St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-21
one-third in installments as the work
progresses and the cost is ascertained.
AFTER NEARBY.

progresses and the cost is ascertained.
AFTER NEARBY.
Aid. Murphy, who is determined to
force Comptroller McCardy into
corner, and compel him to explain
why it is there is no money in the
city treasury available to pay the po-
Hcemen and firemen the salaries due
them, offered a resolution to the fol-.
lowing effect:
That the city comptroller be re-
quested to report forthwith to the COM
mon council the amount of moneys re-
ceived by the city from the county
treasurer since the first day of
January, 1895, and that he specify in
detail the amount received on account
Of the taxes of 1894, and the various.
funds to which said amounts have
been icredited, and also report the
amount received on account of taxes
for the year prior to the year 1894, and
also that he state the various funds to
which the amounts so received have
been credited.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted.
The committee on license recon-
mended the passage of an ordinance
abolishing the license system under
which expressmen and draymen at
present conduct their business and
substituting therefor a system of reg
istration. Under the license system
drivers of one-horse carts pay fee of
So a. year, while the fee for two horses
is $40 and four or mere horses SIS. The
registration plan simply requires the
draymen and expressmen to register
their names and the numbers of their
vehicles once a year in the Office of
the city clerk. The fee for the reg
istration is 81. The driver must regis
ter his name and the number of his
vehicle when he first procures his per-
nit or right to engage in the business
OF hauling goods, wares and mer-
chandise. Afterwards he is required
to register on Jan. l of each year.
Inc permits are not transferable. The
ordnance requires the driver to at
tach his name and the number of his
vehicle to the wagon, and also to
wear badge bearing the number. and
indicating the nature of his business.
whether drayn1an or expressman.
otherwise it is similar to the present
ordinance regulating expressmen and
draymen in the matter of police s,Iner-
vision.
Under suspension of the rules. the
ordinance was passed.
GRANITE BLOCKS.
me committee on ctreets recon-
menoed the passage of the final order
lot paving with granite blocks the in
tersecdons Of the streets at Seven
corners The committee originally on
posed the order as it provides that the
cost OF this paving shall be paid ont
OF the general fund, but after con-
ference with the city engineer, the COM
mlttee was satisfied that the present
cedar blocks covering these intersect-
ing spaces ought to be torn I'D and
granite pavement substituted in order
TO raise these portions of the streets
TO level with the asphalt pavements
on seventh, Fourth and Third streets.
The city engineer estimates the cost of
paving the intersections at 1900. The
board passed the final order.
The ordinance authorizing the cor
poration attorney to employ help in
making a compilation of general or
dlnances since 1884, was referred to the
committee on ordinances and public
accounts.
The resolution permitting the North
western Telephone company to erect
new poles on the west side of Dale
street from Summit avenue to Uni
Verslty avenue, was adopted upon rec
ommendation of the committee on
streets.
AssemblymaIs Johnson's scaveneer
ordnance was referred to the commit
tee on license.