St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-24
NOW FOR The COURT
Kiekers Against the Transfer
Ordinance Have Only One
Hope Left.
Last Night the City Council
Did as it Was Ex-
peeted to Do.
A Row in a COloped Dive Re-
suits in a Shooting
Affair.
Gossip About Chief Of Police
and Fire Department and
Other Places.


battle. Through the adoption by the
city council of transfer ordinance, the
people of Minneapolis have made what
some lawyers say is an irrevocabe con-
tract with the street railway company
contract which cannot be repealed or
amended. The residents OF Southeast
Minneapolis Shave been beaten. They
must do without transfers on
the Interurban line or put up
with local service, willy nllly.
The demands OF Minneapolis work
ingmen for transfers to carry them
over the Interurban line to Southeast
Minneapolis. or to the Midway district
have been ignored. If the IN iyor signs
the ordinance and the kicners keep their
promises, the courts will be called to
pass upon street railway questions.
The council chamber never held a more
thoroughly Interested audience than that
which crowded every available space
last night. 1t was known that the
amendment TO the transfer ordinance,
denying the demands OF Southeast Min
neapOliS people and large number OF
workingmen, would come up for final
action. The Southeast Minneapolis peO-
pie were out i'll full force, and so were
the workingmen. The scene was remi-
niscent of the old Anderson & Douglas
franchise fight. As on that occasion,
AID. BradiSh again aroused the ire of
the spectators. Alderman at Large
Goodrich was there, too. Intense anxiety
was on every face when the president
raped for order and the council pro-
ceeded to dispose of Some routine bust
ness. At last came the question.
Here Was the Rub.
The committee on ordinances Except
Aid. Lackeyl reported in favor of pass
ing the ordinance, as amended by Aid.
Haynes, including the clause which has
proved SO obnoxious to the residents of
Southeast Minneapolis. When the re-
port had been read, Aid. Lackey moved
to postpone the second and third read
ings of the ordinance until the new
council should take its seat. The cit-
ZenS of the city had serious objections
to the ordinance and its portPnt, he
said. They wanted another chance to
explain their wants, and it was only
fair to them to allow it. Aid. Haynes
was not in favor of postponlng
the matter indefinitely. The peO-
pie in his portion of the
city were conservative, and after local
redress. The general issue could be at
tended to later, and when the proper
time came he would be glad to offer an
amendment which would give the entire
public what it desired. Aid. Lackey'S
motion was lost and the ordinance was
given its second reading. AT the con-
cIusion of the vote he offered an amend
ment to the ordinance. The amendment
declared that the sections which say that
the street car company shall not be
required to issue transfers on the Inter-
urban line. but giving it the privilege
OF operating local line for the benefit
of residents in southeast Minneapolis.
should be striker out. The amendment
also required that the section of the
ordinance, requiring sewers to be built
on streets before the street car company
Is compelled to build new lines, be
stricken out. This amendment caused
a war of words among the aldermen and
hush to fall over the audience. Aid.
Lackey made q ringing speech III behalf
of his amendment, and in spite OF the
presidents gaVel the men who sat out
side of the railing applauded with their
hands and feet. The people OF Mime
apoliS should not go to the street rail-
way company for favors. but vice versa,
he declared. If necessary the whole
question should be taken to the courts
for final settlement.
Aid. Haynes wanted his constituents
taken care of before the whole matter
was tied up IN the courts. His col
league, Aid. BarrowS, made a speech in
favor Of the street railway company.
He thought the ordinance was good
one, and ought to be passed. Never be-
fore, said he, had he voted on queS-
ton with clearer conscience than on
this ordinance. The people who kicked
would kick at anything and everything.
They would probably be IN favor of
killing the street railway people. Ii
the citizens of the city, the venerable
alderman maintained. were not
willing 10 pay 10 cents to ride
Aid. BradlSh was the next speaker. He
said he had heard no kicking against
the ordinance, and he was sure no one
in his ward was kicking. He made sew
eral remarks during his speech, which
brought out a number of Kisses from the
audience. The amendment finally came
to vote. 1t was lost, and this is the
way the aldermen voted:
NAYS - MCGOWAN, Barrows, Durham,
Kiichli, Sage, Lowell, Brazie, Parry, Grimes,
Flanders. Bradish, Mcclure, Reeves
Schwartz, Blichfeldt, Woodward, Farms
WORTH Gray, Mr.. President-l9.
Ayes-lngenhutt, Haynes, Hunter, Rand.
RalIins, Lackey, Petelson-7
There Were Six Of'Em.
Aid. Haynes offered an amendment,
out the section of the ordinance
to the local line for residents
of Southeast Minneapolis, the cars to
run not more than fifteen minutes apart.
This was the section wanted stricken
out SO badly by the Second warders. 1t
was lost, however.