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

additional City News on Page q.
NOTE AND

Just what the council investigating
committee is going to accomplish e
not appear very clear to those who have
watched its proceedings. The first day
everybody apparently wanted to get
down to the bottom OF the affair, ana
the city attorney unhesitatingly stated
that in case a witness should fail to APP
pear and testify. the aid of the courts
would be invoked to compel the attend
ance and testimony. Yesterday the
most important witness who has
so far been named to the commit
tee coolly sent word that he
had consulted an attorney and that ne
would not appear in answer to the SUD
p9na issued by the committee. Ihen
the city attorney said the commlttee
was poWerleSS. Instead OF making
good his promise and appealing 10 inc
courts and testing the matter, the city
attorney and individual members OF tne
committee content themselves WIN
roasting" the newspaper when PRINT
ed statements which no Il has yet
testified are false.
That the committee has been called
off by the Republican leaders, who
feared that something, unforeseen when
the investigation was ordered, would be
exposed. was freely stated on the streets
and in the council chamber yesterday.
1t was also said that considerable mis-
SiOnary work had been done by some OIL
the political henchmen and wire pullerS
of the ''party that saved the Union"
Be that as it may, there was q sudden
change of front on the part of the OIL
Gals having charge of the investigation
that is hard to explain.
When a witness before the committee
Emerson Cole denied the statements
credited to him by n of the L mes, re-
pOrters. MIR. Cole said the reporter had
told him the story, and then he tells
practically what the reporter testihes
that Mr.. Cole told him as coming to him
from Arthur J. Elliott. Some one IS
guilty of gross preYarlcatlOn.
While an evident attempt has been
made to shield the Republican members
apparently no II cares what IS proven
against the two Democrats from the
First ward. Had the witness who re-
fused to testify been required to estab-
fish the innocence Of any II OF the re-
trenehment and reform paTty'S follow
erS every attempt would have been
made TO get him before the committee;
but then a Democrat or two makes no
difference to the alleged lovers OF just
ice.
1t rather looks on the whole as if the
trap which had been set had caught the
wrong kind of game, and the whole al
fair is to be smothered over as quietly
as possible.
At last reports Timoth +. Byrnes was
still smiling. -,
The world need not be startled should
the papers announce almost any day
---. AIDA n,A-SloN4 Ii ~ NtirAtN hnc FIJI t5n "
off the sovereignty of Baby Mckee and
become an i%ndependent monarch. He
has been Endorsed by the president OF
the WOodpecker club.
Rev. G. f. Thwing will lecture on
"Can We Beat the Dutch" For Mr..
Thwing's benefit let it be stated that it
the Dutch hold Pat hands and the dykes
hold their OWN, we will not be likely to
beat them unless we ring in a cold deck
OF Weiner WurSt.
1t was Tins smile that did it. The
Republican league could not be eX-
pected to be hard on its president when
that famous smile. which has been writ
ten about from Minneapolis to Wash
ington, and which has acquired more
local prominence than even Sam Nor
toms rosy cheeks, OIL Tom LoWry's
"Have a cigar" faced it in all its pris-
tine vigOT.
Art Director Fl. Jay Smith is v%entur-
Ing upon dangerous ground. a life size
representation of Big Ike, with Ii. G. in
the orner would be o. appreciated at
the exposition than Rosa BOnheur'S
paintings of criminals
The r. and r. administration should
not allow to go unheeded the OppOrtu-
nifty of securing Ome n to ferry it
across the dangerous river OF municipal
politics. which is afforded by the pres
Sence of CLANS the Boatman" in the
city.
While Sherifs Eye and Mead are dis
cuSSing the relative merits OF various
sorts Of drops they should investigate
the drop invented by Martin Duke,
which has been known to do effective
work.
The discovery that the Patriotic Order
of Sons OF America entertainment at the
Grand cansed the spread of measles ac-
counts for the rash break-out on the
part of G. ID. Mayer on that day.
Rev. l.. q. Powers believes that Ed
ward Bellamy's ideal commonwealth
will yet be a reality, but G. }. Buel and
some of his association hope that they
will never see that time. There would
be nothing for them to reform.
Monday afternoon a Mrs. Sykes was
seriously injured by being thrown
down by the sudden starting of a street
car which she had Just boarded. 1t is
not to be wondered at. There is, how
ever, cause for surprise in the fact that
SIMILAR accidents are not often chroni-
cled. That they are of rare occurrence
speaks we'll for the muscular powers of
Minneapolis ladies. If the conductors
cannot make their time without mar
roWIy missing the precipitation OF al
most every passenger over the rear of
the car, would it not be a good idea for
the company to extend the time sched-
ule? There is probably not a lady.i in
Minneapolis who patroniZes street cars
who, at one time or another, has not
barely saved herself from a fall by
catching her elbows on the door, as the
car started before she was well inside.