St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-30
After a Hard Fight the Trib-
une Is Made the Official
Paper.
Paving Of Park Avenue With
Trinidad Asphalt Creates
q Row.
Proper City Officers Directed
to Agree to the Crossings
Compromise.

! assent when President johnson called
that body to order last evening. Among
| the petitions received was one from u.
! c. Squires. who claimed damages to the
amount of $1,000 for the death OF his
wife, VINO was thrown out of her
! buggy and killed by her horse
becoming frightened at hole
in the street The matter was
referred to the city attorney. The
! Brush Electric Light company IN COM
/ municatiOn called attention to the TACT
| that they were about to execute con-
tract for placing their wires under
ground, and requested that no nasty
action be taken by the council and that
| they be allowed a reasonable time IN
which to complete the work. The re-
quest was referred to the committee on
underground wires. A petition from
! the BARRIERS union, asking that an ordl-
nance be passed in harmonyWiththe state
law requiring all barber shops to be
closed on Sunday, was referred to the
| committee on ordinances. Deeds were
presented for the land necessary 70
straighten Nicollet avenue from Fifty
second to Fifty-fourth street, and were.
referred to the city attorney.
A communication from the AZ0tIne
Manufacturing company. or the Metz
system OF diSpoSing of garbage. request
ing that their system be investigated by
a special committee of the council, was
referred to the committee on health anu
hospitals. City Assessor Plummer
called attention to the fact that the safe
in his Office was entirely too small TO
contain all the records. and his request
for new fire-proof was referred to the
committee on public grounds and build
| ings. Chief Engineer Stetson, of the
fire department, called attention to
the obstruction of fire hydrants by
builders and others. and presented
an amendment to the ordinances to
remedy the evil. The matter will be
considered by a joint committee con-
sisting of the standing committees on
ordinances and fire department.. The
committee on claims presented the
| largest budget of paYrollS and bills ever
! presented to the council. There were
! $40 warrants calling for 1921, 900. Upon
motion of Aid. Cole $3.50 was approprl-
ated to pay for the decoration OF sol
| dierS' graves. The committee on taxes
recommended the anDullment OF taxes
| in several cases which were passed.
Upon the recommendation of the COM
mittee on licenses, employment agency
/ "
named persons: julius Johnson. lob
! Nicollet avenue; Sprague & Huxley,
200 Nicollet avenve; Norman u Frank
| H. Clark, 101 First avenue south, Il.
Douglass, So South Fourth street; Kock
81 Fuller, Is High street; Mrs. j. Strom-
quiSt 617 Eighth avenue south Mrs. b. f.
! Cav, 627 Washington avenue, south Mrs.
Frieda Groechel, 25S Plymouth ave-
nue. north. When the committee pre-
scented an adverse report on the petition
of w. w. Brown for license for the
Theater Comique, Aid. Lowell stated that
it was a question whether the council
had right to refuse a license and had
the matter referred to the city attorney.
Ala. Lowell claimed that the council
could not legally refuse to grant the
license. An ordinance amending the
licensing of express wagons was
amended making the license for
two-horSe teams IS per year
instead of SO as now
| and one-horse wagons $3.50 instead of
S. Upon the recommendation OF the
committee on public grounds and build
ings, the contract for furnishing the
city with ice was awarded to the Cedar
Lake Ice company. at STA per ton.
There was little Spat over fixing the
salary of the wine inspector. The COM
mttee on salaries recommended that
the compensation of the newly created
officer be placed at $1,000 per
annum. The recommendation was
adopted by vote of "a yeas to 10 nays,
those voting IN the negative being
Parry. Vogt, Meloy, Johnson, Barrows,
EuStad, BraZie. Flatten, Bursell, Gray.
The city engineer was instructed to adj
yertise for bids for the construction of
a stone arch bridge over Minnehaha
creek at Minnehaha avenue according
to the plans Oh file in the Office OF the
city engineer.
THE CITY PRINTING.
There were two reports from the COM
mittee on printing. A majority report
signed by Aid. Hunter, Bursell and Nc
| G0wan recommended that the contra It
for the city printing be awarded to the
Tribune There was also a minority re-
port. Then the fun commenced. Aid. Nc
(1OWan moved the adoption of the ma
| iority report, and Aid. Flatten amended
bv substituting the minority report.
| Aid. BurSell said he was surprised
that two reports were submitted.
When the committee adjourned on
Monday last the committee had unani-
mouSly agreed upon the report which
/ had been presented by the majority of
the committee. There had been a sud-
! den change of heart on the part of two
! members of the committee. 1t had
! been decided that the Tribune'S bid
was for the best interests of the city.
| Aid. Flatten and Bradish both favored
awarding the contract to the Times.
! AID Hunter was very angry when
| he took the floor. Addressing his
remarks to the chairman of the
committee. he exclaimed: ''Whv
| did the chairman of the committee sud-
| denly change his mind. 1t was done
| within six hours. 1t is the most con-
! temptible piece of business ever at
! tempted since | have been a member of
| the council" Speeches in favor of
awarding the contract to the Tribune
were made by Aid. Meloy. Parry,
| Vandewaker and johnson, and for the
| Times by Messrs. FultZ, Flatten and
! Bradish. The motion to adopt the
| minority report making the Times the.
! official newspaper OF the city was lost
| by vote of II years to % nays, as fol-
! lows: Yeas-BradiSh. Blickfeldt. Eus-
! tad, Eliingsen, Flatten, Fultz. Gilman.
! Gray, Ingenhutt, Rhode. Vogt. Warren
! 70. Nays-AdamS. BarroNs, Brue-
| shaber, Bursell, Billings, Cole, Downs,
durham. Hunter, Loye, Lovels, Nc
| Gowan, Meloy. Parry. Phillips. Reeves,
Smith, Swanson, Sterling, Vandewaker,
| Woodward. Johnson-22. Aid. Brazie.
| Grimes and Hansen were present, but
declined to vote.
Aid. Gray then moved that the CON,
tract be awarded to the journal, as in
his opinion that paper was the best
method of reaching the taxpayers of
| the city. The motion was lost by the
following vote: Yeas. Adams. Brazie,
Bradish, BlichfeIdt. Eustad, EIlingsen,
Flatten, Fultz, Gilman. Gray, Grimes,
Rhode. Vogt and Warren-14: nays,
| Barrows, Buieshaber, Russell, Billings,
Cole. Downs, Durham, Hunter. Ingen-
hutt. Loye, Lowell, McGowan. Meloy,
| Parry. Phillips. Reeves, Smith, Sterling,
| Vandewaker, Woodward, Johnso2-10.
| Aid. Hansen declined to vote.
The Tribune was then declared the
! official paper of the City of Minneapolis
by the following vote: Yeas-Adams,
| Barrows. Brueshaber, Brazie, Bradish,
| Burseil, Billings. Blichfeldt. Cole,
| Downs, Durham, EuStad. Gray, Hunter.