St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-16
THE ASSEMBLY LAST NIcuU
VOTED IN FAVOR OF
1T
AS 1T WAS SUBMITTED
BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
DEFEATED ON THE FIRST
VOTE.
MR, M'cARDY,s BAD BREAra
Costs the City $4,000 in the Como
Avenue Contract-Dog Ordi-
nance Passed.

When the assemblymen meet to
transact the city's business. some
mysterious attraction holds them to-
gether for at least three hours. Thew
cannot bear to lsave" their legis.
lat1ve seats until II p. M whether busi.
ness is plentiful or slack. Last night
1t was slack. 1t was also nearly IL
O'Clock when the assembly adjourned.
Something was accomplished, how
ever. The school budget was put out
of the way. After an hours debate.
the assembly passed an ordinance al
lowing the entire sum asked for by
the school board, namely, SAT-, ,25O This
| action is unprecedented for several
years. 1t required a two-thirds vote
OF the assembly to pass the ordinance
appropriating the money and on the
nrst vote the ordinance failed to pass,
receiving only five votes, Messrs Rear
don, Arosin and Johnson voting against
1t, and Mr.. Robb being absent. Later
in the evening, just before adjourn
ment, Mr.. Parker and others who
favored the budget, having talked to
Mr.. Johnson, that gentleman, with the
spirit of fairness characteristic of him,
asked to have the vote by which the
ordinance was defeated reconsidered.
The request was granted and then the
ordinance was passed by vote of six
to two. Messrs. Arosin and Reardon
still voting mo" The original plan
was to hold an adjourned meeting next
Monday night for the sole purpose Of
considering the school budget. :
The discussion of the budget revealed
Of no ilpaQ
teaching the young idea how to shoot,
though none of the speakers went into
a dangerous detail. Mr.. Arosin, the
chairman of the joint committee on
education, explained the position Of
the committee. AT the first meeting
held some two weeks ago, a majority
of those members present voted to rec
ommend the disallowance of the $3.50
asked for additional teachers" Mrfi
Arosin was one of those who
VOTED TO DISALLOW
this amount on the ground that the
additional teachers could not be eni-
ployed in any event, as there We're
not rooms enough to accommodate
the teachers definitely engaged. But
yesterday afternoon the joint commit I
tee, quorum being present, favored
the allowance of the $3.50 by vote
of to i, Aid. Hare and Kartak being !
absent, and Messrs. Strouse, Parker
and Aid. Markham being present, and
voting for the allowance.
Last night Mr.. johnson first voted
against the ordinance allowing the
budget. His objections to the allow I
ance of the item of $3.50 for addi-
tional teachers differed from those Of
M Tnh n
the increase in the number of teach :
ers to be employed was due to the
extension of the kindergarten system,
which, he insisted, was being over
done in the st. Paul public schools.
He objected to the kindergarten sys-
TEN because it crowded out the regu- /
lar school children over six years Of |
age to make room for the children :
five years of age and under who re-
ceive the kindergs rten instruction.
School Inspector Scholle then talked
earnestly to the aSsemblymen and adj !
vanced the reasons that actuated the
board in preparing the budget. Mr..
Scholle paid high tribute to Superin-
tendent of Schools Gilbert, whom the
school board, so Mr.. Scholle said, con-
sidered first-class man.
Mr. Parker urged the allowance Of (
the entire budget, and Mr.. Strouse :
spoke in the same strain, stating that
he believed in voting liberal appro-
priation for the public schools, and
that he regarded the members of the
school board as competent and con-
scientiouS men.
The ordinance was then put upon it's
passage, but failed to secure the nee
essary two-thirds vote. AS already
stated, however, it was recommended
later and passed.
The assembly discovered last night
how much Comptroller McCardy's de-
lay in signing the first contract for
building the superstructure of the
Como avenue bridge will cost the city.
Of the eight bids received at the pre-
vious meeting, for the Como bridge,
the lowest proved to be that of the
Wisconsin Bridge company, of Mil
waukee whose bid was $37, 1893. These
figures are higher by some $4,000 than
the bid submitted last spring by the
Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing COM
pany, of Minneapolis, to which the
council awarded the contract. The
Minneapolis firm also bid upon this
occasion, but its figures were S45, 990.56,
and therefore out of the question. The
sin Bridge company was submitted
by the Wrought Iron Bridge company,
of Canton, O., who offered to do the
work for $3S, ,143.
The assembly adopted Mr. Arosin's
resolution awarding the contract to
the Wisconsin Bridge company. This
company came near securing the con-
tract last spring, it's bid being scarce
ly 81 higher than that of the Gillette
Herzog Manufacturing company.
The last thing the assembly did was
to concur with the board of aldermen
in passing Aid. Markham's
DOG CATCHER ORDINANCE.
This is the first dog ordinance that
has passed both bodies of the council.
It's chief features are the appointment
of one dog catcher by the mayor. He
will receive as compensation % cents
for every dog drowned by him, and
the same sum for every dog for which
he collects the license fee. 1t will be
the dog catcher's duty to furnish a
dog pound at his own expense, and
supply food for all dogs caught and
to keep them five days before drown
ing. He may employ as many assist
ants as he chooses, as he will have to
hire them at his own expense. The
ordinance further provides that the
health commissioner or his represents
ative shall attend the drowning of the
dogs and certify to the number
drowned. 1t is believed that the mayor
will sign the ordinance.
A communication from the CONNER
cial club asking for the cooperation