The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-24
THE NEW COUNCIL
70 MEET ! Ton ORGANIZATION
A. the city Banding this AflsrnOon-Hov
.hl. WIN BE pons-Tho Election Next
tuesday Night and Those whoaFe
scramblinE for the ofiees.

this VIII Be Dpne-The Election Next
tuesday Night and Those Who are
scramblinE for the oftees.
The new City Council will meet this
afternoon atS o'cloak, at the City Building,
for organization. The ordinance in rela-
ton to city elections provides that this
meeting must be held within three days
after the election, and yesterday according
to custom, Mayor Miller issued his sum.
mons to the eight members Of the First
Branch that hold over, and the eight that
were elected Thursday, together with the
twenty.eight members elected to the Sec
ond Branch, to meet in their respective
chambers this afternoon for organization,
This meeting will probably be an interest.
ing one, as will also number Of succeed
ing meetings. This Council has before it
some problems, the disposal OF which
will DO matter Of interest to citizeus
generally. A good.slzed lobby may be
looked for at several meetings to come.
The first thing to be done this afternoon
after all the members have been properly
sworn ina proceedingby the way that Is
full OF interest to person with keen eye
for the humorous and q lively imagination
based on an observation OF appearances
AMI both Branches are properly organized,
will be the holding Of joint session for
the purpose OF ascertaining who was
elected at Thursdays election. OF course
everyone knows now what that result was,
but Il must be officially learned.
THE PRESIDING ornoKRs.
In the first Branch there will DO no
trouble about selecting presiding officer.
Mayor Grub will WELD the gayel there,
in fact that is about all a Mayor OF Wheel.
ing is called on to do by the charter and
ordinance, but live, pushing man like
there. There will be numerous epportu.
mites during the next two years for him to
be Mayor in more than name, Barney
Galligan has a good grip on the clerkship
and will be reelected. In fact Barney has
been there so long that he has grown 10
be almost indispensable. His clever, genial
ways give him hold on the members
that they find hard, and really have no
desire, to shake OF.
In the Second Branch there may be
some fun. The political complexion OF
this body is sixteen Democratic and twelve
Republican. Mr., s, p. llildreth, from
the Seventh ward, in all probability will
be the Republican nominee for President
OF the Branch, a position in which he has
served for the past four years with grace,
dignity and capacity. He has always been
courteous, and while not so strictly parlia-
mentary as some othors might have been,
he was so simply because he did not think
there was any real necessity for strictness.
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES.
On the Democratic side, there is really
! very little available material to make
president out Of. The First ward will
ltaye two candidates in It's delegation
Hon. A. ]. Sweeney and Mr.. Barney
Stanley. Mr.. Sweeney has served q num-
Der Of years as Mayor, in that capacity
presiding over the First Branch and there
fore has the requisite experience. Mr..
Stanley was the Democratic nominee for
the position two years ago. He has made
no canvass for the place, but his name has
been frequently mentioned for it.
Barney's friends think he Is de-
serving OF the honor from the hands
OF his fellow Democrats in view OF
the graceful manner in which he accept
ed his defeat at the Democratic primaries
for Sergeant. He has served in Council
and is acquainted with itspractices. When
spoken TO yesterday, he said, 1T they
want me, I'll do The best l can"
MIR. John Warehouse, from the Fifth,
has also been named for the place.
Organization once completed, it will DO
in order to appoint a joint committee TO
act in conjunction with the Mayor and
President to make up the standing COM
mittees and then an adjournment will be
in order till Tuesday evening at which
time the first regular session will be held.
NEXT TUESDAY NIGHTS BUSINESS.
at Tuesday nights meeting the officers
of the city elected by Council should be
elected. the ordinance says that these
elections must be held 1.-THE first regular
meeting after the biennial charter election,
or as soon thereafter rs practicable. The
candidates are nulttudinous and there il
music in the air. Whether caucus is to
be held or not, Is something no one APP
pears to know anything about; a majority
81 the candidates are understood TO Be Oh.
posed to King Caucus.
For the office Of City Solicitor Mr..
Erskine the present incumbent will prob
ably be a candidate. That long suffering
exponent Of Democracy, Dennis o. Keefe,
ESQ, will be another. In that eloquent
statesman Judge Houstonis found another
who would not refuse to Gil the office.
Newt. Criswel has been, suggested and
the representatives OF Howleytown and
vicinity have been rumored to favorJ ].
'Pendleton.
Fred Unrnh will trot another heat for
the Collectorship, with Mike Crawford on
the track, asa running mate. Fred has
made the race in good shape once before.
DR.. Geo. Garrison would like TO inspect
the streets and look after smallpox
patiens MS DR.. Edwards has done for
several years past, andas he would like to |
do again. The Office OF Health officer Is !
quite 70 snap.n DR.. Birney would not
object to making out the mortality Stats
tics, and there are others like him. DR.. |
Reeves has been suggested the subject OF
the city's sanitary condition is one Of
great interest to him.
ASSESSORS, CLERKS, ETC.
For Assessor OF the First District, Ralph
Arkle wants TO serve again and Ben List
also wants the office. For the Second
District Charlie Reed the present
incumbent, is the only one named thus
far. Uncle Mike Edwards expects tocon.
tinue az Clerk of the Second ward market,
although ex.CoInrilman Kinney has his
eye on the position and il is said that wills
Kennedy will run again. For Clerk OF