New-York tribune., 1902-04-11

The hill rroviding for the recodification Of the
municipal court procedure in this city, and IN
cidentally more stringent regulations TOT the
city rnarshals. was signed and sent to Governor
Cser by Mayor Low yesterday. AssemblynlaH
Wilson. who introduced the bill. will go to Al
bany on Monday to see the Governor
At the public hearing given on the bill in the
morning there hardly any opposltion 10 1he
,,,easure As predicted by The Tribune. the
rnarshals did not attempt TO oppose it The sole
onposition came from President Won Briesen OF
the Legal Aid Society who objected to one
clause His objection presented by MISS
1,oev who represents the same society, but per
eonallv favored the passage OF the bill Assem-
blyrnan Wilson. Justice Roesch Assistant Cor
poration Counsel Cosby. Philip Kelly and Inn
s1thy Healy of the Central FEDERATED Cnloh
and Cephas Rraman, of the Bar Association. all
smoke in favor Of the bill Msrshals Lee, Comls-
KEY and Einstein were present Marshal Elm
stein announced his intention Of fighting the
bill but finally gave il up. The 1nstaiment
dealers were represented by Philip SHoih"ers'
but no action taken by him.
The important changes in the bill with refer
ence 10 the city marshais are follows: First
The new code provides that the Mayor may sus-
mend a city marshal Immediately on receiving
TIE charges OF a justice preferred against hlm'
rrior to this the justice could only prefer
charges as an individual citizen Second-Iha''
in relation particularly TO instalment cases. the
rlsintiff must show wilful and malicious dls-
posal Of property the part of the defendant
before a summons can be issued, and that ule
,e+,,rn Of the property compels the plaintiff 10
sell IL and TO deduct the amount received from
the Judgment. Third-That the marshars bond
shall be increased from $1,000 10 5000 to pre-
carve its relation to the size Of the judgment In
che rnunicinal court, which has been raised from
$3.50 10 $500.
GIVES CREDIT TO THE TRIBUNE.
Justice Roesch. who present and spoke
Cor she measure was much pleased at the result
Of the hearing. e.
..T,t. cradit for this belongs to The Tribune.
-a;d he ITS stand has been fne-fne 1t is
wholly due TO the stand taken by The Tribune
-bat there has been no opposition from the
rnarshals to-day. With regard TO the statements
nf Marshal Comisl1ey. which were puhllshed ps
The Tribune Yesterday refer to the sta1ehleh'
that he went TO Albany and had provision III
.be bill which gives the justices the power ~
appout rlarshals cut out want to say ldl
.bere never was that provision in the DILL Inc
statement that the Judges Were looking Ioi
nstronage is absurd. and cannot he borne out.
We never asked the right to appoint city mar
ehals.
,,.,- o4 t5arb,reer as a clerk in my court The
man 7 epponjed was not the attorney for Iltel-
haun, whom he calls the prince Of the install
xneut dealers hut his father. At the tlme aP-
s,o,nted him told him that his son must never
appear in my court. That is all there is 10 'ha'
You may say for that think fhe creoit Ioi
this unanimous support belongs to the 1ripuie-
r heard one of the rnarshals left in rage, ana
declared that he had the money to put up lhat
The Governor would let the bin die.
Justice Roesch also declared that he intended
now to investigate the cases brought before him
nv q certain marshal whose conduct had awak-
ened his suspicion. He will probably prefer
charges against the marshal later.
Another interesting feature of the influence OF
THE Trihrnes crusade against the abuse OF
mower by the instalment dealers. aided by the
citv rnarshals is the fact that in the last week.
since the start of the discussion of the subject
there has been only one arrest al the instance
~ an fnstalnlent dealer. Prior to this the num-
her committed to Ludlow Street Jail averaged
tet.yeen twenty and thirty week. This sud
den diminution shows that a wholesome fear Of
the pending action Of those who purpose prose
cutting rnarsnals who disregard laws and use
-beir office to the advantage of the poor has
grown out of the agitation.
r c Ringwalt the director Of the RiTington-
st. branch Of the Legal Aid Society, to whose
aais is largely due. was greatly elated at the
outcome of the hearing
81 regard that action as very important
victory' said he to a Tribune reporter. yes'eI-