The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-26
MAYOR DoRAN ATTACHES HIS SIG
NATURE TO THE BROADWAY
Lo9P ORDINANCE,
AND He TELLS HIS REASONS
THE VOTE IN THE COUNCIL IN
ITS FAVOR WAS OVER
.WHELMING.
IT MAY BIZ USED As a LEVER,
He Thinks, to Secure Better Trans
poration Facilities TO and From
the Union Depot.

Mayor Doran signed the Broadway
loop ordinance yesterday after five
days elaboration In consequence the
jobbers and manufacturers in the dis
trict below Robert street VIII be elated,
while the retailers on Sixth street and
Robert street will be correspondingly
dissatisfied.
While 1t Is not, customary for the
city's executive to send a written mes
sage to the common council explaining
his reasons for signing a measure,
Mayor Doran has deemed it advisable
to do 50 in this case Doran's communi-
cation to the council. which will accom-
pany the announcement that he has
signed the Broadway loop ordinance,
calls attention to the fact that the ordi-
nance was passed by q decided major
ity of the council. receiving sixteen out
OF the entire twenty votes. That being
the case, the mayor holds it would be
presumptuous in him to dictate to the
contrary. He suggests, however, that
the general interests of the city would
be better subserved If the return track
from Broadway were run up Seventh
street instead of Eighth street, as re-
Seventh street is the main artery and
business street of the city. Moreover
If the cars came back on Seventh
street, the Robert street and Sixth
street retailers and the Ryan hotel
would find such a loop less objection
able. -
The mayor further suggests that If it
is the desire of the council to effect any
compromise or amendment the Grand
avenue cars might be exempted from
operation around the Broadway loop
and utilized on the proposed union de-
pot loop or belt line.
When yesterday, Mayor Doran
had this to say with reference to his
action: Is "
L confess this has been a most per
picking problem for me. At first 1 was
divided in my own mind and could
not decide which course was the bet
ter. The question presented two dis
tlnct sides, each reinforced by strong
interests. But the more I studied the
problem, the more I became
convinced that the heaviest interests
were In favor of extending the loop to
broadway. The overwhelming ma ior-
ity by which the council passed the or
dinance naturally had it's effect, too. 1t
seems TO me that 1t is only a fair pre-
sumption that the members of the com
mon council represent their constitu-
ency. The ordinance received sixteen
votes out Of the twenty.
Although the advocates Of the
Broadway loop ordinance refused to
consider any other measure likely, as
they thought, to interfere with or delay
It's passage, Il have good rea-
son to believe that a compromise can
! now be effected whereby union de-
pot street railway facilities may be Sc
cured. In my communication to the
council l have suggested that the
Grand avenue cars might be exempted
from operation around the Broadway
loop in order that they may be oper-
ated around a union depot loop or belt
line, If one can be secured l have as
ceftained that some such amendment is
| now contemplated among the aldermen,
who made no effort in this direction
when the ordinance first came before
them, believing that three
fourthS vote was required to
pass such a measure 1 am also
convinced that the return track of the
Broadway loop should run UP Seventh
street, instead of Eighth. There are no
| interests to be subserved on Eighth
! street, while Seventh street Is the prin-
eipal retail thoroughfare Of the city,"