The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-30
INSPECTOR AND A CITY
PRINTER.
FOUR CANDIDATES NAMED
AS TO HIS BOARD APPOINT
MENTS.
MESSENGER MILLER BUSY AGAIN.
Wants His Friend Schiller, the st
Peter Street Barber, Appointed
to One Place.

The members of the common council
will caucus this afternoon at 3 o'clock
as to the selection of a building in
spector to succeed William Kingsley,
the present incumbent. The matter of
selecting a city printer, or rather an
official paper for the year, will also be
discussed. In case these two matters
dc not take the balance of the after
noon, the council will resolve itself into
a committee of the whole and take up
the tax estimate for 1898 as adopted by
the conference committee. The candi-
dates for building Inspector are Charles
f. Arrol, A. F. Gauger, S. H. Haas and
Gates A. Johnson Sr.. their positions in
the race being about in the order nam
ed. One of the aldermen, who claimed
to know what he was talking about
said last evening that Arrol would have
ten votes on the first ballot and posi-
bly, eleven, which would land the prize
The question of selecting the official
paper for 1888 promises to be rather ex-
citing. The trades and labor assembly
has passed resolutions requesting that a
committee from the council be appoint
ed to listen to grievances the labor or
odHIAdIlOIiS nave dt5dlISl lHe evening
organ of the administration The res
olutions sent to the aldermen and as
sembly were received and filed without
reading. This action was reported back
to the trades and labor assembly, and
a committee appointed to go before
the council and protest against the
evening organ being made the official
paper next year. Whether the council
will stand by the agreement reached in
caucus last January that the morning
organ should have the printing one
year and the evening organ the next
in the face of opposition from the labor
organizations remains to be seen. Some
of the city officials are of the opinion
that the morning organ is seeking to be
selected as the official paper for next
year and that the kick on the part Of
the trades and labor assembly against
the evening organ is part of the scheme.
Mayor Dor&n is these days receiving
all kinds Of advice as to the appoint
ments he should make on the water
board and fire board. His office was
well filled yesterday from early in the
morning until after 5 o'clock with the
friends of the various candidates men
much annoyed, received all callers with
a glad hand, listened attentively to the
words of wisdom and advice poured
into his ears and promised each and
every one that the name of the gen
tleman mentioned would be given
serious consideration. 1t was reported
that the mayor had selected the three
new fire commissioners in the persons
of Assemblyman o. II. Arosin. TheO-
yal4 - L.
Hackett Hardware company, and W.
r. Shaw, the West side lumberman
Private Messenger Miller, it is stated,
took peek" at the names and, after
a consultation with Jailer Jake Stad-
field, Of the central station, informed
the chief executive of the city that in
order to avoid trouble in the next con-
vention it would be we'll to revise the
list and In the place of one Of the
names insert that of some German
American. This information apparent
ly had considerable weight with Mayor
Doran, for late yesterday afternoon the
name of w. r. Shaw was scratched
Private Messenger Miller is plugging"
for George H Schiller, the st. Peter
street barber, for the appointment, but
it is understood the name of the third
commissioner to be appointed will be
selected from the poll lists of the Fifth
ward.
A number Of persons interested in the fire
department not being made a political ma
chine have raised the point that under the
baltimore bill, passed by the last legisla-
ture Assembly Arosin Is not eligible for ap-
pointment. The law reads as follows:
1t shall be unlawful for any person here
after elected to any Of the following offices.
that is to say the Office of councilman. as
semblyman. or alderman in any city. or the
Office of county commissioner in any county
in this state. to hold any other Office In such
city or county during the term for which he
was elected or appointed, except an Office
elective by the people IN the district wherein
he shall have resided thirty days previous
to such election.
The law was passed and approved April 16,
1897, but as 1t specifies that only those here
after elected" shall be barred from picking up
appointments the point raised against the
First ward assemblyman is not considered
well taken.
very enthusiastic politician from the
Fourth ward, in speaking Of the appoint
ments to be made by the mayor to the fire
board last evening. had this to say The ap-
pointments doubt mean that Chief Jackson
is to be ousted. But 1 want to bet any man
in st. Paul. Republican or Democrat, that
George W. Freeman will be reappointed to
the fire board and that John Jackson will
be restored to the head of the fire depart
ment when Mayor Doran's time is up"
The Republican politicians have been
figuring up the number Of positions in
the water department which would be
available in case the deal now being
engineered goes through. The plan is
to have the commissioner to be ap-
pointed to succeed H. e. Stevens Join
with Commissioners Wolterstorff and
Hoyt and elect Mr.. Hoyt as president
of the board in place of R. B. C. Be
ment. This action, it is figured out, will
cause the resignation Of Mr.. Bement
to be rendered as a member OF the
board, and Mayor Doran will then have
the naming Of another member. This
will give the Republican politicians
who are interested solely in the dis
tribution of pie" chance to discharge
all the present officers and clerks en-
ployed in the department and farm out
the positions for the best interests Of
the grand old party at the coming cleo
ton. The word passed around the
mayors office yesterday was that ].
NJ Carlson would succeed Mr. Stevens