The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14
(IyIL SERVICE JABS FOR ALL
cr> GREENE PITCHES INTO THE
IRJMINAL COTRT JUDGES.
Annual Report OF the Executive Com.
n,,tec Has n Films nj Grout and Says
eve Told You so" Of CIarksOn-Car'
..nur, Again Elected President.

Tho annual dinner Of the Civil Service
,,tarm Association last evening at the st.
W. Hotel was enlivened by an attack
-. pol;cc Commissioner Greene on the
c.,. Magistrates and on some Of the other
,,jros before whom criminal cases come.
G,,n Greene began by telling the civil
..r,.;ce r,forners that he thought he had
Sro,,v nearly abolished corruption in his
ppan,r,ment; Il don't mean" he explained,
.ho, there is no blackmai at present in
,ha depar,ment, but l do say that the or.
o,nized system has been eradicated.
Then he added:
There ia another point wish to touch upon,
I'D that is with reference to the police mag
..,,otes There are twelve in the city. but
,,o of them have not sat in nine months.
a, boast five OF the remainder have such
,i.ns Of the enforcement Of the law that
nn aa',h m Is n matter Of speculation. know
~ one case where n person was arrested on
n charge of felonious assault;
=, he deed The Magistrate had the charge
made dsorderly conduct and the man was
NM IN another instance, a butcher. was accused
=, i.rneny Make it disorderly conduct"
aid the Magistrate, and he suspended sem
there is a certain police captain who for
,bs nsst threr months has been working night
md day TO eradicntS the vice and ma ntatn
order IN us pTrch n one Se Gr OF, OF y TSs' ,he
na.t thirty days he has brought before GER
lain magistrates most convincing evidence
against these evil resorts. yet the persons
arrested have been discharged
Not once, but several times, has this been
done on good evidence. yes on eSlhence on
these houses and resorts in appetizer court.
Ma, then can YOU say il tho policeman Won
"' No cnly on the Macistrat e's bench but also
in the court Of special Sc. ions L the most
comple'" evidence demanded Why. men
have heon hung on less evidence than that
which has been thrown out in the cases OF
there Is also a Justice of the Supreme
court who contends that the sentencing OF
some gamblers ia small matter when the
theory that every mans house is his castle
The public consci'nc,, needs, awakening.
and to be kept awakened, as well as the con-
science Of the police Ihere ere , ,nose VINO
when il interferes with their particular pur-
Take the Sunday Concert law for instance.
don't agree that that law = dead. yet Of the
sixty or eighty arrests made all have been
thrown out Of court. As to the Excise law
no open vioiatica, and that il s as we'll en-
forced ms any law on the statute books. not
even excepting homicide.
Commissioner Greene closed his address
had as heads Of departments the abcst
body Of men who ever served the city.
Other speakers were DR.. lederle, presi-
dent Of the Board Of Health Richard Wat
son Glider, Civil Service Commissioner
Spencer. Edward Carey and Horace F..
Dering.
Carl Schurz was reelected president,
Elliot H. Goodwin secretary and Jacob
F Miller chairman Of the executive com
mittee.
The report Of the executive committee
given out at the meeting. praises President
Roosevelt, who it says, -has found it prac-
'cable not alone to maintain, but also to
strengthen and extend the system OF ap-
pointments to office of which he has always
been so strong an advocate or one APP
pointment however, the committee cannot
approve. Its report says:
In it's last annual report the committee
criticised the appointment Of Jane. s. Clark.
son. notorious as spokesman, as surveyor OF
year have served to show the business of this
criti.m Mr.. Clarkson has been reported by
the a Mo1R m '
ronrlfry; his department has once been he
subject Of Investigation by the Civil Service
appoin tments he has made-those Of deputy
,Wyeyors--he has requested. and through
~ =. n rSsr nfe pres ad %
IN rnore the rules GOVERNING promotions
IN the Now York Custom House
Things In this city from civil service
reform point of view are looking up. The
committee continues to f1rd fault. says
It's report, because it has been unwilling
to accept the unsympathetic and lax en-
iorcement Of the law under the Last admin
istration as standard, but has taken in
stead what it thought might reasonably
ba expected of an administ ration pledged
to civil service reform and what it has seen
actually accomplished under the Strong
administration -,
The committee still thinks that Civil
Service Commission of three paid mem.
hers would be better than the present board
Of seven, with Col Willis l.. Ogden its presi-
dent, as the only salaried member or
the work that Col. Ogden's board has done,
the report saws:
The reclassincation and regarding Of the
citv service by the commiseio ion was an I'M
portant step in advance At the same time.
he larQ. increase in the number OF positions
excepted from examination led TO vigorous
protest from the association.
Exception was taken in PARTICULAR to the
twenty additional exempt places In the ONCE
NJ the Commissioners OF Accounts ana 20
the thirty-six new exemptions under the
Comptroller, which brought the total number
n excepted places In the Finance Depart
ment to lio. IT is beyond question that these
new exemptions have been used: In certain
instances to mako pOltical appoint mentS.