Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-13
MUNICIPAL MATTERS.
Various Points Of Public Interest
Originating in Council.
The Loan Ordinance - Strengthening a
Street---A Pertinent Petition---ln-
creased Saiay---A Typi-
cal Second Branch
Scene.
Scene.


The loan ordinance passed both branches
of Council last night, and is practically
ready to be voted on, the only thing yet
necessary being the advertising of the ordi'
nance in the city papers prior TO Its meeting
its fate at the polls. The election, as has
been heretofore stated, occurs on the 18th
inst, and there ia barely time between now
and that date to give the document the
requisite number of insertions in the jour
nails. The ordinance, as is pretty well I'M
derstood by this time, fixes the sum proposed
to be borrowed at 100000, the loan run.
ming 1hirty-four years, one twenty-htth OF
the bonds being redeemed each year after
1895. The bonds draw per cent. interest,
aud are to be used solely to take up
$2O4, 1000 Of outstanding city orders,
500. 900 interest on the same, and the
$4,000 yet outstanding of the loan Of June
l3, 1871. This will leave two or three
thousand dollars of orders yet out, but 1t Is
thought these will be lifted before the bonds
are issued, thus entirely wiping out the
floating debt Of our city. The payment OF
the principal and interest of these bonds is
provided for by the levying Of "a special
direct tax upon all the real estate and per
sonsl property assessed by said city for
taxation, which direct tax shall be levied as
a separate tax and in addition to all other
taxes that may be levied for the
benefit of the city, and which
shall be sufficient to produce In
each year sum sufficient to
pay the interest annually accruing upon
such bonds, and which levy shall, after the
year 1894, until the said bonds shall be fully
redeemed and satisfied be sufficient to pay
annually the interest on such Of said bonds
as shall be unredeemed, and in addition
thereto to redeem in each year thereafter
the onetwenty.ffth of the bonds
issued hereunder" And it is fur
Their provided that "lnasmuch as
it is Lot permitted by the constitution
and laws ST the State to provide for the re-
demption of the bonds to be issued under
this ordinance otherwise than by the levy of
direct annual taxes, and it is intended in
the adoption of this loan ordinance not to
cause any increase in the direct taxation;
therefore, to provide as far as possible
against any such increase, it is farther or
dained that there shall be paid into the
city treasury from the revenues of the city
Water Works and Gas Works IN equal
parts X an amount equal TO the
interest falling due upon the
bonds issued hereunder, and on or before
the first day of July in the year 1895, and
on or before the first day of July in each
year thereafter, until and including the year
1919, sum equal to the one-twenty.fifth Of
the principal of all bonds issued hereunder,
not paid before the first day of July, 1895,
and further amount equal to the interest
falling due each year upon such Of said
bonds as are unredeemed, which sums 80
paid out of the revenues of the water works
and gas works shall be applied towards the
payment of the current expenses OF the
city"
There is quite a division in public senti'
ment as to whether or not the ordinance
will receive sufficient number Of votes at
the polls to carry its provisions into effect, but
the preponderance Of opinion seems to be
on the side favorable to its passage.
Nv
The following pertinent petition was
read in the Second Branch last night
To tie Hon. Mayor and C0Vnci:
GENTLEMEN:-The undersigned, John NJ
Emmertt and Michsel Emmertt, respect
fully show that they are residents and ci6
zens of Wheeling, and that they, in accord
ance with an advertisement Of the Board Of
Public Works ofthe city of Wheeling, be-
fore the 10th day OF April, 1885, calling for
bids for curb stone, put in their bid with the
said Board, and in accordance with the re
quirements ef the Eaid advertisement, and
that the said Board, without any reason
whatever, paid no attention whatever to your
petitioners bid and let the said contract
for curbstone to - Staubs, who was a
higher bidder than your petitioners, and in
no respect better or more responsible
bidder.
Wherefore your petitioners ask that the
doing OF the said Board in this respect may
be enquired into, and that the members Of
said Board may be required to give a reason,
if any they have, or can give, why they should
reject the bid OF your. petitioners and accept
a higher bid than theirs. The bid of your
petitioners was 45f cents per running foot,
and the bid of - Staub was 40 cents
per running foot, all Of which is manifestly
unjust; wherefore your petitioners ask that
the said doings may be inquired into, and
they will ever pray, etc,
JOHN ". EMMERTr
MICHAEL EMNERT.
The petition, after some little discussion,
was referred to the Committee on Streets
Alleys and Grades.
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The Board of Public Works desire to
straighten McCulloch street, just north Of
Fifteenth, and sent the following communi
cation 10 Council last night, accompanied
BY plot Of the ground:
To the Honorable Mayor and Council:
GENTLENEN:-The Board of Public Works
desire to call your attention to the accom-
panying pot of McCulloch street, north Of
Fifteenth street. AS will be seen
by said plot, the ground known as
the Shriver garden, a piece of ground
owned by the Central Glass Company, and
a small piece of ground'owned by George
Hubbard, situated on the northwest corner
of McCulloch and Fourteenth streets en-.
croach upon McCulloch street. The
street and sidewalk are rendered narrow By
the encroschment at points, and for the
ooyof OrK of foot pooSapparo ap6 tho 0Aparol