St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-08
AN ANGRY ASSEMBLY
a Red-Hot Meeting Of the
Upper Branch OF the
Council.
SneerS and Sarcasm Hurled
About in the Banded
Epithets.
Is There q Scheme to Keep
Up Premiums on School
Insurance :?
All Policies Ordered Cancelled
Until a Settlement Is
Made.

The assembly had stormy session
last night. 1t promised to develop
nothing but unimportant things. 1t was
a special session, called to pass the tax
levy, but the rules were suspended
after this order had been passed and
the budget of pay rolls and current
bills and few orders from the board
of public works were passed.
The first ripple of excitement was
Occasioned by the board of education
pay roll. Clerk Prendergast had ratified
it off SO fast that no one detected what
il was, and it was about to pass
when Assemblyman McCatferty asked
about 1t.
1t is the board Of education pay ROLL re-
Hold on hold on! hold on exclaimed
McCafferty Il want to see about that. Has
II been inspected by committee of this
body:'
Il move that it be referred to Mr.. McCaf
ferty,' interrupted Assemblyman Open
him, Ito be reported back this evening""
This prevailed, and the business pro-
crossed smoothly for time. The school
inspectors were given authority to erect
a one-Story brick and iron oil house on
the Jefferson school site by ordinance,
and then Mr.. Oppenheim called up the
ford park Improvement, and inStructing
the corporation attorney to bring action
against the contractors bondsmen to re-
cover this amount. AS soon as the res
olution had been read, Mr.. Oppenheim
moved to indefinitely postpone, which
was adopted.
The board file condemning and direct
ing the destruction of the old wooden
building at 993 Wabasha street, and the
sale of Chemical Engine No. ) to the
village of Wheaton, accepting $1,000 in
town orders for the same, was con-
Cured i'll.
resolution directing the special Joint
committee to make certain alterations
In the plans for the new city lookup.
McCafferty raised the objection that too
much authority had already been dele
gated to this committee. The only means
he had OF knowing what the committee
had done or is doing was through the
information he got in the papers.
II went out to Rondo street station the
other night" said he, and | discovered a
disgracefui condition OF affairs. / saw men,
women and children in those iron cages.
There is no partition between them, and they
are in full sight of each other 1t is dis
grace 10 humanity and now ] want to know
what this special committee is doiug?'
AsSemblyman Costello took the bull
by the horns. He insisted in an en-
phatic way the committee had done alb
sOlutely nothing unauthorized by the
assembly.
McCaffertv moved to refer the resolu-
tiCn to the committee on police, for the
reason they should have something to
say about the construction. Then ell
sued spirited debate, in which Assem-
blyman BanhOlZer CURLY interrupted
off In IL 81,
the police committee had nothing to do
with it.
President Mnrray-The resolution will be
referred to the committee on public build
ings That's the proper place for it.
Il object 10 this arbitrary reference, cried
McCaffertv. There has been no such motion,
and my motion TO refer TO the committee on
police is in order. | raise the point of order,
sir
Mr.. Costello thought it all unwar-
ranted attack upon the committee, of
which his friend, Mr.. Banholzer, is the
chairman, and McCafferty insisted that
he was misunderstood.
Mr.. BanholZer moved to refer back
to the special committee, and then Mr..
Costello took the floor to assert that he
didn't care to serve longer Oh COM
Ihittee if his motives were to be inn
Hlgned. After MeCatfery had denied
that he had attacked any one, the reso-
luton was referred back, all voting aye
save himself.
Board file 1872 was repealed. 1t au-
thorized the issue of $4,000 per cent
city bonds for hospital purposes. 1t
was explained that AZ per cent bonds
were to be issued instead.
Then the matter of the board of edu-
cation pay roll was taken up again.
Il would like to hear what Assembly
man McNamee has to say" said Mr..
McCatferty.
Mr.. McName went over the pay roll
of the janitors and asserted Injustice
had been done. but he said he had the
assurance of some of the school inspect
Ors that the pay of ianitors would be
equaliZed next month. He explained
that in many instances the janitors
under the latest schedule were receiv-
ing more pay than they ever did. For
IllustratiOn-the Tilton school. 1t was
originally S25 month. The first sched-
ule of the new board cut it down to $40,
and then, when the council protested,