St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-02
City Aldermen Decide That
Certificates Of Indebted
ness Must Be Issued.
Aid. Sanborn and Mr.. LaWler
Disagree in Their Read
ing Of the Charter.
The City Railway Must Com
plete the Fort Smelling
Line by Nov. 1.
Various Public Questions
Passed Upon by the City
Fathers.

1t was long past the appointed hour,
7:30 O'clock, when the bUard of alder
men last evening got down to work.
President Cullen was detained on i'm
portant business, so Aid. Gehan pre-
sided over the meeting. Those present
were Aid. Bielenberg, Bott, Conley,
Copeland, DObner, Dorniden, Sanborn
and Sullivan, President Cullen reach
ing the council chamber when business
was well under way.
The most important matter which
came up was tine resolution sent down
by the assembly to authorize the issue
of certificates of Indebtedness for 80 per
cent of the amount of the tax levy esti-
mate in anticipation of the collection of
taxes, the proceeds of the certificates to
be used for the maintenance of the mu-
nicipal government in all its branches.
1t was generally known that Aid San
born differed with the city officials upon
the construction of the clauses of the
charter relating to the issue of the GER
titicateS, and, oil the conclusion of the
readiag of the resolution, the alderman
rose, and, in measured tones, argued
that the issuing of the certificates as
provided for in the resolution was
illegal.
1.-The charter" he said, ''only provides for
the issuing OF certificates for the maintain
ancc OF five departments and the board OF
school inspectors Is also design ated as de-
partment making six in all. 1t made no pro-
vision Tor the issuing OF certi dcates for the
maintainance of funds. and / maintain that
the resolution which provides for the issue
OF certificates for. the maintenance of the
gas lighting fund, city officers salaries, etc,
is not legal and, If it is passed, the issue of
the certificates could be ell joined in the
courts"
City Attorney Lawler being requested
to give his opinion, said that he did not
like to differ with the distinguished
councillor who represented the Seventh
ward, but that he had examined the
charter carefully and was satisfied that
the resolution was perfectly valid and
would stand in a court OF law. Mr.
Lawler quoted extensively from the
charter 10 show that its intention, as re-
CARDS the issue of the cert ficateS. was
to provide for the maintae ance of the
entire city government. The city 'attor-
ney made a most powerful speech,
which convinced the aldermen, for on
vote the resolution was passed, all
present voting for it except Aid. San
born.
Did Not Come Off.
The expected discussion on the ordi-
nance extending time to the city rail
road company to finish its lines did not
take place. The action OF the assembly
in amending the ordinance so as to COM
pei the street railway company to finish
the line to Fort Smelling by Nov. was
cOncurred i'll by the board, all voting
Yea" with the exception of Aid. Bott.
who has not forgiven the street car COM
pany for its proposal to build an electric
line on East Seventh street. The result
OF the vote of the board is that the Fort
Smelling line must be finished by Nov.
l, and the time for completing the rest
OF the roads is extended until July l,
1892. :,
A petition from the Taylor-Creig cor
poration, asking for $500 for damages
to their property, caused by the recent
break i'll a sewer, was referred to the
committee on claims. The contracts
for the public schools. recently awarded
by the purchasing committee, were, on
the motion of Aid. Sanborn, referred to
the committee on WAYS and means. The
board of public works reported that,
upon recount OF gas lamps. it was
shown that the gas company had the
full number of lamps i'll operation as
claimed, and that the contractor for
number claimed. The report was
accepted and placed on file.
The account of the Azotine company
for 1916 for collecting garbage from
June Is to July -, was allowed, the
health officer reporting that the work
had been actually done. Orders were
ordered drawn on the city treasury for
So, 1894 in favor of the Taylor-Craig
corporation for work done on the new
city hospital buildings. The resolution
passed by the assembly authorizing the
issue of bonds for $4,000, to bear AZ
per cent interest and to mature in 1921,
for the erection of the new city hos
pital, was approved. The following
resolutions, passed by the assembly,
were also approved:
To authorize the board of public works to
carry out the assessments of damages for the
extension of Lake Como boulevard on the
west shore of Lake Phalen; to authorize the
city engineer to sprinkle Como avenue dur
ing fair week.
Aid. Dobner tackled on an amendment
to the last resolution, to provide for the
sprinkling of Raymond avenue also.