The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-25
LEGATION oF POLICE ABUSES
WILL BE RESUMED
UPON THE MAYORS RETURN.
AID. KENNY STANDS BY HIS COL
LEAGUE IN THE DETERMINA-
TON TO GO ON.
FAVORITIsM in CITY AFFAIRS
viii BE Thoroughly INQUIRED Into
by the Council Inquisitors i'm
Spite Of Party Pressure.

InoSe Who imagine that the 1nVeStl-
cation of the administration manage
ment of the houses Of i'll fame has fiZ-
Zled out are, greatly mistaken, so Aid.
Stutzman says. AS chairman of the
aldermanic Investigating committee,
Aid. Stutzman intends to proceed with
the inquiry, and Aid. Kenny will lend
the movement a willing hand, nothing
daunted by the attorney that the adj
ministrat1on has engaged to hamper
the efforts of the committee to arrive
at the truth. Aid. Stutzman, when seen
yesterday, said:
This investigation is by no means
ended. 1t will be resumed in a few
days,-soon after Mayor Doran returns
from the G. A. r. encampment. The
committee does not propose to back out
because the administration has en-
gagged lawyers to block our efforts. 1
must say [ was astonished the other
night to see counsel employed by the
authorities to represent them in an in
vestigation of this kind. One would
naturally suppose that an administra-
ton that had nothing to fear would be
as DESTROYS of shedding light upon it's
conduct of public affairs as the COM
mlttee is. An examination of the pub
lie accounts showed a discrepancy in
the amount of the fines imposed on
the various houses of ill fame, which
was unaccounted for. Some are fined
$500 a year, some $500 and some still
less. Further investigation revealed
the fact that there are institutions Of
q al hot T0ox to I,
city, though their existence is well
known to the police. Now the commit
tee Notwithstanding the criticism it
has been subjected to, thinks that the
pubic is entitled to know something
about the filming system in vogue here,
why 1t is that some houses are made
to pay $500 every two months while
others are fined only half that amount.
The public, we think, is also entitled
to know why other places of the same
character are not recorded as paying
any fines, when it is we'll known that
they are protected by the police.
Ihe difficulty is to get witnesses to
appear before the committee and pub
l1cly testify to a condition of affairs
they known exists, and which in pri-
vate conversation with some indivi-
dual members Of the committee, they
have freely admitted
Aid. Kenny'S sentiments are in per
feet accord with those of his colleague
from the Second ward He has a pretty
poor opinion of the administration as
represented by. Mayor Doran's messen-
ger, w. B. Miller, who is in turn repre-
scented by Attorney J. M Hawthorne.
Aid. Kenny indicated his estimate of
the latter upon the occasion of the first
meeting of the Investigating commit
tee the other night. Yesterday the
alderman encountered the mayors
herald in the hall of the court house
and told that gentleman what he
thought of him.
It happened in the forenoon. Aid,
Kenny was conversing in the corridor
near the door to the city clerks office
when Messenger Miller passed by Mr.
Miller, said good morning to Assembly
men Craig and Thompson and Aid
Allard, With whom Aid. Kenny was
conversing. The first three councilmen
nodded to Miller, but Aid. Kenny
couldn't hear him. Glaring at his
honor's messenger, the alderman from
the Third exclaimed:
Il don't want you to speak to me-
Any man that will hire such a lawyer
as you have, is a cur
Miller's face flushed, but he passed
on. Shortly after the incident Aid.
Kenny said, referring to the investi-
cation:
They are not through with this in
vestigation. 1t is hard to prove any
thing. Our information comes from
sources that make it impossible to
have the witnesses come forward and
testify. believe in that story about
the $500, for it has been vouched for
by men who do not lie If we could
only get a public statement from them
the people would know what this in
VeStigatiOn means"