St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-15


tinued Aid. Hare. "mast obey the
wishes of the people or tear up its tracks
and abandon the street. Applause from
the spectators. Money is the god of
most people. II Is said. but notice that
those who have the most money worship
1t the most.
milwaukee, Has Asphalt
pavements OH Its street car lines; why
not st. Paul?"
In conclusion, Aid. Hare advised re-
ierring the matter right back to the
board OF aldermen. and that every
alderman take a night over it and come
10 the meeting this evening prepared to
award the contracts. Applause
ii. s. Fairchild. of the board of pub
lie works, made a speech favOring the
award OF the contracts for three rea-
sons. First, the contract price was the
cheapest any city ever secured; second,
the city had guaranty OF mainten-
ance of the asphalt pavement for ten
years. whereas no other city had more
than five year guaranty, and, third, at
the cad of the ten years, if the pave
ment turned out to be poor or unsatiS-
factory, the board of public works had
absolute power to order every foot of it
relaid. Mr.. Fairchild spoke of the I'M
portancc of paving Seventh street. as
Oae-thlrd of all the business was trans
acted on tfat thGroughfare.
1T Is useless for you. gentlemen. to
eqnivocate." concluded Mr.. Fairchild.
for the property owners arr deter
mined tn have nothing but asphalt"
BY this time the number of interested
spectators had SO increased that the
committee moved into the council cham
Der, and as the change was made some
of the aldermen not on the committee
remarked that Mr.. Farchild. as mem.
ber of the board of public works, had no
business making any speech before the
committee.
After more threshing of the topic.
Aid. Hare again arose aud thus precip-
itated matters:
There is only one question before us,
and that is
Shall we Reject or Confirm
this contract? Why send back to the
board of public works what we know
will not be carried out? sincerely hope
that not a member Of this body is inter
eSted in the street railway company.
Applause. 1t is shame, l say, for
rich corporation to come in here aud
play the baby act. [Applause.l There
fore move that We vote i'll favor of
recommending the award of this con-
tract" [Applause.]
II move the adoption of MY resolu-
tion," quietly remarked Aid. Murphy.
81 second Aid. Hare'S notion" said
Aid. Lindahl.
Parliamentary proceedings were In
terrupted here by William Pitt Murray,
who spoke in behalf of the property
owners. after which City Engineer
Rundlett appeared and explained that
he did not. as Mr.. Mum had stated,
pronounce it impossible to maintain an
asphalt pavement across the Fourth
street tracks. Then things became in
teresting.
Chairman Ulmer Informed Aid. Hare
that Aid. Murphy's resolution was be-
fole the committee. Kisses greeted
this announcement. Aid.
Hare Scored Chairman Ulmer
for trying to put in Aid. Murphy's reso-
luton before his motion.
Lawyer O'Brien seized this moment
to make a plea for his clients, Hennes-
sey IL Cox. He said it would be unfair
to those gentlemen, citizens of St.Paul.
10 refer the matter back. as they had
been 10 great troub lie and expense. and
in making such cheap bid they had
done much towards crushing the
asphalt trust. Mr.. O'Brien proposed
that joint committee of both parties
visit other cities and ascertain exactly
what they want. But this suggestion
was immediately rejected by the prop
erty owners. Then one of them asked
Aid. Murphy to explain why he offered
such resolution.
Il said all had to say last night"
answered the alderman.
lit wasn't much: you made no eX-
PLANTATION. We want to know your
reasons" observed Mat Koch.
But Murphy remained silent.
Aid. Hare again insisted upon the
consideration of his motion to confirm
the award. This resolution" said the
alderman, sis only introduced to head
this matter off. 1t is unfair. My motion
was the first aad proper one, for the
resolution was not seconded"
But Chairman Ulmer dlssented and
announced: The resolution is before
the committee"
Disguised ,eXclamations greeted this
decision, and then the people held their
breath and awaited the vote Oh Aid.
Murphy'S resolution to refer the con-
tract to the board of public works. 1t
was as follows:
To Refer-Ulmer. Murphy, Wolf.
Not TO Refer-Hare, Lindahl.
Yeas, 8; nays, 2.
Aid. Milham declined to vote and
gave the following reasons:
II am not prepared to vote today, but
l will certainly vote on this question to-
morrow night. Moreover, don't like
this Kissing. am one of those people
Who Can't BE Bulldozed,
and no such tactics can affect me-"
Chairman Ulmer explained his vote,
but the people paid little attention to
it, knowing what he would say.
Then followed the scenes described at
the outset OF this article.
The matter will probably be finally
disposed of tonight by the board OF
aldermen, which will meet purposely to
receive the committees report.
1t requires two-thirds vote to award
a contract of this nature. This means
eight votes out of the eleven. If Aid.
Markham, who is absent, should return
in time for the meeting, and all of the
members of the board, save Aid. MUIR
ply, Wolf and Timer. should vote to
confirm the award, it would be award