The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-21
NoIsoME GARBAGE PILE
PROVOKE THE PRESIDENT of THE
COUNCIL TO SEVERAL BITTER
TRADES.
STONE. RUNDLETT, KINGSLEY
All Feel His Hot Breath ON Their
Flushing Cheeks-Contract
Fielding Suffers, Too

Sti Gill VI some three months AURA
ton, Hon. Tim Reardon broke loose
in the council chamber last night. The
Walls of vituperation that Mr.. Reardon
has kept corked up for several weeks
past, he uncorked, and poured their
scalding contents upon the heads of
MS pet diversions, the garbage cor
tractors, the city engineer and the
building inspector
When Reardon rose from his seat
and, turning upon the garbage con
tractor, offered, in stentorian tones,
TO bet him 500 that the garbage had
not been properly loaded in the cars,
the scene would have been highly
dramatic were it not that all the rest
or the assemblymen spoiled it with
shouts of laughter. Then Assembly
man DAILY completely ruined the eli
max by moving that Mr. Reardon and
the garbage contractor be provided
with seven-ounce gloves. Both bellig-
erents thereupon resumed their seats.
Inc exhibition was the result of a
controversy over a resolution permit
ting Fielding & Shepley, the gar
page contractors, to continue, until
alter the expiration of the G. A. II.
encampment, to tsansfer garbage from
their wagons to the railroad cars at a.
place in the Ninth ward, about 500
feet within the city limits. The con-
tract forbids any transfer or reloading
or the garbage at any point within the
city limits, but the contractors have
peen transferring the garbage to the
cars at the place mentioned for sew
eral weeks past. 1t was on this account
that Health Commissioner Stone re-
Iused to certify to their July bill
which the council, nevertheless. al
lowed. The contractors explained that
there were no facilities in the neigh
porhood outside the city limits for
loadlng the garbage onto the cars
put that they would be ready i'm
medlately after the encampment. Tn
the meantime, in view of the large
increase in the quantity of garbage
TO be collected during encampment
week, they desired the privilege to
90 their transferring at the present To-
cation
MT. Lewis thought it only fair to grant
the permission, but not so Mr.. RaarIon
VINO opposed the resolution with All tbe
1 noice I MS command, and he has some.
e e1Is the assembly, Mr.. Reardon said:
It's the same old story over again
LAST year the garbage contractors fail
ca 70 hve up to their contract. and tho
present contractors are following their
Nlple. say we have no right to
cHange contract with the civ TIC
contractors have no business to trans
81 tnat garbage to cars inside the
clty limits. They've been doing it for
the last three months and DIR Stone
knew it, but he never refused FL a,,5it
the bills until last month when tba
Nlnth ward Republican club called on
MIN and complained of the nuisance
AZ a. L sald before, it's the same old story
Inc garbage contractors don't cars
dhytnlng about their contract. Whv
only week before last, I saw. with nv
t own eyes' cars containing loose gar
bage that had been dumped into tbero ;,
Mr.. Shepley, one of the garbage COW
tractors, who was seated outside fhe
ran In the rear of the chamber was
asked III ne had anything to saw Tn
response, ne came forward and standing
directly behind and in close -proximity
q Mr. Reardon, he first explained why
ne desired the privilege asked for, and
, tnen auded: We never loaded any
loose garbage into railroad car"
You did, for 1 saw it," reioined Mr.
Reardon ~
say we did not" retorted Mr.. Shep-
ley. We never did such a thing"
That's false" exclaimed Reardon
for | tell you 1 saw it with NV own
eyes and can bring two witnesses to
prove It," ~
Mr.. Shepley again denied the CHARGE
when Reardon jumped to his feet anG =;
thrust his hand into his trousers noclx-
ct Tor ms wallet, calculating, as he did
I'll bet you 800 you didw
III take you, cried Mr. Shepley.- 81
haven't got the cash with me. butn-
producing his check book-'.ny check
is gOodr
BY this time Reardon was standing
IN the aisle face to face with ShepIev
ana mere the two stood glazing fiercely
move that the two gentlemen he
provided with seven-ounce gloves" sug-
gested Assemblyman DAILY.
At this the assemblymen and snec-
tators burst into loud laughter. and
Messrs. Reardon and ShepIey receded
from each other and took their saats
Inen the resolution was adopted by
vote of six to two, Messrs. Reardon
ana DAILY voting in the negative. In
explaining his vote Mr.. Reardon once
more vented his antipathy to the gar
page contractors and declared that Mr.
Shepley was IAN internal liar'' As
this parliamentary privilege was ex
ercised during roll call, Mr. ShepIey
was powerless to express in words q
return of the compliment, but the gem
eral aspect OF his countenance seemed
to say, You're another"
Later in the evening a resolution
was offered instructing the city en-
gineer to repair certain streets in the
First ward. Reardon saw his chance
here to remark:
What's the use of city engineer
anyway"
When the vote was taken Mr..
Thompson asked what the resolution
was.
Its resolution instructing the civ
engineer to do his duty" snapped
Reardon
why then I'll vote for It," replied
Mr.. Thompson, amid general laughter.
But Mr.. Reardon voted mo" for req
sons Of his own.
Finally when a resolution relative to
erecting street stands for the G.. A r
parade was offered. Mr. Reardon took
occasion to score the building inspect
or, holding that he was responsible
for what he, Reardon, considered the
f1imsy structures, now In process Of
erection on Sixth street
Aside from the foregoing diversions
furnished by Mr.. Reardon, the meeting
of the assembly was devoid of any en-
tertaining features. An interesting
resolution, however. was offered by
Mr.. Lewis. 1t provides that the com,
missioner of public works shall be
charged with all the duties heretofore
devolving by law upon the board of
public works. and requires such com.
missioner to see that the contracts for
lighting the city are faithfully per-
formed by the contractors The reso-
luton also directs the commissioner of
public works to submit to the common
council, sufficient length of time prior
to the expiration of the lighting con-