St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-24
MUCH CRY AND LITTLE WOOL

MUCH CRY AND LITTLE WOOL
that at the beginning of the session!
Mr.. Feig offered his resolution,
ominous with limitations of start.
ling malversa ton, for an inyestiga-.
ton into the office of the state treas.
urer and other offices. Forthwith,
aghast at the possible probabilities.
or the probable possibilities, but not.
daring to refuse. the legislature gave.
Mr.. Feig his COMMITTEES, and. what
we now suspect was the real object
sought, a clerk at SIS day with which
Mr.. F'eig might liduidate some ante.
election obligation at the states ex-
pense.
One wades through the verbose re-
port to the end to find a few kernels
of wheat in a mighty mass of chaff,
and to conclude that the young man
used his elegant five-dollar-a-day
leisure in exercising himself in the
art of literary composition. There is
nothing in it that the newspapers had
not investigated and exposed long
ago except, possibly the exact
amount that Mr.. Bobleter had re-
ceived as a gift from his admiring
friends in a couple of rotten banks,
to which he had intrusted some
hundred thousand dollars of the
funds of the state. AS to how many
more friends the treasurer had in
other banks who were solieitous for
his election and reelection, it is APP
parent that the young man of the
committee had not the time to as
certain, although the fact that some
had so contributed might be pre-
sumptive that others had, sufficiently
so, at least, as to stimulate an in
vestigation.
1t does not appear that the bank
examiner Of the state was asked to
| tell what he may have discovered in
his searches among the state banks.
if indeed he found anything. Judg-
| ing by the results of his examina!i ons
| of the Minneapolis money sinks
prior to the panic we might doubt his
| capacity to find anything, were it
| not for the fact that he did find once
that a Democratic county treasurer
| had loaned a Republican county
auditor some county money. Pos
| sibly as an examiner he bats his
hook for minnows, and doesn't care
| to catch the big fsf..-z---.- --, -.
But the little that does appear.
cerroborated by Col. Bobleterss adj
missions, discloses an attitude of the
/ treasurer towards the banks. a. re-
ceptiveness, as it were, that is very
remarkable. In an Interview Mr..
| Bobleter says that some of his
friends who were, QUITE accidentalIv.
of course, officers of these two partie.
aiar banks, forced on him a giftsea
some money to be used by him in his
campaigns to defray his expenses
II the colonel viii pardon rus we
doubt this version OF the story.
There is intrinsic evidence of its I'M
probability. That is unless bank Of
| ficers have a very unusual method of
making gifts of money.
| A little experience in raising cam.
paign funds warrants as in saving
that customafily the donors deaf-in
| round numbers. They draw their
checks for the sum they desire to
contribute, but never split a V. 1t is
s. or $50 or $500; always in good
round numbers, and lievar By dimes
of nickels. Possibly among The rink
officers in Minneapolis, with their ex-
perience us elders of the churches.
accustomed to passing the plate it
may be different. If this is Tie case,
we can UNDERSTAND Aow it s,,ae that
the officers of the State bank gave"