St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-07
DONE BY DEMOCRATS
Aid. Hickman Elected Alder
manic President After
Thirty-Two Ballots.
Four Democratic Votes Swing
to Him and Effect the Re-
suit.
The Protest Against the Safe
ty Device on the Selby
Cable.
Another Scheme to Close Up
the Market Building for
Good.


who represents the Eleventh ward, was
selected for the Office. Thirty-two bal
lots were taken before result was
reached, and on the final ballot
the four Democrats, who from
the first had voted for Aid.
Warren, switched and Hickman was
declared the presiding officer for the
ensuing year. The members who voted
for the successful candidate ON the last
ballot were Aids. ConleY, Cullen, Dorni-
den, Warren, Jensen and Montgomery.
Aids. Copeland. Franklin and Zim
norman voted for the First ward alder
man from first to last, while Aid. Inger-
soil cast thirty-two ballots for Aid. Zim-
norman For two ballots Aid. HEX
man voted for Ingersoll, and then up to
the seventh ballot gave his vote to
Montgomery. After that for twenty
five he voted blank ballot.
The aldermen we're called to order at
o'clock, and on motion of Aid. niger
soil, Aid. Montgomery was made tenn
porary chairman. Aid. Ingersoll moved
a viva voce vote. The only one voting
audibly Oh the motion was Aid. Cope
land. The chair was in doubt, or said
he was, as to the vote on the motion,
and announced that the city attorney
had given his opinion that the election
Must Be by Ballot.
Aid. Ingersoll thought every MEM
Der would prefer to vote viva voce, and
after this had been done the clerk could
be ordered to cast the ballot for the can
didate receiving the necessary votes.
The chair said the law provided for
election by ballot, and unless the body
ordered otherwise it would have to be
done that way. The motion to vote viva
voce was carried, five of the
aldermen. Cullen, Copeland, Con-
ley, Dorniden and Warren oppos-
ing it. Nominations being in Or
der, Aid. Franklin spoke of the qualif-
cation of each and all of the members,
and finally nominated Aid. Copeland.
Aid. Cullen nominated Aid. Warren,
and Aid. Jensen performed like sery-
Ice for Aid. Hickman.
The first ballot the vote was as fol-
lows:
For warren-Ald. Conley Cullen and
Dorniden-3
For CopeIand-Ald. Franklin, thinner
man and Copeland-3.
For Hickman-Ald. Jensen and Mont
gomery-2.
AID Warren voted for Franklin, Aid.
Hickman for Ingersoll and Aid. Ingersoll for
Zimmerman.
The second loll call made no change
except that Aid. Warren followed Cope
lands example and voted for himself.
Before the third roll call was COM
meneed Aid. Conley moved that further
voting be done by ballot. This was
agreed to, and the first vote by ballot
gave Warren 4, Copeland 3, Hickman 2,
and Montgomery and zimmerman l
each. For the next five ballots there
was no change, but on the sixth
Aid. Hickman commenced to vote a
blank ballot, which course he pursued
For the next half-hour balloting was
codnucted with the same result. Warren
receiving votes, Copeland 3. Hickman
2. Zimmerman and one blank. After
the eighteenth ballot Aid. Zimmerman,
who, with Aid. Conley, had been ap-
pointed tellers,
Asked for Recess
of five minutes for the tellerS to rest up
in. This gave Aid. Copeland and the
manager Of his campaign. Aid. Frank
lin, chance to confer and do little
missionary work. When balloting was
resumed, however, there was no change
in the votes for the four candidates.
IngersoII suggested, that result
might be arrived at by electing vice
president first, and by so doing get Aid.
Warren off the track. The same mo-
notonouS announcement of the result of
each ballot, same as last" was kept
up, but after the announcement of the
thirtieth ballot another recess was taken
Oh motion of Aid. Warren. The Demo-
cratic members held consultation. and
every one predicted that on the next
ballot there would be change
of some kind. When the thirty
first ballot was taken and the
chair announced no change from the
preceding ones, the members and lobby
seemed greatly surprised. The next
ballot, however, was the deciding one,
the votes for Hickman cast by Jensen
and Montgomery being swelled to the
number necessary to secure an election
by the four Democratic members
voting for him. The chair an
nounced the result of the ballot
as: hickman, 6; Copeland, 8; thinner
man, l; and one blank. The chair an
nounced that Aid. Hickman. having re-
ceived six votes, was elected president
of the board for the ensuing year. Aid.
Copeland moved that the election be
made unanimous, which was done. The
newly elected president, in taking the
chair, thanked the members for the
honor, and complimented the retiring
president.
lhe next business was the election of
a vice president. and Aid. Warren,
Franklin and Montgomery were placed
in nomination. Both Warren and
Franklin withdrew their names in
favor of Montgomery, and the clerk
was directed to cast the ballot for the
Tenth ward alderman, which was
promptly done.
The Selby Gable Device.
The ordinance granting the street rail-
way company the right to construct
safety device on Selby avenue hill was
referred back to the committee on
streets. together with protest from A.
FL. Wilder and r. M. Newport Both
gentlemen objected to the granting OF
the ordinance, owing to the plan of the
device being of such an indefinite
nature. The protest stated that if the
device were put in and proved a source
Of annoyance they would hold the city
responsible for any damage done to
their property. Mr.. C.. n. Bell. who
represented Mr.. Wilder, asked that the
protest be filed with the city clerk.
There was question, he said, whether
the city had the right to grant the COM
pany the privilege, but. aside from this.
it had no right to authorize the con-
struction of anything that would men,
ace the property of owners and resi-
dents in the vicinity. Mr.. Wilder, he
said, had no desire to obstruct
the company, but he had
been driven from his home on Wood
ward avenue some years ago by the rail-
ROAD companies, and he naturally felt a
little sensitive on account of his past
experience. The device which it was
proposed to put in, he said, was practi-
cally new thing, and might result in
the property of the residents being
greatly injured by reason of the. noise.
The city attorney called the attention of
the board to the fact that there was no
provision in the ordinance which re-
quired the company to give any bond to
save the city in case suit for damages
was commenced after the device was
put in.
The resolution providing for the cree
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