Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-23
ALL CONSUMERS HIT
By an Ordinance in Council That May
Hamper Farm HuckSterS.
THE MATTER Is RECOMMITTED.
Diamond Street Widening to be Thoroughly
Looked Into.
THAT MUNICIPAL LIEN BILL AGAIN


ments yesterday, including the greater one
to widen Diamond street from Liberty ave-
nue. to Grant street, the Finance Committee
reported with an affirmative recommenda-
tion an ordinance authorizing the police to
arrest on view all persons found to be ped
ding without license and all persons found
driving through the streets without We
hicle license
Mr.. McGunnigle opposed consideration
of the ordinance in its present form as
placing any stranger from outside who
might drive through the city IN danger of ar
rest 1t would be great injustice, he thought,
TO make every farmer, gardener or dairyman
from the boroughs or townships outside the
city nay city vehicle license. Besides, Mr..
McGunnigle said, there was a decision from
the courts touching upon this question made
few years ago which would be as effective now
as then.
Mr.. Magee defended the ordinance. 1t was
necessary to have such law in the city to pre-
vent tax dodging 1t had been his experience
in the past that the man who came up prompt
ly and paid his vehicle tax got the worst of it.
This law was to prevent that IL gardener,
farmer or dairyman, or an Allegheny man,
came into the city with license from his
own bsiliwick it would be accepted as a license
in this city; otherwise he must take the conse-
quences. This would compel all vehicle
owners to pay their dues and be great saw
ing to all interested. Moreover, he said, it
would be nothing more than right to compel
the farmers and dairymen to take out
license because they used the streets and
bridges of the city and wore them out as much
as city residents, and, If man drives out over
the country roads and turnpikes, he pays
license in the shape of toll to drive over badly
kept roads.
REFERRED BACK.
Mr.. McGunnigle moved to recommit the or
dinance to the Finance Committee for revision,
which was agreed to.
An ordinance authorizing the Controller to
close up certain accounts of delinquent tax
collectors and suspended banks, which cannot
be collected and which appear upon the books
of the city as cash, was reported from the
Finance Committee and passed under a sus-
pension of the rules. The ordinance author
izes the Controller to make a total abate-
ment of the balances carried in the
suspended Pittsburg Savings Bank and
the United Savings Bank. the de-
posits amounting to S2S576 OF. from the
amount charged against the City Treasurer.
The Controller is also authorized to allow a de-
duction of said amount from the debit of the
amount of the treasurer's account current and
He is further authorized to close the accounts
with the defunct banks, standing in the name
OF the following commissioners for the improve
ment of streets under the Penn avenue act:
Wylie avenue commissions, s. $50 50; Thirty
third street commissions, Si3 SO; Forbes street
commissions, 1886 IS; Lin coln avenue commits
The treasurer authorized to release from the ac
counts of defaulted tax collectors the amounts in
and to accept and mark the same discharged.
All the ordinances that were affirmatively
recommended by the Public Works Committee
last Wednesday were handed up in bunch
and referred to the Board of Viewers, except
ing that for the extension of WallinRford
street from Neville to Craig streets those
changing the names of Roup street to Negley
avenue, Hsmet street to RouD street and
DandWehr street to Station street. all of which
were indefinitely postponed.
The following ordinances were passed final
ly: Authorizing compromise with Mrs. Mary
Ann SNYDER for damages caused by the grad
ing of Grandview avenue; granting Armstrong
5roS switch scale privileges on Twenty-fourth
street
The Committee on SURVEYS reported af1rma-
lively the ordinance authorizing the widening
of Diamond street from Grant to Liberty
streets, but asked for opinion on the matter
from the City Solicitor before further action
is taken. The suggestion was adopted and the
ordinance was referred to the Board of View
ers with the request that they thoroughly in
vesngate and report, in the fullest detail the
cost Of the proposed Improvement, the dam
ages caused and the benefits to pay for it, within
30 days.
President Holiday appointed Messrs Big
ham, Gardner and Mcguire as the Common
branch of the joint committee to go to Harris
burg to oppose the Newmeyer municipal lein
bill
KICKING Up A MUSS.
A bill Of s., ZIG l3 from the Philadelphia Com
pany for regulators service pipe constructions
and other attachments used in supplying the
city department buildings with natural gas.
was offered by Mr.. Magee, with a resolution
that it be paid, Mr.. Magee said, in submitting
the bill that it had been discussed in the FL
nance Committee, but they could not agree
upon its disposition. The Philadelphia Com
pany was under contract to furnish the city
with free gas, but the ordinance which made
the contract also provided that the city should
pay for all pipe connections required in fur
nishlng the supply; consequently he thought
the bill should be paid.
Mr.. Gardner objected to paying the company
SIS each for regulators which belonged to the
company. The deposit required for regulator
in a dwelling was only S., and more gas was
consumed in a dwelling than in a fire engine
he failed TO see.
VIM. McGunnigle thought the bill was pre-
posterous He believed that someone had
stumbled across the figures, and thought it
might be good way to get s., 200 out Of the
city. If the Councilmen would be foolish
enough to pay it they could, but he would op-
pose any such proceeding. The bill dated back
to 1854 If 1t was all straight and honest. wby
had not the bill been presented before? The
regulators all over the city were the
property of the Philadelphia COMPANY. and
why should the city pay for what could not be-
long TO her? The streets were hadlyin need of re-
pairs, and he thought if Councils had 81, 200 they
had no use for, it could much better be used
on street repairs than making present of il
TO the Philadelphia Company.
A vote was taken the adoption of the
resolution. and it was defeated.
MORE KICK AND MORE MUss.
Mr.. Can asked to call the attention of Coup.
ellis to a bill that is now under consideration in
the State Legislature which is designed to ef-
feet PIttsburg, providing for the extension of
the fire limits to cover the whole city. He
thought the bill unjust, and advised Councils
to take action toward having it amended or
defeated
Mr.. Magee and Mr.. Culbertson said the bill
was good one and should be passed. 1t placed
the erection of buildings anywhere in the CITY
under the care of the Board on Wooden Build
ings, and while it would not totally prevent the
erection of wooden buildings, would restrict
the erection of that class of structures where
it would be unsafe and undesirable to have
them.
Mr. Bigham said the bill would place too
much power with the Building Committee. and
cause too much delay.
Mr.. Ferguson opposed the bill in vehement
terms. 1t might be all right, he said, if the
power was delegated to a fair and impartial
board, but with the wooden building board of
this city it would be a great power in a very
bad place.
When the roll was called on the adont,on
of the resolution it was found a quorum was
not present, and Councils adjourned without
further action.
SELECTMEN DID LITTLE,