Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-28
THREE REJECTED.
Council Dsv0tss Itself to Liquor
Licenses,
Passing About One Hundred and Fifteen
A Petition From Ministers--Home
Labor to be Protected.

Council, at last evenings session, devoted
itself mainly to the granting of liquor Ii
censes, about one hundred aud fifteen be-
ing rushed through in two hours. Three
applicants were rejected, they being the
Dillon House, Charles Otto and the Club
House, kept by James Cahill. The min.
listers presented a petition against the
granting of licenses, which was laid on
the table in the Second Branch. Follow
ing are the proceedings.
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Second Branch.
This Branch was called to order at 8
o'clock last evening, President Sweeney in
the chair and the following members pres
emit: Messrs. Butts, Caldwell, Ciator,
Crawford, Gillelsnd, Cruise, Harrell, Healy,
Miller, Scott, Schrsbe, Stanley, Smith,
Tracy, WaterhOuse, Weir, Weisgerber aud
Mr.. President-l8.
The reading of the minutes was dis
pensed with,
THE KIMBERLY CONTRACT.
Mr.. Tracy moved to suspend the rules,
and the motion being carried unanimously,
he offered the following;
WHEREAS, The contractor to whom was
awarded the work OF digging the ditch for
the Natural Gas Company of West Virginia
has employed to do that work Italian Ia
borers brought from distance, although
it is publicly stated ss reliable, and has
not been denied that the contract was
awarded to said contractor manly for the
reason that the company desired to have
the labor OF ditching done by home work
ers; and
WHEREAs, The Natural Gas Company of
West Virginia has been exclusively grant
ed valuable privileges and franchises by
this Council as representatives of the PEG
pie OF this city; therefore, belt
Resolved, That i; is the sense of this
Council that the employment Of Italian la
Dor to the exclusion OF workmen in our
city out of employment, who pay taxes into
the city, county and State treasury,is wrong
and deserving of condemnation.
Resolved, That a committee Of six, three
members fcom each Branch, be appointed
to investigate and report as TO whether 1t
is beyond the power of this Council to take
steps to remedy the evil referred 10, aud
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 arrangements tor labor cannot
be altered,or the contract annulled so our
own workmen can get work.
The resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed.
NEW MEMBER SWORN IN.
Mr.. Joseph fahn, the newly elected
member from the Fourth ward, appeared,
took the oath OF office, and WAS assigned q
desk.
sUMMARILY DISPOSED OF.
On motion, the rules were suspended,
and the Branch proceeded TO take up aPpll-
cations for licenses As being pertinent
to the subject, the following petition was
read by the Clerk;
WHEELING, W. Va, April y, 1886.
To the Honorable, the city Council:
The undersigned ministers, citizsrs 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-
lou,;nr rpaonpo fherEfOr
1t is, in our opinion. wrong principle
to raise revenue BY licensing the vices OF
the people. While it ia true that by the issu'
ing OF licenses a considerable sum Of
money may be brought into ths treasury
Of the city, when the facts are locked into,
it ia plainly to be seer that the expenses
which grow out Of the use of intoxicating
liquors are more than five times as great
10 the city ana county in caring for the
iuebriates and repairing the wrongs they
do, than is received in the treasury in the
shape of licenses. Upon careful estimate
we fuI that not less than $40, 0OOis spent
for liquors over bars in this city every year
money taken from the avenues of legii-
mate trade and wasted for that which
brings only misery on those that drink.
Our young men are made dTunksrds;
murders haze been the outgrowth of the
traffic, and linked with it are
houses that are moral pests to the com.
4un:ty. We bold as q further reason
against license that the use OF intoxicating
liquors is the cause of not less than nine
tenths of the crimes in our city.
Ill
the fact that the States wherein they have
had an opportunity within the last few
years to express themselves upon the liquor
traffic have decided sgainst it. We there.
fors earnestly petition that you exercise the
authority in you vested, aid refrain from
issuing any licenses whatever.
The petition was signed By Rev. DR.. D.
A. Cunningham and thirteen other minis.
tiers, and was prepared at mseting OF pas.
tors held day or two ago.
The document was laid on the table in
abort order by sn unanimous vote, and the
business Of granting licenses was proceed
ed with, the wholesale merchants being
taken up frat. These were 1--WE 10 number,
aud all went through, and ordInaries
were taken up The lobby, made up OF
principals aud sureties, was by this time
immense, a number of lady applicants oc,
cupyiug the desks of members, who were
grouped About the room in picturesque at
titudes.
TIE DILLON HOUSE
When the application of Samuel Elem
ing, to kesp at No. 1882 Market street
THE Dillon House, was read, Mr.. Tracy
moved to reject. He said the Dillon House
was one of the worst holes in the city, and
tina, the owner, Dillon, was mssqueradiug
behind the applicant. Mr. Picket asked
that Mr. Jennings counsel be heard on bis
behalf. Permission was granted when
Judge 7. D Houston spoke in behalf Of
the applicant, alleging that The properly
had change hands in bona fde manner
Mr.. Tracy alleged that the sale was O |
blind, for the purpose of obtain
ing license. In response to
this, Mr. Houston claimed that the
sale was square Nc. Caldwell asked the
applicant what the consideration was. The
-eply was three notes, payable in six,
.welve and eighteen months"
Mr.. Caldwell-Wss there no CASH.