St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-27

And papers start TO roast
The various committees, all
Stick bravery to their post
But shut themselves in durance vile,
To have their own DEPRESSION.
They bar the bold reporters out
Executives the session.
Just what executive may mean
The public wants to find.
Perchance some bold and brilliant scheme
Turks mighty close behind:
And if the thing has got TO last
There II be Il wordy war.
These secret service sessions
What do they hold them tor2
Executive sessions, especially in mu-
hicipal bodies, are al WayS looked upon
by the genera public with suspicion.
1t is weli-knOwn fact that in body
as large as the present council much OF
the hard work must be done by tue cnin-
mittees. The proceedings of these COM
mittees are always interesting to the
public, but Of late some of the alder
men have. adopted Vander6lits PLAN
and in plain terms remarked. THE pub
lie be DID, Tuesday. after one
of the most exciting debates ever
witnessed since the present council
came into existence, anu in less than
i've minutes after money had been
openly flashed and check books brought
out during the controversy between
rival machine men, each of whom
wanted the committee TO recommend
their machine, the sewer committee
went into executive session and forlnu-
lated their decision. Yesterday. when
two applications for franchise tor puD-
lie markets were before the market
committee, aud it was stated by
both sides that the outlay would be
all the way from 100000 to
hA at
into executive session and decided to
give the franchise to the man who
would spend the S500,o00. A suD-coni-
mittee of 4 council committee which
discussed questions involving the eX-
pend. ture of millions of dollars, met
yesterday behind closed doors, and
although the matter, either directly or
Indirectly, interests every taxpayer. the
press ana the public were barred out
When servants of the people, who are
paid by money raised by taxation.
meet behind closed doors, with no
one but themselves knowing what IS
being done the temptation to do wrong
is Increased by the very fact that the
chances of discovery are leSSened. The
terms of all but thirteen of the present
aldermen expire next fall, and they cart-
not allow even the suspicion of Job
berry, or "bOOdle" to attach itself to
their official lives. Gentlemen, no more
executive sessions. Open the doors anu
let the full light OF day fall upon all
your official acts.
A. It. Ankeny thinks that Building
Inspector HaZen has been running the
city too long, and heralds forth i'll
clarion tones the defiance that he can
not run the board OF education. He
wants to know why it is that there is an
official kick at hall in the high sehool
that holds 500 people, on the third
floor, when the Masonic Temple has a
hall built TO hold 1,0U0 OIL the eighth
floor. MIR. Ankeny is evidently an
tagonStic to the hustling Inspector.
More flags are coming in to the board
of education for use on school houses.
If the good work goes OH those pre-
scented by the P. o. 5. of A., can be re-
turned. and they can auction them on
for further additions TO their treasury
fund.
Ed Henderson, soon to be city editor
of the Pioneer Press, is hustling after a
new reporter. Public Librarian Put
nam is going East for time.
another free-for-all guessing con-
test is part of the heading OH an even
ing jay advertising scheme. 81 he peO-
pie of North Dakota must never allow
the fair name of their state to be tar
niShed by the disgrace of c0untenancing
lottery scheme" or words to that eff
feet, were part Of an editorial in the
same sheet couple of weeks ago.
City Attorney Russell probably meant
"The Man " Q Owe" when he spoke of
the iceberg among "The People We
Meet"
By the time the committee of archi-
tects and builders, assisted by self
appointed. but not recognized by the
council, committee of plumbers, get
through with the building ordinance it
will puzzle anybody but a lawyer to tell
exactly what the ordinance means.
These amateur lawmakers have gone to
work in way that would make the
head of the oldest councilman swim,
and the way they have cut and
slashed the building laws. while per
haps all right from their standpoint, is
hardly what has heretofore been. i'll the
opinion of the people, absolutely neces-
sary for the safety of the citizen who,
wishing 10 put up building, leaves ev-
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builders. Fortunately the committees
word is not final, and it is safe to
say that after the ordinance
which they are Amending" gets into
the council the level-headed aldermen
will take care that the Guys Interests
are protected rather than have every
thing left in the hands of the few men
who are making laws to suit their own
convenience and their own pockets
rather than the safety and comfort OF
their clients.
There should be no question as to
which of the two Minneapolis ditching
machines can do the more work. The
long Green usually takes everything,
even from stack of Whites.
A Sunday school teacher in q certain
Minneapolis church was recently put
ting her class of boys through their
PAGES and the answer she desired to one
question was, fish and fowl" The
future presidents were puZZling over il
when she thought to help them out by
asking, What do you eat on Frlday?''
The words had no sooner left her lips
than the smallest boy in the class
jumped to his feet and r0ared, Fried
cakes" The teacher collapsed.
c. II. Benton's opinion Of the men
who are trying to down his South side
market scheme, while it would not be
cOuched in strictly classical terms
would make mighty interestin'
Teadin' "-for some.
The Times starred out to make a SEN
satiOn. 1t made Bertha Hegener elOpe
with friend of her husband, and in
the same column gave Bertha's hus-
bands statement to the effect that his
wife had not eloped, but merely gone Oh
visit. Of course 1.-THE best newspaper
men in the city" knew more about il
than the parties concerned.
Tom LOwry's assertion that the deal
with Willard includes more than the
street cars is taken by many to mean
that the municipal administration will
be part of the transfer.