New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-26
s. P. C. AND THE INQUIRY.
MR. KENNEsON SAYS MR.. MOSS NAY
HAVE SOCIETY'S RECORDS.
HE THINKS THE PUBLIC HAS LABokED oN-
DER A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. REGARD
ING THE ORGANIZATIONS ATTl-
T1JpE-MR swEENYs LET
TER TO DIR. o'sUL-

Frank Moss and his associate counsel VIII oeNo'e
the two weeks until the resumption OF 'ne iaAe -
Committees investigation to Classifying anu -
tematizing the great volume or evidence "ni0" "
has in his possession. Mr.. Moss adherHie W ~
nosit,on he has taken up from the outset refused
TO talk Yesterday as TO the future course OF Pios
racta Of the inquiry AS the investigation nad Only
inst begun II was impossible to forecast anythhs'
Mr. Moss said that he was not loath 10 nave W.
Croker go to England at the present time. ne
was not prepared to examine the Tammahy ledue'
so early and It will suit his purpose mucn better
10 call Mr. Croker at the date named IN the
subpoena than to continue his examination now
The directors of the Society for the Prevention OF
Crime will meet next Tuesday. and little DOUBT Is
felt that they will decide to give their help 10 ME-
Moss Dr. Parkhurst himself has come 10 the con-
clusion that If the committee renews It's sessions
on Nav O. as arranged. 1t will be evidence OF the
sincerity Of the inquiry He adds that II the COM
,,tea goes on as il has begun he will have no OBJ
lection to Mr.. Moss using the records OF the So
ciety
Thaddeus d. Kenneson. the secretary OF the So
ciety when seen at his Office No 13 William-st,
said yesterday
II do not see how avoid giving the books
of the Society for the Prevention OF Crime TO Mr.
Mosssif ne wishes them. He is a director Of the
society and as such has perfect right TO them.
We ought 10 and shall aid him all we can, II called
to do so. I rather think the public has mis-
taken idea as regards the action OF the society.
During the Lexow Investigation we were active
during the entire time but the public seems to thinK
that we should be now. too. The Mazet Com
mittee is not altogether non-politica, and is not
holding the investigation strictly on moral grounds.
At least that Is my opinion Therefore, we as a
non-political society cannot enter and represent
ourselves The fact that Mr.. Moss Is our attorney,
as we'll as that of the committee, should have no
weight with the people 1t is merely d coihciuehce
and nothing more"
When ex-Tudge Joseph F. DAILY on the stand
before the Mazet Committee on April IA he said
he owed his original nomination TO the supreme
Court bench TO Tammany Hall. He said he had
never spoken to Mr. Tweed, the then leader OF the
organization and considered the nomination was
forced by Peter b. Sweeny. DIR. W. j. O'Sullivan
asked If Mr. Sweeny was not implicated with Mr..
Tweed" and the witness responded that he was
Mr. Sweeny took offence at the question and an
swer, and called upon DR.. OSullivan for retrac-
lion Dr. OSullivan sent him clipping OF the
testimony and Mr. Sweeny wrote this letter IN
acknowledging its receipt:
No Al East sixty-eighth-st., April 20.
Dear Sir: / beg to acknowledge your favor in
closing s PeFSre he 81 Committee in
reference TO mis- nomination in 1870, and lnquiring
for my version of the transaction.
versy. but there is no reason why the truth should
not be told at all times. Being thus called upon
am bound to say that DAILY has forgotten the facts
/ do not now recollect to what extent he was &C
Oualnted
knew that Mr. Tweed, at the time Of his 81, nom n;
Tammsny Hall, and that for influential reasons
of practical politics and party management he
approyed and desired Mr.. Days nomination, al
though Mr.. Daily at the time a very young
man for a high judicial station, and without hav-
ing made any special mark at the bar.
Il is strange that Mr.. DAILY should have forgot,
ten tho exceptional consideration that Influenced
his nomination. Very truly yours, .
$3.50 PETER B. SWEENY.
In return for Mr.. sweenys courtesy DR.. OSulli-
van wrote this letter to Chairman Mazet of the
investigating committee:
Dear Sir-Beleving that did gross injustice TO
Mr. Peter b. Sweeny in the interrogatory put by
me 10 ex-Judge DAILY at recent session OF the
committee. involving an imputation against MT
Sweony I'm connection with the Ring Frauds
/ ask leave to have that question and the answer
stricken from the record
Tho events OF the period In question were before
my time and had not the knowledge have srce
ocoured of the circumstances which proved that
Nj Sweeny had completely in the frauds nor
of the conclusive judicial fact that he was exoner
ated In open court. 800
would desire TO wrong no man, and | make this
reparation with promputude on learning Of my
error and the satisfaction that attends the PER
forinance of an act OF simple justice Yours trLly.
w. J. O'SULLtVAN.
Ne Apr 25 1899