The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-02-04
POWERS REFORM

POWERS C.S. REFORM
sIt Is as Simple as Yale Lock and as
Easy As Lying, IS the Way
vulture Describes It.
Another Legislative CATION,
81 This Time Bankers and Their .
Methods Receive Attention.
speciaI Cores ondence. rs
I Just now the legislature is very
much engrossed with the matter of
inv estigations. The latest on the.
string is a resolution by Mr.. Feig call
ling for an investig alton into the recent
bank failures, It may Or may not
come to a head according as the author
OF the resolution sees or fails to see the
light. The resolution grew out Of the
Bank of Minnesota failure and the sub
Isequent failure Of the Ramsey county
lgrand jury. The bank skinned its de-
lpositors most numerically and when
the facts were brought to the notice of
the grand jury that body let it severely
alone. The fact that tie foreman and
three members Of the grand jury were
Idirectors Of the Bank of Minnesota
Imay or may not have had something to
II doaui% X II, - vow; ~ AZ +l,n i,,rx, IF %
1 these bank failures Are fully prose-
Icuted this legislature will have one
fplain duty before it, and that is to add
about $50 acres to seating capacity Of
j the State prison. It is not likely; that
4 they will be prosecuted, however, for
somehow or other these things always
fall through just at the critical mo-
|ment, when the sheriff is getting the
hand cuffs ready. Mr.. Feig's resolu-
tion will perform for the bank breakers
the same kindly service that the old
4 fashioned policeman's lantern did for
the house breakers give them warn
/ ing that trouble is coming and plenty
Iof time to get out Of the way and cover
j upe their tracks.
The Powers investigation is also
hanging fire. Senator Ringdal intro
q duced and secured the passage of a
lresolution calling for an investigation
LOT Mr.. Powers civil service-sound
money-labor bureau, and the labor or;
i ganizations of the State are contribut
ing very generously to the fund Of sfue
h1iich being used to keep N Pow
lerssawake nights. The senate was no
disposed to pa .nauch ttentiol
to- Senator Fsingdal's resolution, ant
a but for Mr.. Powers, himself, it is no
likely that the investigation would
have been made. Up to the time 0
the Ringdal resolution no living mar
who knew Powers had ever read on,
: of his reports, but when the resolution
was introduced it created passing in
terest in them and one or two person
read a small part Of the report. Mr.
Powers has something which answer
> him fairly we'll in the place of a mind
and this instinct told him that her
was the only chance of his life to ge
: one of his reports read. If the repor
had to be Investigated it would frs
have to be read, and there was sucl
glory in the thought that the chief o
the division of labor statistics ant
and biblical love seized his trenchan
pen and demanded the Investigation
H. H. Dunn, who succeeds Frank Da,
as senator, was made chairman Of tn,
committee, and he frankly admitted t,
me Monday that nothing had beef
done yet because he hadn't found any
body whom he could bribe to read tn,
, report. He said he had spent a goo(
a deal Of time and money getting to b,
senator, he was threatened with con
sumption anyhow, and he would b.
damned if he was going to bring OF
hemorrhage by trying to wade through
the sea of quotations from the paten
office reports of 1878 which constitute
! that report. Well, a man has nothing
in this world but his health, and
can't say that specially blame Dunn
Tread a part of one of Powers first re
ports, and I have had the epizooti.
ever since.
i. i.
Powers has one Of the greatest civi
service schemes that ever came along
It is simple as a Yale lock and as cas-,
as lying. He proposes to have a bill
introduced to place his department. IN
der civil service rules, and just as soo1
as it is passed, and before it is signed
by the governor, he will fire every ont
b Iof his present clerks, put the rest 0
his family in to take their places ant
S have a mortal sinch during the balanc,
81 of his natural life. Powers knows
{ few thirpS about; the nlan Of atOneman