The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-18
ACTION AGAINST MIR. CROKER
PROB4BILITY OF HIS BEING PROS.V
 ECUTED FOR CONTEMPT.
All During His Examination Yesterday He Parried the Questioning of MT. Moss and Repeatedly Refused to Testi,f fyto Certain Matters Which He Classi- fled as 'fPersonal Affairs.o

New York, April 17.-In the session of the Mazet Investigating committee to-day Richard Croker was again the principal object of Mr. Moss examina- tion, and the most important develop- ment was the probability that the Tammany chieftain and Mr. Carroll, one of his chiefs, will be the subject of contempt proceedings before the legis- lature adjourns. All during the evi- dence to-day MT. Croker parried the questioning of the counsel of the com mittee and refused to satisfy the mem- bers with the amount of information he was willing to give regarding certain matters which he classified as personal affairs.
 An adjournment of the committees Friday morning, and MT. Croker was subpoenaed to reappear before the conn mittee on next Monday morning. By the initiative of MT. Moss many of whose questions MT. Croker repeatedly refused to answer and with whom h0 had several sallies that came very near being personal, the chairman of the committee was instructed to take such action as would leave MT. Croker in q technical contempt. It was stated to- night that when MT. Fallows of the committee left this afternoon for Alba- ny he had instructions to prepare pa pers adjudging MT. Croker and John F. Carroll in contempt.
 When the committee began its inquiry to-day about the first thing brought up was a resort known as the Broadway Garden, which flourished in the upper Broadway district for some time Tn this place the alleged robbery of the former mayor of Trenton, Frank Ma gowan, took place, and Simon Buttners the former proprietor of the garden and several of his walters were exam- ined Buttner made some rather start- ling charges against Police Captain Price, and his walters corroborated, in part, his testimony.
 Assemblyman Hoffman offered reso- lution to have certain prominent men summoned before the committee, be- cause of rumor that certain law firm. ''by and with the assistance OF other persons by corrupt methods se-s cured the passage through the assembly, of the Astoria gas franchise, whose reah purpose was to enable the Consolidated Gas company to force consolidation or all the gas interests in the city to the end that the supply of gas might De controlled and the price regulated by the so-called consolidation" MT HotT- man wanted to subpoena the law firm of Tracy, Boardman and Platt; Elihu Root; the incorporators of the Astoria Heat, Light and Power company, Thom- as C. Platt,t Benjamin B. O'Dell, Lem- uel Ely Quigg and John D. Crimmins. The resolution was defeated, however. five republicans opposing it and two democrats standing by it.
 Richard Croker was called to the stand soon after noon and he occupied the attention of the committee the rest of the session. He testified that the po- lice did not contribute a cent to the Tammany campaign last year, but that the office holders did. He could not tell the amount of money raised last year, nor did he know in what bank the funds were kept He said he had never re- ceiyed a cent from Bourke Cochran He also swore he was never caught short S with Manhattan "L" stock and did not lose S27 O0O