St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-21
A CHAMPION IN GEHAN
The Azotine Company Fares
Badly at the Hands Of
the Aldermen.
Disposition Shown to at Once
End This Unseemly Fight
for Money.
Aldermen Quickly Throw Out
the Assembly School In
suranee Resolution
and Sticky Pass Upon a
Batch of Interesting Pub
lie Questions.

The board Of aldermen, anxious to
emulate the example set by the assem-
BY, took hand last evening in discus
sing the much veXed garbage question
Ind the affairs of the AZotine company.
Aid. Sanborn was the only member of
The board reported absent when City
Clerk PrendergaSt, who has just re-
mrned from vacation, called the roll.
Aid. Gehan announced himself us the
champion of the AZotine company by
Introducing two resolutions that the
company be paid the sums of S9l6
and $3.50 for collecting and dispoSing
IF the garbage for the month ending
Sept. ID. AS soon as the resolution had
been read, Aid. Gehan made a strong
Jpeech in favor of the bill being paid on
the ground that the work had been done
properly according to the information
re had received. :
A stormy debate arose.Ald Bot, Cope
land, and Dobner opposing the accounts
icing allowed at all, while Aid. Sullivan
was in favor of the bill for disposal be-
ing paid. ~
Aid. Gehan returned to the attack and
Ihowed crude knowledge of law by
saying that though he did not believe
that the AZOtine company did not dis
pose of the garbage bY the MerZ system
rs provided in the contract, yet they
Ought TO BE Paid
so long as the garbage was disposed of
by the MerZ or any other system the
company cared to use.
Aid. Copeland scored point by ask
Ing Aid. Gehan how he could ask that
The bill for diSpoSing of garbage should
9e paid when there was every evidence
10 show that there was little or no garb-
age to be destroyed, for the simple
reason that it was not being collected.
After quantity of valuable time had
been wasted. the president ordered the
clerk to call the roll upon the allowance
pf 81 $50 for the disposal of the garbage.
The resolution was lost by ) 10 ). the
vote being
Yeas-Ald Bielenberg, Conley, Gehan, Me
lady, sullivan.
Nays-Ald. Bott Copeland, Dobner. Dorm
fen, President Cullen.
AID. Gehan, seeing that he was losing
the battle, moved that the bill for S916
for collection be sent to the health Of
hcer with instructions that lie certify to
The same.
\ general laugh was raised at the
proposal of the alderman to force the
health officer to certify to bill for
work which he has constantly stated is
not being done properly. Aid. Gehan
then moved that the bill be sent TO the
health officer to report upon, but it was
lost by ) to ), in the same manner as
the bill for disposal. The original
resolution to allow S9lG for collection
was then put and lost by S to =. Aid.
Gehan and Melady voting aye. the bal
ance OF the members answering 10.
IN hot n
which the assembly resolution autllOriZ-
Ing the city clerk 10 advertise for bids
for collecting the garbage was referred
to the committee on streets be reconsid-
cred, as the committee had postponed
action on the same the previous even
ing, and the matter was too important
to be delayed any longer. The vote
was recOnsidered, and, on the motion of
Aid. Sullivan, the matter of advertising
for bids was referred to special joint
committee. to consist of three members
from each body, the president appoint
Ing Aid. Sullivan, DOrniden and Gehan
to represent the board.
Insurance of Schools.
The aldermen differed widely from
the aSsemblymen i'll the matter OF in
surfing the public schools, for when the
resolution passed by the upper house
liiil an mo III dllCC 'OliNlNo VII oCiIpOlS DO
cancelled was read lit was thrown out
by the board by a vote of S to .. only
Aid. Sullivan and Bielenbprg voting
FOR measure which would save the
city $1,000 per year.
The assembly file that special joint
committee be appointed to adjust the
insurance on schools shared the same
Fate as the resolution TO cancel the poll
rieS, being referred TO the committee OIL
public buildings. -
Permission was granted to the DamaS-
Gus cOmmandery to use the Market hall
Tor drilling purposes on the evenings of
The first and third Wednesdays OF each
month. The board of. public works re-
ported adversely upon the proposed
widening of Clark street, from Case to
Maryland to a width of siXty-six feet.
The aldermen confirmed the contract
awarded by the board of public works,
10 Thomas Reilly for paving East Third
street, for S10,449. The contract be-
tween the city and The st. Paul Hard
ware company. for furnishing supplies
TO the public schools was approved, as
also the contract with Wyckoff, Sea-
mems ~ Benedict for supplying type
writer's. The resolution authorizing
the comptroller to a.
Invest the Surplus
sash of the bridge fund to the extent oil
E72,O00, and $500 balance of the War
ten-Scharff, Asphalt paving fund, and