Evening journal., 1894-12-03
STILL AFTER TAMMANY.
New York City Reformers' Mean
to Strike a Deathblow.
WANT TO ROOT UP TEE SOCIETY

Has Been Made Invalid Sensational In
ycstigations on Foot.
New YORK. Dec 3.-Tho most dotor-
mined assault that has ever ho8n made on
Tammany has just boon organizod in
this city. It IS proposed to wipe the or
ganlzatlon out Of existence, to tear It up
by tho roots and annihilate it completely.
A committee of otzons and Democrats,
probably from the Good Government club
in the Tenth assembly district, with
hondquartors ut 10 81 Mark S place, viii
80 90 Albany this week and 10y before At
tornoy General Hancock somo aiidayits,
Transcript of records and other documents
tending Co show that the Tammany go
cioty. or Colur Fan orderi has violated
its charter riRhta.
This committee, which will be headed
By Lawyer u ohm Brooks Loavitt, mem
bcr Of that Good Government club, VIII
ask that the attorney general institute
proceedings in the supreme court to an
nul tho society charter. a date Will he
set for the trial, and thon all tho officers
of tho society will be subpUnaed as wit
nesses
! Among others to be coin pelled to testi-
/ fy viii be Grand Sachem Thomas T.. Gil
/ roy and the following sachems: Hugh j.
\ Grant, Charles Welde, John McQuaoe, 1
| John j. German, William ii. Clark, w.
Bourke Cochran, Bernard j. Martin, Hon /
~ d. Purroy Charles E. simmons Ihom- |
as L. Feitner and James j. Martin. |
| Richard Croker will also be called as |
| witnoss. and WiskinlSie Dan Donegan will |
be interrogated as to whom no has collect |
Bd money from during the past few years.
Books, papers, records, documents and
everything pertaining to tho Vammnny
society mt least as far back as 1890 VIII
bo brought into court.
sachens Must Testify.
An effort will DO made to find ont
where all the hundreds of thousands OF
dollars have gono which have been col
leotod regularly from the clerks and other
employees of the city This will be the
greatest exposure of recent years and can
not fail to cause q sensation. Incidentally
it IS expected that many thousands of
dollars have been divided between the
members Of a clique Of sachems, but this
will have nothing particularly to do with
, the main object OF the inquiry. The Tam
many society will DO on trial for It's life
and 10 is believed that its doom is sealed.
Mr.. Leavitt said: "Iho Tammany So
cioty was organized in 1889 and was
chartered under the laws Of 1905 for the
purpose of aifording relief to the indigent
! and distressed mombers of said associa-
! tion, thoir widows and orphans and 9th
ors who may bo found proper objects OF
their charity. As the society has depart
c cd worry far from the objects Of its charter
an action might DO brought by the attor
Q noy general TO dissolve tie corporation
i and wind up It's affairs. When it is wound
q up, We can destroy the Tammany Hall
Z political organization and not before
n Speaking further, tho young lawyer
Fffnfhnr nnnyfnnn
that the Tammany society was entitled
y TO hold only such real estate as the revo-
IL nuo from which shall not exceed So, 000
70 por annum Now, it can bo shown that
" the yearly revenue from the Tammany
sociotyis wigwam i'm East Fourteenth
a. street, known as Tammany hall, yield.
n double that sum. This would alone b,
le sufficient TO break the charter, but it ii
II also known that the society has long
w since gone out of the charity business
n No Republican will ho engaged In THU
movement Mr.. Leavitt says. He con
tonds that TammRny Hall is not a Demo
cratic orpani zation. and therefore Demo
"A Gratis may attack it with good grace. II
=. believes that tho suit will result In th
annulment of the charter, and then th
y | political organization at the wigwam vii
- | have TO stand on its own bottom. 10 ma
=. become q moro representative body, hu
n, will probably die Of dry rot
Ia, Biu 20 Annu the Charter.
OBJ But oven if this proceeding should fa'
the Good Government club pooplo vii
not despair by any means A bin vii
most surely so through tho Legislature
on nnnul the charter Of tho sooiety, and
cd receiver may bo appointed by the court
}. to wind up its affairs and divide Oh
Is. property. Tho old wgwam is worth
tidy sum, and many OF Tho Inmman
heolors would welcome grand diyYy
10 has been asccrtained that during q
In. unst is months political changes haN
~, boon so humorous that no less than 81
bS Republicans, so called, and twice
lly many anti Iammany Democrats still r
tain their membership in the soclot
Some of those may begin a snit for q
U.S. appolntmont OF a receiver. In any ca
tho sacheins have a big fight on The
You hnnds While Mr. Leavitt Is tho flr
! az man 90 tako hold Of practical scheme
One destroy Tammany, no does not claim ori
inality for It, Indeed while at the ;
the nonis dinnor he found that Mr. Prct
t. Tucker had thought out similar plan
FIX. Senator Warner Miller suggest
~ tho other day that the legislature pass
Amendments 70 the election laws provl
ing that any secret or semisecret socie
< at liko Tammany should not bo allowed
Ae' have official ballots printed.
10 IS understood that an assomblym
49,, elect Of this city IS preparing sush q ti
hui and there seems 90 be good reason to
me liove that the measure i'm some shape y
pass.
Investigation stin Goes ON.
Ora Two sensational Investigations
) are drawing crowds today, and iator on
dis third will furnish interesting food
,er nose thought about tho criminalty Of TIA
The many.
you Tho Loxow committee resumed its
QUO (, w. tings this morning at 10 O'Clock In
,iief. Tweed courthouse John w. con IS C
ducting tho examination, as before,
sisted by Frank Moss and W. Irayers
Geo. romo.
!. Speculation IS rife about tho caiiinl
ok Assistant District Attorney Welln
pre- 90 tell about tho attempts 70 brihe j.
.y.Is, 1t Is hintcd also that startling stories
police hackmail are yet 10 como
Mrs. Norman has yet TO complete her
Bay timony, and Mrs Evelyn Bell viii tel
her experience with the police whom