St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-16

gated thoroughly, would create adverse
comment and this the members Of the
council and the officials who are inter
ested in the proceedings of that body
wanted TO avoid. On Thursday the COM
mittee adjourned without examining
any witnesses, although several who
had been notified to appear before the
committee were present. 1t was freely
stated that the machine man
ayers had become alarmed at the
sudden turn of affairs and
the adjournment had been taken in
order to enable them to fix things be-
fore the meeting on Monday. Color was
lent to this statement by the fact that
yesterday f. Nj. Johnson, the president
of the council and one of the instgators
of the investigation. and who had de-
clared that the publication in the Times
was an outrage, was closeted for sew
eral hours with c. A. NimOckS
in the latter's private Office in
| the Times building. Just what
the outcome of that conference will be
remains to be seen. On Friday evening
Z. A. NimOckS during a conversation
with a GLOBE reporter said 1.-THE Times
was enlisted for the warfare and pro-
poses to show up the TOttenneSS of the
retrenchment and reform administra-
ton" Now the machine managers do
not want anything of that kind shown
up. 1t WAS all right if two Demo-
Gratis could be caught in shady
tranSanctiOn and dismissed in disgrace.
Such thing would add glory to the
policy of retrenchment and reform, and
| would have furnished good material for
campaign literature. but they had not
! taken everything into consideration. An
! honest investigation might possibly
| have implicated some of their own pO-
| Jitical household. and that would hardly
| do. There were all sorts of rumOrS
| atiOat, and the committee in searching
| for peculiar performances might have
| stumbled against something that could
not have been explained so adr0ltly as
was Aid. Sterling's innocent little at
! tempt to do a little legitimate business
! on the side. and at the same time cap
ture an extra $1,000 for the improve
ment of his ward. Then it was in-
snuated that the committee on gas had
received a bribe of $1,000, but Of
course no one would believe
that a company which was the
lowest bidder was going to pay
anything for a contract they already
had. But there was little matter con-
nected with the fight made by Anderson
& Douglass for treetrailway fran
chise last year, and several other mat
ters, the inside history of which, it is
said, would make very interesting read
ing, and if the truth should come out
would place some of the members of the
present council in an unenYiable light
before their constituents. This, too,
must be avoided, and now the general
opinion Of those who have watched the
proceedings closely is that tomorrow
will end the taking of testimony and
the report of the committee will apply
several thick coats OF whiteWash to the
whole affair.
This is what the Republican machine
managers want, and that is what they
have been working for ever since
it was known that the Times
had the names of witnesses in
its possession who could, if they
would, tell strong story about the ''pe-
culiar performances" Just what plan
or action the Times will now pursue
will be watched with interest. Prrs-
dent f. NJ. Johnson is said to be man
who can safely be trusted with dlplo-
matte missions, and perhaps the Times
was made to see the error of its WAYS