St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-28
MAYOR EUSTlS' RIB ROAST
He P0U7S SOME HOT SHOT MT0 THE
COUNCIL,
AND READS 1T A LECTURE.

Vice Is Rampant-He Declares
the Charge False-AIdermen
Charged With WiIlfulIy or Ig-
norantIy Utteriug a Libel.
The city council last night disposed of
large grist OF routine business, besides
taking a whiTl at several side issues
The first matter that came up was the
mayors veto to the McAilister resolu-
ton, which read as follows:
MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi. Oct. 6, 1898
men: The resolution offered by Aid.
McAllister. passed by your body Sept.
18th, 1898, relating to gambling and
houses of ilI-fame with the city. is
herewith returned unsigned. The pre-
ambie or said resolution states that
gambling Is being openly carried on at
many places easily ascertainabie within
the city, and lewd houses are rapidly
spreading through the residence and
business portions thereof, with the
apparent cOnniyance or indiffer-
ence on the part of the public
officials charged with the respon-
slbility of suppresSing these evils.
Those statements are absolutely and
I0l 1HSIc Is HO
public gambling i'll this city, and the
social evil is not rapidly spreading
through the residence and business
portions thereof, with the apparent
cOnniYance or indifference on the part
OF the public officials charged with the
responsibility of suppressing these
evils"
Respectfully do l ask the council. or
any individual member thereof, to fur
niSh me with the names of any place OF
places in this city where vice holds
sway, and the existence of which has
furnished foundation for the resolution
herewith returned. If the facts alleged
in this resolution were true the highest
good OF the city should have suggested
TO the council that the attention OF the
executive department be called thereto
III less public manner than by this
formal resolution.
The motive OF the council, whether
sincere or insincere, in the passing OF
this resolution is not matter of dis
cuSsiOn; but it is matter OF grave pub.
lie interest when the council charges
the chief executive OF city with ineffi-
cheney in the administration of affairs
and with conuivance at crime, and es-
pecialiy when this is done i'll such a
manner as to bring diSrepute upon the
fair name of the city itself. By a long
line of tradition the council is looked
upon as the city fathers, and you are
supposed to have a parental interest
and care for tie honor and good name
of the community. 4 good name is as
sacred TO city as it is to the individ-
ual. 1t was the assault on the
good name of our city a few
years since that made our people
united as one man in opposition
thereto. When the fathers of city, by
formal resolution, advertise to the world
that their city is rotten with vice and
shame, it is bad enough; but what shall
We say when these supposed guardians
OF its honor falsely herald such a re-
port? Temperate language fails TO ex-
press the proper measure of dlSaDproba-
ton at the wanton libeling of the good
name of the fair city by the chosen Gus
tOdilnS OF its virtue. Our people I'M
derstand this resolution, aud the mo-
tiYes therefor, and they also know that
this city was never more orderly or bet
ter governed than today, and that the
social evil, so called, was seldom more
restricted or better regulated. The en-
fOrcement of all laws and ordinances is
bounded 10y the limitations of human
nature and public opinion. While our
people may treat this resolution as a
jest, it is not so with those resident out
side of our city. To them the situation
must seem grave that calls for such an
unusual resolution from so deliberate a
body.
What father having regard to the
honor and good name OF his children
would think of sending them to the
state university. situated in the heart of
a city SO Astounding in sin and tempta-
ton? What stranger, seeking rest from
lator, would think of entering our gates
and dwelling with his family in our
midst, believing this resolution to be
true, and that our city was honey
combed with vice, ard the administra-
ton was connIving at and Indifferent
thereto? Either willfully or ignOrantly,
the council has set in motion libel the
last evil effects CT which can never be
run down.
If this council disapprove of the
official acts of the present mayor, and
desires to reprove him. it is to be hoped
that they will do it in such a way as not
to involve the good name OF the city.
The allegation in this resolution that
this administration cOnniyeS at or is in
different TO the suppression OF vice is,
without any reservation, false. We are
trying conScIentlouSiy, with the material
at command, to give this city business
administration; an administration in
which order and sObriety shall be tine
chief corner stones. 1t would be pleas
AIT and helpful to have the cooperation
of the council, but,with or without their
cooperation. the present policy will be
pursued 10 the end.
The aldermen looked at one another
now and then during the reading of the
veto, and some of them ventured an
occasional smile. Atthe conclusion of the
reading few long breathS were heard.
There was an ominOuS pause Tor few
seconds. and then Aid. McAllister. the
author of the famous resolution, arose
and said:
II move that action on the veto be
indefinitely postponed"
There was no discussion. and Presi-
dent hilchli put the question. The mo-
ton was carried by II TO S. Aid.
Haynes and Anderson declined to vote.
The nays were Aid. Ingenhutt, Harvey,
Brazie. NOrdeen, Flanders, Miner, Cur
rier and Gray.
POOL ROOM ORDINANCE KILLED.
The ordinance amending the ordi-
nance prohibiting gaming and gambling
houses received its second reading.
The amendment was made to include
the pool rooms. Aid. Long moved for
indefinite postpOnement. Aid. Meal
lister made short speech, urging that
the ordinance be passed, but the motion
to indefinitely postpone was carried by
vote of u to 10.
MISCELLANEOUS WORK.
Health Commissioner Kelly sent In
communication informing the council
that John B. Gilfiilan had refused to
pay bill of S22.55 incurred by the
health department in abating nui-
sanee caused by the unsanitary condi-
ton Of water closets and back yards be-
longing to Mr.. Gilfllan's property at
As, al, 419. 421, 423 and 425 Central
avenue. DR.. Kelly further stated that
the health department had declared the