St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31
WANT III FAR AWAY.
At Least the Chamber of Con
merce Directors Do Not Want th

At Least the Chamber of Com
merce Directors Do Not Want the
Jail Site Near the Court House.
At the meeting of the chamber of
commerce yesterday morning it was re-
solved that closer commercial relations
with the Canadian provinces are
earnestly desired, and that our repre-
Sentatives in congress are requested to
favor this end. A resolution that the
cable railway should be carried under
Summit avenue was laid over till next
Monday. The mercantile committee
recommended that the chamber answer
inquiries as to what aid the chamber
would give certain manufacturing enter
priSeS seeking location here, to the
effect that in general the granting of
subsidies is harmful, both to the city
and to the companies subsidized. Mr..
NoyeS suggested that there are many
land companies and similar corpora
tions here that would gladly secure de
Slrable manufacturing concerns, and
desired the impression to go abroad
that such concerns would from this
source receive substantial encourage
ment. The report was recOmmiIted for
modification.
THE NEW JAIL SITE.
Gen. Bishop, one of the members of
the Jail site committee, offered the fol-
lowing:
Resolved, That the chamber of COM
merce recommends the erection of an
other building on the court house
lookup and heating plant for both
county and city buildings; the new
building to be located between the rear
of the new court house and Fifth street,
and to correspond in external appear
ance with that building, and to be con-
nected with it on one or more floors, as
may be necessary OF convenient.
DR.. Day, from the court house COM
mission, most StrenuOuSly opposed the
adoption of this resolution. He claimed
that the connecting of the new court
house with Jail was an ancient idea
and not followed in modern times.
MObS usually attacked the jail, and the
close proximity of the court to the jail
might cause the partial destruction of
the latter. The whole court house COM
mission was opposed to putting a jail so
close to the court house. Mr.. Warner
would prefer to see the Jail on court
house square than on the opposite cor
ner. 1t ought to be some
distance away he said. Gen. Bishop
said that if such structure
were erected there, space between it
and the court house of twenty-five feet
would be left, and similar space be-
tween the street and the jail. If it
should be desired a bridge could be
thrown across from one building to the
other, and that would be better than
tunnell. Mr.. Lindeke argued in favor
of placing the Jail on the court house
square. Mr.. Cochran complimented the
court house commission and said that
he believed the court house was we'll
constructed piece of work. and that the
people could point to it as an exam
pie of
SQUARE, HONEST WORK.
He named several cities, such as Phil
adelphia, Pittsburg and Milwaukee,
that had recently erected new court
houses and each one had devoted
whole square to the structure. He strongly
opposed placing the Jail on the square.
Lewis Baker explained that majority
of the committee did not want the jail
Oh the court house square, When the
ayes and nays were called the resolution
was lost, yeas to % nays. Mr.. Nc
Clung's resolution in regard to union
of the two cities was laid over to the
next meeting