Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-07-28

THE MANAGEMENT IS GIVEN The
PRIVILEGE OF OPERATING IN
FOREIGN AS WE'LL AS LOCAL
POOLS FOR 1884 PER MONTH. OR
AT THE RATE OF $1,000 PER YEAR.
AND THE ANNUAL LICENSE OR
DINANCE Is so CHANGED AS
TO ALLOW A REBATE, WHICH
CHANGD WORKED MORE THAN
WAS INTENDED.
Council met in special session last
evening for the particular purpose of
considering the ordinance licensing the
Jockey Club races, at the State Fair
grounds.
The ordinance was passed, with an
amendment which has the effect of
doing a good deal more than was in
tended, inasmuch as it appears to re-
strict all pool selling for which city
licenses are issued, to the Fair
grounds The trouble is that the
title of the ordinance was not changed
to conform with the amendment.
There was a bare quorum in each
Branch when they were called to Or
der-nine in the First and fifteen in
the Second. Mayor Butts presided in
the upper house and Mr.. Connelley was
called to the chair In the lower. The
ordinance came up in the First Branch,
and after the business was announced
Mr.. Coniff, representing Mclaughlin &
Co., was accorded the privileges Of the
floor. He called attention to the fact
that the regular annual license ordin-
ance provided for a pool-selling license
of 81 900 per year, with no rebate or
monthly rate of payment, and con-
tended that the proposed ordinance
should be upon the same footing-that
is, if the parties applying proposed to
conduct a regular pool business, with
out limit, they should pay the license
prescribed in the regular ordinance.
At the same time he announced that
his clients had no objection to license
which simply provided for selling pools
Of the local fair grounds races, and
would interpose no objection to the
granting of such license.
After Mr.. Coniff had concluded, the
ordinance was read a second time, and
at Section G. Mr.. Dawson interposed
an amendment. The original read:
This ordinance shall in no wise be con-
strued as affecting or changing the annual
except as to making books and selling
pools at the Fair Grounds of the West
Virginia State Fair Association. at times
other than during the State Fair of said
Association"
The title of the measure waS:-
IAN ordinance fixing license for pool
selling and book making on the grounds
of the West Virginia State Fair Associa-
ton during the period eric ending on the first
offenses and prescribing penalties there
for
Mr.. Davison's amendment changed
Section to read:-
This ordinance shall change the annual
license ordinance insofar as it affects
book making and pool. Selling, allowing
and allowing them to take out monthly
license hereafter
The original 1t will be seen, did
not amend the annual license ordi-
nance; the Amendment distinctly
states that it does amend it, and the
title limits pool selling and bookmak-
ing to the Fair grounds. This should
be borne in mind as the reader pro-
ceeds.
After Mr Davison's amendment
had been stated, Mr.. McKelvey offer
ed an amendment to the amendment,
placing the tax at S. per day for each
stand or seller, if upon local events
only, and if upon foreign pools as we'll,
at ST, 600 per year or any part thereof,
to be paid for In advance.
Mr.. Hook was called upon, and stat
ed it was his understanding that it
was proposed to sell pools only upon
local races, but he was not quite GER
tain about it, and recess was taken
until some of the gentlemen directly
interested could be sent for. In about
ten minutes Mr.. Melden, of the Club,
dppcdIc GU, ol-u SulO thCiO " 90 o. iAAAH
apprehension, that it was desired to
sell pools upon foreign events as we'll
as upon the results of the local races.
If that could not be done, the racing
would be off. Mr.. McKelvey's amend
ment to the amendment by Mr.. Dav-
ison was then put and lost, ayes 4,
noes Z, the former Messrs, Baird, Day.
ison, Ebeling and McKelvey. Mr..
Davisons original amendment was
then put and carried, ayes 8, noes 3,
the latter Messrs. Baird, Ebeling and
McKelvey. Mr. Halter then offered an
amendment striking out most of Sec
2 and all of Sec. g. so as to make L
straight license of 1884 per month
for everything, but this was lost, ayes
3, noes s, the former Messrs. Halter
Schmidt and Zwicker. The ordinance
was then passed by vote of to 3,
the latter Messrs. Baird, Ebeling and
McKelvey, and it was sent to the Sec