Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-03

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| At the meeting of the Council COM
| mittee on ordinances last evening
! there was an evident scheme to dis
| regard the ordinances of the various
| telephone companies that are scram-
! bling for a franchise for the time be-
ing and allow the National Company's
| ordinance to alone go before Council
| at the next meeting. It was in the
form of a motion to defer considera-
| ton of the other ordinances, and
failed.
There were present Chairman NC
| Cormick and Messrs. Kindelberger,
Watson, Williams, Schmidt and Bach
| man. The first matter brought up was
| the report of the City Solicitor OF sug-
| gestions in regard to the new tele-
phone ordinances, and Attorneys j. j..
| Coniff, John Arbenz, Jr., S. 0. Boyce
| and Caldwell in turn were given
| an opportunity to state the offers and
| claims of the companies which they
respectively represented. The ordi-
nances presented by the Home Con-
| struction and Telephone, Federal and
Citizens Telephone Companies were
! read, after which Mr.. Aindelberger
moved that the committee defer con-
sideration of the ordinances for two
| ic
| opposed by the representatives of the
various companies and was finally lost.
! Attorney Coniff, in behalf of the Fed
eral Company, stated that the post
poning of action by the committee
would be unfair, as the National or
dinance was already before Council
and his company and the other two
companies would not have an oppor-
tunity to make known to Council their
respective concessions in applying for
franchise Attorney Caldwell offered
a strong argument in defense of the
Bell Telephone Company, and urged
that the charter Of these companies,
and that an investigation be made to
! learn that the company to which the
franchise is given is responsible, and
! whether or not the people upon whom
it is conferred are capable Of giving
the public the service it justly de-
| serves.
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ton had been lost, remarks were In
order, and it was thought that the
committee, in justice to the represent
| atives should submit the three ordi-
nances to Council that it may act upon
| them as it sees fit. There was mo-
| ton to recommend to Council all the
| ordinances, according to the recon-
mendation of the City Solicitor. A
member then opposed the clauses in
the Solicitors report by which the
companies should be compelled to put
down an underground system just
| where Council sees fit, that the city be
allowed to use the companys conduits
| time for a franchise It was argued
| that these new companies ought to be
compelled to go under ground wher-
| ever the Bell company does, and that
| the limit of thirty years is recon-
| mended for the new companies while
| the Bell company has perpetual fran
chise 1t was suggested that these
| matters ought, of course, to come up
| before Council.
Mr.. Kindelberger made en- amend
| ment to the motion before the COM
mittee that all the ordinances be re-
| ferred to Council with the Solicitors
views and without recommendation.
The motion as amended carried.
On motion the committee passed
| favorably upon an ordinance prohibit
| ing the use of firearms within the city
| limits.
Another ordinance was read making
| it unlawful for anyone to cut mark or
| in any way to deface the Fort Henry
! tablet. This furnished considerable
amusement for some of the members,
and Mr. Kindelberger was prompted
| to remark that he did not think it was
necessary as it would require search
(! light to find the tablet On motion it
was decided to report favorably on the
! ordinance to Council
An ordinance against the hauling of
offal from slaughter houses and
butcher shops was next read, and on
motion the committee recommended
| its rejection.