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THE NEW YORK MUDDLE.
Police Commissioners Meeting
THE WALKING MATCHES.
Baltimore and San Francisco.
HART TO SUE WESTON AND OTHERS.
Baltimore and San Francisco
HART TO SUE WESTON AND OTHERS
THE MISSING ERONAUTS.
THE PLAGUEIN MEMPHIS
NEW YORK INSPECTORS OF ELEC
TlON.
Proceedings of the Police Commits

NEW YORK, Oct 4.-The board of police met
again this morning to continue their work OF
appointing the remainder Of the inspectors OF
election. A letter was read from the mayor re-
qu1r1ng the production at a hearing before him
to-day OF books and minutes of he police board
for August and September relating to election
matters The minutes of the previous meeting
were read, and Mr.. French charged that they
were altogether inaccurate, and that this had
not been done accidentally. An argument then
ensued as to the Interpretation Of the decision
OF the supreme court judges. A delegation
from TammaDy Hall was present to watch the
proceedings on behalf CT that body
A Tie Vote.
A motion to adopt the minutes was defeated
by tie vote. The names Of inspectors Of elec-
tion were then taken up, and the same old
scenes reenacted. Lists for the 1st and I'd as
sembly districts were presented. but not acted
upon. Mr.. O'Brien, chief of election bureau
was asked whether it was true that the state
to his having stated that he would not notify
Mr., Tilden and other Inspectors appointed In
the 1st assembly district of their appointment In
time. Mr.. OBrien refused to answer, and a
motion 10 compel him to do so was lost. The
list OF Tammany inspectors remained uncon-
fImed. The Sd, 4th, and 5th assembly districts
were then called over, but were not acted upon
After some futile talk in which only four per-
sons, who were named by Mr.. Wheeler as un-
Objectionable to Tammany Hall, were appointed
Inspectors OF elections the board took recess
until $3.50 p. m.
Proceedings i'm the Supreme Court.
A large crowd was attracted to the general
term of the supreme court to-day by the an
nouncement that that court was about to grant
to appoint forthwith the remaining inspectors
of election. When Judges Davis, Brady and
Barret, who composed the court, appeared, the
decision was delivered by Judge Barret to the
effect that the remaining inspectors be chosen
from the Tammany Hall democracy. Counsel
asked that a writ be directed to the board of
R1ee e to he for in Gis aa sa M
that nothing could be more contumacous
than the action of the mayor and GER
tain members Of the police board. This
the police board to be In his Office at IL O'clock
and it was apparent that board did not intend
to appoint inspectors from Tammany Hall, and
that the mayor was aiding them In setting the
order OF the court at defiance. Mr.. Field asked
for an order from the court restraining the
mayor from taking any action In the case OF
from office. The court did not grant the order
against the mayor at the present time, but said
II that official did not obey the order of the
court it could be obtained at any time In an
SWer to question of Information Judge Davis
replied that the board would have to select as
inspectors persons known to be In full harmony
with Tammany Hall democracy Persons who
may be members Of that organization and who
were in full sympathy with it last year but
who are now opposed to 1t but still In the men,
berSh1p are not eligible as inspectors. The
court then took a recess until five O'Clock this
evening.
InvestigatiOn of Charges Against
the Police COmmissiOners.
The tnvestiga alton OF charges against Police
Commiss ioners Morrison, Maclean and French
was to-day opened by Mayor Cooper, who read
q paper In which 1t was set forth that on Oct.
1st he felt bound. in the discharge of his duty,
to arratgn the police commissioners for neglect
Of their duty. He now found the condition of
things 10 be, that, while the action Of Messrs.
Maclean and Morrison up to Oct. 1st appears
to be sanctioned by the views Of their
official advisers, and their recent course
appears to be In accordance with the latest
views Of the court, that Commissioner French
derives color Of justification from views impu-
ted to the supreme court under legal construc-
ton by his legal adviser Of first opinion. He
therefore did rot feel fee to charge upon either
of the accused intentional improperly of con-
duct up to the date Of his charges Of october
1st. At the same time he was not convinced
that Mr.. French's action In insisting upon de-
laying the full appointment Of inspectors up to
october 1st was justified by any fair interpre-
tation of the law. However, as Mr.. French had
probably acted in accordance with his consci-
entious belief, he (the mayor would desist from
further proceedings against him at this time.
In the case Of the charges against Mr.. French
alone the mayor adjourned the further hearing
until October 9Th.