The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-05
KIICHLPS RECORD
IN STREET CAR DEALS
Votes i'm 1892 to Allow Com.
pany to Cut Off Inter.
urban Transfers.

Though Thomas Lowry, president of
the Twin City Rapid Transit company,
makes his denial Of any connection
between his company and the Mime
sofa Power and Trolley company more
emphatic by insisting that he does not
know Joseph L. Kiichli, the records
show that the man who is denied the
honor of Mr.. Lowry's acquaintance was
fitting himself for the work of direct
ing a street car company at the very
time that the Minneapolis Street Rail-
way company was looking to the city
council of Minneapolis for all conces-
sions possible.
These records show that Mr.. Kiichli,
as an alderman of the Third ward of
Minnea polls, encountered the Lowry
interests even before the year 1899,
when the Minneapolis, St Paul &,
Sault Ste. Marie railway secured the
valuable property on Second street
north for its freight houses.
Joseph Kiichli was representing the
Third ward in the Minneapolis city
council in the year 1892. In the fall
of that year the Minneapolis council
passed an ordinance that affected the
Minneapolis street railway company
Aid. Kiichli voted for the ordinance
The measure called upon the street
railway company to establish a trans
fer station in Bridge square and three
minor transfer stations at designated
points on it's lines. More than all this,
it authorized the street railway COM
pany to discontinue the distribution Of
transfer tickets to or from the interur-
ban line connecting Minneapolis with
st. Paul.
Council Has to Repeal 1t.
Considerable scandal was attached to
the passage Of this ordinance. and for
several months the Minneapolis papers
and the citizens Waged a war against
the council that in the end resulted in
the repeal of the obnoxious measure.
The council passed the ordinance
when Mayor Winston was out of the
city, and it was signed by Aid. E. G..
Potter, who. as president of the council,
was acting mayor during Mr.. Winston's
absence. Many ugly rumors followed
the signing Of the ordinance, and it
was even said that Aid. Potter signed
the measure Immediately after mid
night of Friday, Nov. %, the night of
its passage Another charge was that
Aid. Potter hurried to the mayors Of
flee the next morning to attach his sig
nature to the ordinance
kiichli Voted for 1t.
The newspaper files telling of this
important council meeting report that
all aldermen with the exception of Aid.
Parry were present, and that the meas
ure passed by vote of 20 to 4. Aid.
Kiichli voted with the majority, the
aldermen opposing the ordinance being
Haynes, Hunter, Jockey and Rawlns.
An editorial printed in a Minneapo-
us paper Nov. II best shows the feeling
against the measure that the city cOun-
ell aroused. The paper said:
The extraordinary, nay, indecent haste
win Whlch the council passed, and Act
ing Mayor Potter signed an ordinance
or warning a privilege worth many
thousands of dollars annually to the cities
OF Minneapolis and ST Paul. was the sub
Ject of much cOndemnatory comment yes
terday.
1t was known that the ordinance provid-
ed FOR certain transfer privileges within
the city of Minneapolis and would be in
troduced at Fridays meeting of the coun-
Gil, hut it was not known. or even sus-
pected' that a majority of the council
surrendering in return for these conces-
sions the right of transfer to and from
interurban cars.
In return for transfers at Twentieth
avenue north and Cedar avenue, and a
transfer station of doubtful advantage at
Bridge square, the council has hastily and
without consideration Of the consequences,
very beginning of interurban electric
transit-a right which, aside from the ad-
yantages offered to individual passengers
between the two Cities was worth thou
sands Of dollars monthly to the commerce
OF each. 1t is as if an enormous tax had
been imposed without notice or debate
Then, Waverly, in striving for
greatness in material things, is neg
lecting its most sacred duty-the edu-
cation of its children"
Such were the words of President
Northrop, of the state university,
when told yesterday in a meeting of
the state high school board that the
village of Waverly has been trying to
get an electric light plant, a water
system and fire protection before
building a new school house.
Waverly is a place Of 500 inhab-
itants, with voting population Of 100
in the town, and about as many more
in the country portion of its school
district; but its educational affairs
have for several years past given the
state high school board as much trou-
BILE as all the rest of the state school
system. Except for its troubles, the viii
lage of Waverly would probably have
remained obscure and practically I'M
known even in the state in which it
is located; but it's struggles with its
educational affairs have given it
prominence achieved by but few places
of its size and general importance.
This year the Waverly school was
omitted from the list of those permit
ted to share in the state aid to graded
schools, and it is to that fact that the
present agitation is due. The reason
assigned by the high school board for
striking Waverly from the list was
that state funds had been used by the
local school board in permanent i'm
prOVements upon a rented building. A
delegation from the WaVerly school
board yesterday appeared to present
the case, and it was finally referred
to Mr.. Morey, of the board, and J. M.
Casey, of Waverly, to agree upon a
fair presentation of the facts to be set
before the attorney general for an
opinion as to whether the state high
school board is legally justified in
Withholding the state aid from the