St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-05
Aldermen Spend an Evening
Creating New Offices and /.
a Back Track.
The Chair Brought Up With
a Round Turn 10y Aid.
Cullen.

Aid. lngergoil.-
AID. Cullen, .Conley. DornIden and
Warren held caucus just as the meet
ing was called to order, and the six
other members, including Aid. Cope
land, Franklin, Montgomery, Jensen,
Hickman and Zimmerman. had things
their own way the first part of the Ses-
sion.
Aid. Franklin voted Tuesday night to
send the matter of the revocation or Z.
L. Murphy's saloon license to the city
| attorney for an opinion as to whether
| the evidence would justify the recon-
mendatiOn of the committee. The first
business to come up was notice of
| Aid. Franklin that the Murphy matter
be recalled from the city attorney. This
passed by 4 unanimous vote, the six
members in the room voting for it: The
| passage of the report of the license
| ton and cancellation Of the license
issued to Murphy, was passed through
by the same vote. Aid. Frank
In then asked that the re-
solution. which failed to pass by
his negative vote, Tuesday night. reYok-
ing the license of Adolph Bremen. under
which the saloon and dance hall at
Blair and Mackubin streets was run,
be reconSdered. Aids. Cullen, Conley.
| Dornlden and Warren came into the
| chamber at this time, and Aid. Cullen,
after being advised of the matter being
| considered, rose to
a Point of Order
AS he understood it, he thought there
| was no rule OF charter provision which
! would allow the council to call special
| meetings under the vague call of gen.
eral business. He was of the opinion
| that the special object of the meeting
must be stated in the call in order to
| make the business transacted OF legal
| moment.
Aid. Copeland who was in the chair.
| considered the point of order not we'll
taken. City Clerk Prendergast being
appealed to by Aid Franklin. said such
meetings as the present one he thought
had been called. but it was not the rule
to call them for general business"
Aid. Cullen read from the book of rules
an extract which provided that at spe-
clal meeting no other business than
that mentioned in the call shall be
transacted. No rule, he cOntended,
could be found for the calling of Spe-
cial meeting to consider general bust
ness. AID. Montgomery said the same
point had occurred to him, but after
! looking it up he was Of the opinion
that it was not we'll taken. The
chair said he was of the opinion
that it was all right to 90 ahead AID.
Conley appealed from the decision of
the chair. and on vote taken the chair
was sustained by a vote of & TO 3, Aid.
Coniey, Cullen and Dorniden voting
against it. The question then coming
up on the revocation Of the license
more discussion followed. Aid. Cullen
said he was opposed to the passage of
the resolution. and asked for the opin-
ion the city attorney as TO its legal
ity. City Attorney LAWYER said he was
unable to give any opinion. as
this matter had not been con-
sidered by him. He had in
formed the license committee at its
last session that in case his opinion was
his office. The committee had not called
upon him during its session. but the
board of aldermen had referred the
Murphy matter to him for an opinion.
This having been already passed by the
aldermen, his opinion was not neces-
sary. AS to the Graf matter he had no
opinion to offer. Aid. Warren said he
had voted against the revocation at the
last meeting, thinking it was not the i'll
tention of the council or mayor to take
away the license without Mr.. Bremen
having
Chance to Ese Heard
AT the time he was under the impress
| sion that Mr.. Bremen had not been be-
| fore the license committee. Since then
he had learned that Nj. Bremen had
| been before the committee and made a
| statement. He was also informed that
Bremen had made an application to
transfer the license, but had afterward
reconsidered it. and now wanted to put
| some one else in the saloon and run it.
Under the circumstances ne was heart
| lily in favor of revoking the license.
Aid. Franklin followed with an
explanation of his vote on Tuesday
| night in the same strain, and the license
was ordered revoked by vote of to 8,
| Aid. Coniey. Cullen and Dorniden yot-
| ing against it. The printing ordinance,
which provided for 4 contract for two
years from July 30, 1892, under specifi
cations prepared by all expert at a sal
| airy of $500 per year. was sent to the
city attorney Tuesday night. The ref
| erence was made on motion Of Aid.
Cullen. VINO thought the proviso which
directed the mayor TO appoint the eX-
| pert was contrary to the Bell charter,
| WHICH piOHlDltpu Tie creating OF any
new or Salaried office.
AID. Franklin had on his reconsider.
| ing clothes and moved that the ordi-
nance be recalled. Ibis was done. and
then the Sixth ward alderman moved
that all amendments tackled OH TO the
| ordinance tuesday night be repealed.
| The clerk said he was unable to tell
| just what amendments had been made
at the last meeting. The minutes of the
| meeting had been taken in shorthand,
but were not yet transcribed. Aid
| Franklin pointed out the amendments.
and after the ordinance had been read a
| couple of times in order TO enlighten
the members it was put on its final
|! passage.
AID. Cullen said he had no objection
| to the ordinance, and it might possibly
be step in the right direction, but the
| Bell
Charter Said Distinctly
| that no new or salaried Office should be
| created. This section providing for the
| appointment of an expert by the mayor
at salary of 500 was clearly viola.
ton of that part of the charter. Aid
| Franklin said the city comptroller had
said the ordinance was all right, ano
had been drawn up by the city attOr.
ney He was willing to take the opin
ion of these gentlemen on the legal as
pect of the matter.
On the vote to pass the ordinance
Aids. Cullen, Conley. Dorniden ant
Warren voted against it and Aids
Franklin. Hickman, Jensen. Mont
gemery, Zimmerman and Copeland fol
it. The president declared the ord
nance passed, but Aid. Cullen raised
the point that it took two-third vote
to pass any measure involving the eX
penditure of money and only six had
voted i'll the affirmative. The point the
| chairman had to admit was we'll taken
| and he reconsidered his decision and
| announced the ordinance lost.
The bicycle ordinance, passed with a
whole lot of dead wood on Tuesday
night. was reconsldered on motion OF