St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-20
Mayor Winston Has Vetoed
the Garbage Hauling Con-
tract Resolution.
1t Is Certain That the City
Can Get Proposals Be-
low MaeMullen's.
Last Night the Hennepin
Democratic League Be-
came a Reality.
Dates Set for the Primaries
and the County Con-
ventiOn.

The expected has happened. The
mayor has vetoed the garbage resolu-
ton, and the council will either have to
readvertise for bids or leave the solu-.
ton OF the garbage problem to some
future time or generations After-in-
vestlgating the matter thoroughly and
studying the now famous Mcmillan
bid and contract, the mayor came to the
decision that it was for the best inter-
estS OF the city and the taxpayers to
veto the resolution. The Democrats are
accordingly Jubilant over their signal
victory, and the Republicans, who in
secret caucus came to an understanding
how and why they we're to vote for the
MCMILLAN bid, are correspondence
chagrlned. The mayor has prepared a
communication which will be sub
mitted is the council. together with his
veto, giving his reasons for declining to
sanction the hign-handed action of
the Republican aldermen. These rea-
SONS will be broad enough and sound
enough to satisfy the unbiased mind
that he is in the right. He takes the
ground that the bid is altogether too
high, and that under its provisions the
taxpayers would be called upon to bear
heavy and unnecessary burden. He
satisfied himself that to readvertise for
Dios VIII bring new propositions for the
disposition OF the garbage, which it will
be TO the interest of the CITY to enter.
tain. In his opinion the offers of H. p.
Byrnes and j. n. Nichols were made in
good faith, and their backing in the
matter is a sufficient guarantee that
they Will carry out their contract if
given an opportunity. Since the last
meeting OF the council, when the bid of
James Mcmillan d. Go. was accepted.
various members of the council have
received propositions from responsible
parties to dispose of the city garbage at
hgures full y 25 per cent lower than
those contained in tine Mcmillan propo-
sition.
In face of all this it seems little pc
cullar that the Republican aldermen
should be in such extreme haste to
award the Mcmillan contract. What
action these men will take at the next
meeting. now that their pet scheme has
been Knocked into a cooked hat, it is
pretty hard to say. though it is not i'm
possible that they will defeat any reso-
luton to readyertise for bids. A Demo
cratic alderman, in speaking about the
matter yesterday. said:
Il am of the opinion that they will
not let us readvertise, because the prop
osltions that will come in will in a man
ner expose them in this Mcmillan bust
ness. They will also probably be actu-
ated by spite. They are in the soup
now. as it were, and can't pass the reso-
luton over the mayors head because it
takes a two-thirds majority to do that.
and of course they can't get it. They
can, however, stop Reimbursement,
for they are in the majority"
BESIDES the garbage resolution. the
mayor yesterday vetoed the resolution
awarding the Watrous Engine works.
OF st. Paul, contract for two steam
fire engines. The mayor holds that the
city cannot afford to purchase any more
engines at the present time, for there
are no available funds. He also vetoed
the resolution awarding to Ring &
Iobin The contract for building abut-
ments on Nicollet Island over the rail-
road tracks at Nicollet street. His rea-
son for this is that the city has money
on hand now to pay for the work, while
the contract makes it payable in 1898,
with interest. The charter also pro-
YIdeS that the council cannot obligate
Itself beyond its term of office