The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-15
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TIE Minneapolis council passed the
street railway express car ordinance last
night over Mayor Grays Veto 1t required
eighteen votes to do this. The supporters
of the ordinance had them and two to
spare for the ordinance was passed by a
vote of 20 10 5. Those voting to sustain
the mayors veto were: Aid Chatfeld,
Merrill Jones, Powers and McCune
President Crosby, who voted against
the measure at the preceding meeting,
was absent.
The veto was the first matter to come
before the council. After the clerk had
read the message, Vice President Jones
put the question::
Shall the ordinance pass, nOtwithstand-
ing the mayors veto?"
Nobody evincing any preliminary symp-
toms of desire to discuss the question.
the clerk was about to call the roll. when
Aid. Long suggested that if the aldermen
had anything to say it would be prefer
able to say 1t before roll call, instead of
wasting time explaining their votes
Upon this hint Aid. Merrill spoke. He
thought there ought to be a fuller dis
cussion. Since the last meeting he had
made a trip to st. Paul and timed the
car each way. On the return the car
had made the distance from the Ryan
hotel to Hennepin avenue in forty-eight
and one-half minutes, while the time con-
sumed between Rice street, in St. Paul.
and Cedar avenue, in Minneapolis, was
thirty-three minutes, or a speed little
short of fifteen miles an hour. Mr.. Mer-
rill was convinced, in view of this, that
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make the entire run from the business
center of one city to that of the other
In thirty minutes, would be obliged to at
tam a speed of thirty or thirty-fiVe miles
an hour, which would be much too fast
for safety. Aid. Merrill also confessed
his doubt of the right of a street rail-
way company to operate through cars on
any of the city streets.
AT this juncture Aid. Powers said that
he had SOME amendments he would like
TO offer, but Vice President Jones ruled
that they would be out of order. as the
only question before the council was the
passage Of the ordinance notwithstand-
ing the mayors veto.
Aid. Long was the only other alderman
VINO spoke on the question. He declared
briefly that it was not question of
what the street railway company wanted
The alderman had all due respect for
the mayor, but if the people preferred
~ PstS al GAIL Il LlChSi 10 go TO st. Paul
In half an hour they ought to be allowed
that privilege
The roll call followed, with the result
already announced
Later in the evening, just before ad-
Journment, Aid. Powers gave notice that
at the next regular meeting he would
introduce an ordinance amending the one
passed The amendments contemplated
by Aid. Powers are, first, the reduction of
the through car fare from 10 to 10 cents;
second the limitation of the right to OPP
crate through cars to the period Of one
year, instead Of three, and third the in
sertion of clause requiring the COM
pany to run its local cars from one city
to the other within a period not exceeding
ffty-four minutes, which is the present
schedule. This action on the part of Aid.
Powers shuts off the acceptance by the
street railway of the ordinance as passed
last night, whereas in the absence of
notice Of the introduction of an amend
ment the company might accept the or
dinance at once and thus establish a con-
tract relation with the city