The sun., 1903-10-31
POLICE TO HUNT PLOATERS,
AND SUSPECTS WILL BE CALLED
TO POLICE STATION COURTS.
Frantic Protest From Tammany Against
This-C. n. Knox sOlicit0us for the
Thousands noOuvenienced" Intimi-
datiOn. Crses y. Sergeant Cram.

Tammany was deeply aroused last night
by the announcement from Police Com
missioner Greene and Superintendent OF
Elections Morgan that they had agreed
to summon to the police stations to-day
all the persons suspected Of being colonizers
and 10 hold court In the stations for the
examination of the suspects Chairman
Charles H. Knox Of the Tammany law
committee sent a protest TO Supt, Morgan
against what he holds to be an excess of
authority
All the persons whose names appear
on the lists made by the police and the
Superintendent OF Elections as possible
colonizers will be served with subppnas
calling on them to appear at station houses
designated in the subpoena.
Some OF these viii be put into the hands
OF the police to serve, as Mr.. Morgan s
force might be inadequate for the job.
To this Mr.. Knox has protested. quoting the
law which declares that only the superin-
tendent or his deputy may administer an
oath to persons so examined.
Gen. Greene said last night that in this
way he hopes to prevent the use by fioaters
of the names Of men dead or removed from
their dist riots.
Mr. Knox letter declares that Section
of the Metropolitan Elections law confers
deputies to interrogate any one except at
the places where they live or from which
they are registered and that the Superin-
tendent has no power TO call men to police
stations to submit to examination.
HA alsn c0ntends that few of the th0lI-
sands OF subponas issued have been
served in accordance with the law. and
therefore the persons are not legally bound
to respond. Then he says:
On behalf Of the Democratic organization
in the cty oflNew York lpIrotes1 against your
having subpsn az delivered to any one except
the individuals to whom they are addressed
and then only by the persons authorized in
the act TO serve them and further against
having any one subpGnaed to give evidence
at any place other than one at which You
present and conduct the examination,
Of 'nsa d.eds or &oS any Of your depnes eaSspt
your chief deputy. has power 10 take eyi-
dence Of any one at any station house desig-
know II to be the fact that OF the thousands
OF persons who have been brought by you
to 27 William street, and made to lose their
days wages and put TO much personal inoon-
venience and humiliation. nearly all were
citizens whose rights TO vote was so clear
as to make your proceeding oppressive.
As none of the previous letters that | have
written you have met with any other rrCognl-
ton than your acknowledgment OF their
receipt. l feel JUSTIFIED in handing this letter
to the press. 80 that citizens Will understand
that they are not bound 10 obey subpnnas
which have been served illegally or to give
evidence az any place designated by you
before any one than yourself or Your chief
deputy.
desire further to notify you that any act
on your part designating several places III
the city Of New York as, for instance, different
be conducted at the same hour and at all Of
which it would be impossible for your chief
deputy or yourself TO be present. Is usurpl-
sSy GR proysdns St Of the r%x Eo'on %s
The decision in the case OF the People against
HoChstim emphasized the fact that election
oGrIs ., aneMls oors are leIes abIe 70
under the Penal Code. and the Democratic
organization will Use such means as the law
permits to hold you to strict accountability
for your acts.
Mr.. Morgan said he would have half
dozen of his deputies at each station house
to-day when the men subppnaed appeared.
He got a letter last night from j. Sergeant
Cram, chairman of the general committee
OF Iammany Hall, to whom he wrote yes
terday calling attention to the failure OF
Tammany to enter any complaints about
illegal registration. Mr., Cram wrote;
Until your Office becomes in fact as we'll as
in name public office ceHses as the ally Of
the Republican organization IN this county
its attempts TO intlInidate and dlslranchlse
Democratic voters. you will not hear from
me- Your letter requires no further answer,
as ii is not written within the scope OF your
employment
The Republican county committee has
post sd throughout the city a warning to
all who contemplate any violation Of the
Election law next Tuesday A sinister
directness is given the warning by list
of men who we're convicted and sentenced
in 1894 for violations committed at the pre-
vious election, Among them was John
y. McKane While the dupes We're being
tried the following members Of Tammany
Hall were being treated for ailments away
from New York;
Richard Croker. angina peetoris; treated In
the public when he boarded the train.
Mayor Gilroy, nervous prostration requir-
ing months vacation in Chicago and other
police Justice Patrick Diver dangerous
ailments California in hurry
Works. inhammatory rheumatism Hot Sprin;s
Ark
Larry Delmour. rheumatism. Hot Springs,
Police Justice william Burke, Tammsny
eader of the Twenty-slNth Assemb y dis
trict general decline; California. via New
Dock Commissioner James J. Phean,
an namia, California,
Tom Crmmins, top notchrr Tammany
contractor, California.
partnent; Judge Edward Brown Assembly
man William Sohmer and others required
chnng" ard rest in various quiet places.
HRlCE NOT COUNTING CHICkENS.