St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-24
ACOMMITTEE All SEA.
The Mueh-Debated Garbage
Contract Awarded to j.
j. Donnelly,
Son of j. G. Donnelly, Presi-
dent of the Old AZotine
Company.
The Mayor Calls for the Res
ignation Of a Disabled
Man.
low the Mayors AK Is Get
ting in Its Deadly
Work.

vomery. Reardon. Daily and Copeland,
comprising the joint special council
committee on garbage, met yesterday
afternoon. A large delegation of inter
,ssted individuals, accompanied by their
4ttorneyS, were in attendance and con-
siderable feeling was displayed by those
interested in securing the contract.
The first matter brought up was the
reception of the two bids rejected
1t the assembly meeting. owing 10 their
aeing filed after the time for the recep-
ton of bids had expired. Fayen Il King
were one of the bidders shut out by the
assembly. the envelope containing
their bid being marked as received at
S:55 D. m. May "a, just tifty-hve minutes
too late. Both members Of the firm III
sisted that this was 4 mistake, and,
through their attorney. .. E. Hol-
man, presented affidayits from
the firm and Joseph A. San
some. The atfidavitS went to
show that it was just before o'clock
when the bid was handed IN. The
clerk, who received the bid. was GER
tain the correct time was put on the en-
velOpe: and as proof OF his statements
time on all bids brought in after 3 p. m.
John J. DOnnellY objected strongly to
the committee having anything TO do
with the Fayen-King bids, claiming it
would be all injustice to the other bid
ders.
Mr.. Reardon said that the bid ought
not to he considered, as the statements
made by one of the firm to him previous
TO the meeting were not exactly i'll line
with their statements before the COM
mittee.
Joseph A. Sansome. evidently seeing
how the thing was going. said lie had
been pressed to make the affidavit about
seeing Fayen put in the bid before 3
O'Clock by Mr.. Holman. and, under the
circumstances. desired to correct his
affidavit in several particulars.
The motion to report the bid back to
the assembly. and have it referred to
the committee was lost by tie vote,
Mr. Johnson voting no, he said. to pre-
rent delay in letting the contract.
The committee then listened to n.
p. Lar gford. who put in a good plug"
against the old AZotine company. Some
If his neighborS, he said. had their
garbage removed by the Azotine COM
panY, and to keep the smell from the
feceptacles from driving him out of his
house he was obliged to have chloride
5f lime put in them in the night time.
He
Warned the Committee
not TO allow this to occur again and
wanted TIE contract let to contain
provision giving property owners the
right to take their garbage to the COM
pany having the contract at any reason
able hour and have it received.
Aid. Copeland said the people knew
the old Azotine company was a very
high-handed concern and he agreed
with Mr.. Langford.
An attorney representing GaiOn &
Wagner told how we'll his clients would
DO the work for three years for $40, 900.
j. j. DOnnelly and Thomas Reilly, he
said, appeared to be the lowest bidders,
but the manner in which the work was
to be done should be taken into
consideration as well as the
price. The firm he represented had, he
claimed, been defrauded out of the cOn-
tract the last time. although their fig
ures were $4,000 lower than the lucky
contractors. He thought both Donnelly
and Reilly had failed to properly specify
how the garbage should be collected,
and, in consequence, their bids should
not be considered.
J. }. Donnelly said he would agree to
do just as the council and health officer
directed ip the matter, and would give
bonds for the good performance of the
work
Mr. Montgomery, who spent the en-
tire two hours in figuring out the bids for
own amusement, and Mr.. Daily thought
his both Reilly and DOnneliy failed to
comply with the requirements of the
bid.
John Sansome who wanted $4,000 to
do tie work for three years, explained
how he had figured to make his bid so
much higher than the others.
J. i. Grants attorney explained the
work could not be done we'll for less
than S7200 for three years, and thought
the city would be greatly benefited if
were ROW doing the work of the sani-
tati0n company, and if necessary, could
begin at 4 moments notice.
Al this point Aid. Copeland whispered
20 the chairman that they he'd better go
into executive session.
DOnnelIy Explains
J. J. DOnnelly began to tell how he
would do the work, but was interrupted
by Aid. Copeland, who wanted to know
if he, DOnnelly, was any relation to the
man who was interested ill the old
Az0tine company.
Z Mr.. DOnnelly said he was son of the
president of the old company.
Aid. COnley thought the relationship
ought not to cut any figure, as long as
the bid was the lowest and the proper
bonds were given.
Il Ix,A
session, but this was opposed by Con-
the public ought to know what was
going on.
The motion 10 go into executive ses-
sion was lost on a tie vote, ReardOn,
Montgomery and Copeland voting for it.
AID COnley moved that the contract
be let to J. j. Donnelfy, he being the
lowest bidder.
Mr.. DAILY did not know if the bonds
men on Donnelly's bond were good.
Mr.. Montgomery stopped figuring
long enough 10 say there seemed to be
a great disparity in the prices submit
ted for the work.
Messrs. Copeland and Reardon
thought DOnnelly's bid. while the low
est, was not specific enough. Mr.. Rear
don asked eX-City Attorney w. p. Muir
ray if he considered the bid of Donnel-
ly good one under the circumstances.
Some one said Mr.. Murray was not now
city attorney. to which Mr.. Reardon
said he would sooner take Mr.. Murray's
advice than the corporation attorney.
Under such compliment Mr.. Murray
looked wise, aud replied that he did not
think it was.
A motion to reject all bids and re-
advertise was discussed, but this was
considered ineXpedient, as delay was
dangerous to public health.
Copeland 10 the Rescue.
Mr.. Copeland was in favor of having
the property owners the masters of the
situation, and not the garbage contract
ors. and wanted the health officer to
make rules, or embody them in the
contract.
The opinion of Mr.. Murray as to the
legality of the Donnelly and Reilly bids
caused a motion to recommend the con-
tract be let to the firm of Guion & Wy
man, who were the lowest bidders who
had complied with the specifications as
set forth in the advertisement.
This was lost, Copeland, johnson and