Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-25
ALDERMAN LEE SEATED.

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ALDERMAN LEE SEATED.
The Proceedings Of ire City CO,tncE Last
Ei5ht-The Hack Ordinance-A. X. Rands'
Gas PropoSttjOn-The CanozSs of the H.
GeT7rsantc Vote OF ire First Ward.
An adjourned meeting of the city coun-
Gil was held last evening with President
| Pillsbury IL the chair.
LIE ELECTION.
The returns for the aldermanic election
in the First ward were read and commit
tee appointed to canvass the vete. The
following aldermen constitute the commit
tee: Cleveland, Walsh and Hushaw.
SPECIAL POLICEMEN.
The appointment by the mayor of the
following special policemen without pay
from the city were confirmed:
James Wereck, for duty at Pence Opera
house.
Ambrose ThralI, for duty at Hope chapel
on Ninth aveEue north near Washington.
J. L. Pickering, for duty N and around
the yards Of the Northwestern Fuel com
pany.
The Northern Pacific Railway company
renewed its petition for right of way
through the East side, across the river,
thence to the present right of way above
Hennepin avenue.
THE FIRST WARD CANVASS.
The special committee to whom had
been referred the matter OF canvassing the
returns of the aIGermanio election of the
first ward, returned the same figures as
presented by the judges of election, giving
Lee majority of 3O2 votes over Dr..
Chute, the opposition candidate TO the
Office
Upon motion of Aid. Glenn Aid. HaShaw
presented Aid. Lee elect, WAC duly quail
fed and subscribed to the oath of his
Office.
GAS COMPROMISE.
The Minneapolis Gas Light company
presented compromise proposition in
substance as follows: The matter of the
difference between the oity and the COM
pany respecting disseminating the use gas
and substituting other means of iIlumina-
ton, should, through tho city attorney and
the attorney of the gas company, be pre-
scented to Judge Lochren OF the district
court, and in case the judge finds
the city not holden to the fran
ohise, the gas company shall present
no bill; but IN event Judge Lochren shall
decide that the city is holden then the bills
shall be paid. The communication further
proposed for lighting the streets with what
it Represented as superior system, erect
ing new posts in the centre of blocks, and
regulated by the rules adopted in Philadei-
phia. The company offered to furnish gas
to the city at $3.50 per 1000 feet. Re
ferred to the committee On gas.
A large number of petitions AID com
munications we're read and referred.
Plats of some half dozen additions 70
the city were referred to the committee on
streets, grades sad additions,
A communication from the hackmen
protesting against the prices set in the
ordinance before the council, governing
hacks, etc, was referred to the committee
on ordinances.
WATER WORKS FUND.
The committee on ways and means re-
ported in favor OF transferring $4,000
from the permanent improvement fund to
the water works fund.
Upon motion of Aid. CHANNEL, the sum
of $500 was ordered paid to
L. Z. Menage out of the Fourth ward fund.
Adopted.
The committee on gas reported in favor
| of placing fifty new gas lamps in various
places. Adopted.
The president announced that Alderman
Lee had been placed upon The following
committees: Licenses, public grounds
and buildings, roads and bridges, sewers,
cancellation and work-house.
THB HACK ORDINANCE.
( Alderman Morse moved that the hack
ordinance be taken from the table. Car
ried.
| Aid Glenn moved that the ordinance be
be referred back to the committee on Or
dinances, because of its length.
Aid, Hasbaw opposed the motion, and
Aid. Johnson as chairman of the commit
tee on ordinances spoke at length In favor
| of prompt action. He said there had been
many complaints because no competent
/ ordinance was in force. The committee
had inspected the ordinances of Boston,
st. Louis, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago
and other cities, and had determined that
the Chicago ordinance was the most prae-
| teal and applicable TO Minneapolis,
and hence it had been essen
TALLY copied in the ordinance
now before the council. Although it is
long ordinance, Aid. Johnson did not be-
lieve anything could be consistently omit
ted. The motion was lost and the second
reading was taken up.
Aid. Glenn requested that the Or
dinance be read again entire, it having
been partially read at the last meeting.
The ordinance was then read as amended.
The various sections of the original ordin-
ence were materially altered and amend
ed.