St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-06
the salar,,c a-of all officers without in
vaStigating them.

will give away the money which really
belongs to the people.
Mr.. Dunn remarked that If the Re
publican party wanted to remain ii
power power in Minnearol;s another year il
had better not advocate the raisiMg Of
salaries in any of the county offices
MIR. Pratt, residing on the outskirts OF
the city, kicked hard against the pro
posed raising OF salaries, and roasted
the city council and the board of tax
levy and everything else. He was going
to get out of Minneapolis. he said, be-
fore he was sold out. The Legislative
bodies were engaged in spending all
the money they could, and the end was
not far away. The taxes must be held
down, he shrieked; it was time to speak
out, and men were going to speak out
it it was the last act of their lives. Here
the speaker grew SO excited that he
madeira wild attack on Minneapolis in
situations in general. He was howled
down by the truly loyal citizens.
EA-Gov. Pillsbury said he wanted the
treaSurer's salary raised $1,000 year.
The proposition to raise the salary
$1,000 was lost, with wild yell of de-
light. On motion of Mr.. Pillsbnry it
was decided to raise the treasurer's sal
airy $1,000 year. The scene which fol
lowed reminded one of the last Repub-
lican county convention, only it was a
good deal worse.
The next resolution favored thesturn-
ing of all the fees received by the register
of deeds, the clerk of courts and the
sheriff into the county treasury, and
that the officials be paid $500 a year.
When the resolution was read Free
man p. Lane jumped to his feet and
gave the board of trade a roast which
made the members turn white and red
by turns. He denounced it as foolish
in the extreme and said some of the
resolutions reminded him of school
children's work. The sheriff's office
could not be placed on salary, he said,
for if it was the state would have to
stand back of him and defend in the
many lawsuits brought against him. 1t
was also foolish to talk about placing
the clerk of courts on salary. Free
man said he believed in economy, but
he did not believe in arreSting news
paper reporter for looking through a
fence at a skating rink and allowing
the Theater Comique to run Sunday.
He would never vote for bill to place
the two offices on salary.
j. T. Wyman demanded to know
what qualifications were demanded of
sheriff or the cicrn Of courts that he
should receive salary
NEARLY HALF AS GREAT
as the president of the United States.
Mr.. Wyman began rubbing it into the
legislators, whom he said, had promised
to vote to place the offices Oh salaried
basis before the election. Free Lane
took exception to this aud said that he
had never said any such thing; in fact,
he said he would do no such thing.
DeputySheriff johnson made ringing
speech in opposition to placing the Of
flee of sheriff on Salaried basis. He
said that if this was done it would cost
the county $4,000 a year more than the
Sheriff now received, but he was not 60
ing to explain why. This raised
laugh, and cries of eve don't want
any explanation" THAT'S all right"
were numerous. Mr.. johnson brought
down the house by telling several
funny stories, in illustrating how fat
the fees of the sheriff were; how hard
fees.
A young man with a high forehead
and noble forehead, arose III stately
way and wanted to know if the 200
people in the hall had the right to say
for the 100000 people in Minneapolis,
what the Hennepin county delegation
should do. He attacked the present
system of filing papers, and said he
wanted to see the fees cut down. Mr..
Perkins also denounced the plan of
filing papers and making the men who
had any business in the courts, pay the
various county officials for the privilege
of doing business there. Mr.. Wyman
asked Mr.. Perkins if the sheriff did not
make his greatest profit from boarding
prisoners at the county Jail.
"WelI, if that is the case" replied Mr..
price of board?"
Mr.. Smith, of the Hennepin county
delegation, said he was interested in
the plan of retrenchment and reform,
but he did not feel as though he could
sit still and hear Judge Atwater insinu-
ate that the delegation had refused to
meet the board of trade. After this bit
OF pleasantly he turned his attention to
the aldermen. who did not cheer when
it was proposed to reduce their salary.
81 favor the abolition of the fee sys-
tefn," said he, land if this cannot be
done on reducing the fees to the small
est figures possible" Mr.. Smith
read the editorial in the Trib-
une yesterday. morning in reference
to the delegation, and said that the man
who wrote the article was either liar
or knave. The article he character
lied as an insult to every decent man
who now holds Office in the county.
You are greatly mistaken, hOWled Mr..
Smith, if you think that | am a jump
ing jack and that l jump when Judge
pulls the spring. MIR. Smith
stated that Mr.. Bassett had used Ian
guage in st. Paul which
WAS UNFIT FOR A GENTLEMAN
to use. Mr.. Bassett grew ratified and
demanded to know if Mr.. Smith could
repeat the language.
II can, Mr.. Bassett," was the reply,
''and you dare not deny it. Do you
think you dare"'
Mr.. Bassett dropped back into his
seat. pulling at his beard and talking
rapidly to Judge Atwater. Mr.. Smith
continued talking on general subjects,
and stated that the board of trade had
requested him to introduce q bill into
the legislature reducing the salary of
an alderman to Sl00 year. In this con-
nectiOn Mr.. Smith spoke upon the sub
ject of labor ing men holding Office i'll a
general way. He asked that the
board of trade make its demands
in respectful manner, and not call the
a set of thieves and
tramps and everything else that was
mean. In closing his speech, Mr.Smith
gave resume of what the delegation
had done, and told why certain salaries
had been raised.
Mr.. Hankey, another of the delega-
ton, was the. next speaker. He denied
most emphatically that he had ever
made any ante,election promises to any
one, but he had said he would stand by
the pledges made by the Republican
party which had nominated him.
Mr.. Hankey did not think that the del
egation had not been treated fairly, and
as a three-bagger he gave it out cold
that the meetings. proceedings would
not change his course one particle. He