St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-17
FULL RATE, BUT HALF TIME
ASSEM8L HiNAN J0HNS0N'S RESOLU-
Ti0VS ARE ADOPTED
sY JOiN'E COUNCIL O0uEEETTEE.
Hint From AssembIyman DAILY
That street Laborers Are Lev
led On-Reardon Succeeds I'M
One OF His Hobbies-Mayor
Wright Finds No Encourage
ment for q Little ProDOsition.

Another meeting of the council CONT
Yesterday afternoon. Present were AS
semblymen Reardon, DAILY and John
son, Aid. Zimmerman and Com ptrolier
McCardy. In the absence of the mayor
Comptroller McCardy was made chair
man of the meeting. The resolutions
prepared by Mr.. Johnson, reading as
follows, were adopted:
That for the purpose of advancing the
interest OF the city the $4,000 shall Oe
expended in the employment OF resi-
dents OF our city VINO are out of en-
ploYment as follows:
First-NO person shall be employed
who has not been an actual resident of
the city for six months, and has two or
more persons dependent upon him for
support, and who is recommended for
employment by committee to consist
of 5. q. Smith, E. w. Peet, IL. IL. Hart,
james Morrow and w. l.. Wilson, or
such persons as they may designate for
that purpose.
Second-These persons so employed
shall receive as compensation the sum
of 1917 cents per hour, provided, how
ever. no person shall he permitted to
work more than haif-time.
Third-The persons so employed shall
be placed in charge of the city engineer
to perform such labor OH the streets as
he may designate.
WHO IS BLEEDING LABoRERS?
Mr.. DAILY said some of the laborers on
the street force in his ward had COM
planned that they had to: pay money in
order to secure work on the streets.
Comptroller McCardy ventured the
opinion that the charge could not be
proven, and, as it was stated that in the
expenditure of the $4,000 the men would
be hired only as recommended by the
citizens committee mentioned in the res
Olution, the matter was not discussed.
Mr.. Reardon insisted on the resolu-
tons being amended so as to place the
men to he employed under the direction
OF ID. II. Gregg, who occupies the posi-
ton of head street commissioner. The
idea, Mr.. Reardon said, was to prevent
the employment of half a dozen street
commissioners to boss the men at sal
airy of 800 permonth. The amendment
was adopted without discussion.
THE MAYORS LITTLE IDEA.
Mayor Wright, who happened in at
this time. made little speech about
the mistaken policy of paying the men
Sl.50 per day. His idea was tnat the
plan of paying 81 per day Ill the neces-
saries of life was about right, and the
idea of paying full wages in a case of
this kind was wrong and established a
| bad precedent.
The other members of the committee,
| however. seemed to pay little. if any,
| attention to the ''spiel" made by our
gallant colonel
Mr.. Reardon announced that the citi-
| Zens' bureau for the registering of the
unemployed in the court house had
| been closed. and the names gathered
| would be turned over to the committee,
who would have the recommending of
| the men to be employed.
Assistant City Engineer Wilson said
it would be necessary for the men who
were put to work to furnish their own
| ShovelS and other tools needed. IL was
said that the men would be put to work
at once, but this probably means within
a day or so.