Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-26
THE CITY CIRCUS
TAKES A REGULAR wHIRL AT LEGIsIA-
TION LAST EVENING.
Nam. Caldwell and Grnss Make Il. Lively IN the
Second, While All Take . Hand IN the
Fun In the First Branch.


last night, but when set in motion things
were pretty lively. At 8 o'clock, when
President Gilslsnd of the Second Branch
called the meeting to order, there was Just
one member short of a quorum present.
Then Offer Killeen was sent put on q hunt
and he succeeded in corraling the neces-
sary one after quite a hunt, after which
several others dropped in until the num-
Der reached seventeen.
The First Branch had q quorum on the
start, but they waited until the Second
Branch had secured q full hand, after
which the game proceeded with the follow
ing result:
THE WORK OF THE SECOND BRANCH.
The minutes of the two previous meet
iags were read and approved, after which
Mr.. Gundling moved to suspend the rules
and take up licenses, which was done.
The application of Jos ph Michel 10 keep
q coffee mouse at No. 800 Msin street was
granted and the securities qualified.
The application of Amos UIbsn and VIM.
Smith to keep q coffee house at No. .
Eleventh street, was granted, and the
Mayor VAS authorized TO qualify the BE-
curisies.
81. P. Mayer, who kept a coffee house
at the came stand, was granted q rel ate on
the unexpired term of his license to be
spplied to the payment of Urban & Smiths
license.
THE CLERKS REPORT.
Clerk Bowers report was then read,
sho wing the total appropriations up to
September oath to be 1888, SIG So: expendi-
lures 1898 $50 IS, leaving the following
balances to the credit of the various de.
partments: Board of Public Works,
10 cent levy. FUND 1892, 6S4; same
contingent fund sos 80; SAUCE sp cial
contingent fund, SITS. 00s; same, appropri-
alton, $1s6, 241; same, temporary bridge
Msin street, $50, O00; fire department,
1861, 199; health department, S23S. OBS;
marksts, SOL. 81; police, 1851. so1; prison,
S128, 09s; scales and weighing, S257 AZ;
real estate, $5732 20; cemeteries, 1856. 81;
contingent expenses $15s. 463; loan of 1881,
500, $50; city Water Board, $38, pa s.;
city gas works, $33, SIC 05; total, $1l9,-
585 So. s. L. Brics, Collector, has paid to
E. W. Dunsway, Receiver, the following
amount up to September "a: 50-cent levy,
$50, 274; 1O-eent levy, So, 797.5S. The re-
port was received and ordered filed.
The Board of Police and Fire Commits.
sioners asked for the adoption of a resolu-
ton authorizing the payment Of $3.50 to
Donaldson, Lewis & Go for the new hose
cart. Adopted.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS RECOMMENDED
TIONs.
The Board of Public Works asked
Council to make appropriations to pay
bills as follows: Dat of general fund,
paw roll for Cald Wells run improvements,
S223.62, Jos. Spiedel & Co, cement,
SIS 10, H. s. WHITE, lumber, same, $50;
cut OF ten cent levy fund, pay roll for
work on Island sewers, $173 l3, VIM.
Stobbs, curbipg on Maryland and Ohio
streets, wholly neTe work, 1927. So. TIE
report recommended that the City Clerk
he authorized to issue his orders on the
Receiver for the above amounts, which
was done.
In reference to the temporary bridge
over Maiu street, the Board reported that
1t had communicated with the representa-
tiyes OF the Hubbard estate and the B. &
o. Railroad Company regarding the use of
the property owned by them, for approaches
to q temporary bridge across the creek.
The B. & o. Company replied that per
mission Is granted with pleasure" bat
their telegram says nothing about any
rental for the property, and the Board has
written to Mr.. W. M. Clements ss to the
proper construction to be placed upon the
telegram. The representatives of the Hub
bard estate ask a rental of $500 per annum,
and the Board asked if the terms should
be accepted. The report was adopted.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
The Committee on Health reported bills
amounting to So, which were ordeI ei
pfid. 1t also recommended the passage
Of the Hide Ordinance by o vote of 3 ayes
to 2 nays. The report was adopted.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Gruse
~instructipg the Board Of Public Works at
q cost Of 500 to make the alley east OF
McColIoch street and Caldwell'sru passa-
bic, payable out Of the Boards contingent
fund. Adopted.
A LITTLE TILT.
About this time, Mr.. Caldwell, who had
been keeping an eye on the actio1s of tine
First Branch, got the floor aud announced
that as that branch had referred the loan
ordinance back to the Committee on Ordi-
ma ces, he offered the following:
Resolved, That the Committee on Ordi-
nancss be and are hereby instructed to OBJ
tain plans, specifications and bids for a
stone bridge over Wheeling creek, the full
width of Main street, at the site of the old
bridge, the acceptance of any of said bids
20 be subject to the future action of Coun-
Gil and Board of Public Workp.
Mr.. GIuse offered an amendment to the
resolution to insert Board of Public Works
instesd of the Committee on Ordinance.
His objection to leaving the matter in the
hands of tie Committee was tba. they sell
dom got a quorum together, and they were
very slow, 30 that there was no telling
when they would telr from the matte.
again. He had heard the gentlema in the
First Branch who had moved 10 refer the
loan ordinance back to the Committee say
that it would be allowed to die and he
feared the resolution would meet the same
fate.
MI. Caldwell opposed the amendment,
because he though, that nothing could he
much slower than the Board of Public
Works, and he cited several samples of
what he called the Boards celebrity"
A vote being taken upon the adoption
Of the amendment, it vas carried by Q
yote'o IL ayes to 8 nays.
Mr.. Gundling then offered another
amendment-thst the Board also be au-
thorizsd to obtain plans, specifications and
bids for q bridge fifty feet wide. TIE
amendment was carried, and the resolu-
ton as amended, adopted.
ANOTHER wHIRL AT IT.
Presently the resolution came back from
the first Branch with Committee on Ordi-
nanees inserted in place Of Board Of Public
Works, and the war of words between Mr..
Cruise and Mr.. Caldwell was reopened.
NJ. Cruise said thst the whole reason that
the loan ordinance had been referred back
to the Committee was bscsu,e several gen.
tlemen in the First Branch were not
pleased with the Commissio ,ers named,
and that they wanted to have a new ordi.