The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-11

missioner Gilhuly sought to obtain a
 place on that committee by the side of
 Commissioner Clancey, and for what
 assigned or assignable reasons? 10.
 Has there been any dictation or
 interference with transfers Of officers
 or with details by any commissioner
 not on the committee of efficiency? III.
 Has the financial interest or close
 business connection of any commission
 CT been used for, or has It had the prac-
 tical effect of securing protection for H.
 legal sales of liquors or of restraining officers from proceeding against saloons
 where such business relations with any
 commissioner are known to exist? | Specifications.-Has any commission CT directly or through his agents sought
 the patronage of saloons on account | of his position as commissioner? g.
 Has any commissioner warned any off,
 cer not to watch certain saloons too | closely? 3. Has any commissioner
 made to officers any remarks. profane
 or otherwise. for the purpose of re-
 straining any officer from pushing one of his own customers? 4. Has any commissioner given to saloon keepers any information for their benefit con- cerning police details or intended move
 ments of the police?
 ".
 To what extent have complaints by
 citizens against illegal and immoral
 places been hushed by the police, and what ground is there for the opinion expressed by Judge Wheeler on the
 bench that 1t looks like license of such
 immoral places in this city?
 l V.
 What are the causes within your jur- isdiction for the profitable continuance
 of policy-playing in this city?
 | NATURE OF THE EVIDENCE.
 | Having thus indicated In extensive | specification the scope of any inquiry which shall be thorough enough to
 clean out entirely this police chimney, so that 1t may draw and not smoke, l | shall now proceed to describe evidence
 which has come to us along the line of
 the inquiry which we ask you to insti- tute. I shall proceed to give to you l abstracts of testimony as we have 1t
 written down from the lips of witnesses
 who gave 1t; the names of any witness es which I now may withhold I can l give whenever there may be occasion
 to summon them before an investigat- ing or judicial tribunal which shall have | power to issue subpoenas and to pro- | tect witnesses who tell the whole truth. Upon the first point of inquiry as l proposed we have a list, which I have |. with me, of over a hundred places where violation of law has been report | ed, and should you wish to take the time we will put three or four wit nesses on the stand to answer and tes- tify toathis list
 l Under the second point for investiga- | tion the first five specifications can be | judged by reference to your records and inquiry among the officers. Under the remaining specifications of point H., and also under point III. and the specifications accompanying it, I pro- ceed to offer the following abstract of proof. I make personally in your pres- ence the following averments, according to the best of my knowledge and be- lief: That Commissioner Gilhuly, &C.,
 cording to common fame, and also &C., cording to a statement made by MT. Gilhuly himself to a gentleman who has repeated 1t to my informant, ,soughs to obtain position on the police board for the sake of his business. Accord
 ing to memorandum made of the con- versation at the time, this same gentle man, whom I have reason to believe to be trustworthy, affirmed, T know of one place where men have had or ders from commissioners not to see things" Another reliable gentleman
 makes these affirmations: The keepers of several fancy houses who had changed their soda water custom to Clancy and Gilhuly, told him person. ally that they made the change be-
 cause "in our business we have to keep
 in with those fellows" Many saloon
 keepers, he also stated, had sent word to him, and some of them had told him
 personally, that they had changed their
 soda water patronage "because we do
 little Sunday business and have to
 keep all right with Clancy and GIL
 huly." I could also give you the name of one saloon keeper who told the same
 person that he had said to an agent of
 a commissioner who solicited his busi-
 ness that he did not care damn for
 any commissioner; that he did a legiti-
 mate business and would buy his soft drinks just where he damned please. Other evidence of a similar tenor, show ing reason for inquiry under this point, I have in the works.
 Further can give the names of wit nesses who say that Saloonkeeper Picken, 137 Putnam street, boasted that notice was on one occasion sent to him by police commissioner that his saloon would be raided tomorrow between 8 and 10 o'clock" The name of the person to whom MT. Picken is alleged to have said this, and who repeated it to a thoroughly reliable person, is known to me; the value of this testi- mony can be determined only by judi cial investigation; submit it to you for light along your path of inquiry.
 Further can aver that not one only, but several officers, have declared to me personally, and I can bring other gentlemen to whom similar statements have been made by police officers, that they did not report violations of the law of which we complain, because they received no encouragement for so doing, but on the contrary had been warned not to do so, and they felt that they should incur the displeasure of com missioners if they did so. and many