The Bessemer indicator., 1893-01-21
THE CITY COUNCIL.

A short and sharp meeting
Council No. I sits squarely
down on Council No. 2-No
burlesquing goes-Tne city
map n-Pannebaker
would move the stock pound
into the city as an ornament
Some telling "prods."
OAly an hour was taken up by the
council Monday night in the disposition
q " business and the meeting WIS
= shssp e it was short. Everybody
vas uneasy before the council opened
up. Tor business and great phantastic
pictures Of war hung on the walls Of the
hall on every side. There were 'razors
in de air" and everybody rsveled in the
ssa Of expectancy. The fun commenced
whom a petition was read asking for the
use Of the hall by council No. 2, the 1st
and Ord Tuesdays OF each month until
April 81. The petition was signed by
w. s. Williams, mayor, Dan Roberts,
clerk, and Aldermen J. Il. Murphy,
Thomas Russell, G. o. Richardson and
Conn Finn, representing the peoples
party as mock council No. 2.
Brennan moved to grant the request.
Hart objected. He said that he had
been Informed that council No. 2 was
organized for the purpose of burlesquing
Z 'Ncil No. l. This was the report, and
~ he did not object to just criticism
he did object to the council being satired
by mimic council. Tho hall was no
place for it and he therefore moved to
lay petition on the table. Pannebaker
was quickly on his feet to second the
motion Of his friend, Mr.. Hart. He felt
the object OF the mimic council WIS to
poke fun at the mayor and council and
he was not in favor of granting the hall.
]. B. Jones said something to the effect
that it would be time enough to play
horse with the old council when it was
dead. He was not ashamed OF anything
he had done as crater from the 3rd and
didn't object to the right kind of
criticism, but he, like Hart and Panne-
baker did't want to be burlesqued.
While this was going on it was in
teresting to catch Il kodak picture OF the
back ground. j. f Murphy, G. o.
Richardson, Peter Hagan, Il. B. Kaylor
ct al representing the peoples party
were there. Mr.. Murphy being granted
the privileges OF the floor said that the
aldermen who objected to granting the
use OF the hall to council No. Q were
laboring under delusion. So far as he
understood such was not the intention
and as citizen of Bessemer he felt that
he had right to the privileges Of -
hall. He said much more but this was
the substance OF his talk and it was plain
that his ideas were also those OF his
colleagues. Hart's motion to lay petit
ton on table was carried.
Pannebaker said that the pound had
again been broken into and twenty-five
head OF stock released and he thought
it best to have the pound moved into
the city where it could be guarded.
The location in the city was not named
but if moved it will probably be in John
Murphy's stable lot. The police com
mittes are now wrestling with the
problem.
Another scrap was had over the city
map. Pannebaker moved to allow Ex-
Engineer Richardson Sl14.5O for his
work if the map is found to be correct,
and to allow Assistant Rice S60.50, thus
making up the sl75, the cost OF the map.
Mr.. Richardson objected to this. He
had agreed to make the map for Sl75.
and would not allow the council to say
what he should pay his assistant. He
also Unlimited that he would sue the
city for the whole amount.
The privileges Of the hall were grant
cd to the l.. Il. L. for an entertainment
to be given Friday evening, January 81,
and the council then adjourned.