St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-29
NOTE AND COMMENT.

NOTE AND COMMENT.
At last the committee charged with
the investigation OF the charges of ''pe-
culiar performances" made by the
Times, has reported. The report is
what might have been expected from
retrenchment and reform administIa-
ton. Aid. Sterling is mildly censured
for what the committee believes to have
been an error of-judgment, but the COM
mittec is satisfied that no wrong was
Intended. In the case of the Demo
cratic members from the First ward.
the committee says the charges
are serious, but leaves the mat
ter entirely with the council. Then
the committee turns its attention
to the reporter who gave to the world
the information obtained from Aid.
Cole and declares him to be over-zeaiouS
and not over-scrupulOus. The commit
tee could do nothing else. AS re-
trenchment and reform administration,
almost on the eve of an election, it
didn't dare to prefer specific charges
against any of its own number, and the
way out of it was to pitch into the re-
porter who wrote the article which
caused the investigation, and to cover
the suspects with cloak of good inten-
tons.
The value of a committee report
which roaSts the Times for making GER
tain insinuations and then recommends
that it has found sufficient evidence or
corruption to advise still further lnveS-
tigation can we'll be imagined. What
refutation this of calumnious charges!
The Times may we'll consider itself i'll
dorsed.
In its anxiety, too, to clear Aid. Ster-
ling as far as possible, the committee
undertakes to vouch for the purity or
his intentions. Isn't that stretching IT?
What does the committee know of AID.
Sterling'S intentions?
The Journals reports of the coopers'
strike are striking anomalies in their
way. The question at issue is one most
practical in every respect, but the Jay
persists in treating it from psyche
logical standpoint.
AS the April term of the court draws
near, bets on whether the ColOm case
will come to trial are being laid, and
odds are freely given on the negative
side.
The council must shave it in'' for the
Times. 1t is now threatening to add
insult to injury by keeping Nlmocks
out of his rebate fees.
Prof. Hazen advises that Minneapolis
get her signal service reports by tele-
phone from st. Paul, which proves that
these professors know little about the
practical side of life. If the professor
had ever wrestled much with the tele-
phone and Quarreled with the telephone
al NO l. fban talk
that way.
Some of the aldermen who are mem
bers of the master plumbers assocla-
ton are not quite satisfied with the
building inspector naming the i'll
spector of plumbing. 1t is all right Tor
the inspector to be allowed 10 name the
assistants chosen from the ranks OF the
carpenters and maSOns, but when it
comes to the appointment OF man VINO
is to inspect their work they want TO
say who he shall be. Perhaps 1t is bet
ter for the citizens at large that the
council refused to recognize their claim
and approved the appointment made by
the inspector without consulting either
the master OF JOurneymen plumbers.
Now that two new fire stations are
to be built the aldermen may be cX-
pected to have host of would-be fire
men running after them to secure the
necessary influence to make them
WearerS of brass buttons.
So South Minneapolis is to have a
market Mt last OF course, it will he
in the Eleventh ward, and it is not to
interfere with those good people of the
Sixth ward who are ready TO invest
their capital in like building-provid-
ing they can secure a franchise.
Since the Owen crowd has secured
something of franchise they propose
to hold Oh to all they have secured: 1t
is possible that the Sixth ward, or Ben
ton market combination, will expert
ence more or less trouble in securing the
twenty votes necessary to secure their
franchise. At least that is what some
of the aldermen say.
Aid. Sterling, in his speech before the
council yesterday, declared that he had
acted in good faith IN the Eighth ward
street vacation matter, which was the
subject of one of the clauses of the re-
port of the committee on investigation.
In Justice to Mr.. Sterling, the people
will very likely take him at his Word.but
when an alderman uses his position as
city official to further his business as
real tSlulC dSClIU. ClOllCl NlIICGly Vi Ia
directly, it is nothing more than natural
that such an action should be regarded
by those who are not familiar with all
the facts as "a peculiar performance"
During the reading of the building Or
dinance in the council last evening
there was an apparent attraction out
side, for at one time there we're only
twelve members in the room. just as
point of order was about to be made
that there was no quorum present,
enough of the aldermen drifted in to
save the janitor trip among the cock
tail architects.
r. S. Varnum believes that if all that
the investigating committees report
SAYS about him be true he would make
good alderman.
The Minneapolis White Washers
union met last night and adopted
higher scale of prices; cause, the report
of the doodle committee.
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULES.
The bank cleariugs yesterday were $i91,-
n69.3 For the week, $500. S74.0l, and
for the corresponding week last year, 81 646,-
969.O6.
The Great Northern will commence run
ming daily train to Minnetonka April 3,
leaving Minneapolis at p. m. and leaving
Spring Park at $40 a. m.
Marriage licenses were yesterday issued to
the following: Charles Gebert and Rosa