St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-20
COPPERS ORGANIZE
What Is to Be Known as the
Police Association Of Min
neSota.
OBJECT, MUTUAL BENEFIT.
Bill Discussed to Place Po-
lice on Civil Service
Basis,
COMPELLING APPLICANTS
OBJECT, MUTUAL BENEFIT.
COMPELLING APPLICANTS
For Positions on the Force
to Pass an EXamina-
ton.

. Policemen from eighteen cities Of the
state met at the Windsor hotel yester-
day and organized what is now known
rs the Police Association of the State Of
Minnesota. Its object is the mutual
benefit of all police departments in the
state, as hereinafter set forth.
When the convention was called to
order in the forenoon there were forty
delegates present. Out of the thirty
Dne towns invited to send representa-
lives, eighteen towns responded.
Among the delegates present were:
Chief Ii. r. Armstrong, Duluth;
Chief William Barron, Brainerd; Chief
N. j. Heinen. New Ulm; Chief Charles
Greene, Owatonna; Chief Charles 3.
Ballan, Red Wing; Chief Asa Libbey,
st. Cloud: Chief James Mccarthy, Wa
basha; Chief o. G. Tien, Wilmar; Chief
William Geiger Jr., Faribault; Capt.
Martin Buferding, Lieut.. Croscan, Ser
geant Gustafson and Officer John Kerr.
Minneapolis; Capt. A. NJ. Lowell, Lieut..
William Budy. Lieut.. Thomas Walsh.
Sergeant John w. Zirkelbach, Sergeant
f. q. Tegeler, Officer John Gleason and
officer Thomas Cummings. ST. Paul.
After etfecting temporary organiza-
ton, the convention at once proceeded
to elect permanent officers, with the fol-
lowing result:
President, Officer John Kerr, Mlnne-
apolis; vice president, Chief II. r.
Armstrong, Duluth; second vice presi-
dent, Chief G. Yates, Mankato; secre-
tary, Sergeant Fred G. Tegeer. st.
Paul; treasurer, Lieut.. William Budy,
ST. Paul; chairman of executive COM
mttee, Sergeant Zirkelbach, of st.
Paul.
In the Afternoon
the convention reassembled and dis
cussed the matters claiming its atten-
ton. and appointed a committee to
draft constitution and bylaws. The
association has two bills which it will
urge the legislature to pass at this Ses-
sion. Both of these bills were discussed
yesterday. One OF them is. a measure
10 place all police departments of the
state on civil service basis, thereby
compelling all members, from chiefs
down, to pass an examination before
they can be appointed to the force, and
then enSuring all members who pass a
satisfactory examination a life tenure
Of office, during good behavior.
Such a bill, if passed, would, in the
CH'i'ACAA VI bhO POiANC dooOCl0LIOII, IGilCk6
nll reasonable objections to the passage
Of the other bill allowing the police de-
partments the remaining half of the 2
per cent tax OH foreign insurance COM
panies. The latter bill, which has al
ready been drafted, was read aloud yes
terday and approved. In case it should
become law the fund thereby given to
the poilce departments would be used
solely III aiding
Sick and Disabled
policemen who are in the service and to
better equip the police departments OF
the small country towns. The general
object of both bills is to bind closer to-
gether all the police departments Of the
state.
The following officers were appointed
committee on constitution and bylaws
and Instructed TO report at the next
meeting OF the association, which will
be held soon upon call of the president:
Lieut.. William Budy, ST. Paul; Chief
Charles Yates, Mankato; Chief Charles
Greene. Owatonna, and President Kerr,
of Minneapolis.
The secretary was instructed to send
circulars to those police departments
not represented at the meeting. inform
ing them what had been accomplished
and urging them 10 send representatives
50 the next meeting of the association.
at the hour of adjournment news was
s92eived of the death of Detective Dan
O'Connor. A committee consisting of
the following was Immediately ap-
pointed to draft appropriate resolu.
tons: Chief ii. II. Armstrong, Duluth;
Sergeant Zirkelbach, st. Paul; Chief
Charles Greene, Owatonna: Chief WILL
lam Geiger. Faribault, and Sergeant +.
q. Tegeler, st. Paul.