Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-25

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The applicants for liquor license who
have been turned down at nearly every
meeting of Council since the latter part
OF April continue to fight for the right
| to SELL Whether they have counted
| noses and find that they now have a
| majority in Council cannot be told,
because the question did not get to the
voting stage last night, President Max
well ruling the matter out of order in
! the Second Branch.
Another very interesting matter at
| last nights session was the election Of
a member of the Water Board to sue
coed August Weidebusch, deceased,
several members taking occasion to
| indulge in some very sarcastic COM
ments on the efficiency of the present
| Board. The license fight came up early
| in the Second Branch.
The committee On petitions and re-
monstrances presented a report, max
| ing recommendations that license be
granted to the following named appli-
| cants:
Thomas Mclaughlin, No. Sixteenth
| street, coffee house license.
Guyer & Drebus, transfer of license
of August Huseman, at No. 2205 Main
street.
Charles McGavin, transfer of license
of Hermann Coss, No. 4O1 Main street.
| Fred Knuth, corner Fortieth and
Jacob streets; new license.
| Edward H. Kurtz, No. 1916 Main
street; new license. a,,,n,, ~.
| Otto Fish, Minnie Seeker, ]. B. Will
kie, VIM. o. Walker, F. ]. Heisel, Geo.
A. Landmesser & Co., Richard Wilkie
and c. F. Biery. The eight last named
are the alleged fake hotels, which
have been turned down repeatedly, and
have bobbed up again at every meet
ing of Council.
When the report was read, Mr..
Chew arose to state point of order
that the applications were improperly
referred by an illegal act at the last
! meeting of Council. Chairman Max
we'll stated that he had ruled upon the
question at the last meeting, and he
took occasion to criticize the action OF
Mr.. Bradbury, who had been called to
the chair as the personal representa-
tive of the President. He said he re-
garded it as discourtesy to him to say
the least, to reverse his decision as
soon as he had left the Council
Chamber. The entire proceedings were
Irregular. He Nresident Maxwel)
still held that the petitions for license
| would have to take the usual order,
and that Council could not suspend an
ordinance. 1t could suspend a rule OF
the body, however.
President Maxwell said he was will
ing to refer the entire matter to the
City Solicitor and to abide by his rul-
ing.
Solicitor Boyce came into the Coun-
Gil chamber. The Chair explained the
situation and he gave it as his opinion
that the Chair had properly ruled in
the matter. Mr.. Marschner made the
point that the committee considered
the petitions and acted upon them, and
that they were properly before the
body in accordance with the opinion
Of the City Solicitor, but Mr.. Maxwell
stated that the entire action on the
subject after his departure from the
last meeting was Irregular. The Presi-
dents ruling stood.
The applications which had been
properly referred to the committee at
previous meetings were granted. They
| were the three first mentioned abovS
There was some more squabbling after
this, Mr.. Bradbury taking the floor and
endeavoring to argue that the Solicitor
had not fully understood the question
President Maxwell insisted that he had
and continuing said:
Il want to say to the members OF
the Second Branch that l have never
tried to take snap judgment during the
consideration of this license question
| have never solicited single member
to vote against any of the applicants
There has been strong effort to
coerce me into voting for them, how
ever, but it has not been successful
and will not be. Some retail grocers
among them a very prominent grocer
in the East End, have stopped dealing
with our house They may continue
to withdraw their patronage as lone
as they please, l will not be coerced
into voting for anything which 1 re.
gard as wrong"
1t was whispered about in the cham
Der of the Second Branch that a sim