The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-06-06
POLICE CHANGES HUNG UP
SEVEN REMOVALS FROM
FORCE
WILL REFUSE TO STEP OUT
Chiefs Getche1I and McIntire Say
They VIII Not Give Up Their
Offices to Their
Successors.

Immediately after he had taken the
oath of office yesterday, Mayor Smith
sent to the council the following list of
removals and appointments in the police
department:
John J. o'Connor, chief of police. vice
P. L. Getchell, removed.
Henry Meyerding, lieutenant, vice Jo-
seph Davis, removed.
Daniel l.. Ahern, detective. vice John
Christensen, removed.
Joseph Pugleasa, patrolman, vice ia
cob Stadtfield, removed.
Norbert Schaffhausen, patrolman, vice
d. ]. Saintong, removed.
John r. Crane, janitor, vice Louis L:V-
erpool, removed.
Chief of Detectives M L. McIntire is
removed without a successor being APP
pointed.
When the duplicate communications,
one addressed to the assembly and the
other to- the board of aldermen, arrived
in the council chamber, the common
council was in session, with President
Schiffmann in the chair He submitted
the document intended for the assembly
to the common council, and the appoint
ments and removals were concurred In,
but none of the Republican members
would permit their vote to be recorded,
as they contended that the joint body
had nothing to do with the removals
of police officers.
Later in the day, when the matter was
brought to the attention of Mayor Smith,
he said:
ut was not my intention that the list
of removals and appointments in the
police department should go before the
common council for concurrence. I be-
lieve and am advised, that the two bodies
must act separately on them, and there
is no other course open. did not expect
that the removals of patrolmen and de-
tectives would be voted on by the joint
body, and therefore presume that my ap-
pOintments and removals will not become
effective until after both branches of the
council have acted upon them separate
ly.
ut has been stated that the Republi-
can members will not vote for the re-
moval of patrolmen, but are willing to
vote for the removal of the heads of de-
partments. Thursday nights meeting of
the assembly will reveal their plans rela-
tive to the matter"
Late last evening 1t was said that the
Republican members of the assembly had
again changed their minds, and deternlin-
ed not to vote for the removal or ap-
pointment of any police officers, but walt
for the appointment of the police COM
mission, and force that body to take all
responsibility in making removals and ap-
pointments in the police service. Part of
the plan is said to be to make the police
commission have a hearing for every re-
moval of any official of any rank from
the police department.
Before the adjournment of the joint
body in common council meeting the
body proceeded to it's prerogative in the
election Of market master, as provided
for under the new charter. Several weeks
ago the Republicans succeeded in getting
an ordinance smuggled through extending
the term and increasing the pay of Duffy
the present market master and the Dem
ocrats We're anxious to GUST Duffy and
place Democrat in his stead. Messrs
Kennedy and Welsh were first placed in
nomination, Welsh being the caucus nom
inee of the Democratic members On
the third ballot Aid. Dobner nominated
M. e. Bevans, of the Tenth ward say
ing he was the choice of the old SOL
diers. On the next ballot the Republican
members all voted for Bevans giving him
| the appointment. Market Master Duffy's
nose was badly out of joint as he ex-
pected the Republican members would
stick to him, as, with three Democrats
in the field, he said he would have been
appointed. Bevans is a Democrat, but
was unknown to the Democratic leaders
in the council.