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M
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FOR THE MONTH
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New Subscribers.
New Subscribers.
BY J. W. BURSON-CO.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, TUESDlY EVENING. MAY 3, 1892.
COOK’S COLUMN
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER.
RESIGN AT ONCE.
For this week only:
100
HIT ON THE HEAD.
Cases
Pie Peaches
3 Pound Cans
SI Dozen.
NO COLOR LINES DRAWN.
IMPORTANT
NOTICE.
B.H.COOK
FREE and PROMPT DELIVERY
the
309 & 311 TREMONT.
UNITED STATES COURT.
MILLINERY
MRS. REX BORO’S,
22d and Postoflice Sts.
GEO. 0. HODGES, Mgr.
FULL LIJSTE OF
CHILDREN’S
Commutation Books, $6 for $5.
LADIES’ DINING PARLOR,
MRS. REX BORD’S,
22d and Postoffice Sts.
I CASINO?
I
• Have You
Tried a
This price is remarkably
low and holds good for this
week only.
Watch this column for low prices
on first-class goods.
HE LOOMS UP AS A PRESIDENTIAL
PROBABILITY.
SO SWS ALDERMAN HARRIS TO THE
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
-
2525 and 2527
Market St., Cor. Twenty-Sixth.
Telephone 465.
The Right Place
TO
BUY YOUR
DALIAN'S GAM
IS NOW OPEN.
PICKWICI BB8TAUEANT.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
STAPLE AND FAUCI GR0CE8IES,
Table Luxuries,
I
Lawn Hats and Caps
JUST RECEIVED AT
SCHNEIDER BROS.,
Imported Delicacies,
I
K
DIRKS & VIDOVICH,
North Side Market, Between
22d and 23d.
VOL. XII. NO. 146.
■————i■a—im I1.IHIIM ■ ......... ...... ....
Highest of aU 1® Leavenhg a S. Gov’t Report,
f»JIS
AmOWTBiy RIRB
Ta Memphis.
Southern Afternoon Press.
Vicksburg, Miss., May 3. — The
United States man-of-war Concord, en
route to Memphis, passed here yester-
day evening. A national salute was
fired in her honor by the Washington
Artillery, to which the vessel replied.
All members of the arrangement committee
of the Maifest are called to meet at Chosen
Friends hall at 8 o’clock on Tuesday evening, gauge railroad bonds illegal
May 3, for the purpose of auditing accounts,
and all parties who have bills against the
Maifest committee
■British Cattle Diseases^
Southern Afternoon Press.
London, May 3.—Mr. Chaplin, presi-
dent of the board of agriculture has
written a letter on the subject of the
epidemic of the foot and mouth disease
among cattle of Great Britain says the
disease is now confined to Kent and
Perthshire and expects it to be extir-
pated within a few weeks.
Canada’s Independence.
Southern Afternoon Press.
Ottawa, Ont., May 3.—A debate of
great interest is on in the house. Dalton
McCarty moved that in the opinion of
this house the interests of the dominion
required that Canada should be repre-
sented at Washington by its own diplo-
matic agent. The debate adjourned for
the pi esent without action on the mo-
tion.
Proposed Annexation.
Southern Afternoon Press.
Chicago, May 3 —Henry Watterhouse
of Honolulu is at the Palmer awaiting
ex-Prime Minister Thurston, who comes
to Chicago for the reproduction at the
World’s Fair of the great Hawaian vol-
canoe, Wrunaloa.
Annexation of the Hawaiyan Islands
to the United States, he says, is inevita-
ble. If a miracle should, however, lead
the United States to decline the oppor-
tunity the islands will become the prop-
had hoped for Democratic results in Re- ,er^ Bome 0De e^se-_____
Anna Dickinson Dying.
Southern Afternoon Press.
New York, May 3.—Anna Dickinson
is lying on what may be her death bed
in the Fifth Avenue hotel.
are urgently requested to
present the same to the sub-committee who
contracted the indebtedness, before that time;
or, if such committee is unknown, then to the
Secretary in the Tribune building.
D. A. SMITH, President.
A. LEONARD MEYER, Secretary.
Galveston, May 3.—Called meeting
of all members of Second Ward Clark
club at cooper shop corner of Sixteenth
and Mechanic streets Wednesday night,
May 4, at 8 o’clock, sharp. Seats and
refreshmentswill be provided free.
John A. Caplen,
F. Al. Gilbough,
C. E. Angell,
Executive Committee.
Wilson Is In It.
Southern Afternoon Press.
Paris, May 3.—Al. Wilson, gon-in-law
of the late President Grevy, has been
elected to the council in Loches. He
will next be elected mayor, after which
he will probably return to the chamber
of deputies.
Ambroise Thomas, the well known
composer, is seriously ill.
An Arizona Case.
Southern Afternoon Press.
Tucson, Ariz., May 3.—Judge Sloan
decided the Tucson and Globe narrow-
on the
grounds of the organic act creating the
territorial government of Arizona. It
prohibits the legislature granting special
privileges and franchises. The act
granting a franchise to this road was
mandatory, requiring the county to ex-
change its bonds with those of the rail-
road, which the county did to
amount of $153,000.
Bound for Colorado Springs.
Southern Afternoon Press.
Pittsburg, Pa., May 3.—George W.
Childs and party passed through this city
in a special car attached to the express
on the Pennsylvania railroad at 2 30
a. m., en route to Colorado Springs to
attend the opening of the Childs-Drexel
home for union printers on May 12.
Painters and Iron Workers.
Chicago, May 3.—There is a strong
probability that the trouble between the
master painters and journeymen will be
shortly settled. Seventy-five prominent
firms signed an agreement for 8 hours a
days, minimum at a price of thirty-two
and a half cent per hour. The compact
lasts until April 1, 1893. The work on
the manufacturers building of the
World’s Fair was brought to a standstill
yesterday.
One hundred out of 125 iron workers
are going on a strike for 35 instead of 30
cents per hour. The trouble is not ad-
justed, and the men are still out. The
iron workers on the administration
building were more successful. They
went out on the same demands, but re-
turned to work.
Coney Island Sports.
Southern Afternoon Press.
New York, May 3.—Authur Lumley
yesterday sent $250 to defray the ex-
penses of Fred Johnson to America to
fight George Dixon before the Coney Is-
i land club. Johnson sails immediately,
and is expected here sometime next
week.
CHARLES NEUWILLER,
Carpenter, Cabinetmaker,
MANUFACTURER of
Refrigerators and Ice Boxes for Bar-
Rooms and Groceries.
Stores and offices fitted up in any style. Wooden
Fire Mantels. Furniture. Models made to
order. Furniture repaired, polished, packed
and shipped. Interior work a specialty. Shop
between Mechanic and Strand, west side of Fish
Market.
ABSTRACTS OF TITLES
FURNISHED BY TUB
Island City Abstract Co.
To any lots or lands in Galveston City,
Island or County, embracing everything
shown , by the deed records, as well as
suits judgments, attachment-, home-
stead or community claims, mechanics
liens and tax data.
H. M. TRUEHEART, J. A. HARRINGTON,
President. Manager.
OFFICE 213 22nd STREET, NEAR STRAND.
TELEPHONE 420.
publican states. The fear bt came fixed
that Cleveland could not avail. It was
put to him plainly that if he abdicated in
Fuller’s favor he would make the nomi-
nee of the Chicago convention and con-
trol the destiny of the national Democ-
racy. The dispatch to the Enquirer
winds up thus:
However, the announcement of Fuller
has taken shape and it will go on.
Whitney has been urged to help and
the cable has been freely used.
No set of men, though, have been
more surprised than the sponsors of this
new deal in its exposure. They may
deny it with vehemence, but it is so.
Fuller is the alternative of Cleveland,
with the latter’s consent.
MAIFEST PRIZES.
The winners of Maifest prizes adver-
tised in the local edition of yesterday’s
Evening Tribune may obtain same by
calling on Mr. H. V. Lang, at the office
the Fraternal Building and Loan com-
pany, under Chosen Friends’ hall, be-
tween the hours of 8 and 9 a. m., 12 and
1 p. m. and 6 and 7 p. m. any day dur-
ing the present week.
SECRETARY DICKINSON’S OFFER.
With the view of promoting an addi-
tional interest in the Texas World’s Fair
work and of courting favor with the
young ladies of Texas, Secretary John T.
Dickinson, being an eligible and hand-
some young bachelor, has offered three
handsome prizes to the young ladies of
Texas, his native state, who will, be-
tween now and October 30, 1892, sell the
greatest number of shares of Texas
World’s Fair stock. The prizes are to
be the handsomest that can be pur-
chased for the sums of $100, $50 and $25
respectively, to be selected by a commit-
tee of ladies at Chicago, and to be
awarded on Saturday, October 31, at the
Dallas State Fair, to the three young
ladies of Texas who are first, second and
third in the competition. If the winners
desire it, cash prizes will be awarded.
Young ladies desiring to enter the con-
test for these prizes can secure sub-
scription lists by applying to the Texas
World’s Fair office at Fort Worth, and,
in sending in the names of subscribers,
certificates of stock will be sent out to
each subscriber from the general office,
and the young ladies sending in the lists
will be credited with the number of sub-
scriptions they send in. This competi-
tion will dose at 10 a. m. Friday, Octo-
ber 30, and subscriptions up to the time
of the closing of the contest will be re-
ceived at the Texas World’s Fair office
on the Dallas Fair grounds. Young
ladies entering this contest must, in
sending in their lists, mark them “For
the Dickinson Prize.”
HEW GOODS
NEW, FRESH AND COMPLETE
STOCK OF
FANCY MB STAPLE GROCEBIES,
CICARS,
TOBACCOS,
TEAS, and
GROCERS’ SUNDRIES
All New and Fresh, bought since the fire.
Send us your liberal orders. Same will have
prompt attention.
Moore,McKimy&Co
Wholesale Grocers and Importers.
HUTCHINS HOUSE
Rates, $2 and $2.50.
First-Class in 411 Its Appointments.
Passenger Elevator.
Turkish and Russian Baths.
Houston, Texas
ED. F. DREWA,
PLASTERER MO CONTRACTOR,
Job work promptly attended to.
Repairing a specialty.
Leave Orders on 27th St. and Ave. 0.
THE EVENT OF THE SEASON.
Sunday, May 15, promises to be a
day not to be easily forgotten, as that is
the day the Minervas will give their an-
imal excursion to Dickinson. Quite a
number of new features will be intro-
duced and a great time in general may
be looked for.
Every lady and child in attendance
will receive a present and the prizes
will be numerous. No ballots will be
sold, as is the custom at most picnics.
The committee is hard at work to make
the affair a success, and it promises to be
one, as the Minervas do not do things
except in the proper way.
Among other amusements will be a
game of ball for a purse put up by the
society between the Santa Fes and the
Stars.
Special trains will leave depot at 9.30
a. m. and 2 p. m.
ELECTRIC PICNIC PRIZES.
The Electric club having determined
to give a picnic at Clear Lake on Sunday
next proposes to make this one of the
events of the season. A number of
handsome prizes will be given away as
follows:
To the most popular married couple on
the grounds, a tea set of 44 pieces.
To the most popular member of the
Electric club, a gold medal.
To the best lady dancer, a silver card
receiver.
To the best gentleman dancer, a gold
her fed cane.
lor the three-legged race, a smoking
outfit.
For the fat man’s race, a box of Arab
cigars.
For the 100-yard foot race, a silver
cup.
For the best three jumps, a gold pin.
For the 5-naile go-as-you-please race,
a meerschaum pipe.
For the Misses race, a water set.
All these prizes are open to com petion
for all and not confined to members of
the club, except the second one in which
members only can compete.
The best dentistry is the cheapest.
Dr. Perkins, Dentist.
btntmj irwuitt.
It is Resumed at Justice Spann’s Court
This Morning.
Mrs. Nelly A. Gilbough testified that
she lived near the houses that w'ere on
fire. She saw Mrs. Davis on the prem-
ises the day before the fire. She saw
the furniture removed the week before
the fire. Jas. Lindsay (colored) assist-
ing Mrs. Davis, borrowed a hatchet and
nails to aid in removing furniture.
Jas. Lindsay said he moved a chest
from the large house a week before the
fire and took six pictures away on a
dray. No fastening was on the small
house so he nailed the door up. Mrs.
Davis was the last one at the house. He
removed four trunks from the small
house and furniture generally. Three
matresses, beds and two desks.'
Mr. A. S. Newsom’s testimony was
mainly relative to his lease of the house
from Mrs. Davis and his trouble on ac
count of having the piano removed. He
stood security for the rent of Mr. J. A.
Selby for one year, and after about five
months the piano, which was included
in the lease, was removed. He agreed
to pay so much as a compromise.
The court adjourned at this point a
little before the time on account of the
sickness of one of the jurors until 10
o’clock tomorrow.
The Last Issue of the “Union Work-
man” Hits the Nail on the Head.
In a well considered article reviewing
the street paving muddle, the Union
Workman in its last issue rings the bell
several times. In this article it is sug- ’
gested that the differences between the
council and the board of public works
be submitted to arbitration. But where
the Workman drives the nail home is in
the following:
“In the effort to arrive at a correct con-
clusion on the merits of the unfortunate,
expensive and disastrous controversy, it
becomes necessary to go direct to the
authority—the amended city charter.
Here we find that the clause quoted bv
the board, which is declared to be ‘plain,
special, unambiguous and mandatory,’
is qualified by the following: ‘And all
contracts shall be subject to approval by
the city council, and shall be signed by
the mayor and countersigned by the
city clerk before the same shall take
effect.’ v
“Now., to a layman, who does not claim
a sufficient degree of familiarity with
the ‘undisputed canons of construction’
to feel the contempt for them that wre
are told familiarity breeds, it seems that
where a contract is ‘subject to the ap-
proval’ of anybody, that body is given
the power to disapprove. As to the
merits of the disapproval under consid-
eration, we must admit our inability to
decide. On its face it looks as though
the lowest bidder is the best bidder,
when he shows ability to secure the party
of the first part.
“But, if the board of public works, in
their wisdom, decide that the interests
of the city are best subserved by giving
the contract to such lowest bidder, it
does not follow that they are justified in
arrogating to themselves powers not con-
templated by the charter. And here is
where the hitch is now. The board
is created by the council, ’ and the
charter gives the council revisory powers
over the work of the board. If the exer-
cise of that power is believed by the
board to be arbitrary and unwarranted,
the proper way m which to show disap-
proval would be by resignation. If the
board is right and the council wrong,
the court of last resort, the polling booth,
will so declare.”
An Editor Acquitted of the Charge of
Printing a Lottery Advertisement.
Joseph Mueller who was charged with
having published a lottery advertise-
ment in the Dodge County Pioneer, at
Mayville, was acquitted in the United
States Court yesterday. The case is an
important victory for the Louisiana State
Lottery. It was charged that a certain
notice that appeared in the paper, which
is a German weekly, was an advertise-
ment under the new law forbidding the
mailing of publications containing lot-
tery advertisements. The card read as
follows:
CONRAD!CONRAD!CONRAD!
CARD TO THE PUBLIC.
While it is true that I have been
elected president of the Louisiana State
Lottery company, vice M. A. Dauphin,
deceased, I am still president of the
Gulf Coast Ice and Manufacturing com-
pany, and all orders for material,
machinery, etc., as well as all other
business letters should be addressed to
me as before. Paul Conrad, box 1358,
New Orleans.
Gen. E. S. Bragg, of Fond du Lac,
defended Mueller, arguing that the
advertisement did not come within the
scope of the statute. The jury was out
but a few minutes.—Milwaukee, (Wis.)
Sentinel.
If you haven’t got sufficient ready
cash, you can furnish your house on the
installment plan. E. Dulitz, Center and
Postoffice.
Billy and Vic.
Southern Afternoon Press.
Berlin, May 3.—Queen Victoria and
• Princess Beatrice visited the mansoleum
in Darmstadt yesterday and placed
wreaths on the tomb of the Princess
Alice. They afterward started for Eng-
land. Emperor William will visit Queen
Victoria. He will arrive at Cowes on
the imperial yacht Hohenzollern Au-
gust 1.
The Bridge Contractors Win Employ
Available Labor.
The following communication from
the Missouri Valley bridge and iron
works, to whom was awarded the con-
tract for building the mainland bridge,
in reply to a recently adopted resolution
by the colored labor conference, needs
no further explanation:
Leavenworth, Kas., April 28.—Mr.
F. R. Fields, secretary Colored Labor
Union Conference No. 1, 2627 avenue H,
Galveston, Tex.—Dear sir: Your favor
of the 23d is received and carefully noted.
In reference to the employment of
colored laborers in the building of the
Galveston bay bridge, which we have
now under contract, I can only say at
present that it has been our custom here-
tofore in working in the south to employ
a very large proportion of colored labor-
ers for such classes of work as can be
done by such laborers. We have been
working extensively. in the south for a
good many years, .and frequently have
found that certain portions of the work
could be more satisfactorily done by-
colored labor than by any other class.
We have not yet laid out our program
for work at Galveston bay, as there are
some points in reference to the contract
yet unsettled, but I think it altogether
likely that there will be sufficient op
portunities offered your brethren to ob-
tain a full representation in our work/
We will, of course, be guided largely in
this by the recommendations of the
county judge, Hon. W. B. Lockhart, and
the board of county commissioners with
whom we have made the contract. We
will also bear in mind, however, that in
bridge building a very large proportion
of the work must be done by skilled
laborers, and that a portion of such labor
at least will have to be furnished from
other points. I will try and keep your
application in mind and advise you
when we get in shape to commence work
so that you may have a full opportunity.
Yours truly, A. J. Tullock,
Engineer and Proprietor.
RARE ENTERTAINMENT.
On Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock,
at the parlor of the Phonograph com-
pany, 2209 Postofflce street, will be given
an entertainment that is something
unique. It will be in the form of a con-
cert by phonograph, when the following
program of vocal and instrumental
music will be rendered on the trumpet
phonograph:
1. Forge in the Forest .......By Paoletti’s Band
2. The famous college song—Ta, Ka, Ra, Bom
Der E.
3. Sobre Las Olas (Over the yVaves) ......
.United Spates Marine Band
4 The Black Pickaninny. .Banjo song by Vasier
5. Wink the Other Eye..........Paoletti’s Band
This entertainment is free, and will
afford thirty minutes amusement, and all
lovers of music are invited.
They are encouraged to stow the pub-
lic what the “Phono” can do, as
they are making a specialty of success-
fully teaching Spanish, French and Ger-
man with the perfect accent by phono-
graph.
His Candidacy Said to Meet With the
Approval of Cleveland—The Hill Fac-
tion in New York Make a Grand
Kick.
Southern Afternoon Press.
New Yosk, May 3.—A Washington
dispatch affirms the report that
John R. McLean is in the
city and Sunday night the Cincinnati
Enquirer’s Washington correspondent
sent a newspaper dispatch to the effect
that with ex-President Cleveland’s con-
sent AVilliara Vilas and Don Dickinson
were at work trying to secure for Chief
Justice Fuller the Democratic presiden-
tial nomination. Harrity, ci' Pennsyl-
vania, it is alleged, has gone into the
deal, but the New York promoters of the
May convention of protest against Hill
are said to refuse to give up their conven-
tion, and here is a stumbling block.
The argument said to have been used
was that to nominate Cleveland would
require a western support not forthcom-
ing. Palmer had succeeded in capturing
Illinois. The Rhode Island election had
brought depression among classes who
ICE COLD BEER OF LEMP’S SPE-
CIAL BREWING ON TAP.
The grounds are now open for the use of Pic-
nic and Pleasure Parties at reasonable rates.
Meals and Lunch at All Hours.
M. O. McGRAWj - Proprietor.
£jgf“"Best Fish. Chowder in Galveston.
Mr. Goggan Enlightens the City Council
About the Fascinating Game <;f Drew
Poker, While Mr. L’evine R quests
Him to Atte d to His Own Business.
The city council met in regular session
at 4 p. m. yesterday with Mayor Fulton
presiding and all members except Fowler
and Reymershoffer present. There was
more fun at this session than at any
other that had been held for some
months.
After hearing the minutes of the last
session read, and approving of the same,
the council buckled down to work. The
first order of business was petitions and
communications under which came a
document from P. H. Hennessy relating
to that negro dance house of which so
much has already been written and said.
Mr. Levine interrupted the reading of it
deeming it unnecessary to do anything
beyond referring it to some committee,
but Messrs. Nolan and Goggan insisted
that it be read and it was so ordered.
Mr. Levine said That every wTord con
tained in it was a falsehood.
Mr. Goggan said that if such were the
case it should go on record.
The petition was received.
_ The next communication was from
citizens protesting against the closing of
Twenty-second street from Q to the
beach. Referred to the mayor, chief of
police and city attorney.
Several minor peiitions then came up
and were properly referred, including
one from a district messenger service
company asking for certain privileges
and concessions.
The regular monthly reports of city
officers were received and referred.
The board of public works reported on
two new engine houses, for the con-
struction of which there was $2000 avail-
able. Tl^ev had found that this amount
was too small to have plans and specifi-
cations made, and therefore had asked
the contractors to prepare their own
plans and to submit them with their
bids.
This resulted in a lengthy discussion
as to the advisability of having both
houses built at once ; and also to which
portion of the city wTas mostly in need of
an engine house should only one be de-
termined upon at the present time.
Messrs. Bolton, Boysen, Goggan and
Allen all took part, and after some time
a motion made by Aiderman Allen, in-
structing the board of public works to
draw up plans and specifications for an
engine house to be erected in the West
End to cost not to exceed $1000, and to
advertise for bids for same, was carried
unanimously.
THE B. O. P. W. AGAIN.
The board of public Yvorks had an
other interesting communication for the
council, as follows:
Galveston, April 22.—To the City
Council of the City of Galveston—Gentle-
men : The commissioners of public
woiks have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of the resolution passed by
your honorable body on the 18th of
April, requesting the board of public
works to adopt the specifications for
paving, as amended by the council, and
instructing them to advertise for bids
for paving under these specifications
until Saturday, April 30, 1892, and re-
port their recommendations thereon to
the next legular m<
The charter of the city of Galveston
provides: “After the city council has
duly adopted, by resolution, what work
or improvement shall be undertaken,
and has stipulated its extent, it shall be
the duty of the commissioners to adver-
tise for the work according to plans and
specifications to be made and adopted by
them, and shall let the contract.” This
provision is plain, special, unambiguous
and mandatory, and requires no legal '
interpretation or construction.
In construing charters it is a well
known and undisputed canon of con-
struction that a general power to pass
ordinances can not alter, qualify or ,
abrogate a special power conferred. And
when the charter says that the commis-
sioners shall make and adopt the plans
and specifications, that power is certain,
fixed and irrevocable, except by the
legislature. It is the law of this case,
and the commissioners propose to abide ;
by it.
The commissioners, in accordance with
the above provisions of the charier,
made and adopted plans and specifica-
tions for the contemplated work nearly <
two months ago, and but for the inter- i
ference and obstructions placed in their
way by the city council the contract for i
paving would have been let long since ]
and the work well under way. ,
The commissioners are ready to com-
ply with all legal ordinances adopted by
the city council in regard to their duties
in the premises, but they respectfully :
decline to abdicate the rights, duties
and powers conferred on them by the’
charter to make and adopt the plans and
specifications for the contemplated 1
work. The alterations and changes re- 1
quested by the city council in regard to j
the pavement proper are not desirable .
and do not meet with the approval of
th^commissioners, and they respectfully 1
decline to adopt them. ' j
The commissioners are now ready, as j
they at all times'heretofore have been,
to proceed to advertise for the contem-
plated paving in accordance with the 1
plans and specifications made and !
adopted by them, together with such le- <
gal conditions as may have been pre- i
scribed by the ordinances of the city.
Thos. Doyle,
Charles Vidor,
D. Freeman,
T. C. Thompson.
The communication was received and
Mayor Fulton stated that he had had a
talk with Mr, Doyle, president of the i
board, during which the latter expressed i
himself regarding the city council very
much as did Vrnderbilt about the “dear
public.” Mr. Doyle stood pat on every
proposition he and his board had made,
and did not give a fig for the council, the
city attorney, public opinion or any
power in the land, and Mayor Fulton
concluded by saying that he was heartily
disgusted.
Aiderman Allen moved that a day be
fixed for endeavoring to arrive at an un-
derstanding between the council and
the board of public works.
Mr. Goggan inquired of the mayor
what he sought to accomplish by arbi-
tration ? He himself could see nothing
to arbitrate. The board was either right
or it was dead wrong. There could be 1
no halfway business. He then wentl
over the whole ground of the street pav-
ing controversy, relating the story about
Byrne of Dallas, and Byrnes of Galves-
ton, and inquired if there was any justice
in the action taken by the council in re-
jecting the lowest and best bid.
Here Mr. Harris interrupted the
speaker by asking the question :
“Do you propose to give Mr. Tull his
fourteen blocks of paving that was rec-
ommended by the board of public
works?”
“Yes, sir, I propose to give it to him,”
replied Mr. Goggan.
“How are you going to find him?”
asked Mr. Harris.
“He can be found,” responded Mr.
Goggan.
“If you can find him you can do bet-
ter than the sheriff of his county in
Kansas has been able to do,” said Mr.
Harris, “who, according to the Topeka
State Journal, which I hold in my hand,
has been unable to find him with a writ,
charging him ’with twice mortgaging his
property before he left for parts un-
known.”
Mr. Goggan returned to his subject,
calling attention to the fact that $100,000
of the city’s money was now lying idle,
and said that*this amount would soon be
swelled to $150,000. The taxpayers as
well as the unemployed laborers’of the
city demanded that the work be pro-
ceeded with.
Mr. Harris stated the position which
he had taken at the outset—that an am-
ple guarantee should accompany all
contracts. Without such guarantee he
would not vote for any, no matter how
favorable it may look on the face. There
was $200,000 worth of work to’be done,
and it should be done. This work is
badly needed bv the city. There are
thousands of industrious men in Gal-
veston who are anxious to do this work,
but must remain idle and hungry and let
their families suffer because this board
of public works have placed themselves
across the path of progress, defending, as
they claim, their vested rights. What do
the vested rights, whatever they may be,
amount to under such a deplorable con-
dition of things as now exist? Andi
now move that they be requested to re-
sign at once and allow the council to
elect men in their stead who will go on
with public improvements.
At this juncture Messrs. Goggan and
Levine indulged in a little go-as-you
please dialogue, during which the former
requested the latter to “sit down” and
was told in reply to “mind his own
business.”
Mr. Goggan, not dismayed by this
last suggestion, continued to explain his
position, and repeated that he was in
favor of public improvements. If there
was any party in the role of obstruc-
tionists it certainly was not the board of
public works, but those members of the
council who seemed to know of no other
name than J.- W. Byrnes of Galves-
ton.
Mr. Schmidt said that the whole
thing in a nut-shell was this: Plans and
IU specifications must be drawn by the
leeting of the council board of public works and submitted to
.1.. 1 ' the council for its approval. The duty
of the board is clear.
Air. Harris did not care to discuss the
past, but inquired if four men should be
allowed to stop and prevent public im-
provements. He insisted that his mo-
tion requiring the boaid to resign be
put.
Mr. Nolan called attention to the fact
thaj Air. Allen’s motion requesting a
conference was before the house.
a treaties on poker.
Auditor Tiernan submitted certain ,
bills for spreading shells on the ceme- '
tery walks which the chairman of the
committee on claims and accountshad
declined to approve.
Air. Goggan in explaining his reasons
for disapproving of those claims entered
into an interesting explanation of the
great American game of draw poker
when there is a jack-pot on the table
and “a nigger” to fee. He drew a ,
parallel between this game, and the
“cemetery game” much to the amuse-
ment of his audience.
At the conclusion of Mr. Goggan’s dis-
course on poker he received the thanks
of Mayor Fulton for having enlightened '
him on a game of which he had heard ,
so much and yet till the present time
knew so little, after which the council
adjourned till Wednesday at 4 p. m.
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