St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-05
BIDS ARE TO Be INVITED.
PAY ROLLS OF POLICE AND FIRE
MEN PROVOKE A GOOD DEAL
OF DISCUSSION.
ARE REFERRED TO COMMITTEE.
of the National Subway Com
pany Passes the Board.


receive proposals for electric lighting
and gas lighting at the next regular
meeting of each body. Contrary to
the expectations of those who seem to
think that the st. Paul Gas Light COM
pany is playing a deep and desperate
game, the board of aldermen received
without criticism or comment the re-
port of the board of public works and
city engineer on the lighting question.
Moreover on motion of Aid. Brady,
the father of the resolution calling for
the report, the board unanimously and
without word of debate a resolution
instructing the city clerk TO advertise
for bids for lighting the streets and
public buildings with electricity and
for lighting with gas in accordance
with the specifications for each as rec
commended by the board of public works
and city engineer. This action, if con-
CURED in by the assembly, will insure
the desired competition, not only be-
tween the electric light companies, but
between electricity and gas.
The January pay rolls provoked the
principal discussion. Comptroller Nc
Cardy did not send in the pay roll of
the police department. Instead he sub
mitted communication calling atten-
ton to the fact that Chief Clark had
submitted proposed scale of reduc-
tionS in salaries to the conference COM
mittee last December. The scale, If
adopted, would effect an annual saving
of $12, 200. The comptroller maintained
that, the police department having
shown a disposition to accept d redec-
ton, the conference committee had
placed enough in the tax budget to
produce an amount sufficient to pay
the salaries Of the department on a
reduced scale. In conclusion, Comp
troller McCardy informed the council
that before he could audit the pay
roll of the police department, it would
be necessary for the council to fix the
salaries for the present year.
The communication Of the comptroller
was laid over for the time being, but
when the reduced pay roll of the fire
department came before the board, both
matters were disposed Of by refer
ence to a special committee. The fire
department pay roll was made out in
accordance with the scale of reduction
recently approved by the commission
ers. This scale Adj. Brady and some Of
his colleagues strongly objected to.
"The understanding was said Aid.
Brady, when we voted to reduce the
tax estimate for the fire department
from $215, 900 to 100000, that no fireman
receiving $50 a month or less should
suffer a cut in his salary. The reduc-
tons, as shown in this pay roll, effect
the firemen receiving the smallest sal
aries, and 1 am emphaticaliy opposed
to passing the pay roll as it stands.
1 therefore move that it be referred to
81, icti Of
members from each body, the commit
tee to confer with -he fire beard On.
this matter tr.uta.,% p, s-0+ H.e
The motion prevailed by unanimous
vote, and President IIhrmanntraut ap-;
pointed Aldermen Brady. Markham
and Kartak to represent the board on
the committee.
Then the communication from Comp
troller McCardy relative to the police
pay rolls was considered and referred
to the same committee, with the under
standing that the chief Of police Will
be asked to participate in the confer
ence.
The pay roll of the city engineers
department was passed as submitted,
though certain temporary reductions
rendered necessary to conform to the
bookkeeping principles of Mr.. McCardy
will be rectified in the next pay rcll,
as the city engineer has laid OFF ten
men.
The municipal court corporation at
torney and city clerk each submitted
two sets Of pay rolls, as they refused
to accept the 10 per cent reduction. The
comptroller audited only the reduced
pay rolls, and the board passed them.
The pay rolls were made out for the
original amounts are in the hands Of
| the comptroller, to whom they were
submitted in order to protect the legal
rights Of officials in those departments
| whose salaries are fixed by law.
| Aid Bradys resolution FORGETTING the
| franchise of the National Subway COM
| pany was, after some discussion,
adopted by vote Of seven to two, Aid.
| Brady and Aid Hare voting in the
the explanation of M. D. Mum, who
appeared as the attorney for the North
| American Telegraph company, which
| is the present owner of the franchise.
Mr. Mum said that owing to the
absence of c. NJ. Loring, the president
of the North American Telegraph COM
pany, and other directors of the COM
pany. it would be Impossible to secure
a quorum until next month. Mr. Mum
suggested that the matter be deferred
until such time as the directors should
| return. He was sure they would grant
| the city full permission to lay it's
electric light. fire alarm and police
| wires in the conduits. In voting for
| the resolution Aid. Markham took the
| position that the city could forfeit the
franchise and then give the North
American company the right to use
| the subways under specified conditions
The vote was then taken and resulted
| as already stated.
| The assembly ordinance granting the
| ST. Croix Lumber. company a twenty
| five year lease of two lots on the West
side levee, near the Robert street
bridge, was passed.
| AsSemblyman Johnson's resolution
directing the mayor and board Of
| school inspectors to proceed to erect
| a suitable addition to the German
| school, was concurred in.
| Aid. Markham offered a resolution
directing the Milwaukee railroad COM
| pany to construct a steel bridge sixty
| feet wide over it's tracks at the Sum-
NIT avenue crossing. in place of the
| present structure, which is only forty
| two feet in width. The resolution was
adopted.