The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-01

tp bAC put we are say ins that the committee was indisposed
 to have the matter thoroughly inves- tigated in order to discover whether
 there was anything in it discreditable
 to the superintendent Their thorough
 ness broke down at that point They stumbled just at the completion of | their work. The chairman will not, dare to deny it is policy q have used
 that word advisedly, he will recognize
 what I refer to) that controlled him in his handling of MT. Byrnes, and not desire to act in view of all the ] probable or aseertainabe facts in MT. { Byrnes' case.
 [ Now, the presumption is on the side of the superintendents being as crim- | inal as any other member of the force, ' so that the hesitancy to handle him as | Williams was handled could not pro- 1 ceed from any priori connection of his i innocence. Wherever they have stuck | in their fork they have found rot, and
 whether Byrnes be rotten or not he
 has been in rot for thirty-one' years and has been the executive head of rot | for the last two years.
 | The presumption, therefore, was
 against him, so that indisposition to | handle him thoroughly must have been | grounded in some other consideration | than that of his presumably innocence. There are two ways in which MT,
 Byrnes has put the committee under ob- l legations to him, and to that degree de- | stroyed their independence. He put
 them under obligations by consenting Ito help defeat Tammany Hall, and it is
 to be remembered that the committee | committee, and came down here for | anti-Tammany purposes
 We are not saying that it was stipu-
 lated that if he would secure an honest | election 1t would be remembered in his | behalf, but in the very nature of the
 case favors have been reciprocated. We
 are not going to disparage MT. Byrnes'
 good offices at election: only it is to be remembered that he did nothing l more than he ought to have done without being asked to do 1t, and noth-
 ing more than he had the same au- l thority to do in previous elections. if lhe had only the official courage to use
 his authority.
 II The second way in which the commit I tee put themselves under obligations
 to him was by taking him into their \ confidence and allow him to become
 confederate with them In breaking l down the force To the degree in which '{they obtained help from MT. Byrnes they
 put themselves practically under ob- I ligatlons to protect Byrnes. Now, I | FaA, 90 Io,, touching precisely this point, and when ] heard if I knew that everything was
 "un" so far as a square investigation
 of him was concerned.
 Their acceptance of it had mortgaged
 the committee to that extent and one
 pecutiarfty of a mortgage is that it has , to be paid off or foreclosed. Tn this connection it ought to be stated that III MT. Moss declares that he never knew
 or suspected that MT Byrnes was fur nishing information to the. committee or to ocounsel and that it was well known MI that he would not sanction such a thing or action.
 [ Dr Parkhurst stated that MT. : Byrnes has repeatedly attempted to , play the same game with the Society z for the Prevention of Crime, but the . society has refused to ally itself with 5 la man 1t believed to be responsible for : the condition of the department. z fWe are not" he then says, "charg- : ink the committee or its counsel with . dbhonest intent. but they blundered ] and b1undered badly. MT. Byrnes as a : competent element of the department : was to that degree a defendant By z beng taken into the confidence of the
 prosecution he wound himself out of 2 The box and on to the bench where he ' could kick out against the very men 2 hat were no more the subjects of in- l Sictment than he was.
 "We are not saying there was any understanding or at least any written 7 Stipulation that if he would tell what ] baA}new about other men in the de- | pa3 3ment that were criminals he sb9uld not be called to the witness : stsnd or if called should be allowed to ! uss the stand as histrionic opportunity ? foR discriminating himself official asso- ciates and celebrating his own personal ! anh official innocency; but whether tbgre wls any such stipulation or not ' IA acceptance of his assistance prac-
 ffGally ufN0iNeQ d uedls anu d CO1ulIlL- teA that anne down from Albany with ! tbA express purpose of Investigating deaAs ought to have been punctiliously carbful to avoid even the appearance of la ting a susceptible side for the very sort of offence that they were desig- 3 ,,atad to detect and adjudge"
 nf. Parkhurst remarks that it has .aa,red strange to his committee that +hs senate committee has not taken ,5frs to familiarize itself with the !, Parthurst committees point of view in ,.os,Sct to MT. Byrnes. He says: i've have had opportunities in our 41,.se years of warfare of ascertaining l AZ true complexion of matters such bas been impossible to the senate
 " lmittee. should have supposed if Ahad lost disposition to make 'l0 Aeh and earnest investigation they lno have conferred with us; would "o' kdone in a careful way through nav k,o fight that we have been mak | tH0 N,d won from us the outlook we
 iil6 Io extensively gained. They have , lletN of the kind nor did