The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-03-30
COUNCIL MEETS AGAIN
And DispOses Of Several Scrap
Ends Of Business,
INCLUDING THE ADJUSTMENT
or the "Assize" Ordinance Still
Moving on the Police aud Fire
Board-A Committee Report
Occasions Some Talk,


last evening, The call stated that the
meeting was for the purpose Of disposlug
Of general business, Both branches were
in session about one and one-half hours,
and passed on several odds and ends,
The members who failed to respond to
the call were Messrs, Gavin, Haller,
Meyers and Schrebe, oithe First Branch,
and Craig, Hadlich, Kurner, Maxwell,
Yahn and Young, OF the Second.
A full hali,hour Of the time the Second
was In session was occupied by the
reading Of the minutes Of the last three
meetings. The Committee on Gene
teries reported bills amounting to $l3 25,
which were ordered paid. The transfer
Of two cemetery lots were reported and
approved.
The Committee on Health reported
bills aggregating SO 40 that were ordered
paid. This committee recommended
that George Ruaner and William Wood
rul, vault cleaners, fined 81 and $40
respectively, for not having fully COM
piled with some trivial teChicality OF
the defective ordinance supposed to
govern those engaged In this business,
be remitted said fine and costs.
The committee had fully investigated
the matter and its recommendations
were based on that investigation. Mr..
Harrell warmly opposed that part Of
the report, and started q debate
that was beginning to turn on
Health Officer Garrison's fitness for
the office when President Cruise
called halt to the proceedings by an.
nounClng that as there were no sworn
allidaVits, or Transcripts Of the records Of
the cases In police court accompanying
the report as required by one Of the
rules Of Council, the entire matter was
out Of order. TWAS accordingly referred
back TO the committee. In the mean-I
time the colored men who have petition
ed for relief, having lost their licenses,
are thrown out OF employment and have
nothing else to depend on.
The communication from Solicitor
White, In reference to the old Sixteenth
street cemetery, printed in Thursdays
issue Of this paper, was read and re.
ferred 10 Cemeteries.
The following, offered by Mr.. Brand
fass, was read:
ResOlred, That Ills ExcellCncy, the Governor
Of the State, be and Is hereby requested, II at
any tlne before the next regular session Of the
Legislature, ho should convene, by prOClnma.
tlOn, the Legislature Of this sRtO In extra Ees.
alOu, 10 state In his proclamation calling such
extra session, that such called Legislature con.
slider at such called session, two bills introduced
IN the Senate at the last regular session Of the
one known Al Senate bill No. 100, a
bill 10 give the Mayor OF the CityOi Wheeling
power Of veto, aud the other Senate bill No, To-,
i bill 10 permit tho city TO establish an electric
Light plant in said city
The ordinance amending the one in
relation TO hawkers and peddlers, read
once at the last meeting and laid over,
being made TO its second read.
ing, was taken up again and for some
reason referred 10 Ordinances. The
changes made in the old ordinance are
10 conform 10 the point contained in the
offered by Edward Miller q
few meetings since:
ResOlped, That tho Committee on Ordinances
be Instructed TO ASCERTAIN what, II any, leglslR.
tion by Council Is necessary TO prevent the pod
articles rs Rre usually sold In the market houses
In this city, aud report by ordinance,
The annual license ordinance was read
once and then, on motion OF Mr.. Harrell,
referred to the 0rdinanceCommittee with
instructions to fill the blanks with the
same figures and amounts as those con-
tanned In last years ordinance.
The First Branch conCurrcd with the
Second In the action had by the latter on
all the regular committee reports con.
sidered at the last meeting, aud also at
this one, including the finding OF the
Committee on Claims 10 the matter Of
the Glenn murder reward money.
The ordinance abolishing the some
what famous "AssiZe" ordinance, the
consideration being that the Natural
Gas Company OF West Virginia shall
withdraw It's SUIT against the city and
others in the United States Circuit
Court at Parkersburg, and pay the costs
In the same, and also pay the costs In
case the city has against the company in
the Circuit Court Of this county, which
case the city will dismiss, was passed.
Messrs. Ferrell and lIawling voted
against the measure.
Messrs. Reilly & Hobbs, Henry
stamm, Augustus Pollock, W. B. Howell
and others petitioned for the passage OF
an ordinance, which they presented,
prohibiting the keeping, deposltlng and
loading Of cattle and swine upon the
landings OF the city, or the keeping OF
the same on any boat or water craft lying
thereat, between the hours Of 0 p. m. and
Q q. m. for q longer time than Is actually
necessary in loading and unloading the
same. Itwas referred TO Ordinances and
Wharves.
Messrs. Ferrell and Rawling, Of the
First, and seeley Ellingham and Capps
oi the Second Branch were appointed as
the special committee called for under
the Seeley resolution offered at the last
meeting, 10 arrange for the complete OBJ.
liberation fthe Board OF Police and Fire
Commissioners and the return 10 the old
and clumsy style OF handling those two
important departments. II will he
noticed that President Cruise allowed the
minority no representation Ia naming
his end Of the committee,
ABOtlT PEOPLE.