The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-08
MADE POWERS VINCE
DID THE VERY BRIEF REFERENCE
OF GOV. LIND TO HIS DE-
PARTMENT
DUTIES OF OFFICE DEFINED
Beginning Tuesday the Governor
May Request Those Desiring to
See Him to Call During the Aft
ernoOns, Thus Giving Him the
Morning for Consideration OF
Business He May Have ON Hand.

| No one felt more keenly the rebuke
| that must follow the ignoring of his
supposed greatness than Rev. A LIE
| Grand Powers, who has for a number
Of years been the head of a bureau at
| the state capitol, officially known as
| the bureau of labor
Gov. Lind's reference to the bureau
was very brief. Gov Lind said:
The department of labor having omitted Il
| furnish any data or to make any recommen-
| CATIONS for the guidance of the executive upon
the important subject of labor, except as &c
| administration, 7 deem it more just to the
| great importance OF the subject that 1t re-
ceive consideration in separate communica-
| ton at a future time"
| Powers sQueaIed after this
| He said that Mr.. Lind had adopted
| all his recommendations as to taxation
Mr.. Powers urged that corporations be
taxed, and every railroad corporation
| in the state has been paying a big
gross earnings tax for years. He urg-
| ed an Inheritance tax, and this GER
tainly he does not claim to be original
| with him. He urged an income tax,
and that, too, was thought of before
Powers deserted the pulpit for politics.
He did not, however, send to Mr..
Lind any statistics showing the num-
! Der of workingnen in Minnesota en-
or hours per day, month or year that
they were employed. He did not pre-
/ sent any facts as to the merits or de-
merits of the various associations, hos
pitfalls and other kinds, which employees
of corporations in this state are con-
strained to enter, if not indeed COM
PEELED. There is not word about
taxes in the law which defines the du-
ties of the labor commissioner, which,
haf =
! ing his MESA sc.
Section 4T0 of the General Statutes of
1894, fixes the duties of the labor COM
missioner as follows:
1t shall be the duty of the officers
| and employees of the said bureau to
cause to be enforced all laws regu-
lating the employment of children,
! minors and women.
| Nothing about the purchasing power
| of gold there, is there. The law con-
tinues:
"AH laws established for the protection OF
| the health lives and limbs OF operators in
workshops ard factories, on railroads and in
other places, and all laws enacted for the
| protection Of the working classes, including
| chapter two hundred ard five of the general
! laws OF 1850, chapter ten and sixteen of the
! general laws of 1899 chapter seventeen OF
the general laws OF 1881, laws declaring 1t d
misdemeanor the part OF employers to re
| qufre as condition OF employment the sur
| render Of any right OF citizenship. laws reg
| ulating and presc ibing the qualifications OF
| persons in trades and haEdicrafts, and similar
i laws now in force or heretofore to be en-
! acted. 1t shall also be tie duty of the Of
| fcers and employees of the bureau to collect
aszort arrange ard present. in biennial re-
| ports to the legislature, on or before the first
i Monday IN January, statistical details relating
to all departments of labor in the state; to
| the subjects of cooperation, strikes ether
/ LABOR difficulties, to trade unions and other
labor organizations and their effect upon labor
ard capital; and to such other matters relat-
ing to the commercial, Industrial, social edu-
cationa1, moral and sanitary conditions of the
laborirg classes, ard the permanent prosperity
of the respective industries of the state as the
|. bureau may be able to gather
The Mankato Review in a recent is
sue, discussing the question of deputy
oil inspector for that district, says:
Gus. Tuberg is not a candidate fer reap
pointment to the position of deputy oil in
! spector. The urcrowred king of First ward
Republican politics has written to Gov. Lind
informing the chief executive OF Minnesota
that, inasmuch he did not favor the New
| ulm man for governor and being opposed tt
| Mr.. Tuberg, it is understood, was candi-
date up to within day two but discov-
cred that he was not trotting in the right
class
There are ct least twenty-five applicants
for the deputy oil inspeetorship, and who will
! be appointed TO the place IS not yet decided
way carefully. and he will try 10 make nc
mistakes in his appointments, not even wher
/ it cones t. naming a deputy oil inspector
II Is said that Henry Zimmerman Jr viii
have good deal TO say as to who viii re-
/ ceive the place. 1t is given out that the
t genial Henry was given to understand that
/ he would be decended on when it came tc
making the appointment. So all candidates
for the position must lift their hats to tht
| Third ward alderman and member OF the
! State Democratic committee.
b Srh Of he 10
ty committee has indorsed the application
of George Traub, the proprietor of the Nan
kato Post. for the job
! The pressure on Gov Lind's time
still continues heavy, and so incessant
is the procession of callers seeking po-
litical places, or other favors of one
kind Or another, that the governor has
| finally been constrained to beg off a
little and urge that applications for
places, as far as possible, visit his Of
| flee during the afternoon. This will
/ give him the morning hours to look af-
I ter his correspondence, and limit the
| ievee, generally speaking, to the after
| noon. Tomorrow the session of the
i board of pardons will occupy consid-
! cradle of the chief executives time. SC
the rule will probably not be strictly
enforced until Tuesday.
Bank Examiner Kenyon that was
and the recent labor Commissioners. L.
| G. Powers, were both gone yesterday
| and the new officials were left in their
| offices alone. Gen. Pope is already
! pretty familiar with the law governing
the Office, and within week or sc
will probably have his staff pretty will
made up.
| Deputy Labor Commissioner Walter
| Hammond and Assistant Public Exam
| iner Lonegren are still in the offices.
rendering the temporary assistance to
| the chiefs.
Miss Dora Tanning, for several years
| stenographer in the Office of public ex-
aminer during the Kenyon regime, left
I the service of the state yesterday to
enter newspaper work.
Representative Lydiard. of Long
! Lake, Rennepfn county, will go after
| the blind pigs this year The Henne.
pin county commissioners have learned
! that there was no effective law with
which to punish these blindpiggers
/ because there are no funds with which
to employ detectives or to prosecutf
them. He proposed to make it an OBJ
ject for the people of every township tr
hunt down the blind pigs Every mar
will be his own detective, as it were
! Mr.. Lydiard would have the monev
from liquor licenses placed in the road
and bridge fund and credited to the
township from which it is collected
Representative Jacobson is opposed to
! this measure. He says 1t amounts tic
| nothing more than a sort of bribery
because each township will want sa-
| Icons in order to get the money for the
! road and bridge fund