Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-24
LIQUOR LICENSES.
ONg HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN GRANTED By
COUNCIL LAST NIGHT.
Futile Attempt Made to Increase the Price to S4OU
The Fire Ordinance and Garbage Contract
Report Rail in the First Branch.


The applicants for licenses and their
bordsmen made up quite large lobby at
last nights special meeting OF the City
Council. The applicants for liquor licenses
footed up one hundred and sixteen, OF
which number eight were by wholesale
and retail dealers, fifteen by keepers OF
ordinaries, and the remaining ninety-three
were regular saloon-keepers. In the
Second Branch the reading of the minutes
was suspended, and the work of granting
the licenses was at once entered upon and
proceeded rapidly.
While this was going on IN the Second
Branch, there was fun in the First. 1t was
Internationally started by Mr.. Tracy, who
offered a resolution requiring the City
Clerk to hand a list of licenses to the City
Sergeant In support of his resolution Mr..
Tracy called attention to tha fact that last
wear several salOonists had ron along. tor
two or three months before paying for thei
license, while every one else had TO pay
spot cash for their papers. He did not
want repetition of this thing. The reso-
luton was adopted.
WANTED AN INCREASE.
Then Mr.. Rewling took the floor. He
offered this following resolution:
Resolred, That the City Solicitor be directed TO
draw On amendment 10 the ordinance passed
April Is, 1854 fixing licenses on hotels coffee
houses, etc, for the sale Of spurious ard malt
liquors. wine and cider, tO-wit: Hotels, nov ~
make $780, with the conditions the same as IN
the present ordinance respecting percentage OF
rent: coffee houses, now $780, change 10 500
places for the sale of bottled liquo S, not TO be
drank on the premises now $500, make $3.50
His Honor the Mayor said he did not
think tine resolution was in order. The
licenses had been applied for, made out,
and many of them passed upon by the
Second Branch 1t was a little late, In
his opinion, for Council to act.
Mr.. Rawlings thought he was in ample
time. Council had entire charge Of the
matter, and could make change at any
time.
Mr.. Emsheimer moved to lay the res0-
luton on the table, and it was SO disposed
of, on a rising vote Ayes :, noes ..
REPORT ON sALOoNIsrs.
Mr.. Wilson then offered the following
Resolred That all applications for licenses be
referred to the Committee on Police, with IN
s-ructiOns 10 report TO Council all names otappi-
csnts who have been indicted for violations OF
the ordinances OF the city.
Mr.. Wilson spoke in advocacy of his
resolution, saying the saloon element was
all right as long 10 the laws Of the city
we're enforced. They were good laws, but
they were violated every day and every
Sunday. He hoped Council would act
like sensible men on this question. 1t was
their sworn duty to give the city adequate
protection in this matter.
The resolution WAS defeated ayes Z,
noes 8, 40 follows: Ayes-Messrs. Faris,
Haler, Rswling, Robinson, Rumble,
Tracy and Wilson,. Noes-Messrs
Caldwell, Campbell, Emsheimer, Farrell,
Happy, Meyers, Pollock and Shrebe-S.
An attempt was made by Mr.. Rawling
to lay all applications over for two weeks,
but this was negatived on a CiUa rOce vote.
The list of licenses, as they came over
from the Second Branch, was then taken
up, and the papers were rapidly disposed
Of
At hslf-past nine, in the Second Branch,
an application for a license in the south
west corner of the Main Exhibition Build
ing. at the State Fair Grounds was made
by the West Virginia State Fair AssOcia-
ton, Offering TO pay five twelfths of the
full license therefore. The matter was re-
ferred to the Solicitor fora opinion. There
is in existence a petition, signed by / 100
citizens of the Island, protesting against
granting license in that part OF the city.
HEALTH REPORT.
The report of the COMMITTEES on Health,
relative to the garbage contracts, setting
forth the facts presented in this paper yes
terday morning, and recommending that
contractors be given six days in which to
file bonds, was adopted. The ordinance
amending sections and of the crematory
ordinance, reported from the same commit
tee, was read three timee and passed.
FINANCIAL REPORT.
The financial report of the City Clerk
showed total balance of So, 8l3 10 as
follows: Board of Public Works ten cent
levy fund, 81, 392. "a; same, contingencies,
81, 2S9. Os; same, appropriation fund, So
577 80; fire, 81, 9l1 49, health, 1868 %;
markets, 1929 so; police, $1,S78 Il; city
prison, 1857 SO; scales, $50. SO; real estate,
Sis So; cemeteries, SIS; salaries, $3.50;
contingencies, 1904 so; Water Board, S.,
1871 80; gas works, So, $40 Sc.
City Collector Brice reported collections
of $50, lob % on account OF fifty cent levy,
and $l5, 325.43 on account of ten cent levy.
BALANCES
The Committee on Accounts reported
balances on the books Of the Receiver and
City Clerk, as follows:
General fund ............ .............s2 953 o.
Contingent I'll 70
Ten cent levy ,133 IS
Appropriation W
Bills aggregating S43 80 were ordered
paid. The advertising for proposals for
compiling all city ordinances which now
exist, or which may be passed up to July
Let, was ordered.
CITY SUITS.
City Solicitor White reported as to sew
eral suits as follows: Ia the action brought
by Peter Meyer, before r. H. Gillespie, for
balance alleged to be due, there was
Judgment in favor of the city. The city
had been summoned as garnishee before
W. H. Caldwell, it being alleged there was
liability on the city as debtor of John DQ-
mas. The Justice decided the city could
not be made to answer as garnishee. Geo.
Ruffner had brought suit before Justice
Petermsn, alleging damages for the revok-
ing Of n night soil psrmit. The case was
set for the 29th.
THE PARDONING POWER
An ordinance amending Sec Of an or
dinence relating 10 the Mayor, providing
that for satisfactory reasons the Mayor
may remit the whole or part of any term
of imprisonment imposed in Police Court,
reporting his actions and reasons, in each
case, to Council, was read.
Mr. Davidson thought this was bad. 1t
was certainly unwise TO put the psrdoniDg
power in the hands Of the same Judge who
passed sentence. He moved to amend by
giving the Committee on City Prison the
pardOning power. His amendment pre-
vailed-ayes II, noes 8. Mr. Young then
offered an amendment, making the chair
man of the Committee on Police, the Pres
ident of the Second Branch of Council, and
the Chief OF Police PardOning
Board. Mr.. Brandfass offered an
amendment to this, requiring the
pardon to be granted by the City Prison
Committee. providing the consent of the
Chief Of Police and the Judge OF the