St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-24
City Ministers Discuss Vapi-
Gus Questions, Among
Others Theater Goeps.
A Democratic Club Organized
in the Stronghold Of the
Republicans.
The Board Of Trade Satisfied
With the Price Of Post
age Stamps.
A MEMORIAL.

The City ASKS the FFIViic~c VI
Preserving Its Water Power.
At the meeting of the city council
yesterday afternoon the committee of
aldermen and private citizens recently
appointed to take action in regard to
the ST. Anthony falls water power, pre-
scented the following memorial to con-
gress, which the council unanimously
adopted:
TO the senate and house of represent
atives of the United States in congress
assembled: Your memorialists, the city
of Minneapolis, Mimi, represented by
the mayor and city council, as well as
her commercial organizations, would
respectfully represent to you that the
citv located at the Falls of st. Anthony
has now population of 100000 and is
the commercial and manufacturing en-
porium wherein large per cent OF the
business, not only of Minnesota, but of
Dakota, Montana, Manitoba and Idaho,
Is now being done. At this point there
is annually being handled over 4,0O0,-
600 tons of freight, consisting prln-
cipallv of the products of the new
Northwest. including 100000 bushels
of wheat and 0,O00.000 feet of lumber
manufactured at this place. That this
great city is located on the M!SSlS.
sippi river at the natural head
of navigation from the Gull
of Mexico. and that above the
falls navigation has and does exist for
$50 miles, and that for many years con.
greSs has recognized the Importance OF
improving the navigation of the river SO
as to make it competing route over
which the products of the Northwest
might be transported at minimum rates
to the seaboard and the markets OF the
world. That in accordance with this
policy congress, for the purpose OF pre-
serving and improving Navigation on
the upper Mississippi, has heretofore
appropriated the sum of S615,0OO for the
construction of certain dams and other
works designed to preserve the rails OF
st. Anthony besides other amounts eX-
pended for surveys and other work;
and that those works completed in 1879
are and have been for several years
greatly in need of serious repairs, and
now or soon will be in need Of altera-
tions and reconstruction; but the last
appropriation for the care and repair OF
these great works was made in 1884.
That all of these works are now the
property of the United States, and I'M
der the control
OF THE WAX DEPARTMENT.
of the United States and in charge OF
it's engineers. That these works were
not only constructed under the general
power of eminent domain to improve
The river. but also under special grants
and permits from the owners of adj
iacent properties claiming riparian
rights and also under charters granted
them by the territory OF Minnesota.
That the said works are in danger, and
unless the said necessary repairs, alter
atoms and reconstructions are made
The said work, together with the vast
water power now being utilized for sup
plying the city with water as well as
for manufacturing purposes, and the
future navigation of the river above
and below this point will be utterly de-
stroyed. That the city Of Minneapolis
cannot enter upon, take possession,
alter or reconstruct these works with
out authority from congress.
Now, therefore, we respectfully petl-
ton your honorable body to grant TO
the city of Minneapolis the free right,
power and authority to enter upon, alter,
control, repair and reconstruct said
works as fully and with the same
authority that the United States could
lawfully do, and to vest IN the city OF
Minneapolis all the rights, privileges
and properties now held by the United
States at the falls of st. Anthony, re-
serving the right on the part of the
government to re-enter and take pos
session of them whenever the govern
ment shall require them for the purpose
of improving navigation OF other pur-
poses.
We therefore ask the immediate pas
sape of n bill or Joint resolution confer
ling upon the city the rights and prop
critics described. o
The committee also submitted a draft
of a Joint resolution to be introduced
into congress embodying the legislation
necessary to make the memorial opera
tive.
Aid. Cooley. of the board of health.
presented an invitation to the council to
visit the new quarantine hospital next
Thursday afternoon. Aid. Mills made a
vigorous protest, saying that he did not
think it right for aldermen to go off on
junketing tours at the city's expense.
He roasted the health officer, whom, he
said, was sending in too many bills.
A discussion followed. The invitation
was finally accepted, but nearly each
alderman who voted for it gave it out
solid that he should pay his own eX-
penSes.
Managers of the various theaters in
the city asked reduction of the license
on theaters from $500 to $500. alleging
that $500 was more than any one could
afford to pay. The matter was referred
to the committee on licenses. The hack
ordinance was amended so that thirteen
of the twenty-five hacks, express
wagons, ETC., now permitted to stand at
Washington and First avenue north,
shall be removed to Second street and
First avenue north. The ordinance
regulating the collection of fines, ETC.,
in the municipal court, was amended
so as to provide penalties for violations.
A permit was ordered issued to L. G.
Bisbee for a summer garden at Lake
Harriet. A large number of petitions
were read and referred, and the council
adjourned.