The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-28
COMMITTEE MEETING TO con-
sIDER THE STREET: RAILWAY
ORDINANCE CALLED OFF.
NOBODY KNOWS EXACTLY WHY
AID. KENNY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO
A PosTPONEsiEN4fw WHEN AP-
PREACHED EARLIER.
MIR. LOWRY HAS a SEVERE COLD,
So the General Question VIII Go
Over Once More for a Few
Days.

The indications are Just now that
the street railway company, in order
TO prevent any legal trouble as to the
franchise Of the cable line, will agree
10 almost any reasonable demand made
by the city council as to the operation
OF It's lines in st. Paul. The meeting
OF the committee on streets from the
board OF aldermen, scheduled for last
evening, at which questions pertain
ing to street railway matters were to
be discussed was called off.
AS early as 8 o'clock Yesterday
morning officials Of the company called
on Aid. Kenny, chairman of the com
mlttee, and requested that the meeting
De postponed. Aid. Kenny would not
listen TO any postponement, so far as he
was concerned, SO attention was dt-
rected to the other members Of the
committee. At 5 o'clock last evening
Deputy City Clerk McCrea announced
that the meeting had been postponed
and the members OF the council who
could be reached by telephone were ad-
vised Of this action,
M. d. Mum, attorney for the COM
pany. seen shortly afterward, said he
had been Informed the meeting had
been postponed. He further volun-
teered the information that President
Lowry had arrived from the East Sat
urday, but was confined to his house
with severe cold and would not be
able to attend the meeting, Mr. Munn's
conversation conveying the impression
that the sickness Of Mr.. Lowry was
responsible for the postponement of
the committee meeting. The members
OF the committee, however, did not ap-
pear to have paid much attention to
the notice announcing the postpone
ment OF the meeting for o'clock. Aid.
Kenny, Lindahl, Sanborn, Donahow-
er. kaldunski and Stutzman and AS
semblymen Kirke, Reardon and DAILY
were gathered in the corridor leading
to the council chamber. There was all
manner Of charges about who had
caused postpontement Of the meeting,
and as neither Aid. Bell nor Shepard
were present, it was decided they had
been instrumental in having the meet
ing called off.
1t was intimated. however, that the
object, or rather the result of the post
ponement OF the meeting would be
that each of the members Of the coun-
Gil would be furnished within a day or
so with a typewriter copy of an ordi-
nance similar to the one presented a
week ago by the company This new
ordinance, so the story goes, would
provide for the changing of the cable
to an electric line as set forth in the
last ordinance submitted and also pro
vides for the union depot and Broad
way loops. @ Copies of this ordinance
are to be furnished the councilmen be-
fore the January meetings Of the alder
men and assembly. It is claimed the
ordinance will be passed by the board
Of aldermen Jan. and by the assembly
Jan. 6. Those members of the alder
men and assembly who have held out
against the railway company on &C
count Of the Broadway loop are great
ly pleased over the turn in affairs. and
one of the gentlemen who has insisted
that no ordinance could go through the
council that did not contain a provi-
sion for the Broadway loop, stated last
evening that the company would agree
to almost anything rather than go into
court on the question of the cable fran
chise.