The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-11-30
EAST SIDE CITY COUNCIL.
The Aldermen Reduce the
Saloon License From
$1,000 to $3.50.
SOME BAD LANGUAGE USED.
The Cotton Belt Switch Ordinance
Bobbed Up in New Dress and
Was Laid on the Dresser
SOME BAD LANGUAGE USED.

The east sd. council met last
night with a fu1 boar I'VE do not
mean by this that the aldermen
we're full, but that the entire board
answered to their names at roll call.
The first business on the calendar
was presented by W, G. Cook, at
torney for the saloon men, whom
he represented by petition asking
that the license be reduced from
81, 600 to $500. The petition recited
the fact that when this 81, 600 was
raised against them they could buy
city scrip at 80 cents on the dollar,
whereas, at this time the scrip has
advanced to 80 cents and they felt
that it would be too much of a load
for them to carry.
Dlr. W. G. Cook made talk in
their behalf asking for the reduc-
ton. Aldermen J. D. Cook, in a
speech replied, that he was in fa-
vor of giving a small reduction but
he thought the saloon men were
asking too much. He would meet
them with a reduction, but not
such a cut as they asked for. He
thought $3.50 was a fair license and
for this amout he would vote.
Aldermen Barrow wanted the full
81 900 to stand. Other aldermen
made suggestions and remarks on
the subject aud the matter was
closed up by making the tax $3.50
per annum.
Aldermen Edwards made a mo-
tion that the street aud alley com
miteee haye power to have Elm
street graded from Broad to State
Line. The power was given them,
provided they could find some one
who would do the job for the dirt
that must be necessarily taken from
this street to reach grade line.
Ockander brothers petitioned the
council to allow them to remove
dirt off Clinton street. Council
voted no.
Huddleston Brothers through a
petition asked the council for the
privilege of displaying their poultry
in coops on the sidewalk The
aldermen voted the petition down.
Aldermen Cook called up the ord
nance granting the Cotton Belt
the right of way on Front street
and the trouble the road had with
iniunctions wnen it attempted ia
carry out building a spur on the
right this ordinance was supposed
to carry with it, In his speech he
laid away parliamentary usages
and intimated that the part Mayor
Mullins took in the proceedings 10
holding up the work on this switch
was begot Of mercenary motive.
The mayor did not say in words
that the alderman had been taking
lessons from Annanias, but then
he got so near Of stepping over the
parliamentary wall that the alder
men present began to nudge each
other for the cat hair to fly, AT
this iuncture alderman Little aros
and unfolding roll Of paper and
said he thought he had a document
that would heal all the differences
between the interested parties in
the switch business, He then read
a new ordinance carrying with II
a repeal Of the old switch ordin-
ance, which gave The Cotton Belt
the right TO start spur switch on
the west side Of Vine street and
run east to Elm, provided 1t did moi
interfere with any other franchise
previously granted. The new ord
nance was a repetition OF the old
one with the exception that IT
must commence on the east side Of
Vine street instead of the west
side.
The new ordinance introduced by
Mr.. Little was tabled by a vote OF
3 to O. After this a motion to
adjourn was carried,
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