St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-11
HIS HOME IS IN DUBUQUE, TO-,
CONVENIENT TO BE THERE,
ALSO.
MtnnesOta's Representatives Take
Immediate Action and the ONCE
Is Likely to Return.

Is now In transit to Dubuque and
Will follow it tomorrow morning at Z
O'clock said Capt. William Tibbals,
supervising inspector Of steam vessels
for this district last night.
Perhaps Capt. Tibbals' equipment
will return to st. Paul later. 1t GER
tainly will if Minnesota's representa-
tives in congress have anything to
say about it. For when it became
known yesterday that Capt. Tibbals
had decided to change his headquar-
tiers there arose a general feeling that
Capt. Tibbals would not change his
headquarters. kilograms were sent to
Washington advising the st. Paul rep
resentatives what was going on, and
there was a ready response for early
In the afternoon Postmaster Castle re-
ceived the following kilograms from
the capital:
Have called on Senator Davis, also on In
spector General Dumont. Senator Davis
Will call on the general this afternoon, and
may be able to prevent the Office being
moved from st. Paul "A. r. Keifer
Have protested. See that Hill and Doran
wire protest. Villas is at Madison. He should
moved from st. Paul. A R. Kiefer.
The office Of supervising inspector of
steam vessels has been in the govern
ment building at st. Paul for years
There has never been any thought of
its being removed from this city here
tofore. But when Capt. Tibbals was
appointed he thought it would be
easier to- remove the Office to Dubuque
than to move his home to st. Paul.
The more he thought of it the more he
felt convinced it would be a good
thing to shut up shop here and go
back to Dubuque, Office and all. He
went about his work secretly, and
did it all so quietly that when he re-
ce1ved official permission from Wash
1ngton last Thursday to make the
change, nobody knew anything about
it except himself, Gen. Dumont, Sec
rotary Carlisle and Assistant Score
tary of the Treasury Scott White, by
whom the note of permission was
signed. The application had been
made to Gen. Dumont, was referred
to Secretary Carlisle and passed along
to the gentleman who gave Capt.Tib-
balls the permission he desired.
Then came the hardest part of the
work. How was the captain going TO
get away from st. Paul without the
other officials of the government build
Ing finding it out. That was an i'm
possibility. Collector of Internal Reve-
nue. Geraghty would certainly see him
packing up. So. Capt Tibbals went
to Mr.. Geraghty and told him he
wanted to confide a secret in him.
Would he keep it? Mr.. Geraghty GER
ta1nly would. Then Capt Tibbals
pulled out the little document with
Scott Whites signature on it, and told
MIN ne was going to move. Mr. Ger
agility had pledged himself to secrecy,
SO he couldn't raise the alarm.
yesterday morning, however, when the Of
icials went to their Office, as usual, they
found the lower corridor of the government
building filled with articles of one kind or
another, and began to make inquiry what
was going on. Some of them thought new
postmaster had been appointed, and Capt
castle was moving out But the postmaster
himself soon came along. He, too, began to
ask what was going on, and as soon as he
wired the officials in Washington. Still the
band played on, as it were. Capt. TibbaIs
mad hired expressmen. The goods were
taken to the depot, loaded on car, and sent
to Dubuque.
1T is one of the greatest outrages / ever
heard Of" said Capt Castle yesterday. "The
idea OF moving an office away from st. Paul
down to Dubuque, when the main object of
having the Office here is to attend to the
business on the Upper Mississippi, the Min
nesota river, the Red river, and others west
OF here, where steam vessels have to be in
spected. 1t means a hardship to all such
vessel owners, If nothing more. And all be-
cause 1t is more convenient for Capt lib
balls to be at Dubuque than st: Paul 1t
IL.
have any power to stop it."
But the office has been moved, and it now
remains to be seen whether or not the au-
thorities at Washington will order it re-
stored to st. Paul or not
Capt. William Tibbals said to the o b e
last night that Supervising Inspector General
Dumont was not to blame for the removal,
but that he had made the removal on his
own account. He said, further, that it is
not only the custom, but is the case in
every district but the Fifth that all super
vising inspectors offices are located with
local boards. The local board in this district
is at Dubuque. Only about year ago the
inspector at Louisville moved his Office to
Memphis. If there are not local boards
enough in the Fifth district which the de-
partment should know themselves, by proper
application they will undoubtedly locate
more
The captain was asked why he went about
the work so secretly and said that he did
1t to avoid the annoyance of having people
asking questions about it.
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