St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-06

aldermanic district of the First ward of
said city, and asking that the votes cast at
said election be recounted and that the
Council will inquire into the facts OF said
election, etc.
Accepted. (See rules published below.)
Of City Attorney-Rules for Contest of the
Election of Aldermen
The Common Council of the City of st.
Paul do hereby make and establish the fol-
lowing rules as the practice and proceed
ings in cases of contests of the election OF
Aldermen of said City of st. Paul, to-wit:
FirSt-The person DESTROYS of contesting
the election of any Alderman of said city
as declared upon and after canvass of the
votes cast for such Alderman shall, within
twenty days after the canvass shall have
been made, declared and published by the
Common Council of st. Paul, cause notice
in writing to be served upon the party de-
clared elected Alderman, either personally
by serving a copy thereof upon said de-
clared elected Alderman, or by leaving
copy thereof at his last and usual place OF
abode, in which said notice the contestant
must state the grounds of such contest, as
specified in section 50 of chapter l, General
Statutes of Minnesota, edition of 1878, and
like proceedings shall thereupon be had by
section provided, save and except said pro-
ceedings shall all be before the Common
Council as a whole, or before a committee
thereof appointed for the purpose OF taking
and reporting to the Common Council the
testimony of witnesses whose evidence is
deemed material and proper to full and
clear investigation and proper understand
ing of the matter at issue between said par
ties by said Common Council.
Second-The Common Council shall be
the judges of the relevance and materlallty
of the evidence taken and submitted by a
committee appointed for that purpose as
herein above provided, the same to be
heard and passed upon, as is evidence taken
by referee and reported to the courts OF the
State of Minnesota. A majority OF the
Common Council, exclusive of the Alder
men whose election is being under consider
alton. shall decide upon the admiSsibility OF
all evidence to which objection is made
Third-Upon and after the close
of the taking, receiving and ac-
cepting the evidence in any con-
tested case, the parties contestant either
in person or by counsel, may argue or sum
up their respective cases before the Com
mon Council at time TO be fixed for that
purpose by the Council after which the
Council shall thereupon proceed to final
disposition of the matter in question, and
for the purpose of consultation may set in
secret on executive session. But the vote,
deciding who shall be declared elected as
Aldermen upon such contest shall be taken
in open and public session.
Rules adopted by the following vote:
Yeas-Ald. Cummings, Simpson, O'Con-
nor, Petsch, Cullen, Kerr, SanbOrn, john
son, Van Slyke, Kahn, Starkey, Bryant,
Minea, Long, Mr.. President-15.
Aid. Starkey moved that the President
appoint committee of five to take testi-
mony in the contested election case of Dow
Ian VS.. Simpson.
The motion prevailed and the President
appointed as such committee Aid. Starkey,
Cummings, Sanborn, johnson and Van
Slyke.
Aid. Sanborn moved that the President
appoint a committee Of three to count the
ballots cast for Alderman in the Second al
dermanic district of the First ward,
at the election held May 5,
1885, said committee to count
said ballots at an open meeting of the Coun-
Gil to be held on Tuesday, the 9th day of
June, A. D. 1885, at 7:3O o'clock p. m, and
in the presence of the officers in whose Gus
tody said ballots are kept.
The motion prevailed and the President
appointed as such committee Aid. Sanbom,
Van Slyke and Starkey.
Aid. Sanborn moved that the committee
appointed to take testimony be authorized
to employ shorthand reporter.
The motion prevailed. Yeas Is.