shall include lard, sausage and
his own or rented lands from
animals raised and fed thereon, and none
others, and in the market on Madison street 1t
shall be lawful for any farmer, trucker butcher
or simmer TO sell not only the products raised
on his own or leased lands, but he shall also
have the privilege Of selling within the market
hours on said Madison street all kinds of fresh
meats, fowls. game, butter, cheese, eggs, lard,
sausage and domestic fruits that he may see
proper to bring into such market for sale from
wagons within the market limits and hours pro-
hrr4 Ia Ifntof auIA afr
vlded the same is In a good and wholesome
condition for public use, and II any butcher or
simmer. whose principal business Is slaughter
Ing animals for sale. or who purchases slaugh-
tered animals for the purpose OF selling the
same for a livelihood, shall sell at such curb
stone market on King street any meats not
raised or fed on tho lands which he owns or
rents, on the sidewalks Of the public markets on
said King street, he shall. upon conviction
thereof forfeit and pay for every such offence,
fine Of five dollars,
Mr.. Quinn spoke at some length upon the
matter Of special legislation, claiming that
Council had no right to grant privileges to
the citizens of Madison street denied those
on King street and declared tfatif tested in
the courts the market ordinances would not
hold water. }
Mr. Blake admitted the truth of Mr..
Quinn's remarks, but thought that as the
people of Madison street had asked for the
market they ought to have it.
Mr.. Eastburn wished TO amend TO making
the penalty for violation of the section
$50.
Mr.. Talley said the fine was high enough
and that II 1t was any higher no fines would
ever be collected, from the fact that when
an offender would be convicted he would
give notice of an appeal, which virtually
ended the matter, as such cases never got
before the higher court.
EN,F4 ID h. q ..S
he was a butcher and as such was opposed
to the Madison street market. Tie Council
would create nuisance by establishing 1t
there, and the people would pray TO God to
have It removed before it was there two
| days. The butchers would create general
nuisance by cutting and hacking at their
stands at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Mr.. Quinn rose to a point of order twice
and the president decided the order well
| taken.
The amendment was then lost when Mr.
Garrett resumed his oratory. He declared
| that sending the butchers to Madison street
would do no good, as 1t would put all the
nuisance there and drive all the farmers tt
| King street and thus divide the market.
| If the butchers were driven there hC
would take the ugliest wagon he could fine
and sell the poorest meat he had there. Tht
other butchers, he knew would do the same
Mr.. johnson thought Mr.. Garrett was IL
error by supposing all the butchers would
do as he had threatened The people or
Madison street had asked for the market ii
good faith and he didn't see why two o.
three members of Council should so slrenu
ously oppose 1t.
Considerable confusion existed In th,
body of the chamber and Mr.. Abele had
lively little tilt of words with Mr.. Blake as
sort of side play
The yeas and nays on the section al
offered by Mr.. Mention were taken, resulting
as follows Yeas, Beecher, Baugh, Blake
Denney, Eastburn, File, Grubb, johnson
Mention, Miller, Smith, Shaw, Quinn, Payn
ter, Newell McKenna, Talley, Conrad
Nays, Abele, Garrett, Stevenson. On tn
motion to make the section the second o
the ordinance Mr.. Garrett was the only on
voting In the negative.
Section of the printed ordinance wa
taken up and amended by Talley by insert
ing the word King in lieu of French, ant
Mr.. Miller to indicate Fourth street betweel
Jefferson and Monroe as the place for th
hucksters' market.
Mr.. Baugh moved to strike out the fol
lowing words "who has taken out a re
tailer's license, for selling goods, wares an,
merchandise, from the Clerk of the Peac
of New Castle county, for the purpose U
huckstering, exclusively, and none others.
Mr. Miller wished to strike out tn
words : Each and every huckster VIII
shall avail himself of the privilege of stand
ing In the hucksters' market, shall pay
, the Clerk of the Market, for the use of tn
city, the sum of twenty-five cents for eac
and every day that they sell or displa
goods for sale in the said hucksteri
market"
: Both propositions were rejected and th
: section with the amendments was passe
! after q long debate.
? Mr.. Quinn said the city had no right
collect 25 cents from the hucksters and tn
a Clerk of the Market robbed those whopaid /
Mr.. Paynter thought he had bee
: listening carefully and as all hands SCENE
to agree that the Council was acting col
trary to law he thought 1t would be goo
plan to indefinitely postpone all action. II
then asked the opinion of the Chair.
President Conrad said that the State la
declared that Council had power to ere
market houses aud to regulate the market
and he thought that covered the groun'
The ordinance had been referred to the La
Committee and presumably the City SoliC
/, tor and reported back as containing nothir
to conflict with the State laws. If,
J, claimed by several members, the ordinan
il was not worth the paper it was printed o
Il the City Solicitor had put himself in {
unenviable position. The law, ut least tn
decent and peaceful way, to regulate Il
markets, and he thought It would
Il proper TO pass the ordinance.
1 Mr.. Talley said the charges of illegali
were all right, but no court had ever q
clOrad tha Or1lnancaa fltanal II xuould