St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-12
SMOKE NOT CONSUMED.
ORDINANCE REFERRED BACK TO THE
STREET COMMITTEE.
CITY wEIGHER ABOLISHED.
Assembly Wipes Out the City
Weigher OF Coal-Finds the
New Gasoline Lighting Con-
tractor Is Lighting With Mere
Lightning Bugs--.An Interest
ing Meeting Of the Assembly.

tractor Is Lighting With Mere
Lightning Bugs--tAn Interest
ing Meeting OF the Assembly.
The assembly meeting last night was
a long-drawn-out affair, three hours
being devoted to the transaction of
business. Over ali hour was taken up
i'll the discussion of the smoke nuisance
ordinance, which, after passing both
branches of the council, was recalled
by the assembly in order to give those
opposed an opportunity to be heard. a
protest against the passage OF the ordi-
nance signed by $50 firms engaged in
manufacturing was read and then the
members listened to number of
speakers. ID. r. Moves, II. G.
McNair, E. S. Warner. Ed
ward Schumacher, Matthew Taylor,
j. L. Mcmillan and Edward Vanish
spoke upon the ordinance, all but MIR.
N9yeS being opposed to tue measure on
the ground that it would be a great
hardship to the manufacturers, espe-
cially us smoke consumers were as yet
an experiment. The matter was finally
referred back to the committee on
streets, the motion of Mr.. ReardOn 10
refer it to the superintendent of schools
20 figure out a scheme by which all the
smoke in the city would be consumed
meeting with no second.
The special committee on the charges
against the coal inspector submitted the
following report:
Your committee find the official did
him certain sums for the purpose of
enabling him to employ an assistant;
that said contributions were TO be
purely voluntary, and that the action
was taken by the official only after con-
sultation with the mayor. Your COM
mittee is OF the opinion that there was
no intention of wrong on the part of the
weIgher of coal, and, while the action
is condemned, no further action is nee
essary in the matter. incidentally your
committee Is of the opinion from all
facts CLEANED in the investigation that
the office of weigher of coal is not and
| cannot be of much benefit to the city.
The report was adopted, and a resolu-
ton passed directing the mayor to dis
pense with the services of the weigher
of coal and inspector Of wood. The
resolution was passed by vote Of to
8, Messrs. Wolterstorff, Van Slyke and
DAILY voting against the decapItation.
The resolution giving the mayor $500
as contingent fund, which failed to
pass at previous meeting, was brought
up by Mr.. Lightner. Mr.. Reardon
| thought there should be some report
| filed by the mayor showing how pre-
vious contingent funds had been eX-
pended. He remembered there had
| been q number of contingent funds
| passed for the mayors Office in the
past two years, and he had been in
| formed three times as much had been
| spent by the mayor in this manner as
under the previous extravaganza admin
istration. Mr.. ReardOn insisted on the
| resolution being sent to the committee
| ON claims to investigate as to the neces-
! Sity of so much money being given to
| the mayor, and also to obtain report
as to the expenditures of previous
funds. Mir. johnson thought there was
money used by the mayor as a
contingent fund which might not
| be advisable to report to the public.
| After some discussion the resolution
was passed with an amendment
directing the mayor to report as to how
! the money was expended. Mr.. Reardon
still insisted that reports be made as to
the manner in which other funds voted
to the same officer were expended. and
| a resolution to that effect was passed.
A resolution directing the Acme
Vapor Stove company to replace about
900 lamps in various parts of the city
was read by the clerk. Mr.. Lightner
wanted to know who introduced the
order, and was told Assistant City At
torney Phillips handed it i'll. Mr.. Phil
lips at once slid out from under by
saying he had done so at the request of
President Wolterstorff. In answer to
questions put by Mr.. Lightner. the
manager of the company said the lamps
would cost 800 each, or about $4,000.
The matter was promptly referred to
the committee on streets.
In this connection Messrs. Johnson.
Doran, Daily and Van Slyke called at
tention 10 the failure on the part of the
new contractors to properly light the
city. Mr.. johnson said lightning bugs
| IL LHey cOulu ue kopI alive dit tnlS llin6
of the year, would give more light than
the present lamps did. Mr.. Doran said
IF the light given by the lamps did not
improve within short time he would
ask that stringent measures be taken to
compel the enforcement of the contract.
BRIDGING PLANS.
The city engineer submitted plans for
the bridging of the Chicago, Milwaukee
q st. Paul railroad tracks at West Sew
enth street. The letter accompanying
the plans explained that Seventh, Col
borue and Grace streets, intersecting at
at the point, the problem of arranging
a bridge crossing was an expensive and
difficult one. In addition to the neces-
sary bridging it required change of
grade and regarding of all three streets
mentioned above in addition to damages
resulting from change of grade. Plan
No. prepared by the engineer contem-
plates the raising of the street grades
and bridging tracks, the estimated cost
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