The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-03-18
HeGd Executive Pours Personal
Abuse on Members of Coun.
Gil Who Oppose Him
COUNCIL MEETING HUGE JOKE
That Council Has Little Time
to Take Care of Bust
ness of the City

There were a whole lot of tax payers
of the city who missed good thing
Monday evening. The Common Coun-
Gil met in one Of it's so-called "Regu-
lar'' meetings at the City Hall and
the few to whom it had been tipped off
that there would be something doing,
enjoyed the continual vaudeville, but
the great mass Of the people of the city
will forever think that they missed
great opportunity to see their head
executive at his best. The meeting
last night was Scholey meeting. He
took up most of the time delivering
lectures to members of the Council who
refused to see things his way and if
the meeting is to be repeated it should
be suggested to the mayor that he hire
hall as well as private office, as an
exhibition, the like of which he gave
last night, was entirely too good to be
staged in little place like the Council
chamber. The Council did not do any
business of Importance as several of the
aldermen were still playing politics
and, with the aid of the mayor, they
managed to defer action on pretty near
ly everything that was brought before
the Council. 1t is possible that some
of them will be a little sitter in the
back after the primary election and
that the next meeting of the Council,
instead of being Scholey exhibition,
will be gathering where the affairs
of the city can be taken up and dis
cussed without personal abuse form
ing the principle portion of the discus
sion.
The mayor was on his feet for fully
an hour during the session of the
Council and notwithstanding the fact
that he was repeatedly urged to call
the president of the Council to the
chair, he declined to take this action
and there was no chance for any of the
members of the Council to stop his wild
TRADE 1t was the most complete ex
hibition of boy s play ever seen in the
Council chamber and the men who went
to the Council to represent the people
must have been disguised with the
whole meeting
To begin with, the mayor was haleyan
hour late when he opened the meeting
and he was evidently worn out from
an all afternoon fight with the officials
of the Chicago and Northwestern Rail
way Company. At the very opening
Of the session, before the fur began to
fly, @. F. Stemm appeared before the
Council and asked for an appropriation
to aid in the celebration of Memorial
Day when the Lincoln monument will
be unveiled. The Council after some
discussion appropriated $3.50 for this
purpose. The fighting started with
the first petitions of the evening. Sew
eral residents of Ashland avenue sent
a petition to the Council asking for a
rebate on sewer assessments and one
of the aldermen Of the ward moved
that it be referred to the sewer COM
mittee Then the mayor began a TRADE
against people seeking special priv
ileges and declared that he would not
allow the petition to even be referred.
He bitterly assailed the people who
had dared ask for any consideration
from the Council and finally, when the
matter was put to vote, he killed it
with his own vote. The petition is
still before the Council The Council
had long discussion in regard to the
poor farm and the question of thing
the land and disposing of some of the
stock on the farm was referred to the
committee. The committee will inves-
tigate and make a report at the next
meeting of the Council.
The real trouble started over the re-
port of the finance committee and at
this time the mayor opened war on the
members of that committee, but the
proposition, which he advanced with
such vigor that at times it looked as if
he would offer to assault some of the
members, was so completely devoid of
merit and so evidently a. play to the
ignorant voter that it is unworthy of
consideration.
Then Claude E. Bates, mild man
nered young man, appeared before the
Council and sought permission to oper-
ate lunch wagon on Wisconsin street
near the corner of Main street. This
brought another long discussion which
resulted in the matter being referred
to Bates to get the consent Of the bust
ness men in the block in question
This question brought some rare parli
mentary ruling on the part Of the chain
and after the amendment to the amend
ment to the amendment the matter was
finally disposed Of. x