The Princeton union., 1899-03-09

aLlnd's appoi ntee, Is Heinrich the
i gbenetit Of the Tee system Minneapolis
l.JOtif,sdl.
How kind and conside derate OF the sem
latesj diciary committe tee. hy should
i dr. heinrich be pernai itteds to pocket
fees arnou ntipg to more than double
the larry paid the goye rnor ,of the
State, or the chief justice OF the su-
Epreme court? Surely itSis not because
lit equires q higher degree of ability
tosfill the posi- tlon Of soil 1 iinspe than
\ that Of governor or chic justice? ? Any
unscrup pulous ward heeler VIII make q
Egood enough oil iinspee TOR. Ia 1889, a
Republ lican legislature liza not hesitate
Ibid not pie to 5pla ace the Office Of oil
linsp ector on y salary basis. Samuel
Nichols, the then incumbent Of the
office, was q Republi blican. II was in
vain that he pleaded for the same
courtesy the senate judiciary com mit-
f. tee has 80 comp mplacently extended to-
Mr. Heinrich. The 1889 law took ef-
/ feet from and after its passage. Why
not take Governor Lind at his word?
i InS his biennial message to the legisla-
ture, he said s1s5 sS.sS 3s
There are certain offices in this State.
that Of clerk Of the supreme court, oil
l Inspector and surveyor generals Of logs
and lumber, in which the emo 0luments
are measured by fees collected by the
llncumb bents. II is commonly under
stood that the revenues are SO large
/ that they cannot in any sense, of the
word be regarded as compensation
j Wnen the income of an office passes.
beyond the compensatory point, it lis
]. .plunde lcIl erlng the people. It becomes az
/ power Tor CORFU ption and menace to
/ good government. recommend that
! the laws relative to these offices be
amended SO as to place the Offices on a
salaried basis. 5.5ss.
u the judiciary committee Of the
s senate y lat We're main y com posed Of Demo
pops the recommendat would not be
Esurprising, but comm q from a commit
i tee composed of seventeen members,
fourteen Of whom are Repub blicans, and
IN. the face Of the Demo-pop governors
mmendation, the action of the
committe is inexplicable. Why enact
any such law Wat.this time, if tits not to be.
5Ienforced until two years hence?. IF the
office is to be placed on a salary basis,
as the the, governor recommended, s.there.
j any valid reason why the law sh ould
/ not % become operative. Immediately af-
ter its passage? Mr.. Heinrich is en-
titled to no consideration whatever at
the hands of the Republicans. Note
| the case Of poor crippled Burt Mar
5Isha1l OF Duluth. Burt is doubled up.
with rheumatism. He has struggled
bfavely but yainly to regain his health.
4 Doctor bills and medicine bills have.
used up all his substance. He was
deputy oil inspector, and he asked to
be retained until spring Was he re-.
1tained? N OF much. Charley Towne's
father l fills. Marshall's place to-day,
/ and this same i ToWne had been em-s
/ ployed IN the grain and wareh
weighing department up to
the: time Heinrich appointed
him deputy Oil inspector.
am not a bitter partisan, never have
been and never will be. But. there is
no earthly reason why the Repub leans
should eontrib butte 500, 600 to the Dem
pop. campaign fund next year. That is
just what it amounts to. would not.
refer to this matter were it not for the
fact that Governor Lind, in his inaugu-
raj, called particular attention to the
Office Of oil inspector. And then If it
were an Office which required any par-
ticnlar skill or ability. The once is
|simply fat sinecure and can be filled
by the most ignorant ward hummer Of
any political party. II sincerely hope
| # the bills not toebecome operative till
1901 that it will never become law.
Let. Mr.. Heinrich take his medicine
Just as Mr.. Nichols was obliged to take
his ten years ago.
r. G. ID. Il
lf33 W. " q. q. Sndu bourne writes us under
the address he Union Boys, es-
pecially Towhead. 3 He appreciates
the paper and expresses himself as fol-
lows: VS. BY George, boys, you are get
ting out a dandy newspaper. for a 5vil-
|llage. It has improved wonderfully Of
late, seems to me. I should be as lone
some as thunder without it. Perhaps
/ appreciate it more, fully being away
from, home, as it keeps me in touch and
Iinforms me Of every happening in the
town which has been my headquartersI
for 43 years this month. =
Some Of the young men around town
have arranged to give ball at the
opera house st. Patrick's day. They
havesengaged Charley Tilton to furn-
ishj the music for the affair and he is
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