The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-26
SHAMEFUL EXHIBITION,
Important City Business Delay
ed and Retarded
-BY THE MAYORS CONDITION,
The First Branch AdJoprns TO End a
plssFacofal Spectacle, and the
Second Followss ult-vcry
Little Business Done,

Last nights meeting p@Uouncll was
short and the large accumulation Of
business Of importance has To wait, The
increase Of the police force, the payment
Of the officers Of the recent Loan ordi'
nance election, appropriations needed by
the Board Of Public Works, the pay
ment Of bills Justly due, and other mat
ters which should have received atten'
ton, were laid over for called meeting,
A quorum was obtained at q reasonable
hour in both branches, and a little bust
ness transacted. In the First Branch
Mayor seabright went to sleep in the
chair during the reading Of the minutes,
Chief Of Police Delbruge went to hun
and walked him up, making some re-
mark audible only to the Mayor who
seemed to resent II.
Shortly after, Capt, Rawllng asked
permission 10 make some remarks con.
corning the proposal by the knights Of
st, George for the purchase OF the old
Sherld's office, and the Branch acceded.
In the midst OF his remarks, he was in
terrupted by the Mayor, who said there
was no proposition before the Branch,
BY this time 1t became painfully ap-
parent that the Mayor was intoxicated,
When Capt, RawliHg sat down, Mr.,
Tracy moved to adjourn, The Mayor
refused To entertain the motion until the
Second Branch had been notified, and
Capt, Rawling notified 1t. Then the
Mayor reluctantly put the motion,
MI, Ferrell arose 70 move an amend
ment,
have you got TO do with thisP lam run
ming this Branch. You take your seatlN
Mr.. Ferrellwas not unnaturally angered
by this unceremonious and unparlia'
mentary outbreak. "Who arc you, sir?'
he asked. "Are you a member Of this
Branch2 Bywhat right doyou run it?'
About this time Nj. Rumble took his
hat and left the chamber with an air o.
disgust, The motion TO adjourn was al
last put and carried by q vote OF 0 10 8,
Then the Mayor walked over into the
Second Branch and announced In q loud
voice that "Tracy Is running that Branch
over there Tracy adjourned that
Branch" and so on ad n1useam. The
Second Branch soon followed the ex.
ample Of the First and adjourned.
All the business done last nightis soon
told.
The seml.monthly financial report Of
Clerk Thoner was read and filed. II
showed that out Of appropriations made
to the city departments aggregating
S359,834 o., there has been expended
Sl42,s25 81, leaving a balance OF $2lg,'
ROR 81, divided as follows: Board Of Pub.
lie Works, 10 cent levy fund, $22,460 5S,
contingent fund, $l3,l02 IS, approprla-
ton fund, $48,765 7S; Fire Department,
$l4 Sl96S; Health Department, $3.50 81;
Markets, 81, $3.50 o.; Police Depart
men. sl0,sl4 9si City Prison,
$3.50 IA; Scales and Weighing,
$sl1 90; real estate, S763 S0I cemeteries,
$545 OF; salaries, 5000 22i contlngen.
cies, 1881 %; Compromise loan, $500;
Loan OF 1877, $3.50; Loan OF 1881, ST.
002 80; City Water Board, $35,124 SO;
City Gas Works, $S7,52S "a. The appro.
priations OF $l3,500 to the loan Of 1885,
and S2,100 for the collection OF taxes,
have been expended.
Clerk Thoner also reported that Col.
lector Brice has paid into the Receivers
office $S3G02 81, on account Of the 80
cent levy, and S16,94265 on account Of
the IL. cent levy.
A license to keep q saloon at No. 100
Woods street was granted To Walter
Young, with H.. Brandiass and II. B.
Grimm as his sureties. A license 10
keep q wholesale liquor store at No. 1913
Main street was granted to Schaefer 4
Qreihorst, with E.W. SChaefer and Alec
dribhep Gs sqreties. Mrs. Reed, who has
been conducting thtu place, was granted
q rebate.
Edward Miller resigned his seat as a
member OF the Second Branch from the
FIFTH ward, and August Warnecke was
on motion chosen to hll the vacancy.
In the Second Branch the matter Of
the increase OF the police force was taken
up, and was pending when II was dis
covered that the First Branch had dis.
appeared. The Second then also ad.
journed. There will necessarily be a
special meeting this week.