The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-21
STRENGTH FOR THE ANTS.
UNLESS SENTIMENT CHANGES. THE
VOTES TO PERMIT TRANSFERS
ARE TOO FEW.
BACK SALARY GRAB COMES UP
Peculiar Proceeding in the Vote t.
Allow Payment OF Part Of
Them,


| officers Of the league have been con-
tending for the past year or more that
the council had no right to approve the
transfer Of liquor licenses. A majority
or the members Of the council how
| ever, paid no attention to the conten-
ton and transfers Of liquor licenses
| were approved at meetings of the al
| dermen and assembly. Recently the Of
ncers or the league secured from the
attorney general of the state q legal
opinion to the effect that under the law
no liquor license could be transferred.
The council, however, turned the opin-
lon Of the attorney general down and
| continued to transfer saloon licenses.
! Then the matter was brought before
| the grand jury. This, as they say at
Mayor Griff1n's office, threw a scare"
into the members Of the council, and
last evening the assembly refused to
approve a batch Of five transfers. The
committee on license recommended the
approval Of the following transfers.:
James Smith, from James and Rich
mond streets to the Mendoza road; w.
A. Guion, from 120 South Robert street
to 346 Cedar street; T. Winkler, from
Dale and Minnehaha streets to 673
Blair street; P. Ko1stad, from Az South
| Wabasha street to 842 Rice street; An
thony Huddalla. from 329 East Fourth
| street to 1919 Arcade street.
Present when the roll was called on
! the report of the license committee
were Messrs. Albrecht, Larson, Rear
don, Craig, DAILY and Dix. The first
four voted against the transfers and
| the last two for them. President Craig
announced the motion lost, and then
on motion of Mr.. Daily the vote was
reconsidered and the five transfers sent
back to the committee on license. Those
of the assembly who favor the trans
fer Of liquor licenses on purely bust
ness ground say that with the access
sion to the body Of A. S. Larson, who
was elected to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Mr.. Arosin, it
will be impossible in the future to ap-
prove saloon transfers unless influence
can be brought to bear on some one of
the five assemblymen, including Messrs.
Albrecht, Larson, Reardon. Thompson
| and Craig.
The resolutions audited by the comp
troIler and passed by the board of al
dermen. directing the payment Of $780,
600 in back salaries to various city Of
ficials. were reported back from the
! committee on ways and means with a
recommendation that they pass. Mr.
Reardon objected to the approval of the
resolutions. He asked that they be sent
back to the committee on ways and
/ means for consideration. At the time
the reduction was made in the salaries
of the city officials who were now grab
bling the back pay, the clerks Of sew
eral offices were reduced along with the
/ heads of the departments. He was in
favor, if the big fellows were to get
hot H. o1o -
should be placed on the same footing
ara all be treated alike. At the time
the reductions were made it was gen
orally understood not only by the pub
lie but by the officials themselves that
they would take the reduced amounts.
1t was with the desire to save the tax
payers that reductions were made not
only in the salaries of the officials who
were now asking return of the saving
but in the police and fire departments
and among all the clerks in the employ
Of the city. If the heads of depart
ments were to get back what they had
been reduced. all the employees should
come in under the same head, and he
moved the resolutions De sent back to
the committee with this end in view
Mr.. Albrecht stated that the commit
tee on ways and, means, of which he
was, member. had carefully consid-
cred the NATTER and, under the decision
OF the supreme court, all the officials
mentioned in the resolutions could
force the city to- pay. them. The mo-
ton to refer to the committee was lost
by vote of 5 to 2, only Messrs, DAILY
and Reardon faNoring it. The resolu-
lions, which ordered the amounts
drawn from separate funds. were then
taken up and voted on, BY some mis-
apprehension three of, the four resolu-
lions were passed by a vote of to 1,
Mr.. Reardon voting in the negative
1t was not until the last resolution
calling for the payment of 81 995.14 to
members and eX-members of the board
of public works was read that Mr.
DAILY awoke to the fact that he had
been voting for the back salaries. He
announced that he desired to be record
ed as having voted against the pay
ment Of all back salaries and supposed
he had been so recorded This placed
these of the officials who were down
on the list for the back salary grab IN
a bad position, as 1t took six votes to
pass the resolutions, and without Mr.
| Days vote they were done for at least
at the present meeting. President
Craig. however, relieved the feeling Of
City Clerk Jensen. City Attorney Mark
| ham, City Engineer Rundlett and
others of the officials who were pres
ent by declaring that the clerk had
recorded Mr.. DAILY as having voted In
the affirmative, and as he had an
nounced the resolutions carried, there
was only one way open, and that was
| to reconsider the vote. AS to the reso-
luton directing the payment Of back
salaries to the members and eX-mem-
bers of the board Of public works, on
| which Mr.. DAILY and Mr.. Reardon were
recorded as voting in the negative. this
was sent back to the committee None
Of the members appeared to be par
ticularly anxious to reconsider any Of
the other resolutions (which had been
passed by what Mr.. Daily said was a
mistake on his part and a failure TO
pay attention to<the announcement of
the vote, and routine business was re-
sumed Those who will receive back
salaries, If the mayor approves the res
olutions, and the amount each will get
are given below:
James e. Markham, corporation attor
| ney $3.50. $780, W
H. w Phillips. first assistant corpora
ton attorney -; ..:......'.:.. 4'S Ii
poration attorney .................. 55 90
| Matt Jensen city clerk ...4........ 95S g
c. L. Horst, city treasurer ....... 1497 %
| John WAGNER ex-city treasurer ... 209 SO
John Twohy. municipal judge ......... 766 81
G. M. Orr, municipal Judge 766 81
T. F. Conroy, clerk ......:............ 479 II
H NJ Clouse clerk .................... 230 90
H. De Wallace, stenographer .......... $50 90
| l.. w. Rundlett, city engineer ........ 1916 73
Those who were unfortunate enough to have
their claims referred back to the committee
are:
VIM. Banholzer deceased. ex-mem-
Der board public works .............. 1929 SO
]. C. Quinby ex-member board public
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