The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-09

After a rest of almost month, the
grand jury will reconvene tomorrow
morning for the purpose of resuming
its daily sessions.
1t will be no ordinary session that
this body will enter into, for if some Of
the charges and rumors which have
come to the ears of the public during
the past month prove to have any
foundation, the jury will have more
work of an important nature than any
similar body which has been called in
Ramsey county in many years.
The sensational charges which
have been made against Casper Ernst,
the banker now in Jail on a charge OF
forgery and ENFORCEMENT, will be OF
a secondary nature when compared
with the numerous municipal scandals
in which members of the city council
and others are implicated by rumors.
Schurmeier Charges Most Important.
1t has already been stated from an
authoritative source that the charges
of ATTEMPTED bribery and other irregu-
larities made against certain business
men and other members of the council
by .Assemblyman Schurmeier, will be
laid before the grand jury, and that
body will be asked by the county at
torney to use its every power and
means to sift these charges to the bot
tom in order to ascertain whether or
not rottenness does prevail in the city
council.
Mr.. Schurmeier, during the past
month, has repeatedly stated that he
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bride of $4,000 for certain favors from
the council, and while he declined to
tell the name of the person until
brought before the grand jury, he as
serts that he will do SO when the OPP
portunity arises.
AS soon as the grand jury has dis
posed of the Ernst charges, which in
all probability will require consider
able time, the alleged municipal scan
DIAL will be taken up, and the judicial
searchlight will be turned upon the
methods employed by members of the
council in securing the passage of GER
tain measures.
AsSemblyman Schumacher will be
one of the first witnesses called before
the body when this investigation is
taken up, and it is stated that at least
twenty other witnesses will be given
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what they know of charges made
against members of the council
Mr.. Schurmeier, it is stated, has re-
peatedly said that he stood ready and
willing to assist the grand jury in get
ting at the truth of these ugly rumors,
and if he is still SO inclined when called
before the grand jury, some sensations
may develop.
Hints of Much Crooked Work.
1t has been remarked that if the
members of the council ever turned
loose and commenced telling on each
other that the grand jury would be
busy for some time, and the result
would be something altogether I'M
looked for by people who have paid but
little attention to the manner in which
measures have been passed by the
council bodies.
During the past week, however a
story has been going the rounds to the
erect that settlement had been af-
1ected between the warning factions
and that matters were being patched
up IN such manner that the grand
jury would have hard time trying to
learn anything regarding the councils
alleged methods of doing business.
Not only are members of the coun-
Gil implicated by the rumors afloat dur
ing the past few weeks, but corpora
tons and business men as we'll. If
the story of a settlement proves to be
untrue and the threats which have
been made by certain parties to tell all
they know are carried out, the report
of the grand jury will undoubtedly be
an interesting one.
Lamp Post Case Will Come Up.
One of the council matters which
will undoubtedly receive a thorough
investigation at the hands of the Jury
will be the recent action of the. council
In turning down a bid for gasoline
lamp posts where the city had an OBJ
portunity to save $4,000 by accepting
the lowest bid.
This action on the part of the coun-
Gil was productive of much public CEN
sure, and thus far the members who
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