The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-23
Marks the Final session-TaaS for
Everybody on tho wIpd;up,-Re.
view of the Business Trans
acted at the Meeting,

during the short period Of two years
that 1t has existed, The ending was
peaceful, harmonious and toa degree
hilarious, Those who had holly con.
tested on former occasions, especially
when politics or political measures were
the cause Of debate and disturbance,
chatted socially over their cigars last
night and laughed over the spectacles
they had made Of themselves in the
past. Complimentary resolutions OF
thanks were handed around literally
and the gayils fell for the last time in the
history Of that body with everybody
wreathed in good natured smiles and
cigar smoke.
Neither branch was called to order till
after 8 o'clock. The absentees In the
First were Messrs, Delbrugge, Handlan,
Happy and Caldwell. Those who failed
to put In an appearance In the Second
were Messrs. Auber, Bremen, Gundling,
Kraft Pracht, Prayer, Vockler and War
ner.
Proceedings opened in the Second
with the reading OF the minutes OF the
previous, meetingwhich were approved,
and then the regular semi.monthly
financial report Of City Clerk Bowers was
taken up as the next regular business.
Out Of provisional appropriations made
to the several departments, aggregating
SO0,640 %, being one-iourth OF the total
appropriations made to the departments
for all Of last year, and intended to cover
the expenditures TO be made for the first
three months Of this year, there has been
expended a total Of $l2,lG OF, leaving a
total OF balances aggregating $7S,S95 IS,
distributed as follows:
Board OF Public Works, 10.Cent levy
fund, $0,4S4 0S; same, contingent fund,
S4,0O5 Is; same, appropriation fund,
81, $50 90; Fire Department, $5,0l2 IL;
Health Department, 81 1868 55; Markets,
$3.50; Police Department, S., 100 Of; City
Prison, S9S2 81; Scales and Weighing,
$962 go; Real Estate, SS03 90; Gene
teries, $40 40; Salaries, $4,000; Contln.
gencies, 81, 94S 05; Loan Of 1877, s., $50;
City Water Board, $lS,05l 50; Gas
Works, $1,000 70.
Accompanying this was q further re-
port from Clerk Bowers, showing that
up To date City Collector BriCe has paid
over TO Receiver Dunaway taxes collect
ed to the amount Of ST. 1856 81 on &C.
count Of the 50.cent levy, and $l3, SOL OF
on account OF the 10.Cent levy. Both
reports were received and ordered filed
by both branches.
Henry serig, reelected to the position
Of keeper Of the garbage Crematory,
appeared with his bondsmen, Christian
Hess and F. O. Myers, and the bond,
which Is in the sum OF $500, having been
approved, they qualified.
The Committee on Scales presented
bill for $40; the Committee on Markets
handed In accounts for $sl, and both
amounts were ordered paid. OF the
market bill $50 was for John McKeeyer,
clerk OF the Centre market, for hauling
away garbage left about the market.
Ten dollars was appropriated from the
contingent fund to paw II. Halter for
crying for sale the old Court House.
The First conCurred with the Second in
ordering these payments.
When the report OF the Committee on
Ordinances was taken up the Republi.
cans magnanimously allowed the Demo-
Gratis 10 name the Democratic election
officers in every ward. This generous
treatment OF the minority was In mark
ed contrast with the course pursued by
the Stein.Gruse seven.Dy.two Board in
appointing officials for the November
election.
When the names OF tho officers for the
First ward polls were read, Mr.. Harrell
moved TO amend by inserting the name
OF Michael Edwards as commissioner, in
place Of Joseph Young. He said that
Young, by his own confession, was a
man incapable Of filling the position. He
protested mildly againStthe Republicans
naming all the officials, and gave Ed.
wards q great send off as one well quail.
fed for the position.
Mr.. Allison took the floor and com.
menced speaking In a manner that made
Mr.. Harrell think that he was going to
violently oppose the substitution Of
Edwards name, and the First ward
orator at once began TO prepare himself
to 80 back at Mr.. Allison. But 1t was
not Mr.. Alllson's purpose TO oppose Mr..
HarrelPs amendment. He favored
allowing the minority TO select the
minority end Of the list Of election Off.
GERS; because the Grtlse.Stein Board Of
Commissioners had done wrong and
unfair thing was no reason that the City
Council should follow that outrageous
precedent; 1t was precedent that In
time might prove dangerous, and he
hoped II would never be repeated In
this city or county. Mr.. Allison favored
Mr.. Harrell's amendment, but before he
did so he gave the old Board OF Com
missioners deserved scoring In a man.
rer that made Frank Gruso fully apprU-
Ciate It's force.
AS soon as Mr.. Allison took his scat,
Mr.. Cruise sprang to his feet and said
that he had not intended 10 say anything
on the subject, but the remarks Of Mr..
Allison about the Board over which he
(Gruse) had presided made him feel that
he must reply. With considerable heat
he characterized Mr.. Allison's charges
about the Boards uniairness In naming
election officials as utterly false"
Mr.. Maxwell followed with some re.
marks In tho same line Mr.. Allison
had followed. lie made comparisons
that caused Mr.. Cruise 10 Jump 10 bis
feet and characterize them as false. Mr..
In reply intimated that all the |
testimony about tho Boards transaC.
tons, with which the public was IA.
miliar, pointed the other way, and OK
pressed a desire 10 hear any testimony
that should disprove the statements he
had made.
Several changes were made, alter which J
Mr.. Cruise departed and did not again |
appear.
In The First Branch other changes
we're made, Il having been suggested
that possibly members Of the retiring
Council, even though they were not can.
lldates ioF reelection, would not be
eligible as election officials for 0 city
election. The llBt was finally perfected
and confirmed by both branches, The
changes made arc as followsi
Mi. Edwards Ia made q commissioner
ID the First ward vice Joseph Young
Edward Rogers, commissioner In tho
iamO ward, vice Capt, Chaflea j. Raw.
lnR, who was last evening made mem.
Def Of the First Branch Of Council from
MAT ward, vice Df. o. +. UlrCh, Repub.
lean candidate for Mayor, who last eve.