The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-19
ADDING TO BUDGET
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE TACgKs
$4,000 TO COMPTROLLER
MCARDY.S FIGURES
NEARBY PROTESTS IN VAIN
Board of Public Works, Board of
Control and Court House
Commission Receive
Additions.

With Comptroller McCardy dissenting
in every instance, the conference COM
mittee yesterday unanimously agreed to
the addition of a sum approXfmating $62,-
coo to the budget as it now stands. Of
this amount the board of public works
received $3.50 for additional lighting; the
board of control $4,000 for the erection OF
new contagious hospital. and the city
hall and court house commission, $3.50.
The latter amount was for the purpose
of taking care of deficit resulting from
changes caused by the removal of the
county jail.
Comptroller McCardy's pet idea Of pro-
viding an appropriation of $4,000 for the
payment of bonds that mature in 1906
received, as expected, a severe setback.
The opening of the session found Aid.
Dobner ready with motion rejecting
the comptrollers advice, which carried
unanimously.
While acceding to the request of the
board of public works for an additional
appropriation to take care of lighting
changes and new lamps, the committee
refused to listen to Mr.. McCardy'S de-
mand for $50, 900 to take care of deficit
in the lighting fund, and ordered the
amount stricken from the budget where
Mr.. McCardy had placed it. In reality
there was no deficit, the shortness in
ror in the ordinance creating it. Mr..
McCardy reluctantly admitted that the
amount would be available when the
taxes were all in, and on this admission,
the item, as included in the lighting
fund, was expunged. In making up the
budget Mr.. McCardy allowed the lighting
fund $157, 40. From this was stricken the
$4,000 provided for shortage. SO that
the increase practically only amounts to
SIS, Geo.
President Hudner of the water board,
tried to reopen consideration on his for
mer application for an appropriation to
either pay hydrant rent from now on,
or interest on the rent IN arrears, but
the members could not agree with him.
His proposition to reopen the matter only
received two votes.
Instead of $4,000 as provided for in
Mr.. McCardy's figures, the beard of con-
troll will receive S56,0G0 s30,0G0 of the lat
ter amount teing for the purpose of con-
structing the new contagious disease
hospital now being constructed. The i'm
peratiye necessity for such a building
was explained by Commissioner JudSon
OF the board, and Dr. Ancker, the latter
adding that if a new building were not
provided for, he would close up the pres
ent ramshaclsle affair on the grounds
that it was unsanitary and dangerous.
Its very walls, he SAID, were saturated
with contagion, the transfer of which to
a paid patient might at any time involve
the city in a costly suit for damages.
Story with Moral.
The committees promptness in acced-
ing to the request was due in a measure
to the presence of a stranger, giving the
Aberdeen as his residence, who told of
his inability to secure a proper refuge
for his wife and child when stricken with
scarlet fever. The presence of the dis
/ ease threatened to depopulate the hotel
and the situation was further compli-
Gated by the fact that not a hospital in
the city would take the two patients.
Transfer to the city hospital, physicians
I told him, would be. suicidal His only
way out of the dilemma was the renting
/ of an entire floor of the hotel which the
| proprietors agreed to on the payment of
| $500 The floor was guaranteed and a
/ spread of the disease prevented.
Dr.. Ancker Informed. the committee
that the addition would. be a revenue
producer in q few years, but this did not
appeal to Mr.. McCardy, who entered an
emphatic no when the vote was taken.
|, The only other item acted on was tkas
| of the city hall and court house COM
mission for which Commissioner Hunt
| asked an addition of a trifle over ST, 600
to take care of deficit arising from i'm
| provements lately made. The amount to
| be raised by taxation for this depart
ment was placed at an even $2S,000. No
! opposition was made, even McCardy CIV
| ing his approval.
| Several delegations were present to
| plead for additions to the general fund
| for different purposes, but adjournment
| was taken without hearing them. The
| committee will meetfagain tomorrow aft
| erroon.