The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-01
CONTRACT.
zee IrALlANs To BE BoUNoED.
The Joint Special Committee Of Council
Undsr the Tracy Resolution has an
Interesting aud Fruitful ssS'ioH.
Everything Made sAtiAfaetog,

khe tVhAt 1FNNAAA
Uudsr the Tracy Resolution has an
Interesting and FruitEul Session. Z
Everything Made sAtiSfaetog,
Mayor Grub yesterday named Messrs,
Dobbins, Gavin and Myles as members on
the rtOl the First Branch Of Council otthe
provided for by the resolution
offered in the Second Branch last Tuesday
aud adopted in both. President
Sweeney appointed Messrs, Tracy, Hill
dreth and Waterho1se as members from
the Second Branch. The resolution Gre
sting the committee Ia as follows;
WHRRRAs, The contractor to whom was
awarded the work Of digging the ditch toT
the Natural Gas Company Of West Vir-
gInia has employed to do that work Ital-
Ian laboreEs brought from a distance, al
though it is publicly stated on reliable
authority and has not been denied, that
the contract was awarded to said contrac'
tor mainly for tue reason that the COM
pany desired 10 have the labor ofditching
done by home workers, and
WHEREAS, The Natural Gas Company
Of West Virginia has been exclusively
granted valuable privileges and franchises
by this Council "a representatives Of the
people Of this city,
ResOired, ThSt 1t Is the sense OF this
Council that the employment Of Italian
labor 10 the exclusion Of woTkmsn out o.
employment who pay taxes into the city,
county and State Treasury, Is wrong and
deserving OF condemnation.
RsSOlped, That q committee Of ak, three
members from each branch, be appointed
to investigate and report whether II Is be-
You'd the power OF this Council to take
steps TO remedy the evil referred to, ant
that said committee be instructed 10 wal
upon the contractor, Mr., Kimberly, anC
the olicers OF the Natural Gas Company
Of West Virginia, and make inquiries "
to whether the arrangements Tor laboI
cannot be- altered or the contract annulleC
so that our workmeR can get the work,
THE COMMITTEE MEETS,
The committee was called to meet las
evening. At halfpast 7 o'clock all thu
members were present, but Mr.. Tracy wa
suffering from y severe spell OF indiges
ton and was forced to retire. Besidel
the members OF the committee, Presiden
Bachelor, Secretary Buchanan and Di
rector Vandergrlit, Of the Natural Ga
Company Of West Virginia, aRd the two
local attorneys oil that company, Messrs
W. II. Hearne and All. Caldwell; Col
Thomas O'Brien, also Of the company
MIR. Kimberly, and q number OF membsTl
Of each branch Of Council and outsider
were also present, The crowd Of speCta
tors increased, till at the close Of the SEES
sion the Municipal Court room, wherl
the committee met, was well filled.
Mr.. Dobbins called the committee Il
order, and named Mr.. Htldreth for Chair
man. Mr.. Hildreth was chosen. At his re
quest Clerk Galligan read the resolution
adopted by Council Tuesday night, undeI
which the committee was appointed.
Mr.. Hildreth asked how the inquiry
should pro1eed, and II was suggested tina
the contractor DO heard from. MI. Kim
berly was called upon by the Chairman
but before he could respond Mr.. Mylel
asked II the Council committee properly
had anything 10 do with the matter. HI
thought from the existing circumstance
Council had little or no Jurisdiction AMI
the committee could do nothing.
The chair suggested that the best WAY
to ascertain II Council had anything 10 d.
with II Was 10 hear what Mr.. Kimberly ha(
to say.
1t was decided to do this.
Mr.. Kimberly said: "Mr. Chairman
there Is no part OF this work to be done II
the city limits; there has been no worl
done by me n any Of my force"
"Mr. Ilildreth asked: MIR. Kimberly
have you q written statementP
Mr.. Kimberley said he had, and beinl
invited 10 read II, did so, as follow:
Mr.. ~KIMBERLY's STATEMENT.
$50 much has been said about my no
giving the work | am 10 have done Il
Wheeling people, that | have concluded
thatit is time for me to say q word on thu
subject. l have had no work done as yet
remember, by any one. The work is mo-
ready. When 1t is, and we have com
meuCed, II there Ia any able-bodied mar
from Wheeling applies and is refused, Il
will be time for this charge To he made
1t would be well to go slow with such
silly nonsense.
Recognizing, as ! did, that the work
In contemplation was remote from the
comforts OF homes and boarding.houses
and that much work Of a similar Charac.
ter nearer the homes OF the working men
OF Wheeling would shortly be offered, and
that 1t will probably pay as good wages as
| can olIer, and that II will DO ready az soon
as my Job will, / took the %precaution oil
securing q contingent (but far from O full
force) 10 start work, and to guard against
emergencies. | don't apprehend that
any induCement l might reasonably be
expected to offer would entiCc the Wheel.
ing toilers to stay with me on my line,
away from the comforts OF home, when
work, and plenty OF II, oilers in the city.
II l could offer sufficient inducement to
bring about that state Of things II would
result In driving the contractors for the
city work out and away from the city, in
search Of foreign labor To do the city
WOlAi 10 uho upGu uOud W luy AuOWlduke
in former years, and no action Of Council
was taken TO prevent II. The work in
hand on my contract, for several weeks to
come, will be away from the city and out
Of Ohio county"
In answer to inquiries Mr.. Kimberly
said he had made no arrangement that
would exclude or prevent the employment
Of home labor.
PRESIDENT BArCHELoR SPEAKS.
President O. W. Bachelor, Of the
Natural Gas Company Of West Virginia,
being invited TO speak, said he was glad
the City Council had taken this step To get
the company out Of the trouble. The
company had made a contract in good
faith with q citizen Of Wheeling, and The
contract itself and other documents would
show that the contract was let 10 him at q
higher price than others would have been
willing 10 do the work, simply as a matter
Of policy aud e%xpedienCy. The contract
was given 10 Mr.. Kimberly because he
had been recommended by citizens oil
Wheeling as q mar who would be