The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-09-16
COUNCIL UNABLE
TO GET TOGETHER
SECOND BRANCH RECESSED,
c ON SpPa csr At MoHS
teeessed Meeting To Be Held Next
Tuesday-Merbers Almost Cause
Riot BY Actions.

In a meeting featured with contrar.
mess from the roll call to the end OF
the session. the city fathers last night
failed to get together on the annual
appropriation ordinance and recessed
until next Tuesday night. question
arose In the second branch as TO
whether or not that body had recess.
ed but Chairman Alexander ruled that
the vote justified the action and de
clared the body recessed amid cries
Of roll call by several members who
had failed to secure their petty
schemes.
The first branch non-concurred and
refused to recess. asking for a confer.
ence committee. but the second
branch stood recessed as declared by
the president. The trouble arose over
two items, the first branch wanting
the citizens of Fulton TO have a ser
vice installed by the city OF Wheeling
and that in apparatus for the police
department there should be a combin-
alton patrol and ambulance. The Sc
cond branch wanted an ambulance this
year and then get a partol wagon
next year. Members OF the first
said they would have submitted the
questions TO a conference committee
and abided by the decision. but Pres
ident Alexander had recessed the Sc
cond branch.
II begun to look like riot call
would have to be turned In to the po-
lice headquarters when one of the
second branch counctlmen upbraided
the president in the hall after the
meeting. He accused him of playing
favorites to a clique and not giving
all a square deal Members OF the
the action of the second. they being
entirely ignored In the recessing OF the
body. From all indications IL will be
hard to secure a quorum at the next
meeting.
The second branch had the appro-
priatioR ordinance In Its power during
the evening, and made a few changes
From the beginning of the meeting
a number OF members seemed dispos-
ed TO cause a disturbance and split,
demanding roll calls on every item
that came up. Inconsistent with tneh
duty or the business In hand. they ap-
peared TO delight in shaving" the
other fellow. Councilmen Hedges, Nc
Canon, Richards and Drake seemed 70
lead one side. while Counctlmen Butts
and Fair led the other. II was the
latter combination that made the mo-
ton to recess which was declared car.
ried by the president
President Alexander explained his
actions by saying that the calls for
roll call were not properly put by any
member. According to the vote, the
ayes seemed to have IL. the opposition
being too busily engaged in calling for
the roll call to vote. All in all IL was
one jumbled mess of misdirected en-
ergy.
Council did get together however
enough to receive and file the vouca
ers submitted by the board OF control
for August Councilman Seabright
made a motion that the board of con
troll be instructed to investigate the
lighting of the Market auditorium with
a view of lowering the expense. rhis
motion was carried
petition was submitted by a mum
= Der OF residents living on Eof street
between Twenty-seventh and Twenty
ninth streets for paving. They stated
that they were willing to pave over
60 per cent OF the street. The matter
was referred TO the committee on
streets. alleys and grades.