St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-30
But 1t Caused Something Of a
Wild Rumpus in the
Council.
The New Liquor Ordinance
Goes--A Conglomeration
Of Minor Matters.
The News Of Minneapolis Put
Into Shape for the Read
ers Of the Globe.

BLOCK OF Hoag'S addition to Mime
apolis came in for share of the atten-
ton OF the city fathers again yesterday.
The fun begansearly in the proceedings,
when petition from few citizens in
the neighborhood of the proposed ball
park was read, asking that the base
ball ordinance be not granted, and then
the petition of those who want
base bail was read. 1t was
a huge roll of paper, containing
5000 names signed to the petition circu-
lated by the Evening Journal and took
up good deal of room in the council
chamber. 1t had been rolled on a cylin-
der turned by a crank attached to the
side of the frame in which the petit
ton had been placed. President
johnson playfully remarked that the
clerk would read the names attached to
the petition and subsequently said
that such reading would be dispensed
with unless there were objections.
The matter was then dropped until un-
finished business was arrived at. Then
Aid. Woodward's amendment to the fire
ordinance. allowing the building of
wooden grand stand and fence on the
block bounded by First and Second ave-
nues north and Fifth and Sixth streets,
came up for second reading, and Aid.
Woodward moved that it pass.
Then Aid. Loye. the lone champion
of the anti-base ball cranks. arose, ad-
eXpatiate on the injustice Of inflicting
the ball park on the peaceful rustic
people in his own particular ward.
He said he didn't object to
base ball in its proper time and place,
but he didn't think the Sabbath day and
the Fourth ward were the proper time
or place. He seemed to feel very sore
over the treatment he had received at
the hands of the newspapers, and gave
the Evening journal hard scoring for
the roasts he had got. He thought the
owners of the property in the vicinity
of the proposed park should decide
whether they would have it or not.
"lf failed to defend the rights of
my constituents, who are property hold
ers there, against this imposition, |
should be as cOwardly as the Journal
has been in the attack on me-" said he.
He spoke OF the lumber interests that
had been crowded out of the place
where it is now proposed to locate the
ball park, and how it was
the same ordinance which crowded
that out and now intends
to allow the erection of the ball ground
buildings. He roasted the Journal pc
titiOn intimating that the signers were
little boys and saloon men. Another
alleged point he made was the location
of ball grounds so near the jefferson
school.
Aid. Philips replied that school was
dismissed at 3:15, and the games were.
not called until $3.50.
Aid. McGowan said he believed Loye
was honest in his conviction. but
thought his judgement was at fault.
He believed good ball team was i'm
mensely to the advantage of any city
and thought the council would sound its
own death knell in knocking out the
national game which is the pride of
every true American.
Aid. Vandewaker made the speech
of the base ball side. He more than an
swered Loye'S arguments, and Informed
the latter gentleman that only three
games on the schedule came during the
school term, and they are set for an
hour later than that at which the school
is dismissed. He declared that the idea
MIR. Loye had advanced of allowing
forty-eight property owners to DOM
mate thousands of other property own
ers and people who were not property
owners besides was neither good sense
or good government, and was contrary
to the very spirit and heartO of the Amer
lean constitution. which is that the ma
jority shall rule, and he said it was evil
dent to any man not deaf and blind that
the majority of the people wanted a
ball park and wanted it located on the
proposed grounds.
Aid. Loye rose once more, roasted
base ball and professional base ballists
and got another crack at the Journal. A
vote was taken taken on the passage of
the ordinance and it went through by a
vote of "a to 9, Aid. Adams. Barrows,
Bursell, Einstad, Pultz, Love, Potter.
Reeves and Smith voting against
it. Aid. Cole, of the Fourth,
voted with the majority so as to be
able to move reconsideration at the
next meeting, which he Immediately
did. Vandewaker moved to do it
then, intending to have the motion
voted down. President johnson ruled
Vandewaker's motion out of order,
and MCGOWAN moved to suspend rule
25, which governed the point.
The motion was carried, and then mo-
ton to reconsider was made. Some one
called for the yeas and nays, and the
aldermen got SO mixed on it that the
friends of the base ball scheme voted to
reconsider, and even Aid. Loye voted
against it. One or two newspaper men
and an alderman or two few around to
the base ball aldermen and told them
their mistake, with the result that
thirteen changed their votes, and the
reconsideration was killed by vote of
% to 5.