Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-09

The abattoir was built, and the cit,
passed an ordinance compelling the In
spection there of all meat both ibefor
and after slaughter. and fixed scale o
prices for charging the butchers for IN
spection and slaughter-the charges beinf
no higher than those made by oihe
slaug liter houses.
But the butchers rebelled, and banding
themselves together, arranged with Din
gledine to have their slau entering done By
hin. in building which he would cree
for the purpose in South Rock Island
The butchers objected on the ground thai
the abattoir was not suitably located and
furthermore that the city had no more
right to object to their business than OF
any other business. These were the ar
guments-they did not propose to be
bossed-and so they banded themselves
together to rebel
About this time a champion OF their
cause sprang 10 in the person of Mr..
August Huesing, who at one time in his
life had been a butcher. and who at that
time had personal spite against Health
Commissioner Craig for compelling him
to abate nuisance. DR.. Craig had been
largely instrumental in bringing about
the abattoir building, and Mr.. Huesing,
who had become the mouth-piece of the
revolving butchers, arrayed himself
against Dr. Craig and the city in man
ner that was admirable, more for the
system and shrewdness he employed than
the principle he was fighting. Mr..
Huesing gave himself up entirely to the
cause of the butchers-as said before, he
made it a personal matter. Acting for
and in behalf OF the butchers, he engaged
some of the best counsel in western Illi>
nois-Judge l. o. Wilkinson and
VIM. Jackson. ESQ.,. of this city,
and Hon. G. w. Durham, of Gen.
eseo, and In the summer of SO Sc
cured an injunction restraining the city
from the use or control of the abattoir
until permitted to do so by the order
of court Mayor Murdoch at once ems
gagged Hon. W. H. Gsst, and Messrs. e.
d. Sweeney and NJ. NJ. Sturgeon to de
fend the city, and application was at once
made in the circuit court for Lssolu-
ton of the injunction. The motion for
was argued before Judge
Glenn at the January term 1887 the Rock
Island county circuit court. and after con-
Stunning nearly week. during which a
mass of testimony was introduced and
very exhaustive arguments made on both
sides, Judge Glenn overrulled the motion
20 dissolve, making the injunction per-
Detual.
An appeal was taken to the May term.
1887, of the appellate court The de-
'ision was delayed Mril today, when it
comes to the effect that the injunction
vas illegal, and that the city was right
n the premises.
The friends of the abattoir and the
rlends of the city were not a little dis
outraged when Mayor Blanding and City
Attorney McEniry manifested their hos
ility to the abattoir soon after their cleo.
ion last spring. the former in direct vio-
alton of good faith by dismissng Health
Craig. simply to please the
ebelling butchers, whom he had appat>
utly pledged himself to, and the latter
v dismissing certain suits which the
ity had brought against the butchers in
ne county court, for violation Of the
battoir ordinance. The ARGUS consid-
ring the sanitary welfare of the city,
penly denounced what it considered not
My dishonorable action on the part of
he mayor, but failure on his part TO
uard public trust.
The city council may have acted lit
G prematurely in Diminishing the city's
ttorneys at the meeting week ago, as
n effort may be made to get higher
assing on the case than that given by
le appellate court. At any rate the
ounsel engaged by the city made mag
ficient fight, and the public at large
joices in their legal victory.