Bridgeton pioneer., 1901-06-13
LICENSE GETS
KNOCKOUT BLOW.
Council Takes Up all the Appli-
cations and They are Turned
Down by Vote of 2 tO7.
DONE FOR SIX MONTHS.
Members of the Board of Education
are Elected in the Various
Wards-Changes in the Second
and Fourth Wards.

Every member of Council was in
his seat Tuesday night shortly after
the roll was called, excepting Mr.. Ack-
ley, of the Fourth ward. 1t was
early settled that the scheme to get
the license applications through at
this meeting would fail, and when
new business was reached the appli-
cations were taken up, voted upon
and lost, disposing of the entire
matter for six months at least.
Another important matter was the
election OF the members of the Board
of Education, and still another i'm
portant matter was the decision to
improve Lemon street, the city wisely
undertaking the work itself.
Promptly after the roll call, the
minutes of the previous session were
read and approved, as usual, without
amendment
This done Council at once proceeded
with the business in hand, and waded
through it expeditiously.
The taxes owing to the city from
the 9. R. Baird Company, We're left
with the City Solicitor with power to
act.
There has been much discussion in
Council in the past relative to the
powers of the Road Committee over
the Road Overseers. The Solicitor
was asked for an opinion relative to
the matter. The written opinion was
filed with Council last night. The
gist of the opinion was that the Road
Committee had authority over the
Overseers and was the directing head
over them. The opinion was re-
ceived and filed.
Application for the privilege of
keeping licensed saloon was received
from William M. Martin. The appli-
cation went over under the rules.
The budget of bills were taken up
and passed. The aggregate amount
was $6036. 60. All of the bills were
ordered paid.
Mr.. Powell, for the Water Com
mittee reported that the Snow Pump
Company had written him that the
new pumping engine for the city was
complete with the exception of one
weeks work. Owing to the strike of
the machinists this was delayed, and
the pump would be finished within a
week after the settlement of the
strike.
Mr.. Powell brought the license
matter to focus, by moving that the
license applications presented two
weeks ago be taken up and acted upon
and the motion was seconded by Mr.
Blew.
The roll was called at the sugges-
tion of Mr.. Powell, and every mem
ber voted to take the licenses up.
Howard Parker's application was
the first taken up and it was lost by
tie vote. The vote was
Yeas-Matthews, Conner, Butler,
Hurff, McMullen, Morrison, Deal-7.
Nays-Garrison, McGear, Powell,
Blew, Sellers, Nichols, Woodruff
At this juncture, Mr.. McMullen
asked if there was not resolution
in Council minutes providing that no
vote shall be taken upon license
application unless all members were
in the seats.
This was acknowledged, and Mr..
McMullen said that this action to-
night was illegal, as Mr.. Ackley
was not present.
Mr.. Nichols thought the matter
should be settled for six months. The
question was continually bobbing up
and placed the members in position
where if member of Council was
away, he was charged with assisting
the license men. Mr.. Nichols moved
that this resolution be rescinded.
This was done.
Then Parker's application was pre-
sented again and the same vote was
recorded as in the first place, Z to Z.
The application was lost.
The applications of Henry D. Paul
lin, and Ed. Graves met the same fate.
The wholesale license application
of John Kinkle, and the saloon appli-
cation of George Kinkle were defeated
by vote of to 6. Mr., Hurff voting
against the proposition.
This effectually disposes of the Ii