The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-12-14
Aldermen Don't Agree on
Amount of Fee
THE ORDINANCE GOES OVER
Troubles of Other Councils Handed
Down to Bother the Present :
Body, Say The "Dads".

The city council did not transact
much business of Importance at ,.s
meeting last night, aside from passing
an unusually large number of bills. Aid.
Mahowald was absent, as the horse
shoers are working day and night, now
that the roads are so slippery.
Before the session was formally be-
gun, the aldermen discussed the matter
of the license fees that it was proper
to charge hacks, skating Kinks and the
aires. Some little diversion of opinion
was manifest, the aldermen dividing
along the same lines that they did at
their previous meeting.
X. M. L,lrie of North Broad street ap-
piled for a peddlers' license to sell nov
clues, by the week. He desires to erect
a stand and sell novelties until after
Christmas The application was granted
at S. week.
Fred Schwann's 5000 bond as GUS
todian of the city's animal burying
ground was presented and approved.
John Donahue and L. G. Diamond are
the sureties.
Aid. Hampl reported that Contractor
Windmiller has procured a new set of
well drilling tools, but owing to sleet
on his machinery has not been able to
work for several days.
The committee on ordinances pre-
scented a hack license ordinance, requir-
ing that all persons driving hacks or
other vehicles in the city for hire shall
procure licenses, the charges to be $3.50
day or $40 year for two-horse We
hicles, and So day or $3.50 a year for
one-horse vehicles. The city recorder is
to give license numbers, which must be
painted or posted in a conspicuous place
on the side of the vehicle in plain fig-
ures at least two inches high. 1t shall
Be unlawful for any person to drive or
manage hack while intoxicated or Wis
IDLY under the influence of liquor. The
council can by a two-thirds vote revoke
license. No driver is to be permitted
t., leave his carriage at a railway de-
pot to solicit persons to be conveyed in
the carriage. Charges are to be limited
TO 70 cents for not. exceeding one mile,
for adults, and Is cents for children. It
shall be the duty of hackmen to carry
any and every passenger applying. Vic
latIons of the ordinance shall be punish
able by fine of not to exceed 500. or
Imprisonment for not to exceed ninety
days in the county Jail. Each passenger
Is to be entitled to have one trunk of
rot exceeding 100 pounds weight and 9TH
er baggage not exceeding twenty-fiv
pounds weight carried free Of charge.
The ordinance was given its first read
ing.
Aid. Helnze favored raising the license
TO SIS year, and Aid. Hampl thought
the minimum was too high and that it
would cut out many rigs on circus day
and limit the transportation facilities
so much that the pubic would have a
serious kick coming.
Aid. Atchison was not in favor of re-
ducing the minimum. Rigs come from
the country ana neighboring towns on
circus days, and pay no license or tax in
the city. The carriages of rich men are
used to transport passengers for hire.
Aid. Heinze said that one lady with
a one seated rig, carrying two passen-
gers at time, made 81 in one day car
rying people to Sibley park. Aid. Atch-
ison told of North Mankato man who
made $27 in one day.
Aid. Heinze moved that the license fee
be placed at SIP year for each vehicle,
but it was decided to defer further con-
sideration of the ordinance until. the
next meeting.
City Attorney Daley reported an
amendment to the skating ring ordi-
nance. reducing the license fee from $3.50
to S25 year. The rules were suspend
ed and the ordinance was given us first
anu second readings and was adopted.
The sinking fund commission reported
its action in taking up the balance of
the notes constituting the floating DEBT,
and the council voted to approve it.
Aid. Heinze said that the aldermen
ought to throw bouquets at each otner
for wiping out the debt.
Mayor Taylor said that he would like
to know how much had been paid out
in interest on this debt.
Aid. Atchison said that the present
aldermen had gotten along with remark
able harmony, with no disputes, and had
accomplished great deal of business,
no matter what the public might think
OF it. The only knotty problems are
those that have come over from other
councils.
The bills were allowed, including the
following: A. Bashaw, balance due on
North Broad street sewer contract,