St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-26


that are not true in five minutes.
Judge Atwater's substitute is carried.
j. NJ. Bartlett, Securing the FlOOr-I
was a member of the committee that
made the report to the board of trade
and want to tell few things that we
learned while making our inVeStiga-
tons. He began: Three of the mem
bers of the board of county commission
ers were in favor of the Lyndale ave-
nue. site when they visited that place
last spring. By some mysterious means
that meeting was held without allowing
any of the citizens to be present who
were interested in it. DR.. Evans drove
up in his buggy and Member Elllngsnn
in his, and carried off the commission
erS who favored the Lvndale avenue
site, and after that time nothing was
ever heard of that site at the meeting
of the commissioners. The next day a
petition was started, and 335 landOwn-
erS on the other side of the Minnesota
river signed it in one day asking the
commissioners to build the bridge at
Lyndale avenue"
Ezra Farnsworth-It seems that the
matter has already been decided against
the interests of Minneapolis. The
bridge should have been built to do the
greatest good to the greatest number,
and it evidently has not been. All this
| meeting can do is to express the severe
disapprObation of the taxpayers at the
action of our county commissioners.
w. Z. Steele-John Day Smith, of
| the legislature, is present, and it is due
him that he be allowed to make an ex-
PLANTATION of the action of the legiSla-
ture.
John d. Smith, want to heartily in
dcrse every word Mr.. Bartlett has said
as true to my personal knowledge. The
bills sent to ME as a member of the
Minneapolis delegation last winter by
the board of trade for one Min
nesOta river bridge, l did all
could to have it carried, but Mr.. ELL
ingson combined with the south
Minneapolis delegates in the legis-
ture, and it was impossible to carry the
bill. While l was abSenI the bill which
DR.. Evans champiOned. for two bridges,
was carried. did my best to get this
action reconsideTed. but it was impossi-
BILE to do so. and at last the location of
the bridges was left to the discretion of
the county commissioners, thinking
that they would certainly consider the
interests of the people, and locate a
bridge in the vicinity of Lyndale ave-
| nue.. 1t has turned out that they have
not done their duty in the matter, and
have located the bridges against the in
terestS of the city. l don't believe there
are ten responsible men in MINNEAPOLIS
who favor the Bloomington site.
Col. King-Well said.
President Wyman-Truly said.
A sQuabble enSueS, in which Col.
King. John Day Smith and DR.. Evans
use strong language.
j. B. BasSett-What's the question
before this board anyhow? / move the
whole thing he indefinitely postponed.
Dr. Evans seconds the motion and
| reads correspondence from Scott cOun-
ty commissioners stating that the loca-
ton is all right at Bloomington ferry
and receives sarcastic shots meantime
from Col. King and Ezra Farnsworth.
He calls for eX-COuuty Commissioner
| Duffy, of Scott county, and sits down.
Mr.. Duffy, Planting His Foot Firmly
Pm not much OF talker. / have lived
Oh a farm for the last thirty-seven years
| in Scott county, seven miles southwest
of Bloomington. The people there do
their marketing in Minneapolis and
| they want the bridge at Bloomington
ferry. Now as to what some of you
have said about the road at the ferry
being so wet that it can't be travelled, l
| just want to say hauled load of stone
| over IudG TOdu IlidG W6lRIleu SeN6D IODS
| with team of four-year-Old colts.
Col. King-Seven ton with a team of
colts must have been a devil of pair of
colts. QHe is called to the floor and con-
tinues): just want to say two words.
! If we have built one bridge for Shake.
pee and one for St. Paul. now that the
| county commissioners have given us
| away on one hand and the other, l
think il is now time to stop.
| j. b. Bassett calls for his motion and
| it is defeated, with only he and DIR.
| Evans voting for it.
DIR. Evans-I hope that the report of
this committee that is now before the
board will not be carried, as it asserts
corruption on the part of the county
commissioners and as good as says they
have been bought up by members of the
| legislature.
Col. King-I should think the county
commissioners could afford to call it
even.
W. E. Steele-''There are now FIVE
teams daily come to tine Bloomington