St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-01
CITY HALL CHAT.

Mayor Smith will depart from the time
| honored custom of presenting the council
| with an exhaustive message upon his relin-
gushing the Office of chief executive of the
| city. He does not think that the newly
| elected council will care n picayune what
| advice he might give. aud as TO a lot of stat
| sites. why he has no patience with the
| thought. Statistics of all the affairs OF the
| city were given in all the different phases
| that could be invented through the recent
| campaign; but it is very apparent that the
| popuiace did not believe the figures present.
| ed, and the mayor has no desire to reiterate
| what was so emphatically contradicted at the
polls on the Sd of May. He will have no mes
sage. although he will attend the inangura-
| ton ceremonies as q spectator.
IT 7tGH
There are threats galore that the council
men-eIeet will not confirm Col Wrights ap-
pointment of chief of police, because they
feel that great injustice has been done the
local aspirants to the position in importing a
man TO the city for the purpose.
~
st is a strange state of affairs, said an as
sembly man elect to one of the retiring mem
bers of the council IF St. Paul has no talent
in the Republican party TO fill the place.
What is the matter with Ed Bean or Maj. Lib
hey, would like 10 know?" he pursued with
acerbitv. ''If Warden Garyin is competent.
it is my judgment these eld-time st. Paul
citizens are competent. lou may not believe
it," lie continued, but mean every word
say. will not vote TO confirm the appoint
ment."
What nonsense exclaimed the other.
mo matter who nor what the man that Col.
Wright appoints, you will not dare to disap-
prove of it i'll all official way. You will vote
to confirm just sure as fate. Mark my
prediction" tr,.a1 -t
'.rll wager you So that will not" re-
joined the other testify.
"Ohl I'd be very foolish to wager so
much, rejoined the other, 'tfor it is my ex-
perience that mans cupdity often leads him
to do unusual things Still | honestly be-
lieye you will vote to confirm, as I've said"
-
Yes; the woods are full of prodigious kicks
on the appointment. and especially upon the
arrangement to increase the salary of the
chief to 5000 year. Public sentiment says
the old salary is out of all proportion with
the duties required. How does it compare
with the com pensatIon of the judges? it is
asked by those who are specializing upon the
strange move OF the mayor. Ii is urged that
S., 00), or $500 at the most is generous SAL
airy. and to have it suddenly pressed up to
S.. 000 is more than the taxpayers are willing
to quietly submit to. The purpose is to have
the city charter so amended at the next ses-
sion of the legislature that the city will here
after pay the chief of police the amount
named. and the amount, i'll fact, promised
to Mr.. Garvin. 1t is argued that the next
legislature will be Republican, and hence
the new administration Can certainly get
anything it asks.
IT,
ID McCardy the comptroller elect, has
returned from his extensive tour of the effete
East, where he has made exhaustive research
among the archives of the various comptrol-
lers' Offices where he has been to learn the
method of conducting fairs under the East
ern idea. 1t is suggested by officials here
that Mr.. McGardy will not be long in Office
when it will dawn upon him that the East
ern idea is scarcely com patible with the mod
ern Western system. For illustration, the
comptroIIer-elect has spent considerable
lime, it is related, in inspecting the way en-
ployed in the comptroilers Office i'll
the city of Detroit Now. what
wide difference. and from necessity,
there is between the conduct of the
financial bookkeep ping in ST. Paul and in De-
troit: The latter city was built upon the
Boston plan, for Illustration. and has no
bonded Indebtedness. 1t is the simplest sort
of bookkeeping. indeed bat the conduct OF
| affairs here are quite complicated. 1T IS re-
ported that the new com ptroller Will keep his
word, and turn out every present empioye Ill
the office, and then he will have free and I'M
interrupted opportunity to put the ideas that
be absorbed in the East into full operation.
+, az
{ Conrad Miller III striking contrast, seems
perfectly satisned with the system now in
! vogue in the treasurers Office. He has
called upon Mr.. Refs and inspected the
books, and. it is said, he feels that everything
is i'll apple pie order, so to speak.
IT
The general impression is that the council
will pay the Burns claim without waiting for
the Official investigation ordered. alr.
Burns bond is good and sufficient and fully
protects the city from any possible loss,
should it be found that there are any
grounds for the charges made By the st.
Paul Typothetae. Before there can be any
Official eognizance of the matter. it must
once more come before the assembly.
The board of aldermen, at their last ses-
sion, amended the assembly file, and this
must he concurred III. The amendment
in question was to strike out the paragraph
il the assembly resolution prohibiting the
comptroller from issuing warrant and in
extending the investigation back through
the previous administration. or for four
years. Several CT the assemblymen, who at
first were aginst the payment of the pending
claims amounting to Sa,4oo are now i'll favor
of paying, since Mr.. Burns boudsmen re-
quest it.