St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-13

without the vote of Aid. Franklin. Az
FRANKLIN would not openly say whether
ne would or would not vote for the
ordinance, it was never presented. The
measure had been in his possession
until recently, when, cleaning out his
desk, he had torn it up and thrown 1t in
the waste basket.
From gentleman who did not care
to be known it was learned that there
was no question about the truth of the
charges, and that the money had been
collected and paid to the Sixth ward
alderman every month since July, 1892.
In order to settle all question the gen.
tleman referred to the meeting which
was held last Saturday afternoon at the
private Office Of the building inspector.
Present at this meeting were Aid.
FRANKLIN, ex-DeDuty- Inspector Mac
Carthy, eXAssistant Inspector WooIsey.
Philip Anfang, T. +. Kellehor, ". P.
OBrien and j. a. Meyer, all of the last
six mentioned having been employed in
the Office, and parties to the monthly
collections made for the thrifty alder
man. The object of the meeting was to
listen to proposition made by Frank
lin regarding the return of the money
which had been paid him for his sery-
ices. An affidavit was presented by
Franklin which was to be signed, the
purport of which was that no money
had been paid him. In order to induce
the employees whom he had bled to sign
the affidavit, Franklin, it is stated, an
nounced his willingness to give his
check for S275 dated Jan. 0. which would
balance the amounts he had been paid,
Several OF the men objected to taking
check, and insisted that as the money
had been paid in cash it be returned in
the same form. This Franklin could
not or would not do, and the negotia-
tlonS fell through.
DISPATCH INTERVIEWS.
The Dispatch last evening. the lead
ing Republican paper in the city, pub
iished the charges which appeared in
the GLOBE yesterday, and added the
following interviews which. while they
do not confess, certainly do not deny:
The employees of the building inspect
or'S office would neither deny nor admit
the truthfulness of the charges. They
had talked the matter over and decided
1t would be best to say nothing. They
referred an inquirer to eX-Ald. Frank
lin.
j. A. Meyer. clerk of the department,
would answer no direct questions fur
ther than to deny having any knowl-
edge of such an agreement with the ex-
alderman.
Il am not at liberty to say anything
in reference to those charges" Said t.
+. Kelleher. the inspector of elevators
and fire escapes. Il will neither admit
nor deny anything"
Plumbing Inspector William P.
O'Brien said: II have nothing to say.
The GLOBE reporter never received any
information from me. [ am not an in
former. and never will be one"
Assistant Inspector 2. A. Anfdng had
nothing to say.
Excluding Inspector Morris this
afternoon said: "All [ know of the
matter is this: Mr.. Mccarthy, my cx-
deputy, came to me one day and SAID he
would like me to subscribe to little
fund he wished to use. Yes, [ su6-
scribed. but made no inquiries. l did
not get acquainted with Mr.. Franklin
until the building inspeetorship fight
came up"
Did Mr. Franklin promise to support
you for re-election?"
II do not care to say anything about
that matter"