Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-02
HUNS ARE RULED OUT.
Allegheny Public Safety Committee
Tables a Complaint. >.
NO PROTECTION FOB FOREIGNERS.
Sarah Jane McconnelI's Letter Buried in
Pigeon Hole.
CHIEF MURPHY TO BE PEACEMAKER

No Hungarian need apply for protection
to the Public Safety Committee OF ALE
gheny. At meeting of the committee last
night the complaint of Sarah Jane McCon-
nell, with regard to Hungarian house that
was raided last June, was laid on the table,
and to add insult to injury, one of the mem
bers sarcastically remarked that he did not
suppose any one of the men arrested was a
citizen, and he did not see
why they should be protected. The
discussion on international law was
started by the calling up of the letter ad-
dressed to DR.. Clifford, of the Auditing
Committee, in which Sarah Jane Mcconnell,
the owner OF a house which she rented to
Hungarians, charged that the occupants had
been arrested without cause. It was also
claimed that a young woman's death had
been caused by an unwarranted raid on an
other Hungarian house.
Schad BOOSTED. Not PIanked.
Just as the letter was about to be read,
Mr.. Schad raised the point that it was
not signed. Chairman Drum ruled that the
signed communication accompanying it
was sufficient, and continuing said he did
did not care how humble the petitioners
were they had the right to be heard He
thought the charge that the police were re-
sponsible for the woman's death was enough
to warrant an investigation. He said it
was doubtful whether the police have
right to make summary arrests, and sug
gested that the City Solicitors opinion on
the question be secured.
Peter Born responded with great deal of
animation that he knew where IL OF 13
Hungarians live in one house. He did not
suppose any of them or the men arrested at
the house IN question were citizens, and he
therefore did not see why the communica-
tion should be considered. Besides. he
thought the proper course was to enter
charges against individual officers before
court of Justice. He did not see why the
CommHtee on Public Safety should be bur-
dened with such work.
'That is what we are here for; to receive
the complaints Of citizens" interposed Mr..
Drum.
Hungarians Have no Rights.
'But they are not citizens" broke in Mr..
Born.
Gas far as their police protection goes
they have the same rights as citizens"
answered Mr.. Drum.
Mr.. Schad claimed that the citizens of the
Eighth ward would appear before the COM
mttee and prove that the foreigners in the
neighborhood deserved arrest. Mr.. Simon
wanted the matter referred to the sub
Police committee, and made motion to
that effect. 1t was defeated by vote of Z
to g. Those voting in the affirmative were
Messrs Drum. HARRISON and Simon; in the
negative, Ober, Schad, Peter Born, F.
Goettman, Jr., McGeary, Stacy and John
A. Born.
The pay of Thomas g. Sample, Clerk of
the Fire Department, was withheld, it be-
ing claimed that he received $50 per month
for clerking and S75 as member of Engine
Company No. and that he had not done
any work nor been in attendance at the
engine house.
The resolution from Common Council in
structing Chief Murphy to enforce friendly
relations between Chief Jones and his
assistant, John Hunter, was referred to
Chief Murphy with instructions to report
his success at the next meeting