The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-25
AID. STUTZMAN SAYS THE INVES-
TIGATIoN, OF POLICE ABUSES
WILL BE RESUMED
UPON THE MAYORS RETURN.
AID. KENNY STANDS BY HIS COL
LEAGUE IN THE DETERMINA-
TION TO GO ON.
FAVORITISM IN CITY AFFAIRS
Will He Thoroughly Inquired Into
by the Council InquisitOrs ia
Spite of Party Pressure.

Those who imagine that the investi-
cation of the administration manage
ment of the houses of i'll fame has fiz-
lied 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 ad-
mlnlStratiOn 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 l 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 its
conduct of public affairs as the COM
mittee is. An examination of the pub
lie accounts showed a discrepancy in
the amount of the fines imposed on
the various houses of i'll fame, which
was unaccOunted for. Some are fined
$500 year, some $500 and some still
less. Further investigation revealed
the TACT that there are institutions Of
TINS character that pay no fines to the
city, though their existence is we'll
tee, Notwithstanding the criticism it
mas been subjected to, thinks that the
public is entitled to know something
ABOUT the timing 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.
Inc difficulty is to get witnesses to
appear before the committee and pub
lIcly testify to a condition of affairs
they known exists, and which in pri-
yate 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 DOrans messen-
ser, w. B. Miller, who is in turn repre-
scented by Attorney j. NJ 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 g
herald in the hall of the court house
and told that gentleman what ne
thought of him
1t 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
ccnversing. The first three councilmen
nodded to Miller, but Aid. Kenny
couldn't hear him. Glaring at his
hOnOrS 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 III
VeStig9ti On means"