The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-03
NOW A DICTATOR.
-. =. .'
Dr.. Parkhurst and His
=. Plans
FOR POLICE REORGANIZATION
He Outlines a Course That May
s. Be Pursued.
FOR POLICE REORGANIZATION
MEMBERS OF THE FORCE TO 90.
The New York Assembly Appoints
"a Committee to Work With
the Eexow investigators.

- NEW YoRK, Jan. Prominent citizens
who have been active in the municipal re-
form movement and politicians as we'll
seem To- have LETT to DR.. Parkhurst further
discussion of the LeXow Committee aud
Superintendent Byrnes' testimony on the
.witness-stand. Many business men and
politicians have called on Mayor Strong,
but reporters are unable TO beguIle the
callers into discussion of the Parkhurst-
LexGw-Byrnes controversy for publication
One of the number, who did not wish his
name mentioned. said:
- 1t appears 10 me that if DR.. Parkhurst
had determined 10 attack Byrnes and the
committee be should have attended the
last sessiGn. He had attended other ses-
sons. :He could have been present, Tor II
was announced in the morning that Byrnes
was to be called. Being present DR.. Park
hurst could have. requested his coupseI,
Lawyer Moss, or his fTisnd, Mr, Con, TO
ask the questions be thought should be
put 10 Byrnes. If GOff had refused these
questions. il the committee had declined to
allow the questions to be put. then Dr.
;Parkhurst might have had some excuse lor
attacking he committee.
Mi Goff declined most emphatically to
have anything to say in the way o. answer
TO ParkhuTs's structures.
Superintendent Byrnes was equally reti-
cent when questioned concerning Dr.
Parkhursps attack.
Mayor Strong would not talk about the
matter, and even DR.. Parkhurst denied
himself to reporters.
Thomas c. Platt was not in town, but
bis views concerning Parkhurst became
pubic through the medium of Wilkes
barre paper, whose representative inter-
viewed the Republican leader Said Mr.
Piatt 10 the WilkesbaTre reporter:
"ae Dr. ParkhursO has done much
good, but by reason of the fiattery of the
New York uewspa bers l am inclined TO
think his head has become swollen. His
ideas regarding the suppression of crime
no longer amount to suggestions or re-
quests, but are given out in way that has
latterly become harscteristie-that is.
they are issued as orders. When asked
his opinion regarding any movement look
ing to the publication OF the police force
OF the suppression IF crime. it has become
his custom to say, That man must CO. or
THAT must be done Some are pleased
: by. this method. but otherS-men of wis
DOM. who desire only practical reform
are inclined TO not only take exception to
ii, hui criticize it harShly."
=. DE- Parkhurst to-day advised the follow
ing plan for the reorganization of the pO-
lice force. He said:
There is no division of public senti-
meht as to the necessity of a reorganization
of the department. That necessity is too
manifest for argument. There are twn
methods of reorganization. One is to deal
with each member of the present force,
each incupated Individual by a process
of prosecution wedding out process
winch would probably reach its compile
tion about the beginning of the twenty
first century, If each suspected member of
thefOrce was subjected to an investiga-
tion. The other method is legislation.
And If the objection is raised that the leg
islauon method is drastic and that there is
no precedent for it, it must be remembered
there is no precedent for the present con-
dition Of the police.
"The thing TO do, in my judgment. is to
include in the bill of police reorganization
a clause to the effect that on or before a
certain date, aud that date SO many months
ahead, say July l, the term of service of
the existing force should expire, and that
a commission, sayof FIVE men, should be
designated by the Mayor to reconstruct the
force, whose term should commence on the
even date with that of the expiration of
the present force. %
Every member of the existing force
above the rank of sergant and perhaps in
.cluding that of sergeant should be ineli-
: gible Tor appointment on the reorganized
force. In. constructing the force pref
!. erence should always be given, with the
exceptions above stated. to the members of
the. present force. other things being
equal. -
/: iN'But, in every instance the candidate
for appointment to the new TO rec should
be dealt with individually: and judged ac-
cording to his credentials and his record.
The five mem bers Of the commission should
90 our Of office forever on the day the
present force expires. and the new one
begins its existence, and the new force
should be governed by single COM
missioner"
: ALBANY, Ny, Jan. 2.--In the Senate
to-day Lexow introduced bill giving the
.l,ower: of. removal to the. Mayor of New
N X, and bill 10 allow: the Mayor to
give notice for. hearings on all legislative
bills relating to tire CRY. Raines intro
@duced a blanket ballot-b box bill:
= THE. Senate ordered the printing Of the
Laxow, Committees. testimony. 1t will
nake*5oOO pages. 81:
+ Conkil1 Of New York introduced in the
Assem- b ly a. res solution authorizing the ap-
Doin(ment# of five members of the AS
semi bly,. TO: act as a special committee in
coniuuciion:.with a. Senate specialcommit-
: tee <lnyes tigating "the corruption and in
famous crimes" disclosed by the .Lsxow
Committee in the New York Police De-
:paTlment. Both houses adjourned until
. next Wednesday evening.