St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-12
MAYBELL's CONTRACT.
A STOCK KEEPER or The MAYOR S
FIRM SUCCESSFUL in BIDDING
TO SUPPLY CITY STATIONERY

Mayor Wright Denies That May
bell Has Any Arrangement
With the Firm-Defcated Bid
ders Register a Kick, but Get
+ Very Little Satisfaction-De-
tails of the TRANSACTIONS.
Bids for furnishing the city depart
mentS with stationery for the ensuing
six months were opened at the city
clerks Office yesterday afternoon.
There were six bidders. Brown. Treacy
y& Co., WedeIstaedt & Co.. st. Padl
Herald, H. C. Boyesen, II. l.. Collins
and r. j. Maybeli. The lowest bidder
was r. j. Maybell, and his figures were
S6l7.l0, which was $500 lower than
Wedelstaedt d Co., the next lowest
bidder.
=, The representatives of Brown, Treacy
| 81 Co. and Wedelstaedt d Co. both OBJ
jected to MaybelPs bid being accepted.
The grounds for the kick were that
Maybell was not in business and that
his bid was for another firm which
under the law had no right to bid. MIR.
Maybell, when questioned by the city
clerk. said he was employed as stock
man for Wright, Barrett Il StiIlwell,
but that the bid was independent of the
firm.
The contract was awarded to May
bell, his figures being the lowest. The
kIckerS visited the office of the city at
torney, and after pointing out the sec
ton of the charter given below to that
nff hi
section reads as follows:
That no alderman, member of the
board of public works or other officer of
the city of st. Paul while acting as
such shah directly Or Indirectly be
party Qo) or interested or concerned in
any contract or job with said city, or in
any work prosecuted by its authority.
Or I'D the compensation to be received
therefor. or in the furnishing Of sup
plies, fuel or other article purchasable
for the public use, and any contract or
transaction prohibited as aforesaid shall
be void, and all moneys which may be
paid thereon by said city may be recov-
cred back, and the Office of such city
officer SO offending shall become thereby
vacant upon conviction thereof, as pro-
yided in section 8. chapter 2 OF the
Laws of 1874.
The city attorney told the gentlemen
that he had no knowledge of anything
in the way of violation of the section
referred TO, aud that ended the matter
as far as he was concerned.
X. j. Maybell, the successful bidder
for furnishing stationery, is the same
person who put in bid for furnishing
school supplies recently, but not being
recognized by the mayors private sec
rotary, had his bid thrown out because it
was not filed i'll time. As soon as the bid
was rejected Maybell made talk about
the advertisement for bids not being IN
proper form. The committee, who up
to this time had not questioned the
legality OF the advertisement at once
began to see several things. and one of
them was that the position of Maybell
was we'll taken, and referred the same
to the city attorney for his opinion. The
attorney reported the advertisement
was hardly specific enough, and conse-
quently all bids were rejected and
new advertisement inserted.
Mayor Wright. seen last evening. said
while Mr.. Mavbell had been in the en-
ploy of his firm for years, the bid sub
mitted yesterday afternoon was indie
pendent of the firm, and the goods
would not be furnished by the firm of
Wright, Barrett 81 Stillweli.