St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-10
ENDLESS CHARTER TALK.
The Joint Committee Holding
Tedious Sessions.

Inc JOINT committee Holding
Tedious Sessions.
The joint municipal corporation COM
mittee put in busy day of it yesterday.
even at the risk Of being hauled up OIL
| calls of their respective branches. Some
of the members stuck to the work dur
| ing the call of the senate. The first
session began ats o'clock in the morn
| ing, whe:. the sixth chapter of the
Howard bill was taken up and adopted.
| rs far as it was read, after making some
minor interlineations.
At the afternoon session, City Treas
urer John Wagner, Comptroller j. j.
McCardy, of st. Paul; City Treasurer
A. G. Haugen and Comptroller Morris
q. Nye, of Minneapolis. were present
and assisted in the discussion of chap
| tiers four and five. relating to the
finances ana duties of the treasurers and
comptrollers. These matters took up
time and brought out long debates, in
which the officers of the two cities
who drafted the st. Paul bill,
took very active parts. There was
| considerable variation of views Oh sew.
eral points, and number of corrections
were made. One of these changes the
way of spelling the title borne by Me-
| Cardy and Nye. The old way of SPELL
| ing is changed to the more simple one
| of controller" This was suggested by
| Mr.. Nve. 1t was agreed that the con-
| troller should have power to determine
| the number and compensation of his
| employees. with restriction of an APP
prevail of bills by the council. The con-
troller is to have the custody of city
contracts during the time he may be
auditing accounts. After long dis
cussion, 1t was decided that all claims
should be allowed by the council, ex-
cept those of independent school dis
Etricts. Some favored allowing heads of
lTdepartmentS to audit their own bills.
| the controller sixty, instead of thirty,
bdays at the close OF the fiscal year to re-
port to the state auditor.
Ia There was lengthy discussion over
/ the bond to be required Of the city
| (treasurer. Under the present Minneap-
bDliS, charter that officer is required to
ligiye bond. with a penalty in double
the probable amount to 90 into his
hands at one time, and the sureties
unjust justify in double that amount.
This requires Treasurer Haugen to give
liza bond, the SuretleS OF which must
! Justify IN the amount of So, SOC, 600. The
sqHoWard charter made the same pro-
LNision, and was changed so as to re-
b uiife double liability bond, but the
bsqreties are only required to Justify to
Eahe amount of the penalty.
be- The clauses requiring separate funds
! for each department to be kept were
changed so as to provide for a revolv-
ing fund. MI. McCardy contended for
separate funds and met the opposition
of Mr.. Philips and others. | was also
decided to change the Howard bill so as
to provide that the treasurer should not
be released from liability when funds
are deposited in city repositories to the
credit Of the city. A change was also
made so as to authorize warrants to be
issued only upon authority given for
the same by the council.
The clerk was directed to examine
the general law and see il it does not
make provision for the paying over of
money by the county treasurer to the
city treasurer, so as to Obviate the
necessity of section 80.
The joint committee will meet again
Wednesday morning and resume con-
sideraIion of chapters and 6, neither
of which have been finished.
AT the meeting of the judiciary COM
mittee yesterday 1t was determined to
recommend the passage OF Senate Files
%, 142, 237 and 129.