The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-04
He SAYS II is LIKE A LEIGH.
AND GIVING THE CITY
;, NONE.
MAYOR DoRAN IS SUSTAINED
I'm His Veto of the Expense Bill OF
Engineer. RundIett and John
Copeland.


attended by eight of the nine members
OF that body. Assemb1yman Dix was
absent owing to the death of his daugh-
ter. The city comptroller sent in a
communication relative to the receipts
OF the Northwestern Telephone COM
pany, and the advisability of making
some arrangements by which the city
could secure some revenue from the
company instead of having to pay large
DIS for telephone service The assem-
bly refused to concur with the board
OF aldermen in fixing the license of the
Metropolitan opera house at 5000, and
the consideration of the bid of the
American Development company for
doing the gasoline Hghtingfwas laiebver
until the next regular meeting. A grist
| OF routine business was rushed through
and at o'clock an adjournment was
taken.
Comptroller McCardy advised the
council as follows:
The Northwestern Telephone COM
pany claims to have contracts with the
clty expiring at various dates. some
81 them being longer than for one year.
SCch alleged contracts are in violation
or the charter, and 1 have respectfully
TO recommend that this matter be re-
Ieffed TO committee with the view OF
having contracts made for the wear
oeg1nnlng Jan. l, 1897, for one year.
rms company pays no taxes to the
CITY 1t has g. very valuable franchise
rom the city for which it pays moth
ing and still we pay to it a very con-
SIDERABLE sum for the use of it's
phones. 1t has about 1000 phones
IN the city deriving a revenue there
from or about 100000 per annum, but
contributes nothing to the city treas
ury. 1t pays small percentage to the
state ON it's receipts.
For your information I beg to say
that the supreme court Of the United
states mas affirmed the proposition that
citles may tax the poles used by such
companies within their territory"
The communication was referred to
the committee, on streets without dis
cusSion. NJ
A resolution was passed by a unani-
nous vote directing the proper city
oHicers, after Jan. 1, to transact the
business Of meeting it's maturing OBJ
legations in New York through tine
Allemannia Bank Of ST. Paul and the
Chase National Bank of New York.
Inc resolution was passed after a
communication had been read from
Comptroller McCardy. The letter stat
ed that on the Goth of each month
Liz OANJ pl0CSO III TIE Bank M1nnG-
sofa SUFFICIENT funds to meet obliga-
tons due at Chase National bank, New
YORK On amounts so placed the local
bank paid no interest but the civ
paid $1.25 per thousand dollars New
York bank charges, and $1-50 per thou
SAND dollars express charges This
would mean an expense to the citv
next year OF. about $780, The Ale
MAMMA bank proposed, if the funds now
deposited monthly in the Bank of Min
neSota were transferred to it's keeping.
that the business would be transactei
without any charges.
The action of the assembly in trans
ferring the account with which matur-
ing obligations in New York civ arc
paid from the Bank of Minnesota to
the Allenannia bank, If concurred in
by the board of aldermen, will. as
stated by the comptroller, save the
city $1,000 next year. The sum saved
Will, however, have to be paid by the
bank which handles the business, and
whatever the saving may be to the
city VIII have to be paid by the
AIlemannia.
Inc veto or the mayor on the reSo-
luton paying Engineer Rundlett and
John Copeland $50 as expenses to a
city Improvement convention in Chi
cago was sustained. Messrs. Arosin,
Thompson and Craig voted in favor OF
carrying the. resolution over the
mayors veto, but the other five went
wild de Mayor City Engineer Ruud-
lett thought the action was rather
small as he and Mr.. Copeland, acting
under the resolution allowing them SIS
each as expenses, had attended the
gathering only to- learn on their re-
turn that they would be obliged to
stand the expense
The resolution adopted by the board
OF aldermen fixing the theater licenses
at 5000 for the Metropolitan and 800
for the Grand, did not pass. Mr.. Daily
moved that $500 be substituted for
double that sum as license fee for the
Metropolitan. The amendment passed
by q vote of seven to one Messrs
kirke and Arosin explained they did
not like to see discrimination made be-
tween the theaters. Mr. Reardon
voted against the amendment for the
reason that the prices down there
were outrageous and some of the
shows mighty poor" This action
sends the resolution back to the board
OF aldermen
The specifications under which bids
for removing garbage for next year
will be advertised for were read and
referred back to the committee on gar
bage.
PRESIDENT AroSin announced the ap-
pointment of Assemblyman Dix on all
committees held by his predecessor,
Mr.. Lewis, with the exception of the
committee on streets. On that COM
mlttee Mr.. Thompson is appointed
chairman, vice Lewis, although Mr..
Dix is made a member of the commit
tee. The same communication also
announced Mr.. Dix as a member of the
city hall and court house commission.
j. P. Lundberg stated that he had
paid 81 couple of times for dog
license. AS he owned only one dog he
asked to have the extra two bucks"
returned. The committee on ways and
means will consider the matter.
City Attorney Darragh sent in COM
munication notifying the council that
the suits brought against the city for
damage by residents of Anoka county
would come up5for trial in March next.
He anticipated that he would not be in
Office at the time and as the suits could
be tried in Hennepin county he desired
an order directing this to be passed.
1t went to the committee on streets.
The claim Of Phillip Justus for $465.S2
for work done in the school buildings,
came up in the way of an audited ac-
count. Mr.. Ar6sin was opposed to the
payment under the circumstances, but
was informed by the clerk that judg-
ment had been Secured against the city
and the comptroller had audited the
claim. The payment was ordered, but
not until after Mr. iReardOn had used
his hammer and declared that he would
vote against itE for the reason that if
the suit had been properly defended
Justus would not have obtained judg-
ment.
There was some talk of having the
committee on gas meet with the alder
manic committee and consider the gas
cline lighting bid, but Mr.. Arosin raised
the point that the assembly did not Of
fcially know the bid had been opened
and on his motion the matter went
over until the next meeting.