St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-18
An ALERT ASSEMBLY.
A Forensic Tussle Occupies
an Interesting Evenings
Work.
The Gaslight Company Scores
a Victory Over the
Economy.
Again the Everlasting Gar
bage Question Comes to
the Front.
Miscellaneous Matters Of Gen
eral City Legisla-
ton.

very late lila arriving, ana It was close
| upon s O'clock ere President Cullen
raped his gavel and called the meeting
to order. Those present were MessrS.
Bielenberg, Bot, Copeland, Dobner.
Dorniden. Gehan. Melady and Presi-
dent Cullen. In the absence of City
Clerk PrendergaSt. his assistant, John
Giltinan. ably officiaJed at the desk.
The most important matter which
! came up for consideration was the
| ordinance to grant the Economy Steam
| Heat and Light company the right to
| build conduitS on many streets of the
| city and lay their wires in the same.
| The matter was favOrably reported
upon by the committee on streets,
| which considered it the previous day,
the report of the proceedings of the
| committee having been published in
! the GLOBE Yesterday. After the read
ing OF the ordinance, Hon. II. T. Stevens
was accorded the privilege OF the floor.
and addressed the board Oh behalf of
| the Economy company, going over the
same ground Is he did before the COM
| mitttee on streets.
Alderman Dobner also favored the
| granting of the ordinance. while MeSSrs.
Bolt and Copeland opposed It.
In the course of the debate it was
stated that the St. Paul Gaslight COM
pany already possessed the privilege of
| laying conduitS and wires underground,
and on the motion of an alderman Craw-
ford Livingstone addressed the house,
and stated that the ST.. Paul Gaslight
company did not possess this privilege.
| and did not propose to ask for it until
the special committee appointed TO re-
port upon the ACCESSIBILITY of having all
overhead wires put under ground had
finished its labOrS. The state
ment was quietly passed around
that the matter really resolved
itself into a conflict between the
gaSiight company and the Economy
Steam Heating company, the former
being DESTROYS of defeating its rival in
its attempt TO secure at the present time
certain privileges from the city which
the gas company propose to ask for at
some future time.
AID. Copeland moved to lay the mat
ter over for two weeks, but his motion
received no second, and the motion to
adopt the ordinance was then put. This
resulted in 4 victory for the St. Paul
| Gas company, as the vote when recorded
showed that Aid. DODner and Gehan
had voted for the ordinance, while
| Messrs. Bielenberg. Bot. Copeland,
D0rniden; Melady and Mr.. President
voted against it.
Aid. Dolner at once moved to recon-
slider the vote and postpone the matter
| for two weeks, as moved previously by
Mr.. Copeland. but the strategic move to
save the ordinance was fnilure. as
Messers. Bielenberg, Copeland, Dobner.
| Dorniden and Geban voted for the re-
consideration. while MeSSrs Butt, Me
! lady and Mr.. President voted no. As
the rules required twO-thirds vote OF a
| full board to reconsider. the ordinance
met its death blow, to the discontinue
Of the partisans of the Economy Steam
| Heating company and the qualification
| OF Crawford Livingstone and his adhe-
rents.
Tie board then took a hand on the
| school insurance matter. which at pres
ent is causing some excitement in mu-
| nicipal circles. The clerk having read
the proceedings Of the assembly which
! provided for the appointment of con-
| ference committee to adjust the rate of
insurance now being paid, Aid. Bott
| moved to concur in the proceedings of
| the upper house. Aid. Gehan tried to
prove the motion out of order, on he
| ground that the matter mad been al
| ready referred to the committee on pub
| he property.
The president ruled the objection as
| proceedings was entirely new matter.
| The motion to concur was carried unan-
| lmOuSlY and the chair appointed MeSSrS
| Gehan, Bolt and Copeland to confer
with the gentlemen appointed from the
| assembly.
Later in the evening much amuse-
ment was caused by Aid. Gehan in
Producing resolution that all school
Insurance policies which expire after
Dee. J.. 1891, be cancelled. The matter
was referred 10 the conference commit
tee for consideration. The
Garbage Collection Question
once again bobbed up. and was put
hack for further consideration. The
form of advertisement calling for bids
for collection was presented by the
special joint committee which had the
garbage ques ion and AZotine matters
in charge. The form Of bid stipulated
for collecting of garbage once a day in
the business diStrict.and from all hotels.
flats and large boarding houses in the
city, and Oh every alternate week day
in the rest OF the city. -Four places
were designated for delivering the gar
bage to the Azotine company, one of
the spots being corner Ross and Earl
streets.
Aid. Bot vigorously opposed the de-
livery at that point, as it was most
thickly populated, and there were lie
railroad facilities there for conveying
the garbage to the works of the Azotinc
company, at South ST. Paul. The mat
ter was sent back 10 the special commit.
tee to amend the form of bid as far as
designating the points where garbage
shall be delivered by the contractor 70
the AZotine company.
Mayor Smith returned the ordinance
| sad IN oil hn f.sx
Manufacturing company to string wires
| on the West side, with letter explain
ing that he had not signed it for the
reason that the company had not filed a
| bond to hold the city harmless from all
damages or Injuries which the operation
of the company'S plant might infiict
The vote by which the ordinance was
| passed was reconsidered. and the matter
| referred to the committee Oh streets
On the recommendation of the joint
committee Of ways and means, a resolu
ton was passed authorizing the city
comptroller to include in the tax eSti
mate for 1892 the sum of 500, 547.65 to be
placed in the general fund for the pur.
pose of paying assessments made
against city property since 1878 &c
March "a. 1891.
The board accepted the adverse re
: | port of the committee on streets Gpon
the petition of the property owners i'll
| the Second ward who asked that thu
ordinance allowing Hamm's Brewing
| company to maintain spur track fron
the brewery TO the Omaha tracks be an
| nulled.
The petition of property owners Oh
| Payne avenue, between Magnolia anC
! Maryland streets, asking that sever
feet on the west side of Payne avenue
} ! between the two streets, be vacated
was, on the recommendation of the
committee on streets, laid on the table
} a bill OF the Sanitation company fol-
} S125 for cleaning cellar On Marke
street was referred to the city attorney
) as ali invalid claim and was disalloYed
, The ordinance giving the health de
partment power 10 order priyy vault