New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-27
ARETTING CORRUPTION.
COMMISSIONERS MARTIN AND SHEEHAN
SHOW WHERE THEY STAND.
r,,ry DEFEAT A RESOLUTION OFFERED BY MR.
MURRAY DOING AWAY WITH THE I'M
PROPER USE OF THE POLICE ON
ELECTION DAY.

ELECTION DAY.
pv their action in the Police Board yesterday the
,m,,anv Hall Commissioners, James j. Martin and
Ihr g Sheehan placed themselves on record as
r,es aids and co-operators in fraud. Police Com
,.,,,.r charles II. Murray offered resolution
h,cb had for its object the breaking up OF the sys-
w., which has been brought TO state OF perfection
y ,b,s city under Tammany domination-for using
olice AZ the polls 10 assist Tammany heelers In
nr Infamous work. The practices of which the
,.,a-s and the police have been Jointly guilty
,,ed the eliminating point last November after
- NJ the most bold and mpudent violation Of
-, ,,ainest provisions of the election laws. Many
'.,ances of the way In which the police and the
~,,nany captains worked hand-n-glove at the
ou;nc booths were brought out before the Lexow
Committee by William A, Sutherland, who preceded
robn W Gon its counsel
r. break up these notorious abuses braZenly per
..,rated in the interest of frauds upon the ballot
- commissioner Murray yesterday offered reso-
lion authorizing Superintendent Byrnes in detail
,,e policemen for duty at the polls on Election Day
:, select policemen from other precincts in which
,s particu,ar polling place may be The text of the
,onoston as follows
Whereas 1t has been charged in the past that
-. as,alment Of officers at polling places in the pre-
, where such officers reside has been productive
" evil and has tended to promote practices at the
a,,rg-nlaces condemned in the public press of this
city therefore ,
IA authorized to detail men at polng-piaces from
S,ssr precincts than the precinct in which sag poi
ngpace is situated when IN MS 'e
sarh polling place or polling places VII tehG TO pre-
order ana an apifS Fair al e eet nn' anu anu
T an solution so obviously in the interest of
issiacon was defeated by the adverse votes or
iar ere Martin and Sheehan. Why? Because 1t
so',d tend 10 break up the cooperation between
Tsm%a4n Gmm PSSe'HH a relies for its fraudulent
sor;ties in certain districts MT she nan had me
er h. allow cd TO make the details OF their men
COW election duty as formerly well KNOWING tna t
~ numerous cases the captains selected the names
n lists handed them by The Tammany Hall DIS
fs! ls Ss4o quoted from the Consolidation act,
..S,,on 9ss to show that the law made IT the duty
M S@ superintendent 80 detail two policemen to
each 5s the Te e' respohsbe and there
sbonld be in Commissioner Martins opinion no
Interference with his duties on the part o' '"7
Commissioner Murray replied that 1t was n 20 ,b
voters and other frauds in which The police or Wese
adhFed an 2 sonss Pan
The fP 6y tb4 board ofered by Mr. Murray
~ hereas the Board OF Commissioners OF PoIce
are des2Hi b St T Of and rigorous
forcement Of the law appertaining to elections
"Resoiyed That the Superintendent OF Police be
directed and required through the ponce 9rce 20
verify the register OF voters III inns Wy az
O. the discovery OF illegal registration to bring the
offenders . justice. 49,.
"Resoived That any member Of the police force
a. assigned to the duty o: verifying said registry
who shall wifuly connive at any false registration
shall be liable 10 dismissal from the force and any
ofcer so assigned who shall negligently connive at
or permit any suca false registration shall be liable
10 a fine o. thirty days pay.
"Resolved That the Superintendent OF Police be
especially charged with the vigorous, exact and
Impartial enforcement of all the election laws and
particularly the provision that no eieciioneerihg
shall be permitted or allow ed within the imi; pre-
scribed by from the polling-place and particu-
lary the provision OF law that any and all persons
shall be excluded from and not permitted within
said pollng-pace except those persons legally per
mitted 10 DC within the same.
Resolved That the Superintendent o. Police pro-
nulgate these resolutions TO the officers and men
OF the department"