The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-20
THREE ORDINANCES
That were Considered by tho
Council Committeo last Night.
NO MONEY FOR FOOD INSPECTION.
Coln.in.thc.slot Machines Get a re.
ductlon Of tho Proposed License
Fccs-h Now Ordinance Intended
20 Prevent Frauds by Travelling
FaliIr Merchants Approved.

Last evening tho council committee
on ordinances had n well attended eos.
sion. Tho first mattor taken up was
tho ordinance providing for a food in
spector, which was road by Clork
Hankc, md then DR.. Caddlo offered n
substitute.
MIR. GruHo thought tho county should
take tho matter up. and that the city
could not by this ordinance secure puro
milk. Tho clty's authority docs not OK.
tend far enough.
DR.. Caddle said there were hords out.
side OF West Virginia which furnished
Wheeling milk. IIo thought an inspcc.
ton OF tho herds could DO enforced.
Butchers. he said, also objected TO the
killing OF unfit animals by country PEG.
pic for sale in Wheeling. He suggested
that q representative Of tho Wheeling
Creamery Company, who VA present,
be heard.
Mr.. Grusc thought Wheeling was go
ing too fast. She was putting on mot.
ropolitan aira when the treasury could
not stand it. He moved to turn it ovcr
TO tho committee on finance for n re.
port as to tho ability OF tho treasury 10
stand tho expense. This carried.
Then the slot machine license law was
taken up, and n written opinion from
the city solicitor was read, 10 tho effect
that council could not by n license tax
legalizo u game or device illegal under
tho other laws.
Mr.. Richards referred to the device
OF giving one cigarette to everybody
who puts q nickle in the slot, and asked
ii it was not illegal.
MIR. Menkcmiller wanted 10 know il
it was not rs legal to play one Of the
slot gambling machines il n stogie were
given for each nickle, as to use q ma.
chine which is intended to furnish
chocolate or chewing gum, but very
often fails to furnish anything. Colonel
White thought the ordinance was en-
tirely explicit and mel oil the ends de.
sired.
Mr.. Menkomillcr thought the charge
OF six dollars on q one-cent machine
and twelve dollars on n five.cent ma
chine was inconsistent.
Finally Mr.. Richards moved to make
the tax on onc-ceut machines 81 and on
ive-cent machines $40. instead OF 50
and SIC, and this was adopted and the
ordinance will DO reported to council
with those amendments.
Chairman Dobbins presented IN
amended ordinance prepared by Solic-
ltor White to make tho ordinance tax
ing itinerant vendors OF goods u license
fee more binding in such cases as that
Of G. G. Wall. now conducting IN
alleged "iro sale" of clothing, and who
was recently fined in tho police court
and took an appeal. One sweeping
clause makes it illegal to advertise n
fire, a%ssignco'a or executors, bankrupt
or ~closing.out salo unless it is really
that kind OF n sale. and requires the
vendor to file IN affidavit 10 that effect
with tho city clerk. Colonel White
spoke in favor OF this amendment at
some length and iorcibly. Tho ordin-
anco. he said. was based on the Now
York statute on the same subject
Mr.. Grusc moved to report the or
dinance favorably, and this was adopted,
and the committee adjourned.