New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-06
PRICE THREE CENTS.
TAMMANY'S SWIFT REVENGE.
POLICE COMMISSIONER MACLEAN DROPPED
FEOM THE ROLL.
HIS PUNISHMENT FOR VOTING AGAINST THE
LIQUOR DEALERS on THE "SPIES"
RESOLUTION


Police Commissioner Charles F. MacIcans nams
has been stricken from the roll Of the Tammany
Hall General Committee Of the With Assembly
District This summary and unusual action was
taken by the With District Tammany Hall
ganzation at its regular meeting held at the Iro-
quos Club, No. 4 West Thirtccnth-st., on Wednes-
day evening It was done on motion of Bernard
+. Martin, who is the Tammany leader Of the
district, and holds the place Of Commissioner Of
Jurors by appointment of Mayor Grant It Is
Barney's" usual custom after calling the
ganzation to order, as its president, to ask the
vice-president to occupy the chair He
followed this custom on Wednesday night
and Alfred J. Murray, the vice-president,
having assumed the gavcl Mr. Martin directed
the secretary to read the list Of members in
arrears for dues 1t was long list. the amounts
which the delinQuents owed running from 81
upward The secretary read the Of Charles
f. MacIran, and added that his back dues
amounted to Sa2.
81 move that Charles F. MacLean be dropped
from the roll OF the Tammany Hall General Com
mit;ec for this district in stentorian tones
from the redoubtabe Barney" Martin.
dozen voices seconded the motion and 1t
was declared by Acting Chairman Murray to be
carried unanimously
None Of the other braves in arrears-about
forty in numbcr-were similarly treated.
The IaInmany leader of the With District who
is a brother of Police Commissioner James j. Mar
tin, was found last evening at one Of his favorite
resorts in Sxth-ave., and asked to explain the
meaning Of Police Commissioner MacLean's virtual
expulsion from his organization.
"Construe it as you please was Barney's"
blunt reply Mr.. Martin expressed surprise that
n
connection with the Tammany Hall organization had
not been noticed in the newspapers yesterday, and
seemed disappointed that comments had been
made by the press Of the city.
weknown member of the Tammany Hall
With District Organization, and who is
close terms TO Leader Martin, made this statement
yesterday: This man MacIean was elected a
member of the General Committee about four
years ago, when he was living at the New-York
Hotel He contributed $50 then but he has
never put up cent for the organization since.
1t was time to get rid of such dead wood. He
wasn't fired minute too soon.'
Commissioner MacIean was seen last evening
at the Manhattan Club of which he iG q member.
and was asked II he could tell why he had been
fred in the parlance OF Mr.. Martins retainers.
Mr. NlacLean firmly refused to say anything on
the subject.
The news Of the treatment which Commissioner
MacIean had received at the hands
Of his colleagues brother was received
with unmiyed astonishment in POLITICAL circles
yesterday aud last evening Politicians were di-
vded on the question, but the majority naturally
believed that the split in the Police Board on the
subject Of the "spies" resolution of September
last was to be carried outside Of Police Head
quarters. The liquor-dealers must be sustained,
oil ,ho of frOu
many communion, was understood by many
to be the word Of command from the
Wigwam. 1t was Tuesday that Commissioner
MacIea voted with Commissioner McClave, the
Republican member of the Police Board, in favor
Of resembling the spies" resolution and which was
opposed by Commissioners Martin and Sheehan.
representing Croker and Tammany Hall. Inc
dropping of Commissioner Maclean from the Tam
many Hall General Committee on wednesday was
regarded as the natural sequence Of his stubborn
stand against the liquor-dealers. Barney" has
been quick TO seek the scalp of his brothers DEM
ocratic antagonist in the board.
The excuse offered by some Tammany men last
evening was that Barney" was "ho-headed." and
had assaulted Commissioner MacLean without Or
dcrs and wholly on his own responsibility. They
said also that Mr.. MacLean had removed from
the district and had gone live at the home of his
ave. in the XXIIId Assembly District. IL was here
that Commissioner and Mrs. MacIean gave .
brilliant reception to Superintendent Byrnes after
his appointment to his present Office.
The claim Of Mr. MacTHans ineligibility TO MEM
bcrship in the General Committee on account OK
bis removal from the With District is shown to
be groundless because many prominent lam
many men are now members OF au
the Wigwam committees from Assembly
districts in which they do not
live. A notable case of this kind is t,, that OF
richard Croker who remains on the ANlllth
District roll and continues TO represent that dis-
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Mr. MacLean was appointed q Commissioner OF
Police by Mayor Hewitt on May IL, 1898, to
succeed General Fitz John Porter. for term OF
six years, and has therefore two years more
10 serve. He had then recently been afhilated
with Tamniany Hall. This was Mr. MaGIFane
second appointment to the Police Board. lie was
first appointed in 1870 Ivy Mayor Cooper, in place
Of sidney F. Nichols, who had been removed ny
Governor Robinson on the Mayors charseS ne
held the office until the following year Wlen 0on-
missioner Nichols was reinsta'ct by the courts
May.r Cooper then appointed Mr.. MaclPan farR
Commissioner. which office he held unul MS terin
exnired in 1882 His relations with Governor
Tiiden wore of n close and intimate character
during a large part of the lnttcrs career. and he
hccnme ono of the executors OF Mt. lldenS
estate and of the Tden Trust. Last year Mr.
MucI can was appointed a member OF the Demo-
,tic State Executive Committee. lie took SO
little interest in the campaign thai he did rot
,ttcnd a meeting of the Committee. Mr. Mac
Leans indcpandence has been shown in many other
ways of late. and the more Independent ne mas
been tn more unpopular he has become In Iams
many Hall
COPPER MINING OPERATIONS ABANDONED
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