The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-07-19

Old boy Tray, Fido and the rest Of
the canine family in Kenosha, if prop
erly muzzled may be at ease. There will
not be price of fifty dollars placed
on their heads by the common council.
This fact filtered out from an argument
bristling with oratory and personal
abuse at the meeting of the council
Monday evening. The whole matter
was left open until the next meeting
but the aldermen one by one and almost
without exception declared that they
were not favorable to the fifty dollar
dog license. Out of the agitation is
probabl to come a lot of good for,
eliminating the personal abuse which
was visited on "Ietter writer's" the
newspaper and the police department,
there came an order to enforce the muz-
zle order which may bring results.
Alderman Roberts brought up the
question of the dog tax resolution and
brought verbal committee of two
members of the judiciary committee
that the matter be taken up and the
licenses fixed at the same amounts as
appear IN the present ordinance. This
seemed to meet with general favor but
after the argument some of the alder
men thought that the fifty dollar dox
tax suggested might aid in the enforce
men of the muzzle law so final action
on the matter was deferred.
Alderman Bounsall who had fathered
the dog tax provision made fair state
ment to the council and to the crowd
which filled the lobby. He declared
that he was not ready to either de-
fend or to apologize for the fifty dollar
license suggestion. He declared that
at the time he made the suggestion he
made it on the spur of the moment and
that it had been adopted. He went
further-he declared that IN his action
ne had sought to act for the protection
o. the children of the city rather than
the dogs. cit is possible" said the
alderman, THAT if the present laws
were enforced there would not be need
for any great advance in the amount of
the dog license fees but today four
out of five of the dogs on the west side
of the city are not muzzled in keeping
with the orders of the common council.
The duty of, the council is to see to it
that the police officers shoot not here
and there an occasional dog but that
they shoot every unmuzzled dog in the
city. What is really important is to
understand who regulates the police and
if the orders of the council are not to
be enforced"
Later Alderman Bounsall brought be-
fore the council a letter from the state
board of health showing that the exami-
nation of the brain of dog sent from
Kenosba to the state laboratory on
July 9th had shown traces of rabies.
re did not hold that this was the brain
of the dog which had provoked the legis-
iation by the council but he brought
this to show that the dogs in this Sec
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brought statistics to show the value of
muzzling the dogs in the prevention Of
rabies.
Other aldermen talked more or less
flrently on question and were more
or less personal in their release Of ora
tory but Alderman Bounsall gave the
meat of the whole dog question. Chief
of Police O'Hare appeared to answer
the criticism of the police department.
and declared that he had instructed the
members of the force to kill every un-
muzzled dog and that he would ask
for the immediate resignation of MEM
bers of the force who had failed to
comply With the order.
PROBABLY a hurcred people were at
the meeting Of the council interested
solely in the fate of the dogs and with
the close of the argument they walked
out evidently satisfied.