The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
HoBoKEN POLICE COMMISSIONERS
Coylc Tried to Raise a Row-Fagan
Explains.

COyle Tried to Raise a Row-Fagan
Explains.
There was blood in Commissioner Coyleis
eye when Mayor Pagan of Hoboken, last
night, called the meeting Of the Board of
Police Commissioners to order. 1t was plain
to be seen that Commissioner Coyle had
grown weary of being a helpless minority,
and that he hankered to be present at the
quiet little consultations which usually take
place in the Mayors office between His
Honor and Commissioners Smith and Hay
den before each meeting. 1t was equally
plain to be seen that these member of the
board did not banker to have Commissioner
Coyle with them. Therefore the Commits
sloner last night followed the line of pro-
cedure he mapped out for himself when he
vas ignored by the majority when the
board organized, and he made himself as
disagreeable to the majority as he well
could 90 and keep within the limits of the
rules of the board. $50
The irate Commissioner answered the roll
call with the others. and remained quiet
until a resolution to pay s., 7l0.90 for salaries
for July was presented, and then he stood up
as dignifed as o Caesar, and with tine eloa
quence of a Hoboken Demosthenes he oh
jected to paying the payroll as q whole. He
said
II as a member of this board. have a right
to know whether this pay roll is correct or
not. | would like to have the clerk read
each name and the amount opposite it on the
pay roll. This is q right | have, and it is the
only way of as~certaining whether the pay
roll is correct. don't propose to let your
Star Chamber proceedings pass unquestioned
You meet and fix things to suit yourselves,
and | am kept in Ignorance. have been in
this board when dead men have been
paid"
EsT1ylaA 1o1l -,o-ct HF1~y~~
Pagan, his face flushing with indignation.
Il have nothing to say to you, sir; for
you We're not the presiding officer then -'
'Oh," commented the Mayor, looking bet
II want no argument with you, sir, II
you had been the presiding officer at the time
| refer to, would give you one. insist
that you shall direct the clerk to read each
item of the payroll separately"
Tine clerk will read each item of the pay
roll,n quietly said Mayor Pagan.
Clerk McDermott began his task with the
speed OF an electric car in search of a victim
to run over. and Commissioner lCoyle ex-
claimed
1.-The clerk will please read more slowly,
for | can't understand what he says"
Clerk McDermott complied, and when the
monotonous duty was finished the Mayor
directed the roll call on the resolution.
Commissioner Coyle protested that before
this was lone the salaries of the Chief and
Captain should be fixed at the figures the
last board increased them to. but which the
present board has ignored. No notice was
taken of these remarks, and Uhe payroll was
passe.i.
Later Mayors Pagan explained to THE
JERSEY CITY NEWS representative that ex-
Policeman Thomas DooleT died a few days
ago. He was a pe~nsioned man. The object
of Commissioners Coyle in having each item
on the payroll read was to ascertain if the
majority had allowed a full months pension
to Dooley. This had not been done, and the
item in the payroll showed that the pension
to Dooley for July was allowed only to the
day of Dooley's death. When Coyle ascer
tanned this he had no hance to raise a row
or to accuse the Mayor n Commissioners
with extravaganza or with illegally paving
money. Then he fell back on the old cry of
giving the Chief and the Captains the same
salaries allowed by the preceding board.
The Police Commissioner were. during
the meeting, formally informed of ex-Police-
man Dooley's death. A resolution was
adopted requesting the Fire Commissioners
to place a fire alarm in the Second precinct
station.
A resolution was also adopted requesting
the Chief of Police to furnish the board
with a list of members Of the department
liable to be p~ensioned under the laws of
the State and the ordinances of the city.
Mayor Pagan voted against this. Commits
sioner Utz was absent.
+ After the board appointed F. D. Glib
bons chanceman at the request of Commits
sioner Hayden, it adjourned.