St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-12
The Board Of Trade Calls the
Court House Commission
Down Again.
The Census Recount Began
Yesterday and the Enumer-
ator Is at Large.
The Cleveland Club Presents
Some Splendid Food for
Thought.
Annual Meeting Of the Sol
diers' Home Trustees, and
News Generally.

The board OF trade is engaged in fall
styling, history. The record of Minneap-
oils, compiled from day to day by the
public press, shows beyond peradvent-
ure the plank of commerce. which meets
on the second floor of the Lumber ex-
change, never earnestly grappled with
real live, active. squirming, kicking,
public question until such question mad
Succumbed to the soporitic powers OF
old Times medicine chest. Yesterday
the board gave the lie to that record,
and proved that it is not only
board of the standard thickness,
but one very nearly approaching the
value of an oak plank without knots.
The board met yesterday morning to
endeavor to take a fall out of that court
house commission, and by clever half
Nelson, aided by hip lock. succeeded in
rubbing little dust into the delicate
shell-tinted epidermis of the commission.
1t was a special meeting. called to con-
slider the report of the public affairs COM
mittee as to whether the court house
commission should be cenSnred, and to
act upon the last clause of Judge At
waters resolution providing that the
committee on legislation ascertain
whether the court house commission
could legally enter into any contracts
calling for the expenditure OF
more than 81 100000. There was not
a quorum of the legislation committee
present, but the chairman and MeSsrs.
Wilson and Fish unhesitatingly de-
clared that the commission had no such
authority. Then Maj. w. E. Steele,
proud in his new-found distinction of
municipal court juror. arose and. as
taxpayer and 1.-The representative of an
estate which pays over $4,000 per year
in taxes" protested against the action
of the commission. Then Judge At
waters resolutions were passed. Whlle
waiting for the report of the committee
on public affairs on the resolutions of
censure, the board took up and passed
the protest to be transmitted to the
secretary of the treasury against the
"Conger petition" which asks for a
change in the method of bonding goods
through foreign territory. Even then the
report from the committee on public
affairs was not forthcoming. and that
matter had to be left over for one week.
Judge AtWater then came forward with
another speech. The judge declared
that thus far-the newspapers nOtWith-
standing--there had been no attempt to
impugn the moral motives of the
board of court house commissioners.
The Judge declared that the meeting
last week in the council chamber was
"town meeting" in every sense Of the
word, as personalities we're INDUCED in
and gllttering generalitles were the
order of the day. SO the judge at the
close of his little address introduced a
resolution which provided thata commit
tee of three be appointed from the board
of trade to consult with similar COM
mlttees from the chamber of commerce,
jobberS' union and business mems as
ISOLATION. This joint committee will
request a conference with the court
house commission ito the end" so con-
cludes the resolution, "that by calm
and dispassionate discussion of the
whole question q solution may be found
of the present unfortunate differences
of opinion as to building the court
house which shall be generally salts
factory to the business men and tax
payers of the city,"
1--WE never accomplished anything IN
the North side crossing matter until we
took some such action as this" re-
marked Judge AtWater as he finished
reading the resolution.
but if it takes us as long to deal
with the court house matter as it did to
adjust the crossings case, the court
house will be built before we have ac-
compliShed anything" quoth Aid.
Lowell.
A sort of fossilized smile went the
rounds of the room, and the chairman
appointed S. Atwater, G. p. Lowell and
II. A. Towne as the committee to con-
fer with those bodies. The board then
Co,