St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-05
FIXED The TAX LEVY.
Further Reductions Agreed Upon by the
City Council.
WABASHA STREET BRIDGE.
judges Selected for the Fall Elections
No Cutting Down Of the Street
Force Estimates.

/ A special meeting of the city council
was held last evening for the purpose of
adjusting the tax levy, which has sd
disturbed the minds of the city fathers
during the past week. Alderman Bickel
presided, and there were present Alder
men Melady, Minea, YeOrg. Book, Gull
len, Fischer, Pratt, Sullivan, Leithauser
and Sanborn.
Comptroller Roche stated that the
committee on ways and means had re-
solved upon reduction of seven-tenths
of one mill in the city tax levy estimate
and three-tenths of one mill from the
board of education estimate. The
county auditor had counseled reduc-
ton of two-tenths of one mill for county
purposes. Mr.. Roche suggested that
five-tenths of one mill be deducted
from the proposed one mill levy for the
rebuilding of Wabasha street bridge,
and the grand total tax levy for all pur-
poses would be:
First five assessment districts 1850 mills
Sixth assessment district ........17.4 40 mills
Seventh assessment district. LEGO mills
Eighth assessment district. .......1S.00 mills
Ninth assessment district. ........ l6. 20 mills
Tenth assessment district. ....... 1870 mills
Aid. Melady-Does the reduction in
terfere with the wages of men employed
on the streets? l oppose any such re-
ductiOn, for the payments to these men
is the best expenditures that we make.
Aid. SanbOrn replied that the adoption
of the tax levy did not deal with any
such question as reduction of wages
IN on Tho ,saOnlrtiA,,
simply fixed the amount of money to
be raised for all purposes. The street
price estimate of last year has S127, 900
and the committee on ways and means
had fixed it this year at about 5000, 600,
a considerable increase.
The levy was then adopted.
An ordinance WAS read granting the
Chicago, Milwaukee d st. Paul railroad
company power to construct rail-
road track across Chestnut street, which
Aid. Book proposed should be passed.
Aid. Yeorg vigorously opposed this
action, because the Milwaukee road had
not been of so great benefit to the city
of st. Paul that they should be granted
at once every thing asked for. Let the
matter be referred to the committee on
streets, and if the company deserve it,
they would get it.
ne ordinance was consequently re-
ferred to the streets committee.
Messrs. Minea, Weber, Sanborn, Pratt,
Yeorg and Conley were appointed
committee to confer with the court
house commissioners respecting the To-
cation of Offices in the new court house.
A polling place, the cost of which
shall not exceed S35, was authorized to
be built at the northeast corner of
Chestnut street and Pleasant avenue.
The judges suggested for the election
next November were adopted with the
following alterations: In the First
ward, Second district, for Frank Perry,
substitute w. F. Frank: Fourth ward,
Second district, for w. Christian. sub
stitute August Hammer; Third district,
for August Hammer, substitute w. De-
laney; Fourth district, for Martin Brug-
geman, substitute Charles Williams;
Sixth ward. First district, for Frank G.
HOusdOIf, substitute j. c. Mccarthy;
Third district, for Oliver Germani, sub,
stitute j. E. Brady; Eighth ward. First
district, for f. 5. Loula, substitute L.
Wheeler.