Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-29
Second branch.

Second Branch.
This Branch was called to order by Pres
ident Sweeney at eight o'clock last evening,
a bare quorum being present. as follows
Messrs. Clator, Crawford, J. B., Crawford,
Robt,, Gileland, Cruise, Hsrrall, Hildreth,
Jaeger, Jones, Miller, Mccoy, Stanley,
Tracy, Weir aud Mr.. President-15.
The minutes of the previous meeting were
read and approved.
On motion Of Mr.. Hildreth the rules were
suspended and the petition Of Steinmann
Bros. to annul license at No. 5000 Jacob
street, and grant q rebate on the same,
q granted.
A license was then granted to c. G. Stein:
mann to keep q coffee house at the same
plumber, with William Fasnacht and G. d.
Horstman as s~ureties.
THE TEN GENT LEVY.
The ten cent ordinance was then taken
from the table, read q second aud third
time and passed, Messrs. Harrell, Miller,
Tracy and Waterhouse voting no.
me hGoAhA1NANu OnOAN0NSNs
Mr.. H.ldreth then took the floor and made
a short but rather surprising speech, taking
tor his text the almost inextricable confu-
sion in which city affairs had got under the
| restraining ordinance. He referred partic-
ulaily to q clause which he had read in q
COPY of the ordinance brought to his atten.
ion Yesterday by q city official, which com.
PEELED the clerk Of the Board of Public
Works to report to Council the amount Of
money necessary to meet expenditures until
the next following meeting Of Council, and
said that was wen nigh impossible. He
Gle SO by moving that the Committee on Or
diuances be instructed to report a new ordi-
nance, or else make the present one inopar-
alive until January !, 1886.
These remarks created something OF q
sensation, and members looked at each
other with something akin to dismsy.
Mr.. Sweeney came down from the chair
ard said the remarks of the gentleman from
he Seventh ward struck him as being about
he proper thing to cay. 1t seemed to him
hat while Council had acted with
THE VERY BEST OF INTENTIONS,
YET the ordinance had certainly been adopt
ed without mature consideration. The ifs
cal year commences one month before the
election of new members Of Council, and
the expenses for that month came out OF the
estimates for the new year. The new mem
bers came in, many of them green at the
business, and it generally took four or five
months to get organized and in working or
der. Thus FIVE or six months slipped away
before the estimates were made, and often
half the estimates would be spent by com
mitiees before any money was appropriated
The Board of Public Works was
PARTICULARLY EMBARRASSED
under the present ordinance, and found il
almost impossible to properly transact it:
business and meet the requirements of the
ordinance. The only way out o fthe woods
to his mind, was the changing of the fiscal
year from January l to October LIST. The
question was, which wasthe best way toreach
The point.
Mr.. Stanley said he was sorry the aver.
age Of intelligence in Council was so low
hat after working for two or three months
upon an ordinance they now could not III
derstand it.
The discussion was continued at some
length and with considerable heat by Messrs.
Sweeney, Stanley, Hildreth and others, but
as the First Branch was out of business, the
memorial resolutions on the death of Gen.
Grant, reported by the special committee
and printed elsewhere, were taken up, read
and adopted.
Discussion of Mr.. HiIdreth's resolution to
supplant the restraining ordinance with an
other or to render it imperative until some
ime in 1886, was resumed, the motion be.
ing amended 80 as to refer the subject
generally to the Committee on Ordinances
for report upon such changes in the restrain
ing ordinance as might be deemed neces.
sary.
Mr.. Cruise took the floor and said it looked
to him az if there was o movement on foot
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KILL THE RESTRAINING ORDINANCE.
II did not seem to please certain folks, Mr..
Hildreth aud President Sweeney among
them. he favored giving the ordinance q
fair trial.
Mr.. Harrell said he could not see any
thing wrong with the ordinance. he said
he might be dumb-(The Chair-That has
nothing to do with the matter), but he could
see no flaw in the document.
The Chair explained that the only idea
was to get the various fiscal years together,
and in the right place.
|. Mr.. Hildreth said Mr.. Cruise had referred
TO him as one who was trying to kill the
ordinance. BE disclaimed any such idea.
| On the contrary, he wanted to make it work
and work right.
The Chair made q similar disclaimer.
The clerk produced the ordnance book
and read the ordinance, which showed that
no such section a was quoted by Mr.. Hill
dreth and Mr.. Sweeney existed.
Mr.. Sweeney said he was satisfied be had
been shown q bogus ordinance, but did not
withdraw his remark that the date Of the
fiscal year should be changed.
DR.. Mccoy said II o motion to simply
change the date Of the fiscal year was made,
be had no doubt it would pass.
Mr.. Hildreth again took the floor and
said the ordinance should be postponed.
The afiairs Of the city had gotten into extr;.
cable confusion, and after . while members
would see il.
H REPORT OF h CITY CLERK
was then read, at the request of Mr.. Har-
rel, as follows:
CrrY CIERK's 0FFIcE,
WHEELmG. W. VA, July %, 1885.
TO tie Honorable Mayor and Council:
GESTLEms:-In compliance with an
ordinance entitled IAN ordinance {, keep
the disbursements Of the city of Wheeling
within the limits of its revenues" (Ssc. ~.
| hereby report to your most honorable
body the amount expended up to July II.