The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-04
SOME ARE FAVORED
AID. STUTZMAN FINDS THAT ALL
THE KEEPERS OF DISORDER
LY HOUSES
ARE NOT TREATED THE SAME.
ONE-THlRD OF THE NUMBER ARE
ALLOWED IMMUNITY FROM
FINES.
NOT TREATED THE SAME.
ANOTHER INaUIsITIoN STARTED.
Aldermen Want to Know What
System Mayor DOran and His
Fidus Use.

Aid. StutZman created something of
a sensation at the board of aldermen
meeting last evening by introducing a
resolution asking for the appointment
Of a joint special committe of five from
the council to investigate the manner
in which the mayor and other officers
charged with the enforcement of the
ordinance relating to disorderly houses
were doing their duty. The resolution
introduced by the Second ward alder
man read as follows:
Resolved. That a special joint committee
OF five, consisting of three members from the
board and two from the assembly, be desig-
mated by the presiding officers of each body,
to investigate the manner in which the mayor
and other officers charged with that duty
are enforcing the provisions of Ordinance
No. 2S5, and that it submit its report, with
other rma upon the subject as it may
deem proper, to the common council for its
consideration.
In speaking to the resolution, Aid.
Stutzman. who is chairman of the com
mittee on public accounts, said that
as a member of the committee he ex-
amined the monthly reports of the clerk
of the municipal court. The records of
the court showed that there should be
twenty-six keepers of disorderly resorts
fined under the practice now followed
by the police department in fning the
keepers of these escorts The reports
Of the clerk of the municipal court,
however, showed that the largest num-
Der who paid fines into the court in
any one month was twelve, and the
smallest number three. An eXamina-
ton of the lists and the reports of the
clerk of the municipal court showed
that eleven or twelve of the keepers
of these resorts should pay fines each
month. The records also showed that
parties were brought into court charg-
ed with keeping d~isorderly resorts, and
their cases continued through the
month and then discharged, and no
fines paid.
From an examination of the reports
of the clerk of the municipal court it
is learned that from Aug. l, 1896, to
July 81, 1897, some OF the keepers of
these resorts had only paid fines into
the court twice. Others had paid fines
into the court four times, and only five
had paid fines regularly during the
year. The committee of which he was
chairman had been unable to find why
things were thus, and it would, in his
opinion, do no harm to have the matter
investigated by a committee from the
council.
Aid. Kaldunski interrupted the Sec
ond ward alderman and enquired if he
had consulted Patrolman Miller about
the matter. Miller is the mayors pri-
vate messenger, and, in addition to his
duties about the office of his honor,
acts as major domo of the disorderly
houses.
The resolution was adopted by a vote
Of 8 to 1, Aid. Sanborn being recorded
as voting against its passage. Presl-
dent Bigelow appointed as the alder
manic end of the investigating COM
mittee Aid. Stutzman, Kenny and San
born. The Seventh ward alderman
asked that he be excused from serving
and. suggested that Aid. Kaldunski
would be better for the work. Presi-
dent Bigelow, however, could not hear
Aid. Sanborn, and announced that the
committee would stand as named.
Aid. Stutzman, in looking up the
facts which led to the introduction of
the resolution, finds that keepers of
disorderly resorts paid fines into the
police court as follows: on Aug 10,
Sept. II, Oct. 5, Nov. II, Dec. 3. Jan 10,
Feb. 4. March 10, April 5, May s, June
6 and July 10.