The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-10
THE ALDERMEN MET
Referred Street Car Ordinance to
Committee for Investigation.
The Saloon Question Sprung, and Some
Lively Oiscussions-An Investigation
Was Ordered,
PROCEEDINGS OF LAST NIGHTS SESSION

AL inc tluerutu Wtit at tuo uu-
journed session of the board held at
the city hall last night.
The standing committees of the
board were announced by President
Noble as follows:
Northumberland, Jones and Dur
rett; tinance-Boone, Barry and Lang
staff; street-Langstaff, Greif and
Leigh; fire and police-Barry, Jones
and Durrett; cemetery - Durrett,
Boone and Langstaff; sewerage and
sanitary-Leigh, Grief and Durrett;
license-Durrett, Jones and Leigh;
public approximations, Leigh
and Durrett; railroad, telegraph and
telephone Boone, Langstaff and
Barry hospital and pauper-Gseif,
Boone and Barry; printing-Jones,
Boone and Greif relief-Barry, Boone
and Greif.
The enrolment committee reported
that several ordinances had been incor-
rectly published IN the city printers
paper, and on motion it was ordered
to republish them.
Chairman Leigh of the street COM
mittee stated that the committee was
unable to learn how the sl3, 900 APP
propriated in the new levy for streets
is to be spent, whether for work done
previous to this time, or for work to
be done after June 1. At his slgges-
tion the matter was referred to Mayor
Yeiser.
The ordinance creating the board of
fire and police commissioners was
given first passage, also an ordinance
requiring city depository and q
$50, 900 bond.
The street railway franchise ordin-
ances were referred to the committee.
The ordinances passed by the lower
board were 'disspproved and the new
ordinances desired to be substituted
were referred. The facts. in the case
seem to be that the street car COM
pany, which has franchise ordinance
for seventeen years, desires to have it
extended to twenty years IN order to
borrow money for needed improve
ments. The ordinances passed by
the council were simply to make the
ordinance read twenty years instead
of seventeen, and upon the approval
Of the now ordinances the old were
to become void. Objections we're
raised to the ordinances passed by
the council, and the aldermen dis
approved of the ordinance on this &C.
count and when ordinances that suited
them better were introduced referred
them.
The matter of granting ]. 4 White
sides coffee house license at Ninth
and Court streets was brought up
The council refused to grant the Ii
cense and the applicants money was
ordered refunded. The police depart
ment protested against the granting
of the license when the application
came up in the council Mr.. White
sides made a statement to the alder
men, in substance that the police de-
partment objected to him because
when the quarterly fines were as
sessed against the saloon keepers for
keeping open on Sunday, he refused
to pay his fine at first, and was looked
up, subsequently thinking better and
paying. II caused the department to
get it in for him" he declared,
and for this reason lie was prevented
from conducting legitimate business
under the restrictions of law. The
board decided that Mr.. whitesides
must make a new application before
his request could be granted. The
question Of saloons was disc used
when the saloon licenses granted ~
the lower board were presented and
approved. and ALDERMAN Boone stated
that it was theeoncensus Of opinion
that no saloon ought to be permitted
near the Carnegie library, and MIR.
Charles T. Graham, at Ninth and
Court, should be notified to psspsre
for business somewhere else. No
action was taken.