Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-05-15

for Any appointments the Mayor NAV
Make-Eawards = walsh the Successful
Bidders on Seventeenth Street.
The republican aldermen succeeded
in blocking progress in the city coun-
Gil again last evening, and that the
controlling influence is determined to
stand as a unit in opposition to any
move the mayor may make, was
clearly shown when one Of the alder
men cast his vote against his own
kin in order to fulfill his obligations
to his confederates.
After the mayor had announced
his standing committees, which an
pear in full in the official record, the
resignation of Charles X. Whcclau as
overscer of the poor was read bv
Mayor Medill, and the name of i
Henry Lidders was proposed to fill
the vacancy, but the republicans re-
Jccted the nomination. Mr.. ladders
has cousin in the republican ranks
OF the city council. but that did not
contribute to his confirmation.
And stin They Come.
Max Kautz. nominated for patrol
man, was another victim of the re-
publican malice, as were also Dennis
Mccarthy and George Hannah.
Last evening was surely one of pc
titions. and among them was one
signed by 27S people between Twcn-
ty-eighth and Forty-sixth streets for
one extra night patrolman. This is
a protection very much needed. and
the other vacancies in the force
should likewise be filled in the inter
ests of the public, but the majority
OF the council turned a deaf ear to
the petitioners, and no appointments
were made.
Seventeenth Street
The mayor, as chairman of the
committee to whom was referred the
bids for the paving of Seventeenth
street, read report, giving the fig
ures of the bidders on the two lower
sections. viz: from Fourth to Ninth
avenues. Aid. Foss drew up reso-
luton to award the contract to Ed
wards Il Walsh for paving the two
sections with brick, "a by AXIS
inches, at $l9,S30.7S. Aid. Maucker
asked that the matter be laid over
until the next regular meeting, hold
ing that nineteen-twentieths of the
property holders on the street had
Petitioned so to do until the question
of the third section, viz: from Ninth
to Eighteenth streets, was settled,
and then to push the whole matter
forward. Aid. Kennedy arose and
made a motion in exactly the same
strain as Aid. Foss' motion. Aid.
Maucker inquired why the aldermen
from the extreme ends of the citv
were so anxious to pass that resolu-
ton, and also that he had been elect
ed by the people of the Fourth ward
and that he was in the council to
represent them, and he always wished
it understood that, in his mind, the
people residing on Seventeenth
street between Fourth and Ninth
avenues deserved as much recogni-
ton as those residing south of Ninth
avenue to the city limits. In the
course of his remarks, Mr.. Maucker
asserted that Rock Island had suf-
fercd for years through an obstruc-
zionist whose demise was regarded as
a release from bondage, but upon his
dccease there were others who
stepped into his shoes. This remark
elected great applause from those
present in the audience. Aid. Ken
nedy felt called upon to defend the
latter day obstructionists referred to
by Aid. Maucker, but his speech
didn't seem to produce the desired
effect, SO up rose the philosopher
from the Seventh, and quoth he: If
the question of Seventeenth street
from Ninth to Eighteenth avenues
was left to vote Of the people of
Rock Island, three-fourths of them
vote would he against paving it,"
spoke without the knowledge of his
subject. Let him make a canvass,
and he will see that, outside Of the
few who gOaded him and his brother
aldermen to block the Improvement,
he will find but few who would
acquiesce with him in his reasoning.
Other Matters.
The matter of the new hose house
wagons was taken up, and from all
they do not meet with
the approval of all the aldermen. in
asmuch as committee was ap-
pointed with power to hire n practi-
cal wagon-makcr and inspect them
thoroughly.
The petition from Twentieth street
property holders as to paving south
of Ninth avenue was mysteriously
withdrawn sometime before the
council met. The ruling majority
OF the council is determined to
knock out Seventeenth south of
Ninth avenue at all hazards, if it is
possible to do it-that much is fixed,
but The ARGUS does not believe