The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-02-23
HAD A HOT SESSION
MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL ENGAGE
IN HEATED WRANGLES.
GoNNERMANN SCORES CULLEY
Throws the Lie into the Editors Teeth
Council Also Have Trouble over the
Transfer of VIM Smith License
churches ASK for an Ordinance.


The meeting of the Common Council
held Monday night at the City Hall,
was one the most exciting sessions ever
held in Kenosha. Everybody seemed
ugly from Aid. Gonnermann down to
Marks, the lawyer, who occupied a
prominent seat in the spectators lobby.
Several of the aldermen had chips on
their shoulders and as many had fists
to knock them off Diplomatic Lam
guage was even forgotten and once or
twice the word lie and danish the
thought) the word damn was heard
while the Council was in the heated
arguments on one question or the other.
Personal conflicts between two of the
aldermen seemed imminent and fight
between member of the Council and a
spectator was narrowly averted. The
early part of the evening passed with
out much excitement.
District Attorney Buckmaster, by
request, presented an ordinance de-
handing that no license be granted
allowing anyone the privilege of open
ing a saloon within three hundred feet
of any church or school building in the
city. Along with the ordinance Was
presented petitions from every church
organization in the city representing
over 5000 people, asking the aldermen
to support the measure protecting the
schools and churches from the ravages
of the saloon.
Aid. German was in favor of the
immediate passage of the ordinance,
but other members of the Council held
different views and the matter was re-
ferred to the judiciary committee, to
be reported on at the next regular
meeting.
Allowing bills and receiving petitions
for sewers and tax rebates occupied the
attention of the Council for half an
hour, after which Aid. Gonnermann
arose to make a public reply to an
article which recently appeared in the
Daily Gazette, intimating that unfair
means had been used in securing the
passage of the recent resolution grant
ing ten years lighting contract to w.
FL. Schott. Aid. Gonnermann referred
to the writer of the article as " a certain
man named Culley, that prints the
Daily Gazute." The roast which he
had prepared and delivered against
the editor was the most classic thing in
the way of roast ever heard in a
public place in this city.
Aid. Gonnermann then explained at
length the position he had taken on the
subject of municipal lighting and ex-
planned that the reason he had aban-
doned his work on this line was be-
cause be had received no support on
the Council and because he had found
legal difficulties which made it mad
yisable for anything of the sort to be
attempted at the present time. He
stated that he had not been active in
the work for granting a contract to
Mr.. Schott and branded the statements
of Editor Culley as malicious lies.
paying his respects to the editor of the
Gazette the Council went into a meet
ing Of the committee Of the whole for
the purpose Of discussing the fight be-
tween the German Lutheran church
and the Schlitz Brewing Company over
the opening of saloon under the
direction of William Smith in the old
BendC building.
The lobby of the Council chamber
was crowded with members of the
church who had came to express their
protests against the granting of the
transfer of the license, but they were
not asked to appear before the commit
tee and the only protests was the silent
protest expressed by their presence.
When the Council came in again,
Notwithstanding the fact that repre-
sentatives of 5000 citizens of the city
had expressed by petition their disap-
probation of the transfer the committee
made report recommending that the
petition of the saloonkeeper be granted
and the report was adopted, Aid.
Weier and German voting nay. AS
soon as the vote was taken Aid.
Gonnermann arose and demanded to
know why the two aldermen had voted
against the acceptance of the report.
Aid. German responded that he had