Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-02
FROM BALTIMORE.

rhe New Police Force Organized-rbe
old Police Determined to Hesist-U.
n. Troops Held for Acknowledgements
Grant and COmstOck Arrived.
BALTIMORE, Nov. lit Is not yet ascer-
tanned who are the new Police Commission
,rs appointed by Gov. Swami. IL is rumor-
ed that tile new police force have already
organized and will make their appear
lnce in the course of the day in the
streets. The old Commissioners have their
FULL force out, and will resist the demand of
he new force for the surrender of the sta
ion houses, MarshaPs office, &c.
A body of 400 U. S. dismOunted cavalry,
who arrived here yesterday to embark for
Texas, are now at Fort McHenry, and ru-
nor says they will be retained here TO act
in case of emergency.
The Baltimore American says it Is re-
ported thatJohn Il. Ford, of Ford's theater
.iotoriety, and Capt. Horn, of the Third
ward, one of Gov. Swann's registrars, have
Jeen selected for Police Commissioners,
md that ex-Marshal Van NOstrand, one of
he witnesses for the prosecution, is the
Iew Marshal.
IL o'clock p. NJ. There is considerable
ceiling manifested here In regard to Gov.
Swann's action, some bitterly denouncing
it and others approving it. Large crowds
If people are gathered at the corners of the
treets and near the newspaper Offices, dis
,ussing the matter, but otherwise all is now
luiet. The new police force have not as yet
made their appearance Oh the streets, but it
IS supposed they will do so before the close
Of the day. The names above given as the
new Commissioners and Marshal are given
IN rumOr, but it is presumed that they are
probably correct.
Gen. Grant and Gen. Comstock have ar
wed in this city.
SECOND DISPATCH.
BALTIMORE Nov. 1.-The old Police Com
nissioners are in session with their counsel
md advisers. 1t Is not known definitely
! yet what they will do, but it is believed
! they will take some such course as the fol-
! lowing: Under the law which creates the
! Board of Police Commissioners, it is claim
| ed that they have most ample power. They
can in any emergency increase their force
without limit, and call out the military II
| they deem it expedient. They can also
summon the Sheriff, who is made subject to
4 their orders. They have assumed, 1t Is un-
derstood, the ground of, 1st, that they were
not guilty of official misconduct; and next,
under the following clause in the new Con-
stitution of the State, they maintain thai
as they are elected to Office by the Legisla-
ture, the Governor has no power to remove
them on the ground that the clause below
lquoted annuls and abrogates the provisions
of the law under which the Governor acts
which was passed prior to the enactment o.
the new Constitution. The clause in the
new Constitution referred to, Is as follows
"Art. 2, Sec, II. The Governor may sus-
pend and may remove, for incompetency
or misconduct, all civil officers who re-
ceived appointments from the Executive
for time not exceeding two years."
| 1t is claimed that as the Commissioner
are elected by the Legislature and not BY
the Governor, therefore the Governor car
not remove them. On this ground 1t is un
derstood the Commissioners will go int
court, and in the meantime resist by law
full means, arrest and otherwise, parties
Il who may assume or attempt to exercise
any of their functions or the functions OF {
police officer. If United States troops com,
they will protest to the commander tina
they are simply exercising their Lawful
functions, and that they are not in eithe
insurrectiOn or rebellion within the mean
ing of the clause in the Constitution of tn,
United States in reference to that subject
but If the Government troops forcibl.
| eject them from the possession of the Com
missioners' office, MarsbaPs office, polio
stations, &c., they will submit under pro
test and await the decision of the Courts
They profess the greatest solicitude t.
avoid any collision with the General Gov
ernment and to prevent popular out
break.
1t Is now said that Mr.. Ford Is not to b
Il a Commissioner, and that Gus r. Borry an
\ Captain Horn, as before named, are to b
appointed, but nothing is positively know
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