St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-01
REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF THE
COURT HOUSE COMMISSION RE
PAY POLITICAL DEBTS.
REMOVE ALL OLD EMPLOYEES.
GODFREY LOSES HER
POSITION TO MAKE ROOM FOR
SOME VOTER
WRIGHT WAS IN LINE YESTERDAY.
on the Removals Men Who
Get. Places.

The Republican members Of the joint
city hall and court house commission
yesterday completed the work of in
stating their friends into Office, re-
moving nearly every employe about the
city hall and court house just because
these poor wage-earners happened to
be appointed when the majority of the
board was composed Of Democrats
Even poor woman, Margaret Godfrey,
VINO earned her livelihood by helping
10 take care of the building, could not
De spared in the mad rush of the ward
heeiers for place. Every one of the
employees discharged was faithful SER
want. Not word to the contrary was
suggested against one of them They
were all appointed regardless Of poll
Tics, as Is proven by the fact that some
OF them were Republicans and one was
woman. But the ones SO unfortunate
as TO be Republicans are not ward heel
ers with pull and therefore they
are not the kind Of Republicans to be
recognized by the politicians who make
up the Republican majority Of the COM
mission.
IN view OF the manner in which Com
missioner Wright was abused by his
Republican colleagues at the last meet
ing for daring to declare himself in ia
Vor OF what he considered right, it was
thought that gentleman would continue
TO stand with the Democrats in opposi-
tlon to this wholesale discharge of faith
1ul employees just for the purpose of
making room for Republican hangers
on But Mr.. Wright was coWhided into
I,n
like wooden man, never making a
murmur except to vote AYE on what
ever any one of the other three pro-
posed. Such complete subsection, it
was remarked, was pitiable spectacle
IN country in which the widest range
of personal liberty is supposed to exist.
In the absence of Mayor Smith, Act
ing Mayor Ehrmanntraut presided
After disposihg Of the regular routine
business, the allowance of bills, ETC., a
letter from the Druids' labor bureau of
the city was read, which urged that
John L. Hoffman and Louis Anderson
be not discharged as janitors Of the
court houses and city hall. The letter
was ordered filed! ~- --n
A resolution, offered by Commission
er Johnson, was then read It provided
for the dischargelof Fred Potter, s.. A.
Wiley,7J. L., Hoffman, Tom Delaney
Roman Huspeck,' Adam Nachscheim
Fred Murnane, Charles w. Johnson, j.
r. White and Margaret Godfrey, en-
ployes in the building, the discharge to
Ike effect from and after Feb. a.
Chairman Ehrmanntraut said that the
board had previouslNi adopted a resoIu-
ton giving the custodian power to hire
and discharge employees with the con-
sent OF the board, and this resolution
must be reseinded before the present
one would be in order. Mr.. johnson
then added provision that all pre-
vious resolutions of a conflicting char
acter be rescinded which was satisfac-
tory to the chair. 80, .s.1,,e,.4.
motion to lay on the table was lost
by a vote to g., all the Republicans
johnson, Arosin, Milham and Wright,
voting against it. Allen then moved to
strike out the names of Hoffman and
Nachtscheim, but this was lost by "a
vote of to 2, Ehrmanntraut declining
to vote. The original resolution was
then adopted by a strictly partisan
vote.
Another resolution to elect George
Gerlach night Waterman, at a salary Of
$50 a month, was next adopted by the
same vote. Gerlach is a Republican
striker, who has been looking for some
thing ever since the close of the last
campaign. He was one of the Speech
makers" in that memorable struggle,
and his talks on that occasion were
literary gems. However, they were
good enough, it seems, to receive rec
ognition, and therefore the public is in
duty bound to pay for them, which
they will begin doing after Feb A.
Another resolution was adopted by
the same vote electing M. J. Schorn
and Steve McDonough elevator men,
and still another electing the follow
ing janitors to succeed those dis
charged: Louis Lindquist, Fred Artz,
J. P. White, Charles Johnson, Joe Du-
cherne, John Churchill and William
Marquard. Nicholas Flynn was elect
ed yardman, to begin service as soon
as needed. All the others begin on
Feb. IA. -t~
There remained but one thing to be
disposed Of to some good Republican"
as compensation for his political ser
vices, and this was the cigar stand.
A resolution was offered granting this
privilege to c. A. Anderson, and requir-
ing tho 'emoVal forthwith Of Lawrence
Fahey, who at present enjoys the priv
ilege.
Chairman Ehrmanntraut suggested
that the stand was a nuisance in the
corridor and Ought to be abolished al
together as 1t was bringing in no rev.
enue, no rental being charged. There
was no reasonTwhythe taxpayers should
furnish anybody with a place in which
to do business without charging any
thing for it. Commissioner Allen took
the same view Of it, but the resolution
was adopted, by the four Republican
votes
A communication from Clerk of the
Court Rogers calling attention to the
| necessity for a new file room for his
Office, was referred to the committee on
| grounds and building.
The commission adjourned to meet
again on Feb. Is, at 8 o'clock in the aft
ernoon.
''Dfclx'' Mabey Is Referee.