St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-01
MARKET FRANCHISES.
Harlow A. Gale Can Now Go
Ahead and Put UP His
Building.
eenton's Ordinance Recon-
mitted to the Committee
After a Sharp Fight.
DR.. Kilvington's Crematory
is Committed to the Work
house Forever.
All the Bids for Printing Are
Rejected iscellaneous
Work.

After a session of four and half
hours yesterday the city council adj
journed for one week without transact
ing all the business before them. There
were thirty-Seven members present
when the roll was called. The usual
number of petit ms for street openings.
gas lamps, paving and sewers was re-
rr"d to the appropriate committees
without comment. The employ
II agen,.es which have of
late objected to paying the city
license on the grounds that it was
not III compliance with the state law,
petitioned the council 10 return to them
the amounts in excess of 500 that they
had paid into the city treasury for IL
cense fees. The amounts claimed by
the various agents were as follows:
Moore IL Co. 800; g. s. Richards u
Co., $500; julius johnson, $3.50; Olaf w.
Olsen. $40; Charles Cotton, So o. and
John Chant, 800. The matter was re-
ferred to the license committee for. i'll
vestigation. The city clerk presented
the bOnd of the Minneapolis street rail
way company. Sipned 10y a majority OF
the h0ndsmen. agreeing to the change
from cable to electric power. 1t was
referred to the railroad committee.
MARKET FRANCHISES.
4 petition was received from j. l..
Owens and other residents OF South
Minneapolis asking for market fran
chise. Accompanying it was the ordl-
nance which has already been discussed
by the market committee in all informal
way. II WAS referred 10 the committee
on markets without comment.
I. M Of nrnSpntpn
a lengthy report in which they reviewed
the history of the several market fran
cliStS. The report stated that III the
opinion of the committee ii would b.
better for the city. if possible. to own It's
market houses. but as the condition of
the city treasury would not permit any
expenditure at present, the next best
thing was to grant franchise to private
individuals under proper restrictions,
and to allow them TO operate the.
public markets for term of years. The
report stated that they had given the
Benton ordinance for a market IN South
Minneapolis careful consideration. and
recommend il for passage. Aid. Melloy
moved to recomnit the ordinance 10
the committee. Aid. Parry declared
that the citizens of the South side were
ready and willing to establish a market
Of their own, and as they had the money
ready it was not more than right that
they should be allowed Il franchise III
preference to outsiders, whose interest
had nothing to do With that part OF the
eiCy. Aid. Smith said that MIR. Benton
meant business, and he knew that he
had an offer of 1925, 900 in cash TO invest
i'm market building if he
could get franchise. lie declared
that the oaly reason why the South
siders objected to the Benton ordinance
was because they were Interested in
real estate. Aid. Phillips sad that all
Mr.. Benton wanted the ordinance for
was tn speculate in real estate, and he
was informed that Benton had said he
had the city council right in his hands,
and that the aldermen had to give him
Just what ne wanted. Aid. Parry took
the floor and created considerable mer-
riment by saying that those aldermen
who voted against the wishes ut the
people of South Minneapolis would be
sorry for it next fall, ami Ii The council
men expected reelection they had bet
ter refer both the Benton ordinance
and the request Of the citizens to the
committee Tor further consideration.
Il object to the gentleman from the
Seventh ward airing any political
aspirations here" interrupted Aid. Ster-
ing.
you'll want all the help you can get
next fall, and don't you forget it,"
answered Mr.. Parry.
"Whv, the gentleman himself was in
favor Of this ordinance at one time,"
exclaimed MIR. Sterling.
Yes, that was published IN the
GLOBE. guess / changed my mind. |
don't think am responsible"
Aid. VandPWater made a strong plea
In favor of recommitting the ordinance
to the committee on the ground that
the city would be able to make better
bargain now that the two parties had
entered into competition. The motion
to adopt the report of the committee
was lost by vote of IL yeas to ~ nays
and the ordinance was sent back to the
committee. The vote was as follows:
Yeas-Barrows, Farnswortb, Gray,
Grimes, lngenhutt, Lowell, Reeves.
Smith, Swanson, Sterling, Hansen,
.JohnsOn-l2. Nays - Adams. Brue-
sbaber. BraZie, Bradish. Billings. Blich-
feldt, Cole. Durham, Eustad, Flaten,
Fultz, Hunter, Loye, McGOwan. MelOy.
Parry, Phillips, Vogt, Vandewaker,
Woodward. Warren-20. Aldermen
Busell, Gilman and Rhode declined to
vote.
THE GALE ORDINANCE.
The Harlow Gale market ordinance,
granting to Harlow Gale franchise for
between Second avenue north and Sec
ond avenue south, and the river and
Eighth street, came up for passage. The
franchise runs for twenty-five years,
but the city has the right to purchase it
at the end of ten years should il desire
to. The site selected by Mr.. Gale is
designated as a public market and
is to be exempt from taxation
during the life of the franchise. Aid.
MCGOWAN made gallant fight to strike
out the clause relating to taxation,
claiming that to exempt the market
property was doing an injustice to the
business men whose property was To-
Gated in the vicinity, and that they wei 6
handicapped by the taxes. On the 9th r
hand it was claimed that at best the
money invested in the market would
only earn very small amount
of interest, and as it would be
a public convenience and had AREA Y
become public necessity the city col Id
we'll afford to be liberal and exempt it
from taxation. The motion to strike out
the clause eXempting it from taXati, II
the market company monopoly of all
the farm produce coming into the city.
did not meet with much favor. The sec
ton prohibited the sale from carts or wag-
Ons on the streets, except in the market
house or place of vegetables, berries or
farm products. This was intended to
prevent peddling, and it would have
been a good thing for the market COM
pany but very bad thing for the farm
ers and hOusekeepers, and by unani-
nous vote iJ was stricken out. After
an Intellectual attempt on the part Of
Aid. MCGOWAN to make the property
taxable after fifteen years, the Ordi-
lowing vote: Yeas--Adams, Barrows,
Brazie. Bradish, Bursell, Billings,
Blichfeldt, Cole, Durham, Eustad,
Flaten. FultZ, Farnsw0rth, Gilman.
Gray, Grimes, lngenhutt, Loye, Lowell,
Parry, Rhode, Reeves, Smith, Swan
son, Sterling. Hansen, Vandewaker-
81. Nays: Brueshaber, Hunter, Me-
GoWan, MelOy Phillips, VOgt. Wood
ward, Warren-9. Aid. Vahdewaker
gave notice that he would move for a
reconsideration of the vote by which
| the ordinance was passed at the next
meeting of the council.
L $500