New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-03
FMIGRATION BOARD CHICKERING'S
co,russ,oSrp LYNCH MAKES AN EMPHATIC DENIAL

IL
COMMISSIONERS LYNCH MAKES AN EMPHATIC DENIAL
or ruK CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST HIM
Fmi0rotion Commissioner Lynch SAID yes
,ordav n n TRIBUNE reporter that he FELT much ag
grieyed at the frequency with when MS h""o n"" %
brought before the public recently In connec'ioh WIN
the Board OF Emigration Commissioners no "'so """
much fault with Commissioner Stephenson, who 70 use
the language OF Mr. Lynch, trying to magnify MS wv"
consequence at the expense of the other
lie denies that he is staying from the meetings vi
tho Roard in order to bring about deadlock lie s'u
that between May 49, 1s3 and April 49, 1874 there were
as meanings of the Board which the attendance was
follows:
Commissioner Forrest present 80 times, sb'eut tnea
Commisso net lynch present S3 times, absent times
Comm K.uinsn, present 81 times aesens times
Commi'sOner starr present 80 t@ss ao'en' nI'i me.
eominis.Oner M.se present 25 tines Aesea. II tines.
Commi.sioner Havemeyef. absent SO times
Mr. Lynch stated that two OF these meetings were
merely held matter Of FORM and that on THESE oc
casons he absent in Philadelphia He also Staten
in emphatic terms that Mr. Stephenson was not present
at any OF the meetings held between March 90 and April
2s aud that he-Mr Lynch-had never been absent from
four consecutive meetings. Az the meeting ne,u d
April % there seven Commissioners present anu
there was absoln unannity Two meetings nave since
been held, at neither Of which was mere Quorum
no extraordinary occurrence. MT Lvn raet ssys
there will probably be quorum at the next neetnu,
and perhaps unanimous action, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a lander
fears OF Mr. Stephenson. MT m @ renSos him
to retain position. Mr. Lynchs further remarks are
quotcd 1.-THE discovery made that the Governor III
not remove me. act of the Legislature VIII alone
suffice, Mr.. Stephenson thinks 1t Is true tndt repre-
sent nationality in the Board that furnished twOhths
OF all the immigrants that come 10 TINS country
"Mr. Stephenson assumes that majority OF me b9aru
is with hun In his movements. 1t is too much for nun
assume and he ought to know It, II not true tn
the patients Wards Island are sun ring Tor want V
attention The whole number in the Institution Is oDy
s02 against 1921 at this time last year. When the mum.
Der was three times what 1t at present three resent
phy scians were all the Commission employed Two
commissioners visited the Island on Sunday Inete
was no lack Of doctors Ii Is not true tht o
condition of affairs Wards Island grows worse every
day. Notwithstanding the fact that MT s,ephensUn
Chairman OF the Committee there other Colnis-
siOners who perform their duties. .,.... u-os
the last meeting of the Board. MT Stephenson WIS
properly and deservedy rebuked by Mayor haVemesv,
when the former reflected in discourcous terms Oh uo
conduct of the President OF Irish Engrant Sociey,
who was unavoidably absent i'll Philadelphia. NO one
knows better than Mayor Hayemeyer now much 'ho
Irish and German societies have done 10 make he NI
mission what il is. Andrew Carrigan ana gregory DIt
Ion of the Irish; Leopold Berwith and George IL nun
hardt of the German. did their work wel Trey ana IL AS
a labor Of love. Their successors have not peen uh-
faithful"