St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-02
HOW THE CITY STANDS
The Municipal Conference
Committee Gets Down to
Actual Business.
Reports Covering the Finan-
cial Standing Of Every
City Department.
The City Treasurer's State
ment Will Bear Very Care
full Consideration,
Especially the Column Civ
ing the Amounts Of AS
SeSsmentS Uncollected.

Tbs adjourned meeting of tn munic-
ipal committee was held last evening in
the council chamber. Those present
were:
Mavor Smith, president; W. P. Murray
president of the assembly; w. Fl. Sanborn,
chairman of the committee of ways and
means of the board of aldermen; Presidents
Lewis Baker, of the board of education, j. +.
Hoyt, of the water board, r. L. German,
board of public works, Up. Wright, board of
control; City Comptroller Ponthan, City
Treasurer Refs. City Engineer Rundlett.
President Warner, of the board of fire
commissioners, was absent owing to
sickness in his family, and ii. II. Hor-
ton, of the park board, was also absent.
The chairman of the committee of ways
and means, B. of A., and President
Murray, OF the assembly, had no reports
to submit at the first meeting, and City
Clerk Prendergast proceeded to read
the reports submitted by the rest of the
members. Some of the reports were
very voluminous, and would have taken
moved that the reports be accepted
and ordered printed. He did not desire
to stay till morning to hear the reports
read, which would be of very little use
to the committee Mr.. Baker seconded,
but Aid. Sanborn moved an amendment
that the summaries of the reports be
read. The amendment carried, and
Clerk Prendergast gave digest of the
various reports. City Treasurer Refs
reading a synopsis of his report, which
covered many large sheets of paper.
When the reading was finished, a dis
cussion took place as to whether the
original documents could be sent to the
official paper OF the city for publication
in accordance with the terms of the
charter, or if they should be copied by
the city clerk. The law was construed
to read that the original documents
could leave the possession of the city
clerk. On the motion of Mr.. Murray
the committee ordered that the reports
be published in full in the official paper
of the city, and that 1000 copies of the
reports in pamphlet form be also issued.
A motion was also carried that the COM
mittee meet in the future on the second
Monday of every month, at 8 o'clock in
the evening.
The committee will meet next Mon
A digest of the various reports SUBJ
mitted reads:
From a Scholastic Point.
During the present fiscal year no new
contracts have been made for materials
vi ouPPlICSs eihlOuHb VI tIlC pay
roll, monthly, of all employees. based on
the April pay roll, was S39,011.S3. The
amount of expenses and contracts made
for all purposes was SIS, 403.52, while the
amount of uncompleted contracts,
teachers excepted, at the close of the
last fiscal year, was 500, 294.96. The
amount of the last tax estimate, made
in August, 1890, was $711.5G0. The
amount collected from the beginning OF
the current fiscal year was 1885, 9l9.40.
The number of teachers engaged during
April was 446. The average daily at
tendance of students for the fiscal year,
exclusive of non-residents, was about
11,500; inclusive of non-residents, 11,5lS.
Mayor Smiths Say.
The number of policemen in the en-
ploy of the city is ISL, composed of
chief, 4 captains, lieutenants. 10 SER
geants, chief of detectives, detect
ives, 123 patrolmen, l license inspect
OF, 9 iailers, janitOr, patrol drivers,
8 ballitfs, 8 acting pOundmasters, clerk
of chief of police, superintendent of
telegraph, lineman. driver of work
house VIM. The warrants signed by
the mayor during the present fiscal year
from Jan. 1, 1891, to April 80, 1891, to be
covered by the tax levy of 1891, collect
ible in 1892, were:
Saiarles ..--.--.....-......--.- S!0,5!6.03
Other purposes. Observation-Disclosures. 347, SAB. is
Local improvements. ..........-.. 137, 62l.23