The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-17

resolution of the city council, at his
suggestion, as it was thought that the
cost of the maintenance of the dumps
should not be charged to the street,
sewer and garbage fund.
Pay Rolls Were Properly Certified.
Secretary CopIey, of the board of po-
lice commissioners, takes exception to
the charges that the pay rolls of the
department were not all properly certi-
fed He says that all the pay rolls
were certified by the chief of police and
were signed by the vice president of
the board. The minutes of the meet
ings, he says, show that a quorum was
present at each meeting, and that the
examiner might have been misled by
memoranda sent to the comptroller
which were never intended to be the
official record. The bills, he says, were
all passed 'by advice and counsel of
one of the best attorneys in the state"
The report Of Secretary CopIey fur
Their states that the department pur-
chased $7S.40 worth Of goods from the
East Side Shoe Finding company,
which, it is said. may or may not be
a successor to W. E. BuSehnlann.
Concerning the bills paid to Aid.
Buschmann for shooting horses of the
Margaret street station, Mr.. Copley
says that mfr. Buschmann has done
the work during the past fifteen years,
as his shop has been nearest the sta
ton" 1t is admitted that the de-
partment purchased $3S.45 worth Of
mops, brooms and matches from the
New York Tea company, but the reply
states that 1T is not known whether
the proprietorship is in one person"
TT is not the intention of the fire
board to reply to the criticisms of the
public examiner" says report from
the fire commissioners. Errors in
the records mentioned must have oc-
Cured after they left the office of the
fire board, as the records were all cor
rect when they were prepared The
only thing in the report concerning
the board is the method Of paying
firemen and purchasing goods from
city officials and these matters will re-
ceive our carefuE attention"
The water beard replied that Thomas
Grace had duly qualified and that the
bills approved at the meetings where
he was present were legally passed.
Liquor Licenses All Right.
Concerning the charges of irregulari-
ties in liquor licenses, License In
spector Jessrang replied substantially
the same as has already been published
in The Globe. He says that the
average number of days elapsing be-
tween the expiration and renewal or
licenses under the practice up to last
November was twenty-nine days each
month during 1902, and twenty three
during 1903. The practice followed up
to last November, when it was changed
on recommendation of the grand jury,
was established in 1887, and allowed
saloonkeepers thirty days within which
to renew their licenses. The delay did
not, however, increase the life Of the
licenses, as they dated back to the
expiration of the old licenses.
License Inspector Jessrang says that
the amount lost in interest was not
$3.50 as stated by the public exam
liner, but less than half that amount,
as the examiner had evidently figured
on per cent, while the city was al
lowed only L " per cent on daily bal
ances.
City Clerk Redington, in a report on
the same subject, stated; what he said
to The Globe the day the report
of the examiner was published.
The reports were received by the
board of aldermen last night, and plac-
ed on file. Broad smiles spread across
the faces of the members Of the board
when the charges against two OF the
members were read off.
81 am satisfied that the members of
this board and of the assembly who
have had dealings directly or indirectly
with the city departments did not
charge a fraction Of a cent more for
their goods or services than others
would have charged, and that the
city lost nothing in the transactions,
said Aid. BantZ.