Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-07
THE, PRICE FIXED
For Which the City is to Sell One
Half the Capital.
The Committees Of couneiI apd Board of
Commissioners in Joint Session
- Last Night - Why the
Board Should Accest.

Yesterday morning His Honor the Mayor
and Mr.. AJ.Sweeusy, president Of the Sec
ond Branch Of Coancil, met ~ the CITY
Building for the purpose of appointing 8
Joint special committee Of six members to
audit the quarterly expenditures OF the
Board of Public Works. After that duty
had been performed the question of joint
occupancy of the Capitol building, over
which the Second Branch had so long and
so fruitlessly hbored the night before, came
up, and the two officials proceeded to make
an examination of the minutes Of the COM
mittee for the purpose of asce:taining
whether or not it could properly renew ne
gotiations with the county after the accept,
ance of its report on the proposition TO sell
one-half the building tor $4,000. After
looking up the record it was agreed that
there was nothing to prevent renewal of
the negotiations with the county, and &C.
eordingly Mr. Grub notified Mr.. Dobbins,
chairman of the committee, to call its
members together at once, steps being taken
at the same time to have the Court House
and Jail Committee of the Board Of Com
missioners also present at the session.
Accordingly the two committees met IN
the chamber Of the Second Branch of Coun-
Gil last evening, the doors being carefully
closed and Dramatically sealed to exclude
the reporters, who might otherwise lay be-
fore the public the minutie of session
which would probably settle matter in
which every citizen of the county is inter
ested, and upon which they should be fully
informed.
This star chamber session was organized
by the selection of John W. Boring, Of the
Board of Commissioners, as chairman, B.
A. Gslligsn acting AZ secretary. A count
ing of noses revealed the presence of Messrs.
Dobbins, Jones, Stanley and Warehouse,
of the Council committee, and Messrs. Bor-
ing, Stein, Picket, Peterson and Delbrugge,
of the Board Of Commissioners.
The President stated the object of the
meeting and said that the Board of Com.
missioners was perfectly willing to enter
into negotiations, q preliminary being some
thing in the nature of definite proposition
from Council.
Mr.. Dobbins said the committee had
originally been authorized to Offer to sell
for $4,000. That offer had been rejected
BY the Board as too high, and it was now
thought best for the two committees to
come to some amicable understanding as to
proper price, and have both bodies
ratify it.
The matter was then discussed for about
an hour. The proposition for a trade, the
city giving onehslf the Capitol for the
present Court House property, was early
aid aside as Objectionable and the discus
sion resolved itself into debate as to what,
I'll things considered, would be a proper
sum for the county to pay.
One of the arguments advanced by Coun
Gilman was that, it being taken for granted
that the county was in need of new quar-
tiers, it was a golden opportunity to secure
q practically new building for about moth
ing, as the sale of the present. Court House
site would reimburse the Commissioner for
the outlay in securing hall the capital, while
at the same time the city treasury would be
replenished at time when money was sore
ly needed.
Finally an sgreemen. was reached, and q
resolution drawn up to be presented, both to
Council and the Board at the next session
OF those bodies, Recommending that the offer
of the city to divide the capital be accepted,
the consideration beingin the neighborhood
Of $4,000. The doors were then reopened,
aud the members of the committees stalked
maiesticslly away, not stopping to so much
as ask for chew of tobacco from the news.
Dc per men in the lobby