The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-30
4 MATTER OF POCKET.
MIR. Cookers Private Vengeance On n JUS
tice of the Supreme Court.

MIR. Croker's Private Vengeance On q JUS
tice of the Supreme Court.
In his statement seeking to justify the turn
ing Town Of Supreme Court Justice DAILY. Mr..
Croker said with an appearance Of brutal
frankness that he did IL because Justice DAILY
had refused to appoint Michael Il. DAILY clerk
Of the court and had failed to give to Tam
many Hall proper consideration. The real
reason that Mr.. Corker turned down Justice
DAILY is this:
In 1892 and for some years before that The
real estate sales.ordered by the courts OF the
city were held in the Real Estate E%xchangein
Liberty street. Peter f.. Meyer. the partner in
the real estate business of Richard Croker.
and Mr.. Croker himself, wanted the sales held
in the building at Ill Broadway. where Mr..
Croker and his partner. Peter f.. Meyer. had
their office. 1t was q matter OF dollars and
cents to Mr.. Croker and Peter T. Meyer. The
place for the sale OF real estate ordered sold by
the courts of New York is designated by the
Judges OF the courts. A mS.ority Of the
Judges decide the matter. To bring about the
change In the place for the sales and to injure
the Real Estate Exchange Of Liberty street,
which was not n Tammany concern. a petition
was circulated. OF course there had to be
some excuse for a change so important and
this petition was to be made the excuse. It
was addressed to the judges. John l.. Cad
walader. the counsel for the Real Estate Ex-
change. knew of the circulation Of this petit
ton and In his capacity as counsel appeared
before Justice DAILY. who was the presiding
Justice of his court, and asked him not to
grant the petition without first giving the Real
Estate Exchange Il chance to be heard. OF
course Justice DAILY said that Mr.. ~Cadwaladcr
and the Real Estate Exchange should have q
hearing.
A few days later the petition was presented
to Justice DAILY with q request that he sign the
order for the change or that he vote for the
change. Justice DAILY said that he could not
favor 80 important n change until he knew the
reasons for 1t and. Of course. before any
change was made tho Real Estate Exchange
should have a hearing. He refused TO sign or
vote until there had been a hearing.
That was the end Of the matter 80 far as JUS
tice DAILY was concerned at that time. His
vote was not absolutely necessary. There
were senough Tammany Judges on the bench
to give the matter the majority required. and
Justice DAILY was not troubled again. Proba-
bly, the matter did not occur to him again until
last spring. when Richard Croker served no.
tice on him that because he had refused to
vote for the change and because he had re-
fused to appoint Michae T. DAILY clerk In his
court. to displace the most competent court
clerk in the county. he. Richard Croker. would
see that Justice DAILY did not get a renomina-
ton.
The refusal OF Justice DAILY to appoint
Michael Il. Daly.clerk Of his court was Richard
Croker's official reason for turning down JUS
tice DAILY. The refusal Of Justice DAILY TO vote
for the real estate auction room of Mr.. Peter
II, Meyer and Mr.. Croker was the private rea-
son that Justice DAILY was turned down. Mr..
Croker does not discuss the private and real
reason for the turning down Of Justice DAILY,