Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-04-08
HARMONY prevailed.
City Council Organized Tues
" day Night Without Any
Exciting Features.
SEAT CONTESTANTS DID NOT APPEAR.
Mecusker Was Elected Presi-
dent and Turner Vice.
President.

President.
As has been the custom for the
past Eseveral years. large crowd
gathered ut the city hall Tuesday
evening, expecting some exciting
scenes In the organisation OF the new
council, but those who expected
trouble were doomed to disappoint-
ment. for it passed Off very quietly,
and contrary to the precedent of
years. the entire evenings TRANSACT
lions were conducted In open session.
There was evidently an agreement
between the alderm. n oi the First
and Third wards ON organization,
for Mecusker OF the First was chosen
president without opposition, aud
Turner of the Third. for vice-presi-
dent was also successful.
There was also rumOr OF a COM
bina ton Of the aldermen Of these
two wards on certain appointments.
but II there was there evidently was
q slip of some kind. for the program
OF appoint ments, it IL understood,
while highly satisfactory to the First
ward, fs apparently equally unsatfs-
factory to the I bird ward aldermen.
One thing IL worthy Of note. and
that Is that while tho council Ia
largely Republican, only one Of the
appointments was from that party.
the others all being Democrats.
After the Organiza ton was effected
the council proceeded to the election
of the officers under their control,
and city attorney was the first on
the liat. Attorney E. p. Adams was
reelected without opposition.
Street commissioner was taken up
next, and the first ballot was in
formal and resulted as follows: E..
g Hill |, Geo. Keller l. Chas. La-
fond 8, j. ID. Hatten l.
The second ballot. which was
formal, resulted In LafOnd's election
by the following vote: Hill l, Keller
2. Laiond 4.
The next contest, which was the
first surprise of the evening. was for
the position of j,initor for the city
hall. The first ballot was informal,
and resulted as follows: Geo. Still
well l. j. D. Hatton J, M. Coleman 4;
WIN. O'Shea l. The second ballot
resulted III Coleman's election over
StilIwell by a vote Of 4 to3.
City engineer was then balloted
Tor and s. F. Staples was chosen by
u vote Of 4, his opponent, Nels Peter
son, receiving 8.
The longest contest Of the session
was over the selection OF the health
officer. eleven ballots being taken,
and the result WINS the second sur.
prise. There were three candida tea,
two Republicans. Drs. Trace and
MilIspaugh, and one Democrat, DR..
FOrtier. The first ballot stood as
follows: Trace 8. Millspaugh 2, For
tier 2. This was practically the or
der of each subsequent ballot with
the exceptions Oi one or two, when
Fortier received only one and the
other two received three each, until
the final ballot, when FOrtier was
elected bv the following vote: For
tier 4, Trace 2, Millspaugh l.
Having decided to postpone the
OF the other two members
III the board Of health until the hext
the only Office left to fill
was that of pound.master. and John
Bowman was elected on tho second
ballot. There were three other can
namely. Chas. Robbins, VIM.
Robbins and JOS. Selleck.
The matter of fixing the number Of
policeman was then taken no, and
"a the MAYOR had q recommended ton
Ia hi~ message to increase the num-
her to four. he asked that his mes
sage might be heard before action
was taken. The message was as
follows:
Little Falls, Mimi, April S, 1898.
TO THE HONORABLE, THE CRY COUNCIL
or THE CRY OF LITTLE FALLS, MINI.
t....
The charter of the city OF Little Falls
directs that the mayor shall, from time
to time, bring before the city council
such matters a. he may deem worthy OF
It has been the practice
u my predecessors to submit message
1t the beginning Of their terms, and l
follow that custom.
The financial condition of the city 10
not satisfactory. The revenue iund 10
yearly a year in arrears, and has been
n practically the same shape for several