The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-23
FRANCHISE / REFUSED
City Council Puts Itself on Record in
Regard to Milwaukee CompaW's
Ordinance.
COUNCIL MEETING A FARCE
: Committee Appointed to Probe Trouble Be-
tween Poor Committee and Poor Master
Fractional Strife Of Aldermen.

hollow farce as the city WOuld like 70
see, and if the meeting had been
played at the opera house it would
have certainly been a drawing card.
j The assembly of the aldermen, as far
! as the city was concerned, amounted
to little, and the fierce factiona1 fights
waged might as we'll have been pulled
off in the rear Of some bar room. It
seems that wherever the council gets
: together some Of them must air per-
sona1 grievances, and last night the
battle was carried on after the men
left the counciTchan1ber, and aldermen
expressed their opinions of each other
! in language that was as forcible as it
was inelegant.
The first important fight came over
the allowing Of $50 to Galloway for
the work on the city dock. No one
opposed the allowance Of the money
for any reason beyond the fact that
J the city did not have it, ard it was
finally decided that TIE money be al
, lowed The old ordinance Of the Mil
waukee company, asking for fran
chise throug hthe city, was taken from
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some time, and finally disposed of, the
aldermen refusing to grant the fran
chise, and ordering that the expense
money, which had been paid to the
city clerk, be returned to the company.
This will probably be the end of the
efforts of the NJ, r. & K. company to-
secure a grant through the city, and
the company is now free to build
around the city, or to leave Wisconsin
out entirely so far as Kenosha is con-
cerned.
The old trouble Of the fight over the
poor was brought up when Alderman
O'Brien moved that a committee be
appointed to Investigate the differences
| between the pauper committee and the
poor master, and report their findings
to the council. Alderman O'Brien
was the first man appointed on the
committee, and this brought a howl
| from Pirsch, who alleged that O'Brlen
| was a relative of Berens, and on this
account the committee would not get a.
| square deal. This, the mayor took, as
an attempt to dictate, and he CURLY
| informed the alderman from the first
ward that he was appointing the com
mittee, and O'Brier will be chairman
| of the investigating committee. The
other members of the committee will
be Aldermen Curtis and Greenwald.
| They will start work at once and have.
the investigation completed by the
next meeting of the council.
The committee on lights reported
/ that in the future the city wouldiget
little rebate from the electric lights
that fail to burn, as the new company
has bired man to take charge of the
lamps at night, and as the contract re-
quires that light must be out an hour
before the city gets any rebate, the
man will probably see to it that all the
lights are kept burning within the
limit. Alderman Schlenker reported
| that there was some doubt as to
whether the company. was giving the
| candle power demanded by the con-
tract, but as the investigation would
be an expensive one, he recommended
that no investigation be made at
present.
AS the meeting of the council was
drawing to close, the pyroteenlcs
began. Alderman Scholey started to
address the chair, but the mayor didn't
see him, and he took occasion to tell
/ the mayor that it was time to attend
10 business. The mayor was hurt ~
by this calling down, but he recog-
nized the alderman from the fifth, and
Scho1ey presented a scheme to fill up
the city treasury by licensing junk
/ dealers. The council! did not take to
| the matter kindly and offered to refer
it to the judiciary committee. This
brought Scholey TO the floor and he
declared that the judiciary committee
with his ''side-pa~tner Caster" at the
head of it, and the city attorney added,
wasn't worth a row of pins. They al
ways fail to connect, he said, and pay
no attention to business. AS it was
evident that Scho1ey had more to. say
on the subject, some one moved to
adjourn, and the mayor declared the
vote carried.
Before the little fight between
Scholey and the Judiciary committee,
Alderman Weier brought up the old
question of the Main street gates, and
the committee were given further time
after a resolution had been offered, to
employ-a new attorney for the city who
would be wiling to see that the gates
were built.
The meeting was anything but a
. pleasant one, and when the aldermen
started home in the driving rain, there
were curses both loud and deep and it
. looked more Ike the breaking up of
dog fight than a meeting OF His
) Honor, the Mayor, and the Common
Council of the City of Kenosha."