The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-12-10
City Council Declares for TO- Mill
Tax Levy and Bonds for New
School Building
FRED BALES DENIED HEARING
Mayor and Alderman P1rsch Clash With
Old Reside At Of Ashland Ave in
Sensational Manner-Other
Council Business

Without dissenting voice the City
Council last night declared for a policy
of retrencbment in managing the af-
fairs of the city, for a ten mill tax
levy for the coming year and for an
issue of 100000 school bonds to meet
the cost of the erection Of a new school
building if the Board Of Education in
sist on the building for the coming
year. The report Of the finance com
mittee which is found in an other
column of tonight IS paper was adopted
by unanimous vote and it tells the
whole story of the plans of the city for
the coming year The only serious OPP
position to the report came from the
mayor who objected to the bond issue,
It was an objection ON general princi
pies, the mayor declaring that he was
unalterably opposed to the issue Of
bonds for any purpose. However, he
did not urge the objection and the men
in the Council who are known to stand
close to the mayor, voted for the re-
port practically without discussion
There was no objection to the appropria-
tions as made with the exception of
the chairman of the committee on fire
department who insisted that this fund
should be raised considerably, but he
got no support from the other members
of the Council who considered the ap-
preparation made by the finance com
mittee as sufficient to meet the neces-
sary demands Of the department.
The adoption of the report Of the
committee brought out a short discus
sion on the fact that large sums had
been spent ON the streets during the
year just closing Mayor Scholey in
this regard declared that the work had
been done for the purpose of keeping
the unemployed people of the city from
being supported by the pauper commit
tee of the Council He declared that
he had several hundred idle men in the
city when he came into office and he de
cided that the condition of the streets
could be improved and at the same
time provide living expenses to people
who otherwise would be wards of the
city. He insisted that for the coming
year this work would be cut off. and
that the pauper committee would have
to look after these idle people if they
were as numerous as in the. present
year.
The real interesting feature of the
meeting of the council was brought in
by Fred Bales who dared approach the
Council on the question of the sewer
on Ashland avenue. Bales asked if he
was going to be charged up for the
building of the sewer which he declar
ed was of no value to him and the
members of the Council intimated that
he was. Then Alderman Pirsch made
a bitter personal attack on B2ies de-
claring that he was "public nui-
sance. " This brought Bales to his feet
and he said something about crossing
palms with twenty thousand dollars and
the mayor arose in his might aud the
way he handed it to Bales was a eau
ton. The mayor declared that he
would not stand for any one coming in
to the Council and charging any alder
man with grating and refused to allow
Bales to continue his address to the
Council Bales tried in vain to get the
floor, but he was driven back to his
place in the lobby by the mayor s order
and he died fighting, but failed to get
the ear of the Council a0ain
Fl. F. Jordan, chairman of the County
Board Committee in charge Of repairs
on the county jail addressed the Coun-
ell in regard to the demand of the
State Board of Control that some
changes be made in the jail The
Council decided to leave the matter to
a joint committee Of the County Board
and the Council and Mayor Scholey
named Aldermen John Wade, Willems
and Mayer and City Attorney Slater to
represent the city,
The n. r. Allen & Sons company sent
an ordinance to the city providing for
the building of a water system leading
from the river to the tannery plant and
back to the river. The system is to
handle 100000 gallons of water a day
and the water is not to be polluted in
any way. The plan was referred to the
judiciary committee for consideration.
There was large number of com
plants Of injuries received on defec-
tive sidewalks and streets. Or. Fl. a.
Robinson drove his automobile into an
open sewer trench on julius street, the
Jeffrey company had an automobile
damaged to the extent Of 800 on
Newell street, Ben Borodski ran into
pile of stone on Crate and all Of them