Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

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funded $500. the sum paid in for whole
sale and retail liquor license, was rejected.
The resolution directing the State Audi
tor TO pay over to the City Collector the
railroad taxes for the past year, coming
ND. the amendment of the First Branch,
striking out the word Collector and in
serting Receiver, $was ~non-concurred in
and a committee of conference asked for,
Messrs. Caldwell, Hildreth and Healy be-
ing appointed in behalf of this Branch.
4 resolution, offered by MI. Picket, pro-
yiding that a special joint committee OF
three from each Branch be appointed to
confer with Mr.. j. A. Faris, looking to the
purchase of his picture of the Last Siege
of Fort Henry" was adopted.
A resolution, offered by DIR. Mccoy, rel
alive to the extension of the water pipe to
''the first ripple above the Top MILL" was
referred to the Water Board.
Adjourned.
First Branch.
This Branch met at $50 o'clock, ten
members being present, as follows: MeSsrs'
Brice, Caldwell, DObbins, Farrell, Halter,
Kenney, List, Mofat, McGregor and
Schultze, J. w.
The business sent over from the Second
Branch was %cOncurred in until the natural
gas matter came up. On that question,
the motion being to concur in the action
of the Second Branch, ~instructing the COM
mittee on Ordinances to draw up an or
dinance limiting the pressure to fifteen
pounds, Mr.. Moffat moved to amend by
making the pressure twenty-five pounds.
Mr.. Caldwell took the floor in opposition
to the motion, and in the course of his re-
marks alluded to the methods pur-
sued by the Manufacturers Gas
Company, in not providing prop
er Joints and escapes, and then charged
that the Board Of Public Works had
neglected, in every particular, to enforce
its own rules and regulations. lie made
a comparison between the precautions
taken here and those exerted in sparsely
settled suburbs of Pittsburg, and said the
methods pursued here were grossly in
adequate. Heurgucd upon the members that
they take heed of the disastrous presidents
in other places, and guard we'll the lives
and property of our people. The pre-
cations suggested by the committee was
such as ought to he concurred in and
adopted by Council. If the pressure, as
limited by the committee, should be Sund
inadequate, then it would be easy to in
crease the pressure. Little Washington
neglected this ordinary precaution and paid
the penalty. Wellsburg had a similar eX-
perience, so had other towns; and it would
he we'll for Wheeling to profit by their
losses.
Mr.. Moffat disclaimed the idea held out
that he wanted to insist on q dangerous
pressure. He believed twenty-five pounds
to be perfectly safe. He would not vote
for five pounds if he thought that amount
would result in damage to any citizen,
The motion to make the pressure twenty
five pounds was lost.
Mr.. Brice moved 10 amend by making
the pressure twenty pounds.
Mr.. Caldwell said the tactics of the Sec
ond Branch, seeking to bring about a de-
lay, were being repeated here. He hoped
members would not allow the report TO be
amended,
Mr.. Brice spoke in advocacy of his mo-
ton, saying he was anxious to see the
manufacturing interests of the city fostered,
and to this end he hoped they would be
offered every possible facility in the mat
ter of gas. Ho would not vote for any
pressure which might, by any possibility,
be construed as dangerous,
The debate then became general, and, at
1910 o'clock, the Branch invited Mr.. Hal
rell, of the Second Branch, to address the
members in the capacity of a member of
the special committee sent to Pittsburg.
Referring to the assertion of Mr.. Molfat,
that experts had unanimously recommend
ed twenty-five pounds rs perfectly sate,"
Mr.. Harroll said, if such a remark was
made, the balance of the committee must
have been either drunk or crazy"
Finally the question on Mr.. Brice's
amendment was put and carried, ayes 7,
nays 3, the latter Messrs. Caldwell, Farrell
and Kenney. The resolution as amended
was then adopted.
When the resolution looking to the APP
pointment of q special committee to nego-
tiate for the purchase of Mr.. J. A. Faris'
picture came up, Mr.. Caldwell said it
was hardly a proper subject for municipal
expenditure, and moved to indefinitely
postpone. The motion prevailed.
In the matter of the collection Of city
taxes due from railroads, the Branch adj
hered to it's former action and appointed
as q conference committee Mcssrs. Cald-
well, Moflat and Brice,
Adiourne1