The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-04-28
LIQUOR LICENSES.
lo eRANTED AND 8 RHIEoTED
A Very Interesting session ct the City COun.
oil Last EVsnipg-Ths Employment Of
Cheap Foreign Labor Denounced
and Home workers 0~hamplOpsd.


oil Last EVsnipg-Ths Employment Of
Cheap Foreign Labor Denounced
n Home Workers ChamplOasd.
The regular semi.monthly meeting Of
Council, held last evening, was q lively
aud interesting one. The granting Of
coffee house and ordinary liquor licenses
aud those to wholesale houses had been
made the special order Of the evening, and
this brought out an enormous lobby, com
posed Of applicants and their bopdsmen,
who filed all the space outside the bars
in both branches and flowed over into the
corridors and spsCes reserved for the
members. There was q large attendance
OF members, who paid much more stten-
ton to the granting Of licenses than
formerly, and as anticipated turned down
the applications from some OF the more
notorious places,
The Second Branch was not called to
order until s O'Clock. President Sweeney
presided and the sbsentees were Messrs.
Hildreth, Jones, Mccoy, Mckinley, Peter
son and VoCkler. On motion OF MIR,
Tracy, the reading Of the minutes was
dispensed with and the special order sus-
pended also, for the purpose Of allowing
Mr.. Tracy to Otler the following resO.
luton, which was unanimously adopted
by both branches:
ITALIAN LABOR,
WHEREAS, The contractor to whom was
awarded the work Of digging the ditch for
tue Natural Gas Company OF West Vir-
GINA haa employed TO do that work ltal-
ian lsbarers brought from q distance, a.
though ii is publicly stated on reliable
authority and has not been denied, that
the contract was awarded to said GontraC-
tor mainly for the reason that the com
pany desired to have the labor OF ditching
done by home workers, and
WHRRgAs, The Natural Gas Company
Of West Virginia has been exclusively
granted valuable privileges and franchises
by this Council as representatives Of the
people of this city,
RaOitd, That 1t is the sonse OF this
Council that tho employment OF Italian
labor TO the exclusion Of workmen out Of
employment who pay taxes into the
city, county and State Treasury, is wrong
and deserving Of condemnation.
RtsO,rsd, That u committee OF six, three
membara from each branch, be appointed
TO investigate and report whether it Is be-
yoRd the power OF this Council TO take
steps to remedy the evil referred to, and
that said committee be instructed to wait
upon the contractor, Mr.. Kimberly, and
the officers OF the Natural Gas Company
Of West Virginia, and make inquiries as to
whether the arrangement for labor cannot
be altered OF the contract annulled 30 that
our wotkmen can get the work.
Mr.. Joseph Yahn, the o member from
the Fourth ward elected to I'LL the vacancy
caused by the resignation Of Mr.. Robert
| Crawford, appeared and was sworn in.
| AREMoNsTRANCE.
! The following petition, signed by four
teen OF the ministers Of the city and pre-.
pared by them ut their regular p%astora'
meeting held Monday afternoon, was pre-.
scented and read:
WHEELING, W. Va, April p, 1886.
TO the Honorable, he City Council:
The undersigned ministers, citizens Of
Wheeling, earnestly protest against the
issuing OF licenses to parties to sell intOxi-
eating liquors within the limits OF the city
for the current year, and present the fol.
lowing reasons therefor:
1t il, il our opinion, u wrong principle
to raise q revenue by licensing the vices
OF tho people. While it Is true that by
tho issuing Of LICENSES q considerable sum
Of money may be brought into the treas.
ury OF the city, when the facts are looked
INTO it 10 plainly to DO seen that the ex.
penses which grow out OF the use Of iDtox.
icating liquors are more than five times
40 great 10 the city and the county In
caring for the inebriates and repairing the
wrongs they do, than Ia received into the
treasury In the shape Of licenses. Upon
a careful estimate wO lind that no less than
$720,0O0 is spent Tor Liquors over bars In
this city every year, money taken from
the avenues OF Legitimate trade and vast.
cd for that which brings only misery on
those that drink. Our young men are
made drunkSrds, murders have been the
Outgrowth OF the traffic in our midst, and
linked with 1t are houses that are moral
pests to the community. We hold, o. q
further reason against license, that the use
Of intoxicating liquors Is the cause Of not
less than ninO.teuths Of the crimes In our
city.
We respectfully call your attention to
the fact that the States wherein they have
had an opportunity within tho last few
years to express themselves upon the
liquor traffic, have decided against 1t. We
therefore earnestly petition that you ex.
erCisb the authority in you vested and re.
frain from issuing any licenses whatever.
TABLED.
On motion Of Mr.. Smith this was laid
on the table and the work OF granting
licenses commenced. A motion was
made and prevailed, that In all cases
where the applicant or any Of the sureties
we're absent the Mayor he empower
ed 10 take their acknowledgements. A
larger number OF applicants and sureties
we're absent than formerly, and; May.
or Grub will have a lively time
Of 1t for the next few days taking
acknowledgements, In many cases neither
the applicants nor either OF the Rureties
were present. The work OF granting
progressed very speedily, and very little
attention was paid by the members ex-
Cept when some special case was brought
forward. In oil liz licenses were granted,
and also several licenses to conduct bill.
lizard rooms, and several auCtioneers' II.
Censes.
The first break in the granting OF II.
Censes took place in the Second Branch
when the name Of Samuel Fleming was
called. He wanted 10 open OF No. 1892
Market street, the Columbia House, bet
ter known as the notorious Jake Dillon
place. This place Is well known by this
time as q vile designation house and gen.
eral resort for d~lsreputable characters.
Fleming offered as his suretles Henry
Hanke and Furman South. Mr.. Tracy
protested against granting license, He
said that Fleming was merely a blind,
that Dillon was In The background, and
that go where one would, a worse hole
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