St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-20
MOVING CAUTIOUSLY,
The Council Not Yet Ready to
Interfere With Lowry's
Franchise.
Cars Run Yesterday Pretty
Regularly on Some Of
the Lines.
Motor Trains and Bobtail
Cars Probably to Be Set
Going To-Day.
Cowboys to Be Sent Back
West Without Being
Given a Trial.

49,
7:30 last evening came to order at few
minutes before s, with thirty-five men,
bers present, but few moments later
all the aldermen. except Barrows,
Smith and Swanson, put in
an appearance. The first mat
ter of an exciting nature that
came up was communication from the
Street Railway Employees Protective
association, stating that they were
peaceable, law-abiding citizens, and had
not done, nor did they intend to do any
thing likely to disturb the peace, and
Directing to the presence of the cow
boys here as ian armed mob at the beck
and call of corporation" They asked
the council to take such action
as it might deem best in the
matter. The petition was filed.
ton from $4,000 people, requesting the
council to take some action looking to
the Introduction into the legislature,
and the support by the Hennepin dele
gation,of some measure cOndemning the
Minneapolis Street Railway lines, and
making possible their purchase by the
city.
Aid. MCGOWAN wanted to take up the
matter at once. Mr.. Bradish moved to
refer to the committees on ways and
means and railroads, but the motion
was lost by a large majority, and then
Aid. MCGOWAN made his motion to take
up the matter at once and a yea
and nay vote was taken, resulting in
the defeat of the motion by vote of 20
to 15 Aid. Potter, Grimes and others
explained their votes on the nav side
by saying that they would like 20 see
the matter have a thorough discussion
in the proper time and place, but were
opposed to doing it at that time. The
petition was finally received and placed
on file.
When the time came for offering reso-
buttons arrived. Aid. Ellingson offered
a resolution giving the railway COM
pany until IL O'clock noon of Monday,
the 22d, to run cars, and providing for
the forfeiture of the franchise if cars
were not so run. In introducing his
resolution Aid. EllingSon said he didn't
believe the company had made an
effort to run cars, as they had made no
move to run cars in many parts of the
city.
A motion from Aid. Bradish to refer
the matter to the committee on railroads
called out another from Aid. MCGOWAN
to lay BraniSh'S motion on the table. 1t
was lost.
Aid. Vanderwaker thought it queerif
the company should be allowed to run
cars at its own sweet will when the Deo-
pie had rights in the matter, and then
he said he thought the motion to refer
to committee was mean. small trick
Aid. MCGOWAN arose and said he
wanted the council to meet the question
fairly and sQuarely. and settle it at
once. He said the whole city was
To In oil IL,
opposed to referring to any committee,
and thought council could hold it.
He hoped that none of them were no
lacking in backbone as to be afraid as to
denounce the policy of the man who
was at the head of the corporation. He
also wished to amend EllingsOn's mo-
ton by making the time twentv-four
hours from passage instead of at II
o'clock Monday.
Aid. Ellingson thought 10 o'clock
Moneay was a fair and reasonable time,
and he saw no reason to change.
Aid. VandeWarker thought the people
had right to demand transportation,
and he believed the councils duty in
the matter was to have the cars run,
and said: ''We are not to consider the
interests of the car company. nor are we
to act in the interests of the strikers,
but merely make the cars run" He
thought the council should have met
Saturday and ordered the cars run Sun
DAY. Aid. Gray thought the same. and
declared that all the people in his ward
were clamOring for action by the coun-
ell. He hoped there would be no adj
jOurnment until the resolution had been
passed.
Ald.McGowan's amendment was made
a substitute. put before the house and
lost. Aid. Bradish said he considered
the law as simply stating that there may
be some willful negligence on the part
of the company, and j. W. Arctander
shouted from the audience: Hes been
bought!' Aid. Bradish looked to see
who had said it, and replied, coolly:
"Well, the records of the supreme court
don't show him perjurer, nor those of
the district court an adulterer."
A motion to refer to the city attorney
was here made and lost. President
johnson called Vice President Sterling
to the chair and made lengthy and
conservative speech. He was surprised
to see the councilmen or any one of
them ready to act SO hastily in a matter
of so much importance. He commended
the strikers for their quiet and gentle
manly behavior and roasted the out
Siders who had behaved so badly. The
company had all the time been ready to
run cars as soon as the authorities con-
sidered it safe, and that it had been the
plan of the mayor and chief of police to
have cars begin to run gradually and
concentrate the police on lines
where cars were running until the
people had got cooled down, and
Aid. Vandewarker said he did
not believe in such policy and
was satisfied that the importation of
cowboys had made things worse than
ever. He also accused the police of
making false arrests and swearing
falsely to convict prisoners. Aid. Ell
lingson's resolution was finally put to a
yea and nay vote. and was carried by a
vote of % to 10, Aid. Brazie, Bradish,
Cole, Downs, Loye, Lowell, Sterling,
Vogt, Warren and johnson voting
against the motion, and Aid. Barrows,
Smith, Swanson and Woodward being
absent.
Aid. BurSell'S motion to reconsider
the vote 10y which the Bryn Mawr water
ordinance was killed was carried, and
then came storm of arguments pro
and con Oh this matter. Finally. after
speeches of most of the members. the
ordinance was amended so as to give
the right for ten years only and was
passed. The council then adjourned
for one week.
THE EIGHTH DAY.
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