St. Paul daily globe., 1889-04-23
THE DOSE ADMINIsTERED.
The Committee Seeks the Mayor
Out and RoaSts Him.


Out and Roasts Him.
While Mayor Babb was busy working
in with the new police commission yes
terday afternoon he was called away to
take the dose of advice that the board
OF trade had fixed up for him at the
morning session Of the board of trade,
1t was administered by large, double
barrelled committee, and is supposed
to be efticaciouS in cares of strike, riot
and mob difficulties.
Dorilus Morrison acted as chairman
OF the committee, and Supt. Bracket
and the police commissioners were pres
ent during the operation. MIR. Morri-
! son explained why the committee was
there and what its intentions were.
referred to the grievOuS damage
being done the city by the strike
and the attendant troubles, and de-
plored the fact that the city was liable
for any damages the mob might do to
property, which, he presumed would
amount to $1,000 or 5000 per day. He
stated with some pride that he gave
voice to the sentiment of the board of
trade when he said that the course pur-
sued by the authorities had been too
mild, and that the time had arrived for
NlSOIOllS dctlOll.
George p. Wilson said the commIs-
Sioners had come to bear to the mayor
the sympathy and support of the body
it represented and which to-day repre-
sented the material interests OF the
city. They had come also he
SAID to pledge to the mayor
the unqualified support of the
board in more vigorous action
for the suppression of mob law, which
was working such injury and disgrace
to the city. He said the mayor could
call out all the help he needed to sup
press riots.
Judge Daniel Fish roasted the Mime
apolis papers for having been so filled
with the froth and clamor of the crowd,
and said the committee wished to i'm
press upon his honor the fact that the
Sympathies of the board of trade were
not with the strikers. He said that in
spite of all statements and argu-
ments to the contrary, it was
the manifest duty of the police in pre-
serving order to assist in righting and
removing wrecked or derailed ears. He
and those he represented believed the
mayor should call for more men if he
had not enough.
j. B. Bassett thought the people had
been very quiet and very patient during
quired prompt and aggressive action
had now arrived. If the police and
/ military were rot enough, he said there
should be a call for volunteers.
Mir. Wilson said he had heard of
| Mayor Babb'S declaring his sympathy
with the strikers, and would like to
have him square himself.
Mayor Babb did not seem offended,
but informed the committee in digni-
fed way that when he took his seat he
had assumed solemn obligation to en-
force the laws, and he did not con-
slider it necessary for him to SYM
test like the present one, but SIM
ply to protect both. He thanked
the gentlemen for their sympathy and
support and set their minds at rest on
one point by telling them that the po-
lice had orders to render any assistance
in their power to right anything done
wrong by the mob. He also gave the
council quiet roast by saying that he
believed all lines would have been in
successful operation to-day but for the
sympathy with the mob which had been
expressed in "a certain quarter"
Supt. Brackett was then called upon
to speak and declined to do so, but after
some urging he was induced to make
some remarks. They were very forci-
bic when they came. He said things
would, in his belief, have been all right
but for the imbecile action of the coun-
Gil. He realized that the police force of
Minneapolis was not large enough to
guard forty miles of track, and he had
been opposed to running out as many
cars as were put Oh the street Sunday.
His policy all through had been to
begin running very gradually.
Mayor Babb doubted if it would be
creditable to call on the governor for
aid, and then S. G. Gale solved the
problem by wisely observing that he
understood perfectly the embarrassing
situation in which the mayor and super
intendent of police were placed.
Judge Atwater didn't think it was
necessary to call out the militia; he
thought it better for the mayor to call
on the citizens to assist the police in
nrotectinp life and nronortv