The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-29
BROADWAY LOOP REPEAL
ASSEMBLY CONCURS IY ACTION
TAKEN SATURDAY NIGHT BY
ROARD OF ALDERMEN
sUBWAY's RIGHTS ANNULLED
Both Branches of the Municipal
Legislature VIII Meet Thursday
Night to Look After I'm
finished Business

The assembly and board o1 aldermen
met last night The assembly acted IA
Vorably on the repeal of the Broadway
loop ordinance and the measure now
only lacks the signature of the mayor
to become a law. The board of aldermen
met and adjourned until next Thursday
evening, at which time the assembly
will also meet.
The mayor gave notice of his appoint
me1t of Carl Oxman as member OF The
police force, which was concurred in by
the assembly. The clerk then read ,he
letter of the Manhattan Light. Heat and
Power company declining the ordinance
finally prepared with the aid of the citi-
zens committee. The letter, as given
herewith, was received and placed on
file:
The undersigned. Manhattan Light,
neat ana Power company, has carefully
examined the ordinance passed bv- your
honorable bodies on the 10Th day CT Nav.
amending Ordinance No. 2lG9 previously
p I,,oi5 by your honorable bodies, and as
wei the resolution likewise passed BY
your honorable bodies, by the terms of
Whlch certain streets of said cily of St.
Faui are conferred upon this company,
Subject, however, to the conditions and
provisions generally of Ordinance No
zi09 as amended. w.
This company desires to advise your
honorable bodies at once that it cannot
accept the benefits of either said amend
atory ordinance or said resolution and
the reasons for this conclusion are as
follows: 90
tIst-The amendatory ordinance pro-
Nlaed Tor minimum expenditure by this
company within given period Neither
lillS company nor any OUher CORPORATION
can afford TO make exact stipulations
n iEf4T Tarsfl a.Nv,+
OF the conditions with which ii will he
confrCnted n the future.
Second-The term OF the franchise
granted by Ordinance No 2lO9 is by the
dInchdatory ordinance cut to twenty
years, thereby rendering the franchise
practically Of no value.
Ihlrd-Ihe council having reserved the
right to fix the rate and charges of mis-
company in its Lighting business. it Womb
hardly be possible, with such provision
conf ontlng them, to find persons willing
70 invest a dollar in property thereby
placed at the mercy of popular Drefudire
L or the reasons above stated this com
pany hereby declines said amendatorv or
dnahce and said resolution and eli the
S 9taIa on rights, privileges and authority
thereIh contained or thereby made
In concluding, the Manhattan Light
neat ana POWER company desires to exc
press Its regret that its endeavors 10 es-
tdpHSn competing electric lighting svs-
tenn nave been rendered unsuccessful nv
unacceptable and unbusinesslike DroviS-
ions, which ii feels sure the pubic will
at no Instant day view in the same light
as thlS company now views them
In the course of unfinished business +ha
repeal ordinance of the Broadway loon
was read and Mr.. Albrecht moved TO Lax.
over for consideration at meeting TO be
held this evening The motion after q
long discussion was lost and Mr. Nelson
called for an explanation OF the Broad
way loop litigation by the corporation at
I1l
It's history from the time OF its intro
duction III 1897 Mr.. Markham answered
a question by MI. Benson, to the effect
that the repeal would act as an imme-
date stopped to further litigation in the
case, which comes up in the district
court today On a remand from the state
supreme court
Attorney Stevens was heard in the In,
terest of the Robert street property own
ers who desired the repeal, and ATTORNEY
Richardson spoke for those who were OBJ
posed to the appeal. Mr.. Albrecht spoke
again to show that the ordinance had
been thoroughly considered and was OF
the opinion it should not be repealed
Mr.. Thompson also spoke against repeal.
On the vote for repeal Messrs. Albrecht.
Benson, Thompson and President Dix
voted no" but the five other members
voted in the affirmative and the repeal
ordinance was passed with applause
from the seats outside the rail where
those business men in favor of repeal
were seated.
AsSemblyman KiTke then sprung a sur
prise by introducing a repeal ordinance
Of the franchise of the National Subway
company, OF Chicago that was secured
in 1888, giving underground rights to the
company under nearly all of St. Paul
streets. He said the franchise was owned
and used by the North American Tele.
graph company that the company had
never complied with the terms of the
franchise ordinance by failure to deposit
an indemnity fund of $4,000 with the
city and that it could rent its subways
or cOnduits to ether corporate
After considerable discussion the fran
chise ordinance was repealed by a vote
of six to three, an attempt to refer to
the committee on streets being lost.
The South st. Paul Belt line ordinance
was again referred to the committee
on streets ana two sections of the Rice
street paving ordinance went the same
course The Rice street and Fifth and
Wabasha street railroad transfer ordin-
ance in the interest Of the people of the
Sixth ward was again referred to com
mittee. The resolution fixing the tax
for the various districts was passed and
goes to the mayor for his signature.
Aid. Murphy's order to the city engineer
to have omnibuses to transfer passengers
at the Rice street bridge while under re-
pair was passed.