St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-26
1t Is Stated That None Of
Them We're Legally
Correct.
Contractors Will Have to
Wrestle With New Prop
OSitionS.
A Temporary Scheme Adopt
ed for Collection Of
Garbage.

troubles of the old Azotine company first
began. The condition is truly getting
serious in the city. Every day the office
of the health officer is in a sort of a state
of siege. EXasperated citizens call and
enter protests against the inertness of
the city in removing the garbage, but
the health officer can do nothing to re-
lieve the citizens. The council
has been wrestling with the
enigma for year, and just as
everybody thought they had reason to
believe that the difficulties that had in
tervened were about to be satisfactorily
adjusted, they will read this morning
that the council has ordered new
specifications prepared upon which
contractors may make bids for the re-
moval of the garbage. The board of
aldermen, however, propose to afford
temporary relief at least 1t renamed
for Aid. Cullen to take positive steps in
the premises. The story of the occur
rences follow:
First the assembly in its august dig
nifty grappled with the problem. The
joint committee oil garbage submitted
report recommending that contract be
awarded to James j. Donnelly for re-
moving the garbage, he being the low
est bidder, and on the heels of this came
the atfidavits and protest against such
action from James King and Nicholas
Feyen. They deposed that they had
filed their bids for doing the work under
consideration before the hour of 8
O'Clock, May "a, and that the city clerk
Had Made Mistakes
in marking the bids at a later hour.
and because of this marking the COM
mittee on aZutine had refused to either
open or consider the proposals. AS
semblyman johnson volunteered HIM
self as the spokesman of the committee,
ard repeatedly ana perSistently ex-
planned their action. The ground he
took was that the committee could not
recognize the bids under the circum-
stances. Mr.. Doran Insisted that
searching investigation be had to ascer-
tain whether or not these bids had
really been filed in proper time, and
he made a motion to that effect. Then
followed a prolonged but unevent-
full discussion. Mr. Reardon maintain
that the contractors making the protest
had made many conflicting and con-
trary statements. and therefore, he
argued. the council should pay no heed
to them. Mr. Pike surprised everybody
by making speech faYOring opening
the bids at once. He asserted that the
city could lose nothing by such course,
This proposition brought Mr.. Lightner
to his feet. He recited the oppOrtuni-
ties for Irregularities that such a course
would open the door to. If the bids had
been filed after the advertised hour, the
Otner bidders must be protected. He
thought it likely that the tardy bidders
had learned something about the bids of
the others before submitting their own.
He moved to lay the motion on the table,
and this prevailed.
Draf: Of Contract.
The committee reported draft of a
contract that is exhaustive in its pro-
visions, and it evidently came from the
corporation attorneys office. The con-
tract is between the city and James j.
Donnelly, and the latter agrees to collect
and remove all garbage, Offal and dead
animals of the city for a period of three
years. The garbage, ETC., is to be re-
moved between the hours of midnight
and 9 a. m. and the district to be
covered by the contract is described in
the instrument thus:
commencing aC the intersection OF the
Mississippi river and Broadway street,
thence OH Broadway to Eighth street. to Wa
basha, thence on Wabasha TO Exchange
street, thence on Exchange to West Ninth
street, thence on West Ninth street to Fort
street, thence on Fort street to West Sew
enth street, thence on " est Seventh street
to Chestnut street, thence on Chestnut street
to the Mississippi river, and thence to the
point Of beginning
1t is also provided that certain terri
tory on the West side shall be nightly
patrolled, as it were, by the garbage
collecting agent of the city. and the
area to be covered is South Wabasha
street and the Mississippi river to Indi-
ana avenue. to South Robert street, to
the river, and thence to the place of be-
ginning.
The contract expressly recites that the
garbage must be removed to some salts
factory point outside the city, and there
is clause in it that provides for pen
atty in the case of default to do the
work according to contract.
This being read. a minority report
was submitted. signed by Mr.. DAILY. 1t
protested against the award of the con-
tract to Donnelly on the ground that
the bid does not comply with the speci-
ficationS, and for the further reason that
i'll his opinion and best judgment the
work cannot be accomplished for the
sum mentioned
In the Proposal.
This led to another phase, and it de-
velOped that the assistant city attorney
had advised that none of the bids had
complied with the specifications, and
this was Mr.. Reardon's opportunity.
He stated that the specifications re-
Quired full explanation in the pro-
p0SalS of the manner and method of re-
moving the garbage, subject that had
been carefully avoided by the contract
OrS. He moved that the bids be all re-
Iected, and that the city attorney, the
health officer and the chairman of the
joint committee OH garbage pre-
pare new specifications, and at
the instance of Mr.. Lightner this
motion was so amended that the COM
mittee must first report its action to the
assembly before advertising for new
proposals. All this prevailed, and the
assembly gave way to the board of
aldermen.
The action Of the assembly was re-
ported, and upon motion of Aid. Con-
nelly it was concurred in. Aid. Cul-
len, awakening to the exigencies, offered
a resolution instructing the mayor, the
city attorney and the health officer to
let contract for the removal of the
city'S garbage for a period of thirty
days, and this went through without
discussion and without opposition.
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