The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04
Members Of the Common Council
Hold Great Talk Fest at City
Hall Monday Evening
THE MAYOR DISPLAYS VENOM
Strong Language is Useu on the Floor
Of the Council by Mayor and
Aldermen Commission
Remains Unchanged

The City Council met ia regular SEES
sion at the City Hall on Monday even
ing and it was some meeting. In fact
the meeting might have been classed
as a four strike or a humdinger and
the property owner who failed to drop
in on this meeting will never have
just such another chance to see the
deliberative body Of Kenosha aldermen
in a real session. Mayor Scholey was
in action and while there may be some
people Of the city who never suspected
it, the mayor in action is a picture
show, lecture and a sermon all unit
ed. In language more vigorous than
graceful and with display of bitter
personal feeling the mayor castigated
the men who opposed his pet schemes
and he got SO wrought up at one time
that he even threatened personal as
sault on the aldermen who dared OBJ
pose him. The spectacle Of the mayor
wrought to pitch of almost tears was
one that will long be remembered by
the members Of the Council and his de-
Tense of the rights Of the "dear pepul -
while he fayed the men who failed to
follow in his footsteps was an effort
that should be handed down to posteri-
ty in book of "Second Best Ora
tions. +"
The meeting was not productive of
any great results. The Building Com
mission for a time was threatened with.
disruption, but it managed to weather
the storm and came out ahead, but with
out an appropriation. The other big
fight was over the closing Of the
mayor s office and the office rose phoe-
nix like from the ashes and is still in
tact. However, the mayor came close
to losing it and had it not been for his
own vote there is a general belief that
the furniture of the office would have
been hauled out this morning by the
chief Of police. Scholey was not the
only one who did things at the meeting
for there was some delicious repartee
between Aldermen O'Brien and Wade
and Charley Hastings and James Fill
bin, who had a clothes-line fight over
the opening or closing of an alley
furnished little EOscar and Adolph
Comedy" that relieved the stress Of
the more tragic minutes of the session.
Trouble started early in the session
when report was brought in from the
new Building Commission asking for an
appropriation Of $25 for it's expenses
and giving a report Of the session held
on Saturday evening. alderman FULLY
moved almost to tears by the fact that
the Commission had met and organized
without inviting him to be present
voiced his sentiments and then made a
report of what he called a joint meet
ing of the Commission at which he de-
clared it was decided to give Union
Labor representative on the Commits
sion. He stated that at this meeting
Dan B. Cox, Charles Lilley and E. J.
Sullivan had been named as members
of the Commission and asked the Coun-
Gil to approve the action. The Coun-
Gil did not approve. In fact the mem
bers in large majority insisted that
the committee had nothing to do with
the Commission and that it was a crea-
ture of the Common Council and not
forced to make any return to the COM
mittee on building ordinances. The
a. of 41o
was turned down by a vote of II to
5 and afterward the Council approved
the appointment of John Priddis as a
member of the Commission by unani-
nous vote There looked to be some
thing of political play in the effort
to put the Union men on the Commits
sion and this was heard from later IN
the evening when the mayor had few
choice sentences to utter in regard to
grinding political axes with the City
Council as the grindstone.
There was a comparative lull in the
while the clerk read the
report of the city treasurer which
showed cash balance on hand CO some
thing over $4,000 which was made
possible by the payment to the city Of
$50, 900 Of the new taxes. Then came
a report from Street Commissioner
Steinbach and this started some real
trouble Alderman O'Brien innocently
inquired why it was that in the clean
ing Of the crossings one at the corner
of South street and Maiden Lane had
been neglected There was a merry
twinkle in the eye Of the alderman
from the First which showed that he
was in rare form and that he had a
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