Evening star., 1899-04-05
TO MAZET
Boss Croker Snaps His Fingers at
Investigating Committee,
BUT is PREPARING TO GO ABROAD
Belief That Tammany Methods VII
Be Thoroughly Probed.
RECEPTION TO THE RALEIGH
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
NEW YORK, April 4, 1882
The talk of the town now is the MaZet
investigating committee and Tammany, it
is said, may find it worse to be ''Mazeted'
than to be 'Lexowed." The scope of the
assembly committees investigation will be
wider than that of the senate committee
in 1884, which sent Croker to Europe in
hurry and drove Tammany from power in
the city. This time Croker is not going to
run-at least without due notice. Says
he: IF this republican investigating COM
mittee wants to question me L will be at
its disposal until April 1S, when intend to
sail for Europe. In addition to this notice
l shall again announce the date of my de-
parture week before l leave. l am not
afraid of this committee. If 1 had the
power 1 would not stop the investigation.
1 don't know what the committee expects
to do, but l do know there will be some de-
veiopments which will surprise the COM
mitIee.'
1t is said the committee will hack at
every Tammany department and Will con-
tinue it's chopplng Official heads all sum-
mer. Tammany has tins additional weapon
to dread in this investigation, that much
Tangible evidence has been gathered by
friends of the former reform admlnlstra-
ton since Mayor Van Wyck went into the
city hail and Mayor Strong went out. The
comparison is clear-cut between a munich
pal administration, honest in every de-
partment, with mayor like William l..
Strong, street cleaning commissioner like
George +. Warng, a police board with a
Roosevelt or Frank Moss as president and
John McCullagh for chief of poilce, and the
administration of Van Wyck, Mccartney.
Sexton, Devery and the rest of Crokers
political puppets
Complaints of Dishonesty,
COmDiaintS of diShoDeStv nad6ipo of nav
rolls, creation of useless offices, corruption,
blackmail and political assessments have
been made concerning every municipal de-
partment since Tammany returned to
power 1t has been the boast OF 1ammany
that New York has become wide open"
Gambling houses, poot rooms, poncy shops,
dives, G.sorueriy houses ana other evl. re-
sorts nave been Haunting their protected
wee and crime in the lace of the pubic
Tor months. Now that the state of New
York has begun Official proceedings to de-
ternine the extent of these conditions
many has gone so far as to seek
protection from the state legislature
with an enormous corruption fund all
these complaints, all the evidence that has
been accommodating from various sources
Will form the basis for the new inyesti-
CATION
1t is believed that about the first lob TO
De undertaken by the committee will be
u
to defeat the police bills at Albany The
common rumor concerning this fund is that
1t amounted to at least S125 900 based on
information given by members of the force
VINO nave been assessed to make it up
Inc Mazet committee is not going about
this business blindly. They expect to have
evidence to prove the raising of a police
tund presented to them without delay 1t
Is said that the police resent this assess
ment, and will not be slow to give evidence
as to how the money was levied
W hen the police fund is probed other
phases of corruption will be looked into.
with the expectation of showing that the
conditions as they have existed for nearly
a year are worse than they We're when
LeXoW and his committee made their de-
scent upon old New York several years ago
EX- Police Commissioner Frank Moss who
made some stirring speeches in the cam
palgn last fall it is said, has evidence of
TINS sort already compiled Nobody knows
Where the investigation will stop. The
gambling houses and pool rooms, it is be-
leVed, Will furnish rich field of investiga-
ton. The wholesale raising of salaries will
also furnish field for investigation later