The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-11
DR. SMITH MAKES CHARGES
POLICE COMMIssIOsERs ORDER 4
 THoRoUGH INVESTIGATION.

Appointed to Decide Upon
 Method of Investigaiion-Poii Wit.
 nesses VIII bo Protect-d-Board will
 Meet Again Next wednesday-commis
 sioncrs Clanccy and Giihuiy Specified in
 tho Charges,
 So great was the interest in the charges made against the efficiency of the police department by Rev. Dr. New man smyth, president of the local Law and Order league, that the regular meeting rooms of the board of police commissioners last night were entirely too small to accommodate half the number of people who desired to hear what the reverend doctor had to say in reference to the matter As a result of the meeting last night a regular Lexow Investigation will soon be in full operation in this city.
 The meeting was called to order in the police commissioners room prompt ly at 8 o'clock, and an immediate ad- journment was taken to the city court room on the second floor of the police building. Among those present were Rev. Drs. Smyth, Phillips and Mason, Clarence B. Deming, w. H. Douglass, Rockwell, Commissioner James D. McGann, eX-Councilman John J. Ho- gan, Town Counsel w. S. Pardee, As sistant City Attorney c. B. Matthew man. Attorney Henry G. Newton, Ly- man H. Johnson and a number of oth- CTS.
 When the city court room was reached the business of the meeting proceeded with alacrity. At the invitation of the his statement. The statement was clear and forcible and caused consider able sensation among his auditors. All the commissioners were present, as were also Superintendent of Police Smith and Captains Wrinn, O'Keefe, Woodruff and Brewer.
 Dr. Smyth began by stating that he had prepared some specifications which he would present to and leave with the members of the board for their future His remarks in full are as follows:
 POINTS FOR INvEsTrGATEoN RX THE POLICE 7'.1FS'sati CoMMrssf0UERssf .-.
 Is the liquor law of the state general ly ignored and habitually' violated in New Haven, with the knowledge of, but effectual tnterfsrence from the police department?
 Specifications-We ask for inquiry as to the following particulars: 1, Viola tions of the law relating to the close times of saloons. 2, Violations of the law relating to connection between li- censed places for the sale Of intoxicat- ing liquors and living or lodging apart ments in the same building. 8, Viola tions of the screen law.
 II.
 Has the neglect of the police to see and report such violations of law been fostered by the attitude concerning the of said laws which has been assumed by the police commits sioners, or by any commissioner, or which has generally been supposed by policemen to be the attitude towards the law assumed by those in author Ity over them?
 Specifications-1. Whether or not the order of the board dated May 16, 1893, the Sunday law, was posted In all the precincts? Whether it Is still posted, as voted by you, in a conspicu- ous place in each precinct? or whether In any way the attention of all the po- icemer has been and is called to this standing order as the present and per- sistent determination of the police com 2. To what extent, in obe- 1ience to this order, reports concerning saloons in each precinct have been and are made by patrolmen, and sent up by the captains to the superintendent. 3. What is the effect upon the discipline and morale of the force if an explicit order of the board Is allowed, without being rescinded, to lapse into "innocu- ous desuetude?" 4. Whether or not the resolution concerning the Sunday law. which was sent by you last year to the secretary of the Sabbath committee. was also communicated to the entire police force, down to the last man of hem, as a resolution not designed by you merely to sooth company of amia- ole citizens, but as real order to be ,beyed by the force with penalty of degradation or dismissal from the ser vice in cases of disobedience of your orders? 5. Do your records show occa- 'ional instances in which policemen nave been commended or rewarded for successful service in enforcing the laws. md among these commentators are here to be found instances of reward or promotion or honorable mention for 'peeial successful efforts in the enforce nent of the liquor and other laws re- ating to public morals? If not, why lot? 6. Are there in. any of the recent 'ecords of the board, or in any reported ltterances of individual commissioners. 7alid grounds for the reasons which Ire frequently given by policemen to citizens for their failure to lee and report violations of liquor law. namely, that their chances for promo ion would be jeopardized if they did. 'r their official throats might be cut :. Was the appointment last week, upon he nomination of Commissioner Gilhu-, y, of the recently naturalized citizen, ate laborer in the saloon of an alder nan, intended for, and in its practical fleet will it be conducive to the in- erests of good morals and the enforce nent of the liquor law? 8. How many iornina films for the forca of men cnr