St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-13

street Was made a uniform width. he In
formed Tabour that unless the property
owners were willing to give the ward
some benefit in return for the land ne
would use his influence in the council
to oppose it. He said that he had not
gone TO the property owners as a phil
%anthroplst but as a business man, and
he declared that he had not given up the
scheme yet, but hoped eventually to
carry it through.
ELLIOTT DOES NOT APPEAR.
At this point City Attorney Russell
announced that Arthur j. Elliott. OF
the firm of Shaw d Elliott, had refused
to ONE before the committee to testify,
and that he had informed Officer
DeHaven that he had consulted an at
torney, and as the committee had no
power to compel him to appear, he
didn't propose to.
Call Mr.. Cole" exclaimed the city
attorney. "He is in the committee
ROOM"
''Mr. Cole Is busy and can't come"
reported Officer DeHaven after he had
summoned that gentlemen.
Attorney r. l.. Penny made a strong
objection to having Mr.. Cole testify to
any more statements that were made to
him. He claimed that great injustice
had already been done, and the commit
tee were only repeating the statements
already published.
Aid. MCGOWAN wanted the committee
to exercise its rights, and compel the
attendance of Elliott. He said: "When
this investigation was commenced the
city attorney said the committee had
the power to compel the attendance OF
witnesses. A great injustice has been
lnrA 10 mo n,,I I y,aI{ +bn nnnr, Nnhn IS
alleged to have made these charges to
come before this committee, and to tell
ali he knows"
The city attorney said that as the at
torneys who represented the accused
aldermen didn't want Mr.. Cole exam
ined he didn't think it would be neces-
Sary. The attorneys for the Times
claimed that they had given the COM
mittee the promised information. On
Tuesday the city attorney had claimed
to have the power TO compel the at
tendance of witnesses. Now the most
important one of the whole lot had re-
fused to appear, and they wanted the
committee to exercise the right it pro-
fessed to have in the beginning and
issue a process against him.
ROASTING THE TIMES
Aid. Love read from the article, and
lodotCu VIC LINUS III PiijVlh6 uhO 40
SertiOn that it had positive evidence
against the aldermen out of six of the
thirteen wards, when nothing but hear
say and rumors had been produced.
City Attorney Russell roasted the Times
for printing the article, and declared
that it was nothing but a big game of
bluff, and said that those who insti-
gaCed it should be brought to justice.
Ralph Whelan, representing Clerk
Uaney, said that since his clients name
had been dragged into the case they
courted the fullest investigation. AS
an officer of the city, Mr.. Haney couldn't
afford to stand under a cloud, and if
there had been anything brought out by
the testimony to show that an inveSti-
CATION was necessary, he wanted to have
a chance to answer the charges before
the proper tribunal. On behalf of Aid.
MCGOWAN and Br%ueshaber, Mr.. Penny
made the same statement. After con-
siderable %wrangling between the attor-
neys, Emerson Cole took the witness
chair. In answer to the questions put
to him by Mr.. Russell, Mr.. Cole denied
every statement credited to him by L.
S. Varnum, the Times reporter. He
said that the reporter had called at his
house, and wanted to know about the
combination in the council that was
after CalderWOod's scalp, and asked if
it was the same crowd that tried to GUST
Chief Stetson. Cole answered that it
might be, but he did not know. Then
Varnum talked of other matters. He
said that he knew all about the Shaw q
Elliott matter, but Cole refused to talk
for publication.
Il told him." said the witness, THAT
he was around the council chamber and
thot ha Hpnu NOVA ahnnt what WAC o.
ing on than | did. He then said that
there were quite a number OF shady
men in the council. l never told him
that there was a ring in the council for
revenue only, and | did not check off a
list of them for him. He mentioned the
names to me and l checked them off OIL
a tab"
On cross-examination Mr.. Cole said
that Varnum had told him all about the
Shaw & Elliott matter, but that he had
heard it before. Mr.. Elliott had told
him that MCGOWAN and B~rueshaber
favored the vacation Of the street, but
that they wanted money in advance he
fore they would consent to it. When
Elliott had told him this he told him
not to pay them a dollar, n
J~ohnson's office, where the story
was repeated to Mr.. johnson. The
witness said that he had introduced
Elliott TO Clerk Haney after he had
been told that Mr.. Haney had influence
with the First ward aldermen. He de-
MED that Elliott had told him or that he
had told any one that Elliott had said
that Haney had informed him that
money had to be paid in advance or that
money had to be paid at all, but Elliott
said that Aid. MCGOWAN had done so.
In Johnson's office Elliott had said that
Haney had intimated that the First
ward aldermen wanted money.
WOODWARD DIDN'T KNOW.
William b. Woodward, who represents
the Twelfth ward in the council. was
called under the impression that he had
told Cole to take Elliott to Haney. 1t
was q surprise to Woodward, who said
that he didn't know anything about the
matter, and that he had never sent any
one to Clerk Haney on account of his
influence with any of the aldermen.
John P. Thwing and J. E. Thwing,
the prime movers in the new East Side
| cemetery, were allowed to testify that
they had not offered to give or had
given any stock to any of the aldermen
or city officials for any purpose what
ever. They had invited Mr.. Johnson
and Mr.. Cole to become the incorpo-
rators ON account of their being well
known citizens, and they would have
given them a small amount of the stock
for the use of their names had they
allowed it, but they refused to become
Identified with the company. They also
denied that any member Of the city
council had demanded 10 per cent of the
capital stock for his influence in having
the streets in Highland Park addition
vacated. Chairman Love
that the examination would he contin-
ued at 2 o'clock this afternoon, and the
committee adjourned until that time.