The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-04-18
Old Council Adj0urns Sine Die and the
New Aldermen at Once Take
Their Places.
RAILWAY ORDINANCE is DELAYED.
Matter as Referred to the New Council-C.
Weier Named as President over chris.
Schend-Report of Chief of Police.

The new and. old met together at the
city hail Monday evening and the old
council passed into history and the
new council passed into office. The
old council kept up it's record for the
past and the last meeting was turbu-
| lent one and the main cause of trouble
was the old question of street railway.
With the passing of the old council
the new council was organized and the
first business of the meeting was the
ever present street railway business.
The last meeting of the old Council
brought out little of interest. The
Chief of Police presented his report
for the year and it showed that the
police force had been very busy during
the year. The total number of arrests
made was 315, and 158 of this number
was for the violation of the state laws.
Others were for the the violation of
city ordinances. The arrests by the
different officers were given as follows:
O'Hare, IA; Newhouse, 81; Joseph
Orth, IS; John Orth, 81; M. Sullivan,
%; H. Fe1dschau, Is; zievers, IA;
Washbish, 7. The report showed that
1921 had been collected in the way of
fines, thirty-nine people had been SEN
fenced to the county Jail, ten cases had
been sent to the Circuit Court and
twelve fugitives had been returned to
other cities. The amount of property
stolen in the city during the year was
81 900, and of this amount $4,000 was
recovered. In concluding his report
Chief O'Hare recommended that the
Council provide for police alarm te1e-
phone system and that two new men
be added to the force. The report was
accepted and the recommendations
will probably be acted on later by the
new Council.
A petition from the voters and prop
erty owners in the Fifth ward asking
that a special election be called for the
election of a school commissioner was
promptly laid on the table and before
the Council adjourned John E. Will
1iams was elected to fill the vacancy.
The street railway controversy was
brought up by Aid. Curtis, who asked
that the old Council take some action
on the ordinance. The clerk reported
that there was no report from the com
mittee or ordinance at the meeting.
For this reason it was decided that the
Council could not take any action, and
with a batch of other business, after a
| hard fight on the part Of the retiring
alderman Of the Third ward, the mat
ter was referred to the tender mercies
of the new Council.
A communication was received from
the manager of the Wisconsin Tele-
phone company stating that the COM
pany had taken no action in regard to
free phones for Kenosha, but the
manager offered to put in the phones
and to agree that they should be fur
nished free to the city until some ar
rangement could be made between the
city and the company. Aid. P1rsch
gave notice that at the next meeting
of the Council he would introduce an
ordinance forcing the company to put
the wires under ground. The mana
ger of the company offered the assist
ance of the company to the city in the
establishment Of a police call system,
but no action was taken in this matter.
At this point in the meeting the or
dinance amending the city charter was
taken up and passed.
By the time the ordinance had been
read the City Council was ready to ad-
iourn for ever. They were all SO we'll
tired out that they forgot to allow the
Mayors salary and resigned sine die
without other discussion.
With the adjournment of the old
council the new members of the board
took their seats and business was
started anew. There were no flowers
or speeches, but the council got down
to work at once and elected presi-
dent. : seems that cut and dried
program was carried out AMI Christian
Schend, the ranking member and pres
ent President of the council was turn
ed down to make way for the selection
of Christian Weier for the office.
The Mayor then appointed new
street railway committee consisting of
Aldermen Head, Tu11ey and Anderson,
and the council adjourned to meet on
next Monday evening. At the next
meeting the different appointments
for city Offices will be made.