The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-16
WITH ALL THE OTHERS MADE
MAJORITY OF THE REPUBLICAN
ASSEMBLY so DECIDE AT
THEIR CAUCUS.
AGE NOR A. P. A. CUT NO FIGURE
Except That the Latter lis Supposed
to be a Boost for DOran's
Selection.


B. Maloney as license inspector. That
| is the result of a secret caucus Of the
members of the assembly held yester-
| day afternoon behind the locked doors
of one of the council committee rooms.
| The majority vote necessary to confirm
| the mayors appointment indicates that
at least five members of the assembly
are in sympathy with the A. P. A. For,
| Mr.. Maloney is clearly disqualified by
| law for the position.
The Bell charter does not create any
such Office as license inspector. Conse-
| quently there is no such office. Rec
! ognizing this, the previous administra-
! ton appointed it's choice for license in
! spector a patrolman, and detailed"
him to discharge the duties Of a license
| inspector. The Doran administration.
| has done likewise. But the charter also
informs the mapor that he shall not
appoint any man patrolman who is
over the age Of 35. Mayor Doran ig-
nored this clause, for Mr.. Maloney, who
must be a patrolman before he can be
license inspector, confesses that he
is 48 years old. Hence the trouble.
| But the trouble such as it is, did
not arise out Of any nice regard for
the law on the part Of the majority of
the assembly, except in the case of
AsSemblyman Lewis, who seems to
think that it is unlawful for the mayor
/ to appoint man As years old to an Of
flee which the law says go man over 35
years of age is eligible for. Assembly
men Daily and Reardon are heartily
with Mr.. Lewis in the case of Maloney,
! Mt tn
weighs a trif1e more with them than
| the letter of the law, fixing the age
limit.
| The truth Is that the A. p A. sentf-
ment dominates the assembly, as wit
ness the fact that the caucus of that
entire body decided yesterday to con-
firm all Of Mayor Doran's appoint
ments to the police force, notwith-
| standing the fact that some of them
are Illegal. Maloney's case being the
most extreme, furnished the test In
vestigation Of Mr.. Maloney's social af-
| f1liations, in which investigation one of
the asemblymen participated, resulted
in discovering Mr.. Maloney's name on
! the roster Of an A. P. A organization
That Mr.. Maloney was an A. P. A. was
| generally suspected when his name first
came before the assembly for confirma-
! ton. His age was not questioned then,
but his appointment was referred to the
committee on police, though Mr.. Rear
/ don did not move the reference.
| Maloney's case is the test by which
all must abide. OF the score Of. ap-
| pointments made by Mayor Doran
| there are several questionable ones as
! to the age limitation. Some of these
appointees deceived Mr. Doran regard
| ing the dates of their births Their
! subsequent affidavits will stand, how
| ever, save in the cases of one or two
! of those reappointees, who in 1892 said
| they were "a years old, in 1896 declare
! that they are '.going on 50 years" But
the mayor did not. or at least, was not
| obliged to act in the dark regarding
two other appointments. He appointed
| the veteran John Harris jailor at the
| central station, konwing him, as all his
acquaintenances do to have passed the
two score mark, some days ago. The
/ mayor did not consider the jailor a
| patrolman, which is his explanation in
| this case. He also appointed John NJ
Ahern a patrolman. Ahern admits
| that he was 35 years old last Deem
Der, which makes him indisputably in
i eligible for appointment in June, 1896.
! And there are others.
| But they will all be confirmed, unless
! yesterdays caucus of the assembly is
| punctured. Every member of that body
| was. present. The Maloney case was
! made the test. In vain did Mr.. Lewis
urge that the appointment was illegal.
| In vain did Messrs. Reardon and Daily
assert that Maloney belonged to the
| A. P. A. This last charge, Indeed,
seemed to increase Maloney's popular
ity with five of the other members
| Mr.. Lewis was Disguised with the
! talk He fatty acquainted his col
leagues with his contempt for the re-
| 1igious qualifications of a candidate for
! a position on the police force.
ST don't care whether the mayors
appointee to the police force is a Ro-
man Catholic, an A. P A. or a free
silver men, said Mr.. Lewis 1.-The
/ question with me and the Only question
! is, lis he fit man for the place? If
/ he is, he will get my vote
This liberal sentiment was not shared
by the majority of the assemblymen
Lots of trimming" followed. Those
members who conscientiously believe
they were elected to the council to
represent the Republican party, plead
ed that they were in duty bound to
sustain and endorse the mayor The
mayor was the responsible head of the
| police department and knew what he
was doing. Above all harmony must be
maintained between the mayor and the
assembly. One false note would give
! the band away, and therefore if it
must be uttered, it should be uttered in
secret. In other words the newspaper
reporters must be excluded 1t would
not do to let the public know every
thing that was going on.
/ Assemblyman Thompson was es-
| pecially eloquent upon this theme. He
believed that matters of this character
| could be more freely discussed in the
| absence Of the reporters
I'VE are all honest men," said Mr..
(! Thompson to the caucus. land WHY
| should all that we may say or suggest
in committee meeting be published? If
| we were crooked men it would be
different"
This turn to the conversation was
occasioned by the publication in yes
terday's G 0 b e of the little dialogue
| between ASsemblymen Arosin and
Reardon at the last secret meeting of
the committee, in which the two diff
fered as to the status of the A. P
The publication of this interesting con-
versation annoyed the assembIymen
exceedingly. They were under the i'm
preston that their proceedings ard
their talk were not to be made public.
Mr.. Lewis wasted time and breath in
pointing out the illegafity Of Maloney's
appointment, and Messrs Rearion and
DAILY labored in vain to convince their
colleagues that Maloney was not only
disqualified by age, but by reason of
his A P A y1rocliyitieS FOR tho noe;