Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-10
COMMITTEE WORK.
PROPOSED CITY LEGISLATION RECEIVES
PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATION.
Graded Hotel Licsnsss-Stsst Railway Ordinances
New Rules for 0ouncl-Ths Natural
Gas Protest.

The first business taken mp by the Coun-
Gil Committee on Ordinances, last night,
was the following resolution, introduced In
the First Branch of Council May 9Th, BY
Mr.. Buchanan, and by that body referred
to the Committee:
'.Resolued, That the Committee on Or
dinance be instructed to draft an ordinance
amending An ordinance governing Hotels
providing for graded hotel license, &C
cording to the value Of property and num-
Der of rooms occupied for such purpose. I"
When the resolution had been read, Mr..
Tracy moved to lay it on the table, saying
it was too late in the year to make the
change affecting the license Of 1888, and
too early for that of 1889. There did not
seem to be more than one party affected
the proprietor of the Cafe Brunswick.
Mr.. Garvin addressed the committee ut
some length, setting forth what he claimed
to be the hardships consequent upon COM
polling all hotels to pay the same license
Fee, claiming that q law which compelled a
house like the Cafe Brunswick to pay as
much as the Mcclure or the Stamm, had
NO element OF justice in it.
Mr.. Caldwell thought the parties inter-
ested ought to have sent in draft OF an
ordinance. At the same time he thought
there ought to be graded license.
Mr.. Maxwell cut off debate by calling
for the previous question, and the motion
to lay on the table prevailed.
THE RAILROAD ORDINANCES.
The ordinance releasing the Citizens
Street Railway Company from paying for
the pavement between its rails on Jacob
street, on the South Side, and the ordi-
nance granting to the Wheeling Railway
Company the right to lay and maintain its
track on Jacob street, between Forty sec
ond and Forty third streets, and to relieve
said company from paying for certain paw
ing, were then taken mp The last named
ordinance was taken mp first, and Mr.. Al
fred Caldwell addressed the committee.
He said the change in route asked for
would better accommodate the people
in the lower end Of town. The route
now desired was sought first, but the
compromise between the companies, in
Council, mnde it impossible. He said it
vas not intended to abandon the right to
lay tracks on Eoff street, for it might be
desirable to relay that track at some future
time. The companies had been lately I'M
der very extraordinary expenses, and for
this reason and others the relief afforded in
the proposed ordinance was asked. Mr..
Caldwell pointed out in detail the heavy
burden imposed upon the Companies by
the paving of Main and other streets, none
of which paving was now of the slightest
use or convenience to the Companies, and
he thought in justice tina. the load ought
TO he lightened.
Mr.. Geo. B. Caldwell reviewed aud am
plified the statements made by his brother,
and said, among other things, that the ex-
pensss of paving, to be paid by the Com
pany, would be fully SIS, 900, sum which
would render the property OF the Company
entirely unproductive TO its shareholders
for year, for the general benefit of the
citizens, and without any benefit whatever
TO the Company, now that the use of horses
had been abandoned.
The ordinance was recommended to
Council for passage.
The Citizens Railway ordinance, releas-
ing the Company from liability to pay for
paving on Jacob street, from Thirty ninth
to Forty-second, but requiring the Com
pany to keep such paving between its
tracks and for one foot outside thereof, in
repair, was then taken up, and the same
action was had.
NOT DEEMED NECESSARY.
The committee then took up the follow
ing resolution, offered by Mr.. McGregor,
in the First Branch OF Council
Resolved, That the Committee on Ordi-
nsnces report an ordinance making it I'M
lawful to deposit or throw on the streets or
alleys Of the city, any paper, or any such
rubbish"
The Committee, after hearing from Clerk
Bowers, decided that this matter was
already sufficiently covered in the rules of
the 3. 7. W., and the paper was tabled.
AMENDED RULRs FOR COUNCIL.
The resolution, offered in the Second
Branch, by Mr.. Maxwell, and adopted by
that body, instructing the Committee to
have the Solicitor amend and reconstruct
the rules governing Council, was then
taken up, and the Solicitor submitted his
report in accordance Herewith. The re-
port was read, duly considered, and recon-
mended to Council for adoption.
THE NATURAL GAS PROTEST.
Mr.. Hearne, representing the Natural
Gas Company of West Virginia, made in
quiry as to what the city proposed to do
with the protest filed by President Batch
elor, some time ago, regarding the granting
of franchise to the Citizens Gas Compa-
ny. Mr.. Hearne said he was present by
invitation of the committee. His Compa-
ny had said about all it had TO say in its
protest.
Chairman DobbiLs said the city was at
a disadvantage, in having no counsel, as
the City Solicitor was a stakeholder and
an attorney for the Gas Company. He
thought it would be well for the commit
tee to ask Council for authority to employ
counsel.
Mr.. G. B. Caldwell very frankly said he
was interested in the Company, and could
not, therefore, act for the city.
After considering the matter for some
time, the COMMITTEES agreed to ask for
authority to secure legal advice.
THE Picnic of the Wheeling Turu-Verein