New-York tribune., 1874-08-15
POLITICS IN THE POLICE BOARD.
COMMISSIONER DIsBECKER CLAIMS SOME Pdof
RIGHTS AS REPUBLICAN IN THE SELECTION Oh
ELECTION OFFICERS.

| COMMISSIONER DIsBECKER CLAIMS SOME PRIOR
| RIGHTS AS A REPUBLICAN IN THE SELECTION OF
| ELECTION OFFICERS.
A committee of ten persons, representing
certain members of the Republican party living IN the
Isl ssemby District who DO not belong to the regular
Association appeared before the Board o Police yester
day and after declaring that they were excluded from
the Association presented list OF candidates for the
Office OF inspectors and poll clerks Of election whom they
desired to have appointed IN preference to those named
in list to be presented by the Association On mo
tou OF Commissioner VOOrhs the list presented by the
committee was to ID. b. uasjrodck CLief OF the
Bureau Elections with order that the character OF
persons named ia the report be asterta'uoE ana
report made to the Board
Chief Clerk Hawley then presented list OF candl-
dates for the Offices OF Inspectors and pol Clerks OF
Election winch mad been sent in By the Chairman OF
the XVHth Assembly District Republican Association.
Comniss oner Voorhs moved that this list should also
he sent 10 the Chief of the Baytau OF Elections Com
missioner DsDecker then OF .red the following resou-
ton:
S,rea. Chapter G75 Section l3 Of TIE L,rs @ l'72 pIoe.
thai two inspectors Eeeoa sl he a2goe t. reD.esai
Tie paw minority On STATE 1e, N the Stte ana '9an., o.
Representing the saii party 20 r nlo5li asI " &
Comm - = @ 1aei ll',STt i eI r.gor-,yt tber,sors
esolred That al Lists Of rda' for Republican inspectors -
1o and Comm Dsoerser pre- nt5 ne ~.
Republican inspectors 70 MS b@afl nc ia. | ] sta % and
Cnei Of 'h' ooa o. ~ W 80 ,eeJ ,.a ,cry be er cred
g A. prs by The following ri,oa,a pas.eI by the DOld u
Tor.,- i,,y %:
H It i, sfr the duty Of the Bl,i Of lice by Sections l3
and 10 Of Chag G75 Laws Of o2 le Election A to se.,et
40 sa5 P tiss IN eae election .tG Of r NeeT,h; an
s. ,tr rrIr M ~. II care au! q scf,ti1u
IN masking selections with veT epeo' TO the integrity aaI
Io IL, . va DC ee,r a.. are hee,T .a'tei By The
occupation political h on 81 saes Of po9eI persons Tor Ae
positions alo' name & II ' ] ,t ' and osata,o Of tie Toa,
~ The, intelligent upright citizens WHO have heretofore
declined the important aui' tcth' a. .Ip ''Is =" p
duty vae n iu preserving ae plr o the cleo
il.ora Ih when fall inspectors ant roll clerks made
Up Assembly D,s 'be ;aA. s- b. pi'tleI ~
Tie Record aud public scun7 sud objection thereto -'y exist
invited before hnai selection al ap2Gniaen, Is msd. c
sanor V5orh, off red the following ts substitute;
Rod all ss submitted the Boa Of Inspectors and poll
Al-l V W., roast n r,,t 1ui ,rcIa- n lt, The
earc,ef aud persons umel sae LIST iOr tue
CmnIssoHer Bisbrckrr said that the substitute Of
fered was identical with offered by Commissioner
Voorhs july a. 1s7i and was tauiooElcal IN ITS
rn.rtctpr The efctt OF the substitute would be 70 de-
feat the resolution off red by himself which was III ne
cordaEce wth the LECTION Law vo.e Wa3 ihen tiheh
Commissioners Matsel and Vo0rhls voting Yea, and
Commissioners Dsbecker and DurVce Nay. The resOlu
tOn offered by Commissioner D.soecheI vas then voted
upon, and was also lost ~ te ioG%uS VOC; Commls-
Ieer was then read from s. ~ Beers presenting
list OF inspectors ana poll clerks offered by the Council
OF Political Reform. Commissioner vojrhis moved
that the list be sent TO the Cet OF the Bureau OF Eec
tons A vote taken and the motion was oarriet by
the following vote: Commissioners VoOrGls Masoll,
and Duryea Yea. Commissioner D!sDccLer said that
ne voted m favor Of the resolution the persons
named IN MI Beers's list Democrats and against
when they Republicans in their parry fath.
| ComIuis ssioncF DlsLecGcr's denini was based upon
the following: Chapter 675 OF the Laws of NewYOrk,
SEc Is All Inspection. election sud poi the
County NeSick shall hereer be selected ant appointed BY the
Bofa Of Police, shall have all
f. .bsl r me NV Of the said Bori Of Police in The month, If
August AID septe~se ~ we year & ,sa sIa ven ~ ' hh. %
80. OIL i.et in aid eiiy and conat, to .cct to .I,e
s ssd those appon Ell 10 represent ue parry polite,
mi1onty on the said aud ooul to
b. missioner or such OF the ComHis oreTs Police
shall bt ci,-ns United and the state
gooi Character and able to read v al prak 1r English language
S for sp office 10 by the electors Of the district
which tney selected but person sla be required to be
resident the election d Tor "bc- he shall be aoponei
Cninnissoner voorhis stated that Commissioner Mat
sell and himself opposed Commissioner Dsbecker's
ton on the ground that lists previously by
political associations had been sent 10 the chief OF tue
Bureau OF Elections flor Investigation. such course
other associations. lley thouGht tIdt theFe
ought not to be any difference IN tue treat
meat of the lists whether they came from
the Democratic Republican parties. The
list IN by Tammany Hall fortnight ago had been
the chief Of the Bureau Of ecOns and
official III turn had transmitted copies OF the names
10 police capaius with instructions 10 them 70 make
inquiries regard TO the reputation OF the candidates
and make "a report TO him. Commissioner Mdtseli aud
himself not willing - permit Commissioner DIS
bee ker the liberty Of wedding out the Republican lists
first and then sending the names Of the persons
he might select 10 Mr. Hasbrouck Nor they will
ing at this time recognize Commissioner D-becksr
officially the Republican member OF the Board. That
was a question which could Only properly come up
when the arrived for the election O the Inspectors
and poll Neither Commissioner MAse nor MIN
sell du.ed that Police Commissioner VINO Was Re
puucsu his party Iaih would have the rght accord