St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-18

of A. Dahlgren, Pat Clarity, ana Luh-
deem, to the effect that the alderman
once called part of sewer crew INTO
a saloon to take drink, and remarked
that they needn't work too hard, as they
were employed by the city.
Aid. L'Herault-Thats false; besides us
simply an allegation.
Aid. Dwyer-This is simply an unsupported
statement from you; Aid. l. Herault
Aid. l.Herault-Bring the witnesses mere;
let them give their evidence in my presence
That's the only fair way to Conduct an IN
vestigation. l want the privilege OF cXanln-
ing the witnesses.
MIR. Dahlgren was here brought 1or-
ward and said to the aldermen:
II remember you called us all in to take q
drink on Third avenue north. sald dldh
drink and you say l could take cigar.
There were not many of us there, ana parton
the crew was laying off"
Aid. M'Herault proceeded to cross
examine the witness in manner that
was decidedly lawyer-like, even ejacu-
lating the stereotyped attorney ''umph,"
with which he greeted each assertion OF
the witness. He was particular as to
who induced the witness to appear be-
fore the committee, and desired that i'll
dividual's identity.
MFR. sleeper, the sewer inspector, replied
Dahlgren.
Il object to this method of questioning"
broke in Aid. Clark at this point. I'VE are
not a criminal court, and Aid. LHerault is
not q counselor at law"
Aid. L'Herault--I am here to defend my
self. You take care of your side OF your
case and I'll take care OF my side.
Chairman Dwyer-As we allowed the city
engineer to ask any questions he desired,
think Aid. L'Herault has the same privilege.
The alderman continued. in his line
of cross examination, and directed his
inquiries particularly as to whether the
invitation to the men to visit saloon
was given when they were on duty,
and the witness insisted that the Incl
dent occurred when the men were on
duty.
Frank Anger was the next witness.
He said he was employed as an en-
gineer on the sewer. One day last
May, Aid. L'Herault came along. Two
or three of the workmen were standing
together when Aid. L'Herault came up.
SOME one asked the alderman if he was
''any good" whereupOn the alderman
SAID s'come on" and went into Millers
saloon and bought the beer or cigars,
witness doesn't remember which.
At this point Aid. L'Herault rose with
evident preparations for an oratorical
Outburst. ''The whole upshot of the
matter is this" he said, sthe city engi-
neer desires to besmirch certain out
going aldermen. He's sore at me be-
cause of my vote when he asked for an
Investigations
Aid. Clark-Now, 1 don't want TO sit and
hear all this
Aid L'Herault-You don't have to sit here
unless you want.
Aid. Clafk-Confine yourself to facts.
don't want to hear a lot of irrevelant talk.
Aid. L Herault-Well, I'm going to talk, so
plug your ears.
At this point City Engineer Rinker
put in bis oar and Aid. McArdle called
him down, and an interesting little spat
on the side resulted.
Next Aid. Kerr was granted an
audience. He said he would cheerfulIy
admit buying cigars for Dahlgren and
DE Wolf during working hours. He
was not aware that he had committed
crime in so doing. If it was. Engineer
Rinker was guilty OF similar crime,
as he set up the drinks 10 the council
committee when tour Of investigation
of the North Minneapolis sewer was
made. and he did not believe aldermen
were any better than workingmen.
AS to the staten e It of Street Commits
sioner DriScoll thai he had insisted upon
the retention of Ross, the foreman, who
was incompetent and drunkard, MIR.
Ross was allowed to make statement
and gave the lie direct to Driscoll's
assertions.
Aid. Mills was the next in line. He
felt that the portion of the interview in
which the city engineer said: eff l
listened to every alderman there would
have been foreman on every rafter of
the building" referred to himself.
The building referred to was the
Mouth Minnnanntio hnncn
and as he was the chairman of the
water works committee, he thought
reflection was intended. He had intro
duced two men to the city engineer and
had recommended a third. He had
neither bothered the city engineer nor
interfered with him in any way. There
was not much argument on this point.
The testimony of A. j. DOlan as re-
flecting upon Aid. McArdle was next
brought up. with the introduction from
the alderman that he considered the
entire matter farce, and thought the
city engineer was trying to make
it appear that the days work
system was a failure because OF alder
manic influence. lie said that he might
have recommended the employment of
something like dozen men to DOlan.
but not fifty. FIe did this because Dolan
had remarked to him: ''I'm going to
have charge of the work in the
north part of the city and if you know of
any of our people who want work send
them to me- "Our people" meant
Irishmen. Mr.. Dolan, who. was in
the room, at this point de
MED ever saying any such
thing, whereupon the alderman
good-naturedly but emphatically in
sisted that he did say just that. and,
moreover, knew that he did down to mis-
Every boots"
This concluded the testimony. and the
committee adjourned to this afternoon,
to meet in executive session and arrive
at a conclusion