The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1895-05-04
Council Proceedings.
Tbs council meeting Monday evening

Tbs council meeting Monday evening
was largely devoted TO the question Of
license. Before reaching that point a
little other business was transacted.
y communication from Gust Erickson
and T. r. Smith. police officers, stated
that the damage case which they were
obliged 10 defend in court was caused
while in the service of the city. 1t was
received and placed on file and the
. claim was again referred to the COM
1 mittee.
! \ communication from the West Su-
/ perior Lumber company withdrew their
petition for the extension of Fifth street
al TINS time, but ask that some temper
airy bridge structure be put in to occom-
mode their workmen who have been
barred by the railroad companies from
crossing on the track.
+ The refundimg subject again came up
+ by proposed ordinance for the pur-
( pose of refunding portions of the city
Indebtedness, introduced by Aid. Roy
( ers Ii was read and ordered pub
lished in full and notice vas given that
it will be taken up at the next regular
meeting on May 9.
I The ordinance provides for the re-
/ funding and reissuing OF S495, O0J worth
of general city bonds, the new bonds 10
be issued ut the same value as those
taken up, par for par, with equalization
! r T.. ,1l L.. Il
funding of special indebtedness and for
1 the acceptance of an amended PROPOSE
( ton from c. \. White x Co., drawn in
accord with the ordinance.
/ Aid. Green introduced an ordinance
/ empowering the mayor To appoint four
members of the council to act as addi-
tionai members of the board of review
1t carried and the four whom the mayor
will appoint will act with himself, the
city clerk, city attorney and engineer
in equalizlng taxes
I The license committee then reported
favorably on - applications and ad-
verselv on : others. The committee al
so recommended that all licenses for
the coming year should be collected
promptly; that minors should, under
no circumstances, be allowed to enter
/ saloons, and that wine rooms and gam
bling be strictly suppressed in all
saloons"
\ petition had been presented at a
previous meeting, PRAYING that no Ii
cense be granted in the Eighth ward.
But the respectable people of ward do
not stand any show when pitted
! against a saloon keeper, and although
in the Eighth ward but a short time ago
Il dead father, a drunken mother and
half starved child was found at one
and the same time in one house, the
aldermen were in favor of granting
licenses to all application except one
particularly tough customer.
But the council could not agree on
the batch of applications and as result
they were all rejected. Alderman At
kins, French, Green, Johnston, Me
Queen and Ross voting no.
Alderman Norquist said that he con-
sidered the whole affair bomhast and
horse play and considered the mayor
and chief Of police amply able to en-
force the saloon law, if they saw fit and
declared the city needed the $500 from
each.
Aid. Mcqueen said the people had
! been fooled before by the mayor and
! chief Of police and lit is an old saying
that part Of the people can be fooled all
1 the time and all of the people part of
! the time but | doubt if the council viii
/ be fooled this year" He was willing
to vote for portion, but not all the list.
After this lot was disposed of another
| grist Of thirty-sevcn was read off and all
were granted their request. Mr. Nor
! quist was quite right no doubt, and the
! first lot over which the show of virtue
! was exhibited, will come in later and
! get their licenses also.
The salcrv ofstreet commissioner wa 5
/ fixed at nine hundred dollars per year,
Notwithstanding it was very clearly
shown that such procedure was clearly
/ illegal But for our city council to
transact its business legally would be an
/ InnOatiOn not to be CountenanCed for a
moment, though we are pleased to see
that he Aldermen from the First and
Second Wards voted againstthe motion.
Attorney W. B. Kellogg appeared in
behalf of the committee appointed from
the Chamber of Commerce to assist il
the matter of equalizing the taxes be.
tween the city and county. Aldermen
Rogers, Green and Bertrand were ap.
pointed a committee to confer with
Mcssrs. Woodward, Kellogg and
IIoehle.
Adjourned until next Tuesday nigh