St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-09
COMES Up SMILING.
The Auditorium Project Again
Doomed Along by the AS
sembly,
Which, by a Practically
Unanimous Vote, Orders
It's Erection.
The Claims Of the AZotIne
Company Sat Upon With
a Thud.
Usual Amount Of Routine
Business Rushed Through
the Body.

Public sentiment is always potent
faction in influencing the action of a
legislative body. The expressions have
been so positive and emphatic since the
meeting of the board of aldermen
week ago that the assembly felt con-
strained last evening to reiterate Its
course of two weeks ago. Once more
the Joint committee on auditorium is
authorized to proceed straightWay with
remodeling the city market for the pur-
pose, as originally planned, the board
of aldermen cOncurring. There was
little discussion of the matter, and the
opposition to the movement was sur
prisingly insignificant. Consequently
the action was taken without excite
ment of any sort.
There were present ASSemblymen
BanhOlZer, Elmquist, McCaferty, Nc
Nance, Hare, Oppenheim ana Fresl-
dent Murray. The question came up
upOn the matter of concurring in the
action of the board of aldermen instruct
ing the city attorney to bling the in
junction case to an early hearing in the
courts. The assembly voted aye unan-
imously, and then Mr.. OpDenhelm in
troduced the resolution authorizing the
special Joint committee to proceed
at once to award contracts for
the erection of the public au-
ditorium. or, in other words,
the remodelling of the old market house.
MIR. McCatferty said he wished to eX-
plain his position. He was heartily IN
favor of the resolution, and hoped there
would be no further tiiibusterlng. lie
felt that there is absolute necessity Tor
the enterprise, and he had read with
wonderment and surprise the remarka-
bic declarations Of AID. Dobner to the
effect that the alderman had canVaSSed
his ward and had failed to find a man
who had favored the project, and
furthermore that he had canyassed the
city-the bankers, lawyers, business
men and taXrayers-and had been I'M
able to find a man in favor. Mr.. Nc
Cafferty acknowledged that his intimacy
with bankers was perhaps less eX-
tensive, but he did profess to know
good many lawyers, doctors, merchants
and taxpayers, and he proceeded to re-
late the result of his personal can
vass during the past week. he
had, first, met citizens Of the
tenth ward (Ald. D0bner's ward),
and he had been unable TO find a man
opposed to the enterprise. Not only
that, but the gentlemen he had seen
were enthusiastic supporters of the
auditorium plan, and unhesiEatingly
pledged that everybody they knew in
the Eighth ward felt as they did. Mr..
McCafferty had taken the trouble to
seek the individual opinions and prefer
ences of the lawyers, bankers and doc
tors, and he had not encountered
a man who did not urge him to
use his utmost influence to secure
the erection OF q big auditorium that
will accommodate a national cOnven-
ton, a mass meeting of the citizens and
other like gatherings. Further than
this, he wished to bear testimony that
many prominent citizens had waited
upon him of their own VOlitiOD to urge
his favorable action. He knew that the
great masses of the people ask for the
building, and they will expect the
council to do its duty i'll the interests
of the city and its citizens.
Mr.. Oppenheim then explained that
there had been some criticism on the
part of certain aldermen who are OPP
posed to the plan to the wording of the
original resolution, and he wished to
assure the assembly that the resolution
under consideration was so explicit that
it is not open to misconstruetion. Then
a vote was taken upon the resolution,
MIR. Murray alone voting nay.
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