The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-14
THE BOARD OF COUNClLMEN
BUSINESS TR4NSA CITED AT LAST
 NIGHTS MEETING.

1 Ordinance te License Journeymen l Plumbers Tabled Until the Next Moot. | mittse Report at an Adjourned Msst- l Ing Next Tuesday Night.
 | The board of councilrnen last night at their regular meeting finished Up a | lot of business, taking concurrent ac- ton with the aldermen on nearly all the ! matters acted upon by the latter board at it's last meeting. The only matter on which there was any debate last night
 was the proposed ordinance for the H- censing of journeymen plumbers The aldermen passed this ordinance but
 when it came up last night Councilman
 Mason spoke against it as drafted, say
 ing that while he thought the purport
 of the ordinance was all right, the draft
 presented by the committee contained
 objectionable features, among which
 were the provisions that the plumbing
 inspector should be a member of the
 licensing board, that two members of
 He also had some doubts as to the con-
 stitutionality of requiring license.
 Finally on motion of Councilman El-
 Hott consideration of the ordinance was
 postponed until the next meeting. On
 motion of Councilman Mason an aye
 and nay vote was called for and the
 members voted as follows on the mo-
 tion to postpone: Ayes-Messrs.
 Browning. Mason, Ingersoll, Hausman,
 Feustal, Kehoe, Gussinan, Hosley, Wells. Manning, Harper, Elliott, Booth, Braeken, Hine, Thompson, Brown, Boyer, Kelly-1s Nayes-Messrs. Wer- weiss, Farrell, McGrail, Logan, Carlin, Cunningham, Ryan, Huber, Pauly, Dwyer, Coyle, Wohlmaker Russell, Hushes-14
 The committee on railroads and bridges recommended that permission be given to the Manufacturers Street Railway company to lay tracks and wires for the extension of it's tracks to the property of the National Wire Cor poration. The recommendation was adopted
 A resolution providing that no terms for q water contract be considered un- til the water company submit terms for a three year contract was referred to the water committee.
 The ordinance providing that no fee be charged for the licensing of dances and fairs was adopted in concurrence with the aldermen. A resolution pre- scented by Councilman Pauly providing that fees already paid for such licenses be returned was referred to the conn., mittee on claims.
 Petitions for crushed stone pave ments on Nicoll street between Edward and Willow streets in Cedar street be- | tween Putnam and Lamberton streets, | and in Putnam street were referred to the street committee in concurrence. 1 Petitions for sewers in Blatchley ave- | nue and Hine Place were referred to ! the committee on sewers. The resolu- ! ion of Councilman WohlMaker provid- | ng for the equipment of buildings with | ire escapes was referred to the com nittee on fire department. A petition 'or sewer in West street was laid on able on motion of Councilman Wer- weiss.
 Just prior to adjournment Council nan Kelly moved that the water com nittee be instructed to report a recom- nendation for a water contract at the lext meeting and the motion prevailed. t was followed by a vote to hold an adjourned meeting next Tuesday night.
 On motion of Councilman Bracken it VntA6 tp ounsel to give an opinion as to the le- ality of the proposed ordinance for li- ensine journeymen plumbers