The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-27
EMS TIE SPECIAL COUNCIL
COMMITTEE WITH SUIT.
PRIVILEGE WAS EXCEEDED,
HE SAYS, WHEN THEY GAVE THE
REPORT TO THE NEWS
PAPERS.
FALSEHOOD AND INNUENDOS.
The Sick Man So Characterizes the
Committees References to the
AIlemannia Bank Affairs.

City Treasurer Horst is at home sick
special joint committee of the council
appointed to investigate his action IN
depositing city funds in the Allemannia
bank have heard from him in no I'M
certain language. Mr.. Horst has
called their bluff"
In a typewriter communication
briefly setting forth the cause of his
grievance against the committee, the
city treasurer demands that the COM
mittee publicly retract the charge pre-
ferred against him in it's report to the
council, or suffer the consequences.
The consequences of a refusal to so
retract, Mr.. Horst intimates will be
suit against the members of the COM
mittee for defamation of character.
The special investigating committee,
which was appointed under a resolu-
ton offered by President Arosin, of the
assembly, consists of Mr.. Arosin. AS
semblymen Kirke and Dix, and Aid.
Sanborn, Kenny and Lindahl,
Messrs Arosin and Sanborn made the
investigation on which the committee
founded the report that was spread on
the records of the council proceedings
Mr.. Horst's formal notice of retrac-
ton addressed to the members of the
committee is as follows:
Dear Sir: 1t becomes my painful duty to
call your attention to those particular parts
or the report of the special committee cap
pointed to investigate the business transac-
tons OF City Treasurer Horst in the matter
OF the deposit of funds in the Allemannia
bank" signed by yourself and others and
cate0 \ which pad fol
You will notice that from the second day
the treasurer was in Office he had on deposit
a larger amount in this bank than that al
lowed by the charter, and that it was there
in absolute violation of any authority and at
the peril of the treasurer and his bon6smen.
This condition of affairs was not necessary at
that time or at any other time, because there
were other banks designated by the council
as repositories of city funds which have
given good and sufficient bonds that could
have been used, and the treasurer did not
have on deposit in these banks anywhere
near the limit of money he was allowed to
deposit in them under the provisions Of the
charter.
why should the balance in this bank have
been maintained at more than 100000 at all
times? And why, in each-case when there
was a heavy withdrawal, was there also
heavy deposit that day or a day or so be-
fore to meet it? The balance nthis institu-
ton was nearly Kept above the 100000 mark,
and many of the other banks of the city
that were stronger and safer and had given
bond, good and sufficient to the city, only
had small amounts on deposit"
must ask you to at once, and as publicly
as the charge was made, retract the same,
the first part thereof, taken a whole, be-
ing absolutely untrue and the latter part con-
tanning untruthful inuendoes, all calculated
to inJure my character and standing in the
community.
hope that you will see your way clear to
make the retraction before Sept. II, so that
may nave time to take other proceedings if
necessary. &C. L. Horst
1t is understood that the members
of the committee who have received the
notice, will refuse to make any re-
traction. If an action for libel results,
it will be based on the ground that
the committee overstepped the limit
of privileged communications. in that
it caused the structures on his official
conduct to be published in the daily
newspapers. ... ,.. .-ee,