St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-09
comptroller's Office and the various COM
mlttees appears to me
Very Sfranoa In6oaS

very Strange. Indeed.
ut is impossible for the committee on
claims to verify every item of the paw
rolls, and it is necessary to accept them
on the recommendation of the Othe L
committees"
This rather shifted the responsibility
upon the committee on fire department,
and Aid. Woodward, its chairman,
fastened to explain that Aid. Gray's
statement was news to him, and he was
sure to the other members of the COM
mittee.
The pay rolls, he sad, were made out
by Mr.. Snyder himself as clerk of the
department, and were approved by the
chief. The committee on fire depart
ment accepted CHIEF Runge's signature
OF approval as g guarantee that the pay
rolls were correct.
Chief Runge was called for to ex-
plain, but as he had left the chamber
early III the evening, the matter was re-
ferred to the committee on fire depart
ment for investigation, Aid. Woodward
asserting that the committee would be
very glad TO give it a careful sitting.
Rand Was Squelched.
There was war when the report of
the committee on ordinances upon Aid.
Kand'S amendment to the LIQUOR or
dinance was read. The report set forth
that the amendment strikes out the sec
ton making 1t unlawful to sell liquors
on Sunday, the section veSting in the
mayor and in the municipal court power
to revoke licenses for cause and other
sections equally important to the proper
and orderly conduct of the city. 1t
further went on to show that the adOp-
tlOn OF the amendment would make it
hard
on Sunday. and would produce great
quibbling and wrangling i'm court, and
closed with the recommendation that
the amendment be laid on the table.
A motion to adopt the report brought
AID. Rand to his feet with one of his
characteristic speeches, in which lie ap-
pealed for the courtesy due the minor
ity OF the council, and asked that the
ordinance be read
The report, however, was adopted bv
a trlct party vote of IA to 9. Aid.
Laekey and Woodward being absent
and Aid. Durham declining to vote.
The nays were McGowan. Nyenhutt,
Haynes. Kiichli. Rand, Rollins, Nc
CURE, Schwartz and Peterson.
To Purchase Coal.
Aid. Woodward introduced a resolu-
ton authorizing the committee Oh fire
department to buy the coal for that de-
partment in the open market. Aid.
BarroWs introduced substitute, pro-
vldIng that the committee should adver-
Use for bids for the fuel contract and
report them to the council with recon-
mendation. This was accepted by Aid.
woodward and was adopted
A resolution by Aid. Woodward in
Structlng and requiring the street rail-
way company to run all cars on the
Eighth avenue line as far as Thirty
eighth street was adopted.
On motion of Aid. Gray the proper
officers were instructed to draw a war
rant in the sum of 81, $50. 80 in favor of
the Eddy Stone Pipe and Steel company
10 pay for sewer pipe purchased.
Bullding Inspector Hazen was grant
ed leave of absence to attend the con-
Xentlon of the National Association of
Building Inspectors to be held at Cleye-
land, o., Jan. Is.
City Attorney Russell, to whom was
referred the Sunday theater ordinance
Tor an opinion as to its cOnStitutionality,
reported, stating that the council had
power to pass the ordinance.
After the Auction Shops.
An ordinance to revoke the auction
licenses of Sam Mills, l53 Nicollet ave
nue.; Leo Blumenkranz, % Nicollet
avenue, and E. b. Patten, 1O7 Washing
ton avenue south. was introduced by
Aid. Rollins and referred to the COM
mlttee on licenses.