St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-03
What the Hennepin Delega-
tion Will Do to the
Charter.
Additional Authority Will Be
Given to the City's
Executive.
Neither Frank COLON Nor
Enoeh Ray Will Be Prose-
cuted.
Scientists Discuss Beet Sugar
Killed by a Street
Car.


marked prominent Minneapolis Demo
crat yesterday. "They are all right.
They haven't said very much, but they
have been doing a heap of work.
know il because | have seen them at it.
Why. you just ought To see the room
where they are putting in their time.
When the legislature meets you will see
that they have not been IDLE. They
will have some bills prepared as soon
as the session opens which will be
'c0rkers.' The Minneapolis city charter
will be revised for one thing. and re-
yiSed right. Those boys have stack of
charters on hand from every well-gov-
erned city in the United States, and
they are studying them. When the
boys get through they will give Mime
apolis a charter which will not he an
anomaly. or an abortion, as the present
instrument is. But the revision of the
charter is not all. The boys are work
at proposed legislation which will be of
vast benefit to this city in every way.
But 1t is too Soou to talk about that
YETI
What this gentleman SAID about the
work of the Hennepin delegation is all
their heads with them. Despite the
cOnvulsive and hysterical SCREENINGS
OF the Republican press, they have gone
on with their work, and when it is con-
summatea in the legislature it will be
such as will be ratified by nine out of
every ten men in Minneapolis.
There has been much said about
what the delegation will do ana what it
won't do, but some of the most pro-
NJ, ,.nTD 4,
urated have never been mentioned. OF
course, 1t was long ago decided that the
police commission will be abolished.
There has been no secret about that
Some of the Republican mentors of the
Democratic party have stated that
should Maj. r. K. Henderson be ap-
pointed chief of police the commission
will not be abolished. There is not
shadow, not even photograph of d
shadow, in such talk. The Hennepin
delegation Understands that it has no
business debating appointments to +.
b. winston, nor has it any disposition
to do so. 1t has enough work of lis own
to occupy all Its attention. 1t was long
ago decided that the commission must
go. Neither is il news to say that the
municipal court will be remodeled, OF
entirely abolished. There is demand
for such action and the drmand will be
met. Spring elections for municipal
officers is also favored, and til matter
Will receive some attention, too.
No definite decision has yet BEEN
reached in the matter. A reorganiza-
ton of the city council, or, to lie exact,
OF the representation in The city coun-
ell, is also contemplated. All this, of
course, comes underline head of revision
OF the charter, and each separate re-
form here mentioned will be carefully
considered. If the delegation discovers
that the people do not want these re-
forms they will not be forced; but the
indications are that they are needed,
and needed bad. The present delega-
ton is probably the most level-headed,
conservative delegation ever sent TO the
legislature from Hennepin county,,
But there is one reform which the
delegation contemplates while revising
the charter which has never been men,
toned, or even been limited at, although
it is one of the most important under
consideration. 1t has to do with the
powers of the mayor. During the last
campaign the Republican press and the
Republican orators were continually
bowling about the insignifcance of the
mayors position. urging that Mr.. Wins
ton should not be elected because, for
sOoth, he would be mere tigurehead.
There was. perhaps. some truth in that
criticism on the first office in the CITY.
But there will be none when the legjs-
lature gets through with the charter, 1t
is proposed to take the appointive power
out of the hands of the council and vest
it in the mayor. Why shouldn't that be
done? The city council is to the munic-
ipality what the legislature is to the
state, or the national congress to the
In lal.-
state the appOintive power repoSeS i'm
the president and the governor. Why
should it not be intrusted to the mayor
III the city? The heads of the city de-
partments are, or should be, the mayors
assistants. At present they are not.
The city council appoints the city at
torney, the city engineer, the health
commissioner, the superintendent of
the poor, etc. IL is intended to take this
appointiye power out of the hands of
the council and leave to that body the
power of confirmation alone. What
right has the city cOu Gil to arrogate to
itself all the powers of the municipal
ity. both legislative and executive?
This proposed change would place that
body where it belongs, and it Will be
done.
S. M. Owen, while not an actual
| member of the Farmers Alliance, was
the gubernatorial candidate of that
body recently. and is therefore deeply
| interested in it. Naturally he has an
opinion about the presidency of that
organization. On this point he said
yesterday:
Now, if Mr.. Donnelly is candidate
for the presidency of the Alliance |
have no doubt that Mr.. Hall will be
also. In that case the latter and his
friends will argue that he should be in
the fight, if but to vindicate himself.
Ii Mi. Donnelly withdrawS Mr.. Hall
will follow his example. Personally, l
am IN favor Of the election of serof
officers who are not identified with
| either of the sO-called Donnelly or Hall
factions. Why would it not be better to
elect men whose selection will please
| all fair-minded parties? If the Donnelly
men carry the day, the Hall faction
will be displeased, and vice versa. Let
the party antagoniZe no faction, but
rather pour oil on the troubled waters
and each man in the party work solely
for the party'S good"
There has been good deal of bun.
| combe talked and written about the at
| titude of the Hennepin delegation on
| the speakership question. The word
''buncombe" is used advisedly, because
no other would express the whole truth.
The Hennepin delegation doesn't want
! the speakership. No member of the
Hennepln delegation wants the speak
| ership. Some would undoubtedly take
it if offered it, spontaneously, but they
are not working for it. They place the
interests of their constituents above
| personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Matt Walsh
| can do better work for the county on
the floor than in the speakers chair. AS
for w. ii. Lynn, this is what he says
| about it himself:
81 am reasonably sure that 1 could