The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-01-05
Council Passed the Rowland
BRIEF But BREEZY SESSION.

q WARDERs LED A. FoRLoRN
HOPE. THE ORDINANCE PASS.
ING WITH HANDS DowN-MANY
INTERESTED PARTIES PRES.
ENT. +
The ordinance granting TO b. +. How
land. Of. Philadelphia, the right to erect
a reduction plant on the Baltimore g.
Ohio property between Twenty-seyenth
and Twenty.elghth streets. Including a
contract with .he city to cremate all It's
garbage and oftai, passed both branches
OF council at a special meeting last night,
ut got a three fourths majority in each
chamber. and Its progress was enllvcned
by the tactics otits opponents.
It had been said that Democrats would
oppose the ordinance, but Judging by
their showing there are several Kurtzes
in their ranks. The opposition in the
second branch was confined to Messrs.
ALL. Hoe. Mohon, Gartley and Watson,
Mr.. Welsgerber, the other Democrat in
this branch. voting FOR the ordinance.
In the second branch Mr.. Schmidt also
voted aye, but his Democratic corfrercs.
Messrs. S;soebel and W~iedebusch, were
very ably assisted by Mr.. Ebel!ns. the
Republican member from the Sixth. He
was In Il at all stages OF the game. and
put IN a clever Eight of dilatory tactics,
and his debates with Mayor Butts were
amusing and free from acrimohy.
The Sproylslona Jof the ordinance arc
familiar to all newspaper readers. The
present city crematory without extensive
repairs shortly, will be practically use
less, and with this in mind, and the alter
native'o { building a new plant. attention
was given to the offer Of Mr.. Rowland,
first made some months ago. His plant
Will cremasc the clty's garbage and ofral
for the coming ten years, for which he
gets sl,50o per annum. He gives bond
in the sum of $4,000 to fulfil what is a
rigid contract. The only opposition to
the plant has been from residents near
which It was proposed to be located. The
Sixth warders threaten an injuYetion,
but they can't have the plant declared a
nuisance until It has been operated. Mr..
Rowland claims Ids plan.wlil not prove
offensive.
There was a nunih:s OF interested citl-
zens present when council came to order
at 1880 o'clock. They were mostly from
the Sixth ward. and Included Mr.. George
x. McMech&n, % the McAtechen preserv-
Ing WORKS, and William Tucker, OF the
Wheeling Paper Company, whose Plants
are on adjacent ground to the crematory.
THE FIRST ROUND.
The fun began when President Chew,
, after the Second branch came to order,
decided that as the ordinance had been
read once al the last meeting Of council,
st was now on the second reading. To
this opinion Mr.. Watson protested. and
he and the chair mad a little seance.
which, happily, was brief.
Mr.. 3lehen made q motion 70 refer the
ordinance back 10 the committee. Before
the vote was taken Mr.. ALL begged leave
to say something.
Mr.. All made 4 lengthy and spicitcd
argument IN defense Of his position last
Tuesday night, and he strongly de-
nounccd the allegation that he had been
influenced by the arguments Of out
the-pike residents against the Peninsula
location. He didn't want TO be known as
a kicker" but he believed the objections
against the East Emo site should hold
good againstIthe Sixth ward site.
2 The motion to refer the matter back to
the committee was lost. Then Mr.. Me-
hen. of the Sixth ward. said the high wa
ter would be detrimental to the site.
The amendment to the ordinance
changing the location from the PENN
sula to the Sixth ward was carried, but
Mr.. All and Mr.. Gartley damanded the
ayes and noes. TIE amendment carried
by 10 to s.. In asking for the ayes and
noes Mr.. An! cried out:
Let the people know how we vote"
ItkE AL IlSIt, Sdlu all. &NGsoIlt, J. Ndul
that too. The plant has TO be In some
part of the city. Let the names 6e
called"
Yes, let them go" said Mr.. Connolly.
The vote was as follows:
Ayes-Arndt, Berry, Bradbury, Bron-
strop, Bucey. Connolly, Fair. Hahne,
Kind!eberser. Mesrail. Meyer, Miller,
Ne$hi,t, WeisgevDerand President Chew;
total. Is.
Nocs-Ali, Gartley, Hoe. Mehen, Wat
SOM; total. 5.
a petition from Sixth ward residents
was read, received and filed. Clerk Wat
k!ns began the second reading Of the ordi-
nance. The only amendment offered was
that OF aIr. hhls. changing the contract
OF Mr.. Rowland witt the city from ten
TO five years. The amendment was lost.
After the clerk concluded it's second
reading; and read It the third time by the
title. It was put TO n vote by MI. ALL,
who had been previously called 10 the
chair by President Chew. The ordinance
got a threc-fourths majority In the Sec
ond branch by the same vote as printed
above. Is to S.
IN THE FIRST BRANCH.
Then the ordinance was carried across
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