St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18
ALL OF ONE MIND.
Final Agreement by All Inter-
ested Parties on the Crossings

Final Agreement by All Inter-
ested Parties on the Crossings
Matter.
Only one more week of grace is asked
and then the CROSSINGS case settlement
will be formally ratified in court. That
is the way it looks now. Unless some
unforeseen obstacle should arise, the
whole difficulty which has been bother
ing city attorney after city attorney,
which has engendered any amount of
bad blood, and which has blighted the
whole of North Minneapolis, will then
have ceased to exist. The Seibert in
terests have agreed to the compromise,
and that practically settles the matter.
Judge Koon, r. G. Benton, Judge
Shaw, A. E. Clarke, City Attorney Rus
sell and Harris Richardson were enjoy
ing little amicable conversation yes
terday morning in the court room when
Judge Young entered to give another
hearing to the crossings matter. All
of the negotiations looking toward
compromise are the result of the motion
of Ii. w. Cannon, the st. Louis bond
holder. ana thai is. of course. the legal
question still before The court. The
plans and specifications, which have
before been published, were there, too,
and they were gone over carefully by
the representatives of the various inter
estS so that there could be no miSunder-
standing OH the matter and all the pro-
visions we're ratified then and there, the
compromise to be formally accepted by
the different parties interested next
Saturday, when the settlement will re-
ceive the seal of the court.
Judge Shaw made the first speech on
the subject in hand. He said that since
an agreement had been reached be-
tween the two roads he thought that all
the interests concerned should be made
parties to the agreement, so that the
settlement would be a settlement for
ever. He especially referred to the city
and thought that the easements of such
streets as may be necessary should be
turned over to the railroads in order to
avoid further complications, particu-
larly in the case of Sixth street, which,
though not used as a street, still is a
street. Solicitor Clark, of the StJouis,
stated that both railroads had agreed
that they would demand the use of Sixth
street for railroad purposes, without
bridging, and City Attorney Russell
responded that, so far as Sixth
street was concerned, the whole
matter could be arranged satisfactorily.
He thought, however, that Seventh
street should be opened. Mr.. Russell
said further that there were now two
judgments in the matter in favor of the
city, one against the st. Louis and one
against the Manitoba. These judg-
ments could be modified to cover the
compromise plan, the action in the
supreme court dismissed and the judg-
ments enforced. That would settle the
whole question. Harris Richardson.
attorney for the Central Trust Com
pany, announced himself as Directing
to the compromise in behalf of his
client, but it is generally understood that
his objections mean little and will not
operate as bar to the settlement. Nj.
D. Grover, general council for the
Manitoba, came in during the con-
ference and announced that he had
proposition covering the compromise.
That is about all there was to the hear
ing yesterday. All parties agreed to
the settlement and the final act went
over until next Saturday.