New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-03
WILL APPEAL TO GOVERNOR.
STAY OF PROCEEDINGS CAN'T INvALI-
DATE EVIDENCE FURNISHED
BY STOCK LIST.

When the news reached this city last night
that the Ice Trust lawyers had obtained stay
of the proceedings before Referee Nussbaum
until the constitutionality of the Antitrust law
shall be determined. it called forth many jeers Of
derision for New-York's grandiloquent Mayor,
who pompously declared the other day that his
record was as clear as MONDAY. For a
with such bright record as that Mayor Van
Nyck seems marvelously afraid to have it in
vestigated. These sneers at Mr.. Van Wyck
We're intensified by the reports which were cur
rent yesterday and came from quarters which
made doubt wellnigh impossible, that Mayor
Van Wyck's name appears, together with those
of several other city officials, upon the list Of
stockholders in the American Ice Company,
which is now in the custody of counsel for The
New-York Journal and which may be given
10 all the newspapers for simultaneous pubica-
tion tomorrow morning. This list bearing the
names Of traitorous city officials. will be laid
before Governor Roosevelt to-day or tomorrow,
it is expected, and he will be urged to take i'm
mediate steps to rid the city OF Mayor who
would use his official position to mulct the very
citizens whose interests he was elected to
protect
If the Governor feels that the evidence
rants an investigation of the Mayors conduct, it
is said that he has power to suspend him for
thirty days. while such investigation is being
made. In such MT. Guggenheimer. presi-
dent Of the Council, would become Acting
Mayor
The Governors attention will be called to the
fact that under Section 1.533 of the City Charter
any officer of the city who shall during the time
for which ne is elected appointed knowingly
acquire interest in any contract work with
the city in the purchase lease of
any real estate belonging to taken by the cor
poration he shall on conviction thereof
hse aoE he e,aS TO- g-5o
meanor."
It will also be shown to the Governor that the
American zee Company leases many of the citys
piers. through the Dock Department. and also
has made contracts with the city to supply its
penal and charitable institutions with large
quantities of ice at higher rates than those
charged by dealers outside the trust. The
Mayors lawyers will probably try to escape by
arguing that their client did not knowingly"
acquire interest in any contract with the
city when he took possession of his ice stock.
but 1t would not seem impossible task to
prove that he knew at least about the trust s
leases of piers even if he did not know about
fits sales OF ice to the city. Section 122 Of the
charter. which gives the Governor power to
remove the Mayor. reads as follows:
The MAYOR may be removed from /, Office by the
that the Governor may direct the inquiry provided
by law TO be conducted By the Attorney General,
Governor he may. pending the zion, eus-
pend the Mayor for q period exceeding thirty
days.
It was pointed out yesterday that II became
the Mayors clear duty TO suspend from office
under charges and subsequently remove any
city official, Dock Commissioner or otherwise
whom he found owning stock OF the American
Ice Company or any other company interested
IN contracts with the city. AID the mere fact
that he has not done furnishes ground suffl-
Gent for the Governor to remove him. Many
persons were Of the opinion last night that the
stay of proceedings granted by Justice Herrick
would not interfere with any action the Gov
by the stock list. The stay came too late to
the stock list from falling into the hands
of the people. and the list furnishes, ii is said
all the evidence that is really necessary for the
conviction Of those city officials whose names
appear upon IL. The list is long one, and con-
tains several thousand names.
CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS GO OVER
Catskin. y. Y. June 2.-The Attorney-CeaeraI's
Office to-day sent word 10 Justice Chase that con-
tempt proceedings against Charles W. Morse and
others. of the American Ice Company. have
been heard by Justice Chase to-day, had been post
ponsd TO June s. On Thursday attorneys for the