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Show THE CITY FATHERS. : Sundry Committee Reports The "Lottery Tea Business" To Be Squelched. . The, CoanciL convened, at the usual hour and was called to order by Mayor Sharp. - -"Charles Hunt called attention to his abilities and endorsements, and asked that the vacant position of weighmaster and poundkeeper be conferred upon him. Referred to the Committee on Elections. J. H. Freeman asked for a three months' remission of his license as fish peddler, urging decrepitude and hard times. Referred to the committee on License. -E. C. Clifford asked that his liquor license be transferred to Herman Hill. Granted. . , . . - Jesse W. Elliott and Tomney & Hill- steaa were granted licenses as retail liquor dealers. Joseph E. Taylor, City Sexton, presented pre-sented his report (not in person,, by. tne way) of deaths during the year 1885, as follows: Males 256, females 199, total 455. A decrease of th irty-t wo under 1 884, and a decrease of 141 under 1883. The above total, 455, does not include twenty-five twenty-five still births, and eighty-one decedents brought from other places, making a grand total of 561. The disease to which the greater number num-ber succumbed was diarrhceal, 64. Next came diphtheria with 61 victims. Mr. Taylor's report closed with a strong appeal ap-peal to the Council to take means for se-curin se-curin .a supply of water for the city cemetery, and contrasting that burial ground with Mount Olivet. Referred to the committee on cemeterv. The City Attorney and the Marshal presented a report stating that they had investigated the methods of doing business busi-ness practiced by the Chicago Tea Merchants' Mer-chants' Company, chareres which had been preferred at the last session. ses-sion. They found that the tea and coffee had been purchased of reputable wholesale whole-sale houses and was of a good quality ; the system of "presenting souvenirs," however, as the company termed it, though not strictly a lottery, was so closely allied to it that it should be suppressed. sup-pressed. The company had been advised what the report to the Council would be, and had promised to discontinue the obnoxious ob-noxious feature of their business.at once. Accepted. - The Committee on Irrigation stated that the trouble between Frank . Armstrong Arm-strong and certain . citizens, who took water from the stream on which he depended de-pended for water supply, had been amicably amic-ably adjusted. The Committee on Police reixirted that they had examined the report of the Police Po-lice Justice for the month of November, and found it to be correct ; the same committee com-mittee reported similarly on the Marshal's Mar-shal's accounts for the same month. The committee on license reported favorably on the petition of Oliver Pearson, Pear-son, asking for a free license to peddle hosiery for a period of three months. The same committee, to whom had been referred the petition of Frank Foote and J. C. Conklin & Co., asking for a reduce tion in license of sampling mills, stating that the ordinance licensing sampling mills was the same as that licensing smelters $100 per annum. They thought a fresh provision should be made, lowering lower-ing the amount on sampling mills, and recommended that the matter be referred to the committee on . revision. In the meantime, however, they recommended that the petition be not granted. Adopted. The same committee reported unfavorably unfavor-ably on the petition of Eber Case, asking for a rebate of his liquor license. , .The following appropriations were made : To Mrs. M. A. Burt, feeding city prisoners, 1,458 meals, at 15. cents, $218.70; to J.S.Jensen, attending city clocks, $25. Adjourned. |