Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-01-12


for injunctions ever issued. It cost
the Assembly through the four defen-
ldants named in the ibll. over 81. 200. co.
The Court of Appeals, which decided
! in our favor, ordered the National Fele-
pohne Co. to pay the court costs to
the defendants. which amounted to
nearly 100000. The Assembly then
authorized the four defendants to
bring suit to recover the attorney fees
and incidental expenses connected
Herewith, Attorney Nelson g. Hub
bard was secured and a suit is now
pending, and our attorney assures us
THAT he feels very optimistic about the
final outcome Of the suit. I would
recommend to the incoming Assembly
that they keep in close touch with this
suit and not be satisfied until every
dollar has been secured which this
Assembly was forced to expend in
| fighting said Injunction. I believe that
our attorney will do everything In his
power to win this suit. He will keep
the Assembly posted as matters
progress.
Pollock Monun ent.
The Assembly appointed commit
tee over your years ago to raise funds
to erect monument in honor Of the
late Augustus Pollock. This commit
| tee has been very successful, notwitlr
standing the many obstacles encoun-
tered, and are now preparing to
launch new plan of raising the bal
ance of money needed, and will an
nounce same at this meeting, and
they have no doubt that in a very
short time they will have enough
money to erect monuemRt. would
recommend to the incoming Assembly
| that the same COMMITTEES be continued,
as that was the original plan.
Legislation.
During the year the Legislative
committee was called upon to take up
many matters of Importance for the
welfare of the working calss. The As
sembly instructed this committee in
the early part of the year to go before
| the Board of Control and urge them to
give to the citizens Of Wheeling the
filtration system they had been
promised when they voted for the
bond issue, which carried with it a
provision for water works improve
ment. We were told that there would
not be enough: of money left for a
filtration plant, after. the work that
had already been authorized was paid
out of this fund. The Assembly,
| through this committee, notified the
Board of Control that we would sup
port an additional bond issue for the
balance of money needed, SO. the
Board Of Control recommended to
council that this matter be taken up,
and if my recollections serve me right,
that. body referred it to the finance
committee, and there it died. / would
recommend to the incoming Assembly
that this matter be Immediately taken
lup, as it is too important a question to
let drop. As many thousand of our
men; women and children Of our city
are compelled to use this dirty, muddy,
polluted Ohio river water at the risk
of their lives, because they are unable
to provide themselves with home I'll
ters. It's all well and good to have an
abundant water supply for the protec-
ton OF property, but to my notion, the
health and lives of our men, women
and Children should be the first con-
sideration. This committee was also
instructed to ask council to insert a
Onion Labor. clause, providing for the
employment of Union Labor in the
plants of the Wheeling Traction com
pany, and the erection of the building
by Union Labor in the franchise giving
that company the right to erect and
anaintain a pumping station at the foot
Of Forty-third stree. or fifty years, but
council turned a deaf ear to the re-.
quests of Union Labor, which COM
prises the majority Of the citizens Of
Wheeling. and gave away another
franchise without considering the well
fare OF the citizens at large, whom
they were elected to represent
would recommend to the incoming As
sembly that, when the time approaches
for the next city election, should any
Of these coancilmen who betrayed the
interests Of the common people be
seeking reelection. that this Assembly
use all honorable means within its
power to defeat them, and send mem
to council that we know will repre-
sent the interest Of the people as a
whole, and not the corporations, at the
expense Of the people. This commit