Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-28


ness Transacted Last Night.
Council is evidently not yet ready
TO pass upon the merits of the several
telephone franchises submitted for its
consideration. There are indications
that the fight has only fairly COM
menced. The National ordinance
came up in the First Branch last night
upon it's second reading, but pending
action a resolution was adopted post
pcning further consideration until the
Home and Citizens ordinances were
read a first time. The Second Branch
administered a black eye to the Home
and Citizens companies by tabling the
measures of both. The situation is
therefore further complicated by last
nights action, and absolutely NO pro-
gross was made at tie meeting.
There was a big lobby of telephone
men present, as well as disinterested
observers. In the Second Branch the
ordinance of the Home Telephone and
Construction Company was first taken
up. There was no debate. Discussion
was cut off by a motion by Mr.. Burke
to lay on the table. The vote was as
follows:
Ayes-Messrs. Burke, Chew, Cald-
well, Fox, Healy, Kindelberger, Kurtz,
Marschner. Maurer, Radcliffe, Ritter.
Watson, Weisgerber, Ritter-15.
Noes-Messrs. Beckett, Bradbury,
Korn, Long and MAXWELL.
The ordinance of the Citizens Com
pany was then taken up to meet a
similar fate. The motion to table was
made by Mr.. Healy, and the aye and
no vote was the same, with the excep-
ton that Mr.. Bradbury voted in the
affirmative.
In the First Branch the ordinance
of the National Company vas brought
up on it's second reading. Pending
reading by the clerk, Mr. Waterhouse
offered the following:
Whereas, There are now pending
in the Second Branch Of the Council
of the city of Wheeling the ordinances
Of the telephone companies, one of
which said companies is reported as
making more advantageous offers and
far lower rates to the citizens of
Wheeling than the National Telephone
Company in it's ordinance, now pend
ing in this, the First Branch of the
Wheeling Council; and
Whereas, 1t is impossible for this
body to act wisely OF i~ntelligently in
the premises until all the applicants
for telephone franchises have been
fully and fairly heard, therefore be it
= Resolved, That action on ordinance
of National Telephone Company be
postponed until other ordinances have
been read one time for information,
provided they pass Second Branch,
and then go back to regular order of
business"
The resolution was adopted. After
the action of the Second Branch was
learned by First Branch members, Mr..
Chew moved to reconsider the vote by
which the Waterhouse resolution car
ried. The vote was as follows:
Ayes-Messrs. Chew, Knoke, McCor-
mick, Schockey and Williams.
Noes-Messrs. Bachman, Baird, Beu-
ter, Gartley, Hamilton, List, Meyer,
Scally, Schmidt, Stroebel, Waterhouse
III.
Mr.. Stroebel asked if one of the other
ordinances might be taken up for con-
in the negative and the body adj
journed.
Ordinances Adopted.
An ordinance was adopted forbidding
the use of air guns within the city
limits, making violation a misde-
meanor, punishable by a fine of not
less than one dollar and not more thar
twenty.
An ordinance to prevent defacing of
the Fort Henry tablet and providing a
penalty for violation.
The supplemental appropriation or
dinance.
Two Points of View.
In the Second Branch Mr. Weisger-
DER OlleTeu d IeSOluIlOu pTOV1QlDS IOf
a telephone in the Office of the Mayor,
at a cost of SIS per annum. Adopted.
The First Branch rejected the resolu-
ton, and a committee Of conference
was appointed, but failed to meet.
Mr.. Healy offered a resolution pro-
viding for removal of the fence and
material on the plot of ground at the
southeast corner of Seventeenth and
Eoff streets, for the purpose of con-
verting it into a public park. The
Second Branch adopted, the First re-
fused to concur and the conference
committee recommended that the mat
ter be referred to the Water Board
for report, in which both sides con-
Cured.
Other Resolutions.
A resolution by Meyer, granting
John S. Rainbow, of Charles street.
permission to use natural gas for IL
Illuminating purposes temporarily was
adopted.
A resolution by Caldwell, appropri-
ating $1,000 to raise the houses of
lsadore Hanger, on Twenty-ninth
street, damaged by improvements to
that ~thoroughfare, was referred to the
committee on finance.
A resolution by Mr.. Chew. in the
First Branch, requiring the City En-
gineer to furnish the real estate COM
mittee with an estimate of the cost OF
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