The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-18
THEY DO NOT QUIT
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LEGISLATORS ARE 10TH TO LET
GO OF OTHER OFFICIAL
H0NORS.
SOME MORE INACCURACIES
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OF MILL CITY JOURNALISM ARE
EXPOSED BY DIR. HEWITT'S
FRIENDS.
SCHEME FOR COUNTY BANKS.
Representative jacobson Is Said to
Have One About Ready to IN
troduce.

to the continuance Of a number of other
members of the present legislature, who
have held and continue to hold vari-
| Gus state, county or municipal offices
| in addition to being members of the
states lawmaking body. Gov. Clough
seems to be backward about asking for
the resignation of those who owe their
appointment to him or his predecessors
! and the various communities where the
! letter, at least, of the law is being
violated seem equally 10th to take pre-
cipitate action.
That municipal offices are embraced
| in the prohibition of the legislative en-
! actment there seems to be little doubt.
| Attorney General Childs, in his opinion
which was sustained by the supreme
court where it was involved in the case
! at bar, says:
1.-The constitution must, in my judg-
ment, be held to contemplate every Of
| flee created or authorized by the con-
stitution or an act of the legisla ture
1 am unable to discover any
just ground for distinction between
| them. All offices created by the author
! ity Of the state fall within the prohi-
bition, whether they involve functions
of the state or to some political sub
| division thereof"
| The attorney general called attention
| to the only office that was specifically
| exempted being that of postmaster, and
then cited in detail the following of
! fees which were markedly within it:
Notary public, municipal offices, JUS
| tees of the peace, state boards and the
! subordinates of all these.
These clearly apply to certain men,
bers Of the present legislature.
The friends Of DR.. Charles n. Hewitt
| are up in arms over statement made
| In a Minneapolis paper to the effect
| that the secretary of the state board
| of health aside from his salary kept in
| the employ of the board a son and a
/ daughter. and also had a hand in the
| spending of the amount allowed the
| board each year. A friend of DR.. Hew-
| lit stated yesterday that the amount
! expended by the board outside of the
salary of the secretary was for the run
ming expenses of the office and includ-
| ed clerk hire, Office rent, books for the
library, printing bills and the other in
| cidentals necessary. The bills We're sent
! to the auditor and the vouchers made
payable to the secretary. Checks were
drawn against them by the secretary,
but he did not handle any of the
money, and receipts and return checks
for all vouchers were on file in the Of
! flee of the board. AS to the employ
ment of the family of the secretary in
| the office the gentleman stated that not
| a cent had ever been drawn by a son
! or daughter of DR.. Hewitt from the
! state board of health. DR.. Hewitt, the
| gentleman stated, had not opposed the
| appointment of DR.. Reynolds to the
| board, and, in fact, was and had been
! of the opinion that a veterinarian
should have place on the board. The
! statement that DR.. Reynolds was to
; be appointed to the secretaryship was
also incorrect, and the impression that
| had gained circulation that the ap-
! pointment carried with it the office Of
secretary was responsible for consid-
! cradle of the feeling over the appoint
ment.
1t is expected that the Hennepin
County Medical society will within a
| day or two indorse the resolutions of
! the Ramsey County society, which de-
plored the governors failure to reap
| point Dr. Hewitt, and 1t is said that
DIR. May, of Rochester, has telegraphed
| the governor that he is willing to re-
sign, if necessary, to make place for
the Red Wing man.
There was read in the house Satur-
! day a communication from Speaker
Jones, stating that he had gone to his
rome and asking that the house select
| q speaker for the session of today
| Representative Staples will act in that
| capacity.
! State Treasurer Koerner thinks it
would be unwise to adopt the Spencer
bill, prohibiting the entrustment Of
! state funds to banks. He argues that
! it would keep several million dollars
| cut Of circulation in this state alone.
| with little consequent advantage, as
the state is now preferred creditor, with
| power of complete supervision of all
| banking institutions, whether it depoS-
! It's therein or not. It is rumored that
| Representative Jacobson will shortly
| introduce bill looking to the more
| general distribution of these funds.
rather than their concentration in the
| vaults at the capitol He would have
I such country banks as could satisfy
1 the treasurer Of their SoundneSS en-
! trusted with their share of the funds
which would be indirectly, at least, a
| great help to the farmers. Now, at
! times Of crop or stock movement they
! have a deal with their local bankers
/ who, IL; turn, are at the mercy of the
metropolitan banks. With these de-
posts in their own vaults, the rural
I bankers would be largely able to ac-
| commodate crop movements them
selves.
Tams Bixbys paper. the Red Wing
Republican, denounces the Mfnneapolis
papers statement as a falsehood and
says:
The truth is that during the first ten
years of his incumbency of the Office of sec
Rotary the doctor received $500 a year: the
next three years, 81. 600; then 81 600 one wear
and $1,000 eight years 1t Is only during the
past three years that the doctor has received
$500 Furthermore. neither his son nor his
daughter have ever been employed by the
board or received one cent of COMPENSATION
therefrom.
Another paper states that tie doctor re-
ceives $50 for each lecture he delivers at
the university The doctor receives only *
for each lecture and it is only during the
past four or five years that he has received
any compensation at all. More than that.
the doctor has expended more money than he
has received from the university in the pur-
chase of apparatus fer use in his lectures at
the university.
Senator Barr has received the fol-
lowing:
Mankato. Jan. 49, 1s97-Senator George T.
Barr-Dear. Sir: We, the undersigned physi-
wrong has been done DR.. c. N Hewitt In
mot; Responding him member of the state
hoard OF health, also that the cause of sani-
!tation In our state will sustain an irreparable
loss II he is not reinstated as member of
said board. Hence ws respectfully request
THAI -@s every la-<fnl mAana In your