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Updated: May 26, 2025
The Mayor. "I shall have to ask the audience in the gallery to keep quiet in order that the business in hand may be considered." "Well trained, eh?" "Before calling up an ordinance which bears my name I should like to ask permission of the council to make a statement. When I introduced this ordinance last week I said " A Voice. "We know what you said." Alderman Ballenberg.
He planned to have his ordinance introduced by an alderman named Ballenberg, a trusted lieutenant, and handed thereafter to the clerk, who would read it, whereupon another henchman would rise to move that it be referred to the joint committee on streets and alleys, consisting of thirty-four members drawn from all the standing committees.
"If the chair pleases," he said, "I move that the vote by which the Ballenberg fifty-year ordinance was referred to the joint committee of streets and alleys be reconsidered, and that instead it be referred to the committee on city hall." This was a committee that hitherto had always been considered by members of council as of the least importance.
Alderman Altvast. "Yea." Fear had conquered him. "Well, there's one baby down." Alderman Kerrigan. "Yep." "Ballenberg?" "Yea." Alderman Tiernan. "Say, has Ballenberg weakened?" Alderman Kerrigan. "It looks that way." "Canna?" "Yea." "Fogarty?" "Yea." "There goes Fogarty." "Hvranek?" "Yea." Alderman Tiernan. "And Hvranek!" "It's coming out of their hair."
"I said that I did so by request. I want to explain that it was at the request of a number of gentlemen who have since appeared before the committee of this council that now has this ordinance " A Voice. "That's all right, Ballenberg. We know by whose request you introduced it. You've said your little say." Alderman Ballenberg. "If the chair pleases " A Voice. "Sit down, Ballenberg.
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