St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-03
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on schools.
The question Of teaching foreign lam
guageS then came up in the shape of
reports from the committee on schools.
The majority reported to leave the mat
ter i'll its present state, while the minor
ity report asked to have the question
submitted TO a vote of the people. The
majority report not to make any change
was carried by vote of TO 8, Inspect
orS Cro0nquist, Foley and Keogn voting
against il.
Inspector W rights Defense.
The special committee appointed to
investigate the charges made against
Inspector Wright 10y an evening paper,
which accused him of being non-reSi-
dent of st. Paul and malfeasance of
Office, made its report. The committee
stated that they had requested the ed
itor of the paper to be present at their
meeting to SubStantiate his charges, but
he had refused to do so. They then
agreed to confine their investigation to
the question of nOn-reSidence, and after
hearing Inspector Wright the committee
reported that they desired the question
to be submitted to the city attorney and
that they be discharged from further
duty.
Inspector Wright asked permission to
make statement, which being granted
he said:
The committee whose report is now under
consideration was instructed, you will re-
member, to inquire into any official miscon-
duct on my part since have been a member
of this board. At the time of its appoint
ment the ST. Paul Dispatch had made dis
tinct charge that in violation of law had re-
tanned my seat in the board while a resident
of another county. 1t had also insinuated by
words and picture, without, however, fur
nishing a single particle of proof or evil
dence, that certain contractors had controlled
my action as n member of this board
At the meeting of the committee the editor
of the Dispatch was requested to be present
to formulate and sustain his charges. This
he declined TO do. and was not present.. The
committee. therefore, did not take up the in
uendoes and insinuaIlons that have ap-
peard whenever the Dispatch has discussed
the aft airs of this board. but confined its IN
designations to the charge of non-residence.
/ therefore content myself with general de
NAL of anything and everything that could
possibly be construed against me in the
covert and coward y language used, aud APP
peal toan honorable record of twenty-four
years residence i'll this city, against such
hints and insipuations.
As to non-residence, | desire to make the
same statement here that made TO the COM
mittee. have been resident of the Sew
enth ward of this city since 1880. | have
never resided elsewhere, nor paen out of the
ward, except on business trips to the East,
and two summers that | have spent at my
cottage at White Bear Lake, DeIwood station
i'll Washington county. Each summer l
went to the lake about May /. and returned
between Sept. l and Oct. 1. L did not leave the
city with the intention or for the purpose of a
change of residence, but simply for recreation
during the summer. / have always voted in
the Seventh ward, and have served as Judge
of election in the Seventh ward twice since
my sojourn at the lake. The United States
census enumeratOrs took nv name as a resi-
dent of the Seventh ward. and had not the
slightest suspicion that was regarded as a
foreigner until the discovery of the st. Paul
Dispatch.
The report of the corporation attorney, as
well as the good sense of my fellow citizens.
will. doubtless, accord me the rights of
citizen upon this statement of facts
This would end all have to say were it not
for a statement made by the editor of the
Dispatch to the chairman of the committee
of investigation. He states that my personal
property was not assessed and taxed for the
last two years in Ramsey county. This, of
course, is a matter entirely distinct from the
residence question. A person could, / sup
pose, have personal property in every county
of the state except the one in which he re-
sided. | therefore apologize for entering so
farinto my private affairs as to show why
my household furniture and other personal
property were not assessedin Ramsey county
in 1889 and 1890.
Before going to Dellwood. May 1. 1889. 1
broke up housekeeping and sold my furni-
ture, except what was needed to furni sh my
lake cottage. In the autumn l came into
town, leaving all household furniture at the
the Seventh ward, until the following May.
The household goods remained at the lake
during the winter and until Oct. /. 1890 and
were not assessed in Ramsey county in 1889