St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-25

bridge, maintaining that it was needed; that Il
could be built cheaper now than at any othel
time hereafter, and that 1t was not safe Il
rely upon one bridge that might be injured
so as TO be unserviceable.
Gen. Bishop argued that we ought to be
careful and keep our bonded debt within til,
limits OF five per cent. OF taxable property
Any credit obtained beyond this would i'm
pair our credit.
Mr.. Drake called attention to the fact that
our water works were self sustaining, and
therefore in making an estimate OF oui
bonded Indebtedness with reference to con-
structing this bridge the water works bonds
ought TO be eliminated and wholly left out of
the calculation. Mr.. Drake did not think il
wise, either, TO come too near the dead line.
We might have a court house burned down,
or meet with some other calamity that might
call for large and immediate outlay OF
money He felt satisfied that the bridge
will have TO be built. The question left was
as to whether we should build now or some
time later He was of the opinion that we
| had better build il now than to wait till some
time in the future.
| Mr. Hodgson argued against the bridge
and maintained that If built it would be a
great piece OF unnecessary extravaganza. He
claimed that the Wabashaw street bridge was
good and abundxnt!y capable Of aeeommo-
dating ali the travel that would cross IL for
the next ten years lie also claimed that IL
was no public work at all but simply and
wholly private enterprise, for tue benefit of
few people.
Mr.. Ansei Oppenheim denied this last
statement, and declared it was public i'm
provement that was voted for two years ago
| by the people of the city of ST. Paul.
Hodgson-Yes, but the few who were In
terested were behind the people bamboozel-
ing them into it..
At this point Gen. Bishop withdrew his
amendment.
Mr.. McClung declared that If we we're
going 10 have city We must 90 into ex-
penses and big ones too. There is no use TO
try to put Chinese shoe onto this city nor
to build high wall around 1t. Mr.. Hodg-
son says the Wabashaw street bridge is suf-
icient to accommodate the travel for ten
years. On the contrary the railroad men say
that the new road coming over from West
st. Paul will double the business Of the
Wabashaw street bridge.
Mr.. Noyes made a short but very vigorous
speech in favor of the bridge He was very
anxious about IL and hoped the members Of
the board would not stand in their own light
The bridge would do a great deal to develop
West ST. Paul which has already reached
a point where she must have another outlet
across the river
Captain Berkey held up both hands In as
constituent that d. r. Noyes should 90 in
for such extravaganza, and the members
laughed TO see how Mortified the captain was
at this apparent desertion of economical
government The captain declared that
wheat and lumber were low and these were
our chief staples. Hard times were upon US.
We were not now doing the business that
we ought to be doing.
Mr.. Lindelle jumped to his feet in a great
state of excitement TO deny this unwlr-
ranted assertion. The merchants OF 81.
Paul were in prosperous condition. Tney
were doing well, making money, aud
he would not sit there and hear such state
ments made withot DENYING them.
Mr. Gilman was surprised to learn that
there were 900 cases of unpaid personal taxes
in st. Paul. This he thought showed that dis
tress was widespread.
Finally vote was taken on DR.. Days
resolution against bridge resulting as fol-
lows:
Yeas Barney, Berkey, Blakely, Day. Fogg,
Gilman, Hodgson, Ingersoll, Nichols, Sea-
bury-10.
Nays-Averill, Bishop, Cochran, Delano,
Drake, Fairchild, Gribben, Harbough,
Lindekc, Ludden, McClung, Merrill, Morton,
Murray, Noyes, Oppenheim, Quinby, Rund-
lett, Somers, Stone-20.
General Bishop then renewed tie motion
to adopt the resolution offered by him as an
amendment to DR.. Days resolution, and
withdrawn. The motion was entertained
and the. subject laid over to the next meeting
of the board.
THE ST. PAUL LEvEE.
A communication was received from the
West st. Paul chamber OF commerce which
contained resolutions setting forth the value
of the property known as the st. Paul levee
and declaring the importance OF the city
keeping the control OF it and not allowing
the railroads 10 obtain possession of 1t. E.
H. Wood, of West st. Paul was allowed TO
make an explain alton of the commun ication.
Mr.. Murray stated that land referred to was
condemned for the purpose of letting in the
railroads. Judge Wood expressed his sur
prise that the people of West st. Paul should
be assessed to pay for the right of railroad
to come in, Capt. Berkey expressed his sur
prise and said that the first road that came
into st. Paul paid its right of way into the
city. Without further discussion the motion
was referred to the committee on levee con-
sisting of j. B. Sanborn, ]. NJ. Gilman, W.
?. Murray and w. F. Davidson.