St. Paul daily globe., 1893-03-31
AN EIGHT-HOUR DAY.
The City at Last Marches in
Line With the Work.
ingman.
Rand's Ordinance Adopted
and Water Department
Changes Made.
Close of the Scottish Rite
Convocation With the
Mystic Banquet.
Minneapolis Engineers Have a
Kick--ThugS and Thieves
TePrOrize the Town.

| ing man. 1t was brought about through
AID Rand's eight-hour-a-day resolution,
which occasioned no end of fervid elo-
quence>and discussion. Two reports, a
majority and minority, were returned
from the speeiaFlabor committee. The
former recommended that the report be
laid on the table and the minority that
the resolution be adopted and the city
laborerS be placed on the eight
hour schedule, with Sl.75 as the
minimum days wages. During the
Oratoricah display Aid McAllister
made a motion to have the EIGHT
changed to "nine" and to stipulate that
no person shall be employed by the city
! unless he has been resident OF II al
least one year. The amendment did not
receive a vote. A vote was then taken
on the minority report, and it resulted
in its adoption, by II for to against.
Although McAlllSter at first opposed
eight hours, he voted for 1t when 1t came
! to pinch. The original Rand reSolu-
tiOn was then passed, and hereafter the
, city laboreIS will be obliged to work but
eight hours day. The only aldermen
/ VINO voted against 1t were Loye, tlan-
derS and Currier.
Water Department Appointments.
The report of the standing committee
/ on water works caused a hullabaloo.
! The report contained the list OF new ap-
pointmentS for the water department,
making six changes IN all. The more
important of these were: Jack McCon-
nell, supervisor, who was superseded by
! Chief Engineer BeIgStrom, OF the North
! side station, and Meter inspector Allen,
who was superseded by George Horton.
| Following is the list:
f. T. Moody, registrar: d. c. Brown,
cashier: C. j. La Grave. bookkeeper; +.
! l.. Gowan, clerk: j. w. Phillips, in
spector: Samnel Clark, inspector
George Horton, meter inspector; J. 3.
Ford, meter inspector; Andrew Berg
| strOm, supervisor; j. ). Cusick, clerk
John Larso, storekeeper; NJ. V. Bus
well, engineer Station No. 2; William
WintheiSer, street foreman; Fred
Snyder, assistent foreman; Thomas
| COwan, J. B. Fairweather, h. w.
Moore, engineers Station No. 3; Will
lam w. Redfeld, civil engineer; u.
Bogert, draughtsman; P. B. RhOades,
timekeeper.
When the report was put to a vote it
was lost By tie vote, Aid. lngenhutt
| and Rollins voting with the RepuD-
licans. The report was laid away for a
few moments and then introduced again
as a new document. Aid. Gray OBJ
! jeeted to the Introduction OF the
| report, claiming it was not in order and
| that it had no right to be introduced
without consent of the council. Presi-
! dent Kiiehli ruled him out Of order and
Aid. Gray appealed. The formers rul-
ing was sustained, however. He then
requested all those in favor of pass
| ing the report and those against
| to vote accordingly. He declared those
| in favor were in the majority, but Aid.
Ingenhutt kicked. stating that a deaf
! man could hear the opposition were III
majority. 1t was then put to an aye and
nay vote and lost again, another tie OF
! II to II resulting, and Rollins and IT,
genhutt voted as before, with the Re-
! pnblicans, and Aid. Flanders with the
Democrats. He is a member of the
water works committee.
! The report was brought up third
time and this time it was adopted.
Snyder's Plan Ont.
The committee Oh WAYS and means
| submitted a report recommending that
| Aid. Snyder's plan for the cancellation
| of special assessments be abolished.
| Before the report was acted upon Aid.
| Snyder offered all amendment, recon-
mendIng that his plan be given further
| trial. He made a strong plea for his
| pet scheme, maintaining that the COM
mittee on ways and means had not
| given the matter due consideration, but
had recommended its abOlishment in
direct opposition to the opinion of the
best legal talent in the city. In behalf
| Of~the committee Aid. Haynes said that
the time was not ripe for a practical
| test of the new scheme. 1t would entail
extra work and confusion in the offices
of the county auditor and treasurer and
tie up the June assessments. He was
4willing to have the plan tried after
June. but at the present time it was i'll
opportune. When the matter came to a
vote Aid. Snyder's plan was relegated
to the rear.
City Assessor Plummer submitted the
following list eff deputy assessors, whose
duty it will be to take the personal as
SesSments of 1898, and had the felicity
of seeing them approved: r. NJ. BOhan,
&. f. Smith, GustavuS Moore, Dwight
Crandall, A. l.. Burnham. w. j. Bur-
sell, William Cheney. r. McMulleI,
John ThornbuTgh, j. u. Palmer, j. A.
! Plummer, +. Reesen, Ii. I. Ness. w.
| S. Briggs, r. Ii. Brent, b. G. Gibbons,
A. Ii. Welch and w. b. Jones.
s'StCckhOIme' OIeOn:s License.
A number of liquor licenses were al
! lowed. Among the names of saloon
keepers submitted was that of j. John
| son. who asked for a license for 1907
| Washington avenue south. Aid. SkOOg
| objected to q license being granted to
johnson, for he said that Johnson was
but an agent for "StockhOlm' Olson.
The latter's license was revoked recent
! ly by Mayor EuStiS and, of course, he
could not get another one. Aid. SkoOg
maintained that Olson was endeavOT-
ing to evade the law, and that, although
johnson would appear to be the owner
of the saloon, Olson would be the pro-
prietOr in fact, The matter OccaSiOned
considerable discussion, the committee
on licenses having reported In favor of
granting the license, The council de-
cided to grant it in spite Of the OppoSi-
| ton.
James Macmillan. the garbage con-
tractor, made his first quarterly report.
From Sept. 5, 1892. to March 5, 1898,
! there was received and removed from
! the city 321 dead animals. Owing to
the fact that the council had not passed
the ordinance providing for the carry
ing out of his contract. Mr.. Macmillan
had been unable to keep record of the
garbage delivered.
A. g. McMullen was awarded the con-
tract for constructing the bridge at
Lake street over the Hastings d Da-
| kOta tracks.
Bids for sewer brick, also for supply
ing the city with 1,500 gasoline lamps
for period of five years, were read.
! The Northwestern Gas Light company
I off tO Iprh hat Of 10 of
the rate of S14.40 per lamp per year. A.
! J. Boardman's figures were Sl2.9S, and
! Robert Sieger, OF st. Paul, Sl5.l7.
MAUNDAY THURSDAY.
Close of the Scottish Rite ConYo-
cation With the Mystic Banquet.
The annual convocatiOn of Excelsior