The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-05

wants TO Become Custodian, to lie
Headed OR-May Try to Appoint
Rement,s Successor.
Mayor Doran has only a couple of
days to serve as chief executive of
the city, but he proposes to use some of
the power delegated to him by his po-
sition to getting even with those who
opposed him during the last campaign
AS chairman of the board of county
commissioners, the mayor has the APP
pointing of three members of the board
TO serve as members of the city hall
and court house commission. Usually
the trio are designated by the mayor
at the first meeting of the county COM
missioners in January.
Last year Commissioners Kellerman.
McCarron and Moritz acted as the rep
resentatives of the county board on
the city hall and court house commits
sion. No change was made at the be-
ginning Of this year. and the three
gentlemen are now acting as men,
bers Of the commission. At the meet
Ing of the county commissioners Mon
day 1t is understood that the mayor
will announce the appointment of Com
missioners Hardick, McCarron and
Quehl as members Of the city hall and
court house commission. This action
Is said to be due to desire Of the
mayor to prevent, if possible, the cleo
ton of M. L. McIntire as custodian of
the city hall. McIntire is a resident of
the Sixth ward, and as soon as the
politicians commenced to talk about
candidates in the spring McIntire de-
clared himself for Kiefer and fought
for the gallant colonel from first to
last.
AS McIntire was and now Is holding
the position Of night Waterman at the
city hall, his course was declared by
the Doran strikers to be nothing more
or less than treason. This is the rea-
son given by the friends Of McIntire
for the proposed action of the mayor
in making the change in the court
house and city hall commission.
The appointment of successor to
President Bement, Of the water board,
1t is claimed will also be made by the
mayor tomorrow. 1t is argued by the
friends of Mayor Doran that Mr.. Be
ment virtually resigned from the board
when he was appointed an engineer in
the United States army by President
Mckinley.
Mr.. Bement, however, seems to take
a very different view Of the case, for
he presided at meeting of the water
board, held yesterday morning, and in
tends to, at least so he stated last even
ing, act as president of the board at an
adjourned meeting to be held tomorrow
morning. Seen last evening as to the
matter of rendering his resignation as
a. member Of the board, Mr.. Bement
declared that he had not decided on a
line of action. He was undecided as
to what course he would pursue, and
said he had given the question no con-
Sideration.
Close friends of the president of the
board, however, say that his resigna-
ton will be withheld until after Mayor
Doran retires from office on Tuesday,
when it will be rendered and Mayor
Kiefer given an opportunity to fill the
vacancy.
Yesterday afternoon Mayor Doran
Judge o. B. Lewis, Assemblyman Dix
Fire Commissioner Vanish and w. r.
Shaw left the city for a point on the
Duluth road to spend Sunday. The
politicians around the city hall at once
commenced to talk about the makeup
of the fishing party. Before the quin-
tette had left the depot it was reported
that the fishing party was only blind,
and that the gentlemen had left the
city in order to confer and discuss,
while they fished, the ACCESSIBILITY of
Mayor Doran naming a successor to
Mr.. Bement. Judge Lewis, it was ex-
give the politicians the legal points and
authority in case this step was taken.
Report has it that, in case the mayor
decides to appoint any one to the water
board, his choice will be w. r. Shaw,
the West side lumberman. Shaw was
One of the most ardent Doran support
ers up to the time of the convention,
and, if Judge Lewis should advise that
the scheme to name a successor to Mr..
BeTent would be legal, Shaw will be
appointed.
Should the mayor decide to appoint
a successor to the board, taking the
view that Mr.. Dement'S term expired
when he received the army appoint
ment, Commissioner Wolterstorff is
slated for the presidency of the board.
Commissioner Hoyt, of the water
board stated last evening that the
question of the resignation of Mr.. Be
ment had not been mentioned at the
meeting yesterday, and, while the mem
bers were all more or less interested
in knowing what action Mr.. Bement
would take, not one word had been
Inv