The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-24
CITY COUNCIL.
Special Meeting Last Evening to Con.
slider the AbattOir Question.
(Official Reportl
CITY HALL, ROCK ISLAND, |
Julv %. 1885. {

| CITY HALL, ROCK ISLAND,
July 90, 1885.
| The council met in special session at
9:3j p. m, called by request of Aldermen
Ohlweiler, Farrell and Lidders There
were present Mayor Murdock and ali the
aldermen. Alderman Ohlweiler stated
the object of the meeting to be to recon,
slider the action taken by the council in
/ its last session to build a city abattoir,
as the butchers had taken steps to build
an abattoir of their own on the Dingeldinel
property near the Rock river, more desirf
able on account of its location and good
roads, and they would be willing and re,
quest that the city should supervise tht
same as to the inspection of cattle killed
and other sanitary measures which the
city may deem proper, thereby accom-
plishing the object sought by the city to
concentrate and regulate the slaughteribg
business.
Alderman Ohlweiler therefore moved
! that the action of the council in regard
to the city's abattoir be reconsidered.
Alderman Larkin moved as an amend,
ment that the motion be laid on the table,
arguing that he doubted the sincerity of
the butchers to comply with the necessary
sanitary requirements and control by the
city, thai the objections to the city's looa-
ton were not well taken, and the whole
was only a scheme to PROSTATE the citys
object to promote the health and comfort
of its citizens, that parts of the contract
were already let and under process of ex
ecution, etc.
Judge Wilkinson and W. H. Gest, ESQ,
were given permission for arguments pro
and con; also Messrs. Dunlap and Jens
of South Rock Island. were heard as to
their objection of the butchers slaughter
house on the proposed site.
The question was then called on the
amendment of Alderman Larkin to table
Alderman Ohlweiers motion with the
following result:
Yeas-Lafrenz, Briggs, Collins, Cava-
naugh, Larkin, Atkinson, Siunet-7.
! Nays--Schaffer, Farrell, 0hlweiler,
Henry, Lidders, Edwards, Schroeder.
Tue vote being tie the mayor voted
ave" and the amendment was therefore
carried
Alderman Schroeder offered the follow,
IN resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted:
WHEREAS. The sad intelligence has
reached US of the death of General
! Ulysses S. Grant Therefore,
Rts75osd, That we have received with
profound regret the announcement of the
death Of General Ulysses ). Grant, and
entertain q deep sense Of the loss we
have sustained in the death of one so
long and prominently known to the
American people; one so distinguished
both in military and civil life 'for bis di>
reclness and steadiness of purpose, clear,
ness and certainty of judgment, self reli>
ance and inimitable energy and determin-
alton and the eminent ability with which
he discharged the duties of the most i'm.
portant executive office in the govern
ment of the union.
Reso,ssd, That by the death of
General Grant this nation has lost
thorough democrat and re,
publican, believing in and being
of the people, one who preserved not on.
ly his simplicity Of habit and taste amid
superiority of republican institutions and
of American character
Resoioed, That we deeply sympathizt
with the bereaved family of the deceased
in the great affliction which in Gods
providence has been visited upon them a
the hand of insidious disease beyond hui
man stay,
ha NJ nF oil
transmit copy Of these proceedings t
the family Of the deceased, and that they
oe spread upon the records of this city
The mayor called the attention of tht
council to the committee appointed to re
port on location Of stone crossings, ami
it was agreed that the committee meet or
Friday at p. m, TO take action.
Alderman Sinnett presented a pehtior
Of r. Champion and others to authorize
the laying of water main of suitable sizt
to be laid in the excavation now being
, made for the Nineteenth street private
sewer to connect with the water main or
t Fourth and Sixth avenues. Referred t
5 the waterworks committee.
Alderman Ohlweiler offered the follow
: ing: ResoLeed, That Sixth avenue between
Twelfth and Fourteenth streets, ais
. Eleventh, Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets, between Sixth and Seventh ave
nues, be placed in a suitable and passa
bic condition.
Alderman Henry moved the adoption
2 of the resolution.
Alderman CaVanaugh moved to amen
that the same be referred to the street AM
, alley committee to report in next regula
meeting; amendment carried. Yeas :
q Schaffer, Briggs, Collins. Cavanaugh, Lar
a kin. Atkinson, Edwards, Schroeder, Sin
net-9. Nays-Lafrenz, Farrell, Ohlweil
er, Henry, Lidders-5.
On motion the council adjourned.
ROBERT KoEHLER,
City Clerk