St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-18
WHY NEED THEY EAT
POLICE PAY ROLLS ARE AGAIN
HUNG UP FOR A Pc
RiOD.
KRlEGER SUCCEEDS HARE.
WEST SIDE VACANCY is FILLED
BY THE BOARD OF ALDER
MEN.
'ITY LIGHTING CONTRA CTS
Are Presented by the Gas Company
and Accepted, With the Cut
Promised.

up the pay rolls of the police depart
ment. By vote of to the board
rejected the ordinance offered by Aid.
Ehrmanntre ut. which fixes the salaries
of the police in accordance with the
scale of reductions submitted by Chief
! Clark. BY the same vote the board
passed the ordinance fathered by Aid.
Brady, which reduces the salaries of
the chief of police, captains, lieuten-
ants, sergeants, detectives and mount
ed officers, but does not cut the sal
airy of a single patrolman. Inasmuch
as the assembly has, by a vote of s
to !, emphatically refused to concur
in the Brady ordinance, this action
leaves the matter exactly where 1t was
nearly two months ago.
The first proceeding of the
| board of aldermen last night was
to elect a successor to eX-Ald. Hare,
of the Sixth ward. Aid. Wolf placed
in nomination John F. Krieger, whom
eX-Ald. Hare had recommended to sue
| ceed him. Aid. Kartak seconded the
nomination. No other nominations were
| made, and upon the roll call the ten
! aldermen present voted for Mr.. Krieg-
! er. Whereupon he was declared elected.
| Mr.. Krieger was then escorted to
| the clerks desk by Aid. Kartak and
| Wolf, and City Clerk Jensen admin
| istered the oath of office to the new
| alderman In acknowledging the con-
sideration shown him, Aid. Krieger
said:
"I sincerely thank you gentlemen, for the
| honor you have conferred upon me, and es-
pecially do l thank Robert n. Hare for rec
ommending me for this position. 1 can only
| assure you that I shall endeavor to prove
| worthy of the confidence reposed in me. !
wish to say but one thing more, and that
is that the recommendation of Mr.. Hare was
voluntary on his part and unsolicited on my
part. | will do the best | can and do it in an
agreeable manner"
The board then proceeded with the
| business before it.
The matter of the policemens sala-
ries came before the boar in the shape
Of a majority and minority report from
the committee on police. The majority
report, signed by Aid. Wolf and Brady,
recommended the rejection of the Ehr-
manntraut ordnance and the passage
Of the Brady ordinance, which reduces
the salaries of the officers but not
those of the patrolmen. The minority
report, which was signed by Aid. Ehr-
nanntraut, recommended the passage
of the latter's ordinance, which reduces
all salaries, including those of the pa
IlOlnleu, lIODl go u ~ d UlOLlI.
President Ehrmanntraut ruled that
the minority report was first in order,
a ruling to which Aid. Brady took eX-
ception, but from which he did not ap-
peal
Aid. Montgomery moved the adoption
of the minority report and the passage
of the Ehrmanntraut ordinance.
Aid. Murphy wanted the whole mat
ter referred back to the committee on
police. but the motion receiving no sec
ond, the roll was called on Aid. Mont
gomerys motion to adopt the minority
report. 1t resulted as follows:
Yeas-Ald Lindahl, Markham, Montgomery,
Ehrmanntraut-4.
Nays-Ald. Brady, Kartak, Krieger, Milham,
Murphy, Ulmer, Wolff.
President Ehrmanntraut declared the
motion lost. ..e
Then Aid. Brady moved the passage
of his ordinance recommended by the
ma jOrity report. The vote, which was
at once taken, stood as follows:
Yeas-Ald. Brady, Kartak. Krieger, Mil
ham, Murphy, Ulmer: Wolff.
Nays-Ald. Lndahl. Markham, Montgome-
The ordinance was declared passed,
as it did not require more than ma
jorty vote.
The next important matter consid-
cred was the lighting of the streets and
public buildings. The two contracts
with the st. Paul Gas Light company
for lighting the city, in accordance
with the terms and conditions already
accepted by the common council, were
submitted for approval. Each contract
was accompanied by the customary
resolution. The contract for lighting
District No. with electricity from
May Is, 1896, to May Is, 1897, was ac-
companied by bond in the sum of
$4,000, signed by William r. Merriam
! and Kpnnath ola rl< ha
approving the form of the contract
and likewise the bond was adopted.
The contract with the gas company
for lighting certain portions of the city
and the public buildings with gas fo,
one year. from April l. 1896, was ac-
companied by bond for STE. 900, also
signed by Messrs. Merriam and Clark.
The board adopted a resolution approv-
ing the form of the contract and also
the bond.
The gas company submitted writ
ten proposition agreeing to furnish 11O
electric arc lights at the price of $69. so
each per annum, and to light Seventh
street from Seven Corners to Brook
street, as we'll as District No. 2. which
does not include Seventh street. The
poard adopted a resolution accepting
the foregoing proposition
subsequently, at the suggestion of
AID. Ehrmanntraut, Attorney George
Z. Squires, on behalf of the gas com
pany, submitted a written agreement
that the company would, on and after
June ], 1896, reduce the price of gas
to private consumers from S15O Der
1000 feet to $1.30. The proposition was
accepted.
A resolution was also adopted in
structing the board of public works
10 prepare a list of such gas lamps as
can be dispensed with after May Is.
A dispute arose between Aid Muir
ply and Aid. Montgomery over a reso-
luton introduced by the latter, in
structlng the city clerk not to issue
saloon license to any applicant until
the bond accompanying the application
shall have been submitted 20, and an
proved by, both bodies of the common
council. In support of his resolution
AID. Montgomery stated that some of
his constituents in the Tenth ward had
complained that the laws of the state
and ordinances of the city had been re-
peatedly violated by not submitting
these liquor license bonds to the COM
mon council for approval. Aid. Mont
gomery wanted to see the law in this
respect enforced, and the bonds ap-
proved by the common council, and not
merely by the committee on license of
the assembly. He had been an alder
man for nearly four years, and could
not remember ever having had an op-
portunity to pass upon a liquor license
! bond.
Aid. Murphy resented what he re-
garded the interference Of the Tenth
ward citizens in matter that did not
concern them. They had no saloons
in their district, because the law pro-
hlblted 1t, and if they had their way