St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-19

we VIII relfdce our steps ulllil our
feet are again bathed in fratricidal
blood.
VET ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION.
We commented recently upon the
condition in Philadelphia, whose
mayor is clothed with the necessary
powers for "a responsible executive"
such as it is the wish of our morning
contemporary that st. Paul should
have We showed that, under the
Bullet charter and with that kind
Of an executive, the expenses of the
departments had enormously in
creased. We have now in the city
of Detroit another illustration of
what may happen under an eXecu-
tive clothed with large powers. May
or Pingree has, under the charter OF
that city, the appointing of all of the
different boards and commissions.
In spite of the fact that the officers
of these different bodies were his
own appointments, the mayor is IN
a condition of turmoil with them all
and with the city generally. The
press of the city is opposing him,
and he has recently resorted to
blackboards put up in different por-
tons of the city as his only means of
communicating with the public.
His own appointees claim that he is
meddlesome, dictatorial and arbi-
trary, and wished each department
to be run according to his own per-
sonal view. So far has this pro-
crossed that bill is now in the leg
islature, having passed the senate,
taking away from the mayor this
power Of appointment and vesting
it in the governor. Mayor Pingree
makes the rather singular argu-
ment before the legislative COM
mittees in opposition to this bill
that it strikes down home rule"
But whatever may be the merits
Or dement's of this quarrel of the
mayor and his city boards, it illus
trates forcibly the mischief that
may result in the one-man plan of
city government, and especially so
in this state, where no special act
can be passed, and where a charter
law must be operative over all the
state. 1t only emphasizes the need
of getting back to home rule, leav-
ing with each city the right to frame
and alter it's organic law as it pleases.
Representative Warner is credited
with an ambition to succeed Col. A.
r. Kiefer as member of congress
from the Fourth district, and is de-
voting fully as much energy to the
incubation of his little self-construct-
ed boomlet as he is to the scheme
of railroading City Attorney Cham
berlain over another term, and ap-
propriating $1,000 to pay Sheriff
Chapel for executing Ermisch and
Wonigkeit. In the prosecution Of all
these enterprises Mr.. Warner seems
to have entirely lost sight of the fact
that there is a bill, ostensibly intro
duced by himself, the purpose of
which is to make certain funds avail
able for use in the construction of
the state capitol. In the meanwhile
Kandiyohi Feig and Lac Qui Parle
Jacobson are saving wood and pill
ing it on the capitol bill.
Not for worlds would the GLOBE
speak, disparagingly or in a joshing
vein of any member of the legisla-
ture. 1t appreciates too keenly the
fact that legislator is anointed with
kind of divine oil of authority,
which renders the person of the
anointed sacred and safe from the
attacks of common mOrtals. The
GLOBE therefore refrains from re-
marking that in the set-to in the
house on the capitol bill yesterday
Mr.. Feig made a monkey Of Mr..
Warner. Such language would be
unseemly and misbeftting. Mr.. Feig
did not have to make" a monkey Of
the distinguished gentleman who has
the honor of representing the silk
stocking ward.
In the session of 1898, when there
was supposed to be some subStan-
tial opposition to the capitol BILL the
measure was passed with no mate
rial opposition and but little delay.
At that time P. H. Kelly headed the
Ramsey county delegation. In 1895,
when it was conceded that there was
no opposition to the needed supple
mental act, the bill is delayed from
time to time, and used as a club by
i couple of members from the remote
4.,.r 1, f1,a
sey county delegation just as they
| please, and who will allow the bill to
| pass when they get good and ready.
| At this time Eli Warner "heads" the
Ramsey county delegation-off.
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If anybody is in doubt as to the
security with which the railroads
are intrenched in the senate, the re-
| fusal of that body to consider the
| provision in the appropriation bill to
permit the postmaster to make con-
| tract for buying and hauling the
| railway mail cars, whereby the an
/ nual charge of fifteen or sixteen
! millions for that service can be re-
! duced to ten million dollars, might
be taken as a fair illustration. Its
! further persistence in giving an
alleged New York and Atlanta fast
mail train $196,0O0 for a fast mail"
| service that is no faster than that
| given by other and unsubsidized
| lines, is another illustration.
! While the state editorial associa-
! hi + oh
| appoint a committee Of one or two
able-bodied editors to stay in st.
Paul during the balance of the ses-
sion of the legislature, and act as a
! steering committee for the country