The Mankato free press., 1904-10-28
Explanations Made by City Off,
GERS Prove Satisfactory.
Schedule May Haveto Be Rails
ed, Rather Than Lowered.
No Action Taken on Mccarthy
Co.'s Paving Bonds.
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
The regular meeting of the council last
night was attended by all of the alder
men, and Mayor Taylor presided. 1t was
a lengthy and wordy meeting. A good
deal of business was transacted
The Armory question was settled by
the council resembling it's former action
giving the use of the third floor OF the
city hall to the militia company and
voting $500 a year to the company,
which is to find its own armory. The
council took no action on the request of
the charter commission that the expenses
of its committee to st. Paul be paid.
1t took the ground that the Blue
Earth county representatives would have
no trouble in securing the passage of
the proposed law, and that it would be
useless expense to send committee
there 1t was decided to put down a
tubular well on Highland park, suffi-
GENTLY large to supply the residents on
Bunker hill with water. The street
lighting service was criticized. The
meter rate question and the cost of the
Crown meters was thoroughly threshed
over Action on the bonds of the Nc
Carthy Improvement company was post
poned until the council can learn the in
tentions of the company.
Dr. Andrews appeared before the coun-
ell on behalf of the charter commission
with the request that the city guar
antee the expenses to st. Paul of COM
mittee of the commission, consisting of
w. E. Young, F. NJ. Currier and H. l..
Sehmitt, appointed for the purpose of
securing the passage of an act by the
next legislature, making the levying of
special assessments in such cities as
Mankato the duty of the board of pub
lie works instead of the city council as
the general law now stands. The char
ter commission in framing up the char
ter that is next to be voted upon by
the people inserted the provision that
such assessments be levied by the city
council, not because the commission be-
lieved in that system, but because the
commission believed that it had not
the authority to run counter to the
general law. Attorneys were consulted
on this question of being bound by the
general law. Some believed that the
commission could not run counter to
that law and others, including City
Attorney Daley, thought that it could.
If, however, the commission should in
sert into the charter any provision for
levying assessments not in accordance
with the general law on the subject, and
some property owners should fight his
assessments in the courts and defeat the
city, the city could levy no special as.
sessments at all after that until the
charter could be amended. DR.. Andrews
did not think there would be any diff
ficulty in getting the general law amend,
ed as was desired, and believed the ex-
penses of the committee would be
small.
Aid. Kleinschmidt did not think ii
was necessary to grant any of the city's
money for that purpose. The regular
representatives that the people of these
parts have in the two legislative houses
should be able to attend to the passage
of the desired bill.
Aid. Jorgensen was of the same opin-
ion. He thought Senator Eberhart would
be able to get the needed act passed
without any lobbying in the legislature.
The matter was then dropped.
E. j. Zimmerman appeared before the
council on behalf of his father, H
Zimmerman, ST., with the request that
the laying of the new sidewalk about the
City Hotel be deferred until next May
His father wished to complete the new
lodging house on North Second street
and take some of the stones of the old
sidewalk there to use in the new side.
walk by the City Hotel. The request
was granted
Aid. Kleinschmidt thought the charge
for stenographer, $l65, was exorbitant
Work of the same kind had been done
for the city great deal cheaper.
The matter was dropped, the charter
not yet having been presented to the
council.
Aid. Roemer stated that Louis Lille