The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-24
l8 LIQUOR LICENSES
Granted by the City Council
Last Evening
A MOTION TO INCREASE TAX
Is Promptly Tabled, and Another to
have u Report as to what sa'
loon Keepers have Violated
the Law is Rejected.

The Second Branch oil Couhcl got
down to work first last night, and upon
coming to order about s o'clock the rules
were at once suspended and the grant
ing Of liquor licenses began. AS the
names were called, the applicants and
their sureties were called before Presi-
dent Cruise, who swore them, examined
them US to their sufiicieuCy, and took
their acknowledgements, In the First
Branch when the subject OF licenses
came up, Mr., Rawling presented q res
olution providing for an increase Of all
annual licenses, as follows' To increase
the tax on Coffee house licenses from
$500 to $500; on hotels from $3.50 to $500 !
on bottle houses from $500 to $3.50.
On motion of Mr., Emsheimer, this
was laid on the table. i,
Mr., Wilson then moved to refer all
applications for licenses to the Commit
tee on Police, with instructions to re;
port the names OF all applicants who had
been arraigned for violations OF law
within the past year, On this Mr.. Pol
lock demanded the ayes and noes, Mr.,
Handlan was excused from voting, and
Messrs. Faris, Haller, Robinson, Raw.
ling, Rumble, Tracy and Wilson voted
to refer, the other eight members voting
no, defeating the resolution. The
branch then commenced the work Of
formally ConCurring IN the granting oil
There were in all one hundred and
sixteen liquor licenses granted by both
branches, as follows: Ninety.three regu.
| lar saloon licenses; fifteen to Ordinaries,
and eightto wholesalers.
In the Second Branch the regular
semi.monthly financial report OF Clerk
Thoner was read and us usual ordered
filed. OF the provisional appropriations
made to the several departments for the
month OF April aggregating $2s,SlOS2,
being one.twelith Of the total amount
appropriated last year, there has
been expended $5,007 Gu leaving
a total OF balances amounting to
So, Sl3 10. Collector BrlCe was reported
as having paid in to tho Receiver up to
date, $50, los 78 on account OF the 50.cent
levy and $l5,S25 48 on account Of the TO-
cent levy. i,
The Committee on Accounts presented
bills aggregating $43 50, which were or.
The Committee on Health reported
the existing chaotic state Of at-
fairE with reference to the garbage re-
moyal question, as detailed in yes.
terday's issue, and recommended
that the contracts be awarded
to the next lowest bidders whose
names were reported. This the Second
Branch did, but Just as this important
matter was presented in the First, the
members OF that body became imbued
with wild and ungovernable desire to
20 home or somewhere else, and
despite the urgent protests Of the
Mayor and Ills explanations OF tho i'm,
portance OF the measure, adjourned
leaving the matter in an unfinished con-
dition and the people Of the city de-
pendent on their own resources for
the removal OF their garbage.
Mayor Seabright was Justly vexed over
this idiotiC performance OF the members.
The matter could have been disposed OF
inside OF three minutes by Concurrlng
in the action had on 1t by the Second.
The Second passed an ordinance pre-.
scented by the Health Committee, giving
that committee certain powers in the
granting OF vault cleaning licences. 1t
also passed an ordinance providing that
after the Mayor becomes Judge Of the
Police Court, under the new
law, he shall not release prls.
oners from imprisonment or the
payment Of fines, except with the advice
and consent OF the Chief OF Police, and
he shall report allsuCh pardons TO Coun.
Gil Another ordinance passed was one
reducingt minimum Of fines that sec.
ond offenders and wife.beaters shall
pay from $40 TO S.. Just why that was
done Is something no fellow appears
able to tell. Mr.. Bailey tried to have
tho fine raised in the wife beater's case
to SEQ, but was defeated by vote Of II
to 0. Tho men who voted to be easy on
wife heaters have their names on record,
In the First Branch the Fire Depart.
ment ordinance was read the second and
third time. On It's final passage the
vote was as follows Ayes-Caldwell,
Emsheimer, Terrell, Happy, Rumble,
Tracy and Wilson,.
Noes-Faris, Haller, Meyers, Pollock,
Rawling, Robinson and SChrebe-7.
1t being a Tie vote the Mayor voted
faye" Failing OF a two.thirds vote the
ordinance lies over 10 get another ma
jority vote. 1t will have to go back to
the Second for concurrence In amend.
ments.