The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-23

81 Goshen an odell machine man, and
Ward OF Pine Bush, Democrat was ee-
lected. Col. Weygant was named as chair
man OF the committee. His term OF ONCE
as Supervisor expired on Jan. 1, 1904. but he
the committee.s report. He waited all
day without getting the courtesy OF hear
ing. At a meeting Of the. board three
days later he appeared again, and, after
milton officially. he asked the privilege Of
submitting the committees report, which
was granted, after objection had been
made by some Of the machine men that
Col. Weygant was no longer member
Of the board Among other things the
report said:
account against the county sha ii be audited
By Board Of Supervisors or o5. o9Hm Pm sss
out in its.ns and accompanied with an am
davit that the items Of such accounts are
correct and that the pssn and
fact made or rendered. or"are necessary
to be made or rendered at that session ion
amount Claimed has BEEN paid or satisfied.
phs Code III
4 Of By law. who psh Wiuy
to perform, The duty, Is guilty, Of a misde-
by nns not exceeding $1,000 or imprison-
ss sss q 81 ~ sSEss 4ss i aas;
tached, but not ohe Of the sheriii 9 Or, Under
have. however, all been audited and paid.
The report says further that the. in.
yestigatipn developed the surprising fact
ton no committing magistrate in the
county had, In cases Of persons found
guilty OF vagrancy, fled with the County
Clerk, as required by the Criminal Code,
any certificate OF conviction or testimony
taken before him as to the Migrants place
a legal residence settlement in any town
are charge upon the town during their
term Of commitment, and the result has
been In Orange county that the expense
according to the report, been thrown on
the county as whole instead OF on the
towns separately, as 1t should have been:
Goshen, town OF only few thousand
population, the home Of Sheriff Herman
father Of Under Sheriff Hook, sent to the
county jails during the period investigated
4S3 Migrants, as compared TO 145 sent by
the CITY Of .Newburgh and 81 by Middle
town. places with q population many thou
sands in excess of Goshen's.
The report also points out the fact that
tramps are State, not county or town
charge. although persons guilty OF stealing
a ride on train may be committed to the
s Sen s S s5 the Of odss shs during
the period considered. the report says.
sent to the county jails 268 tramps and POS
train riders as compared with train rider
by Newburgh and 1903 by Middletown'
The expense to the county Of the commit
ments by Goshen for total Of e,42s days
was s5,l25. az compared with 5? SOP 20 for
Newburghs and $685.; 90 for Middletown's
AN examination by this committee
OF the. commitments to the county Jalls.
periods investigated over LOO persons
had been charged with the offences named
and committed to the county Jails on SEN
fences aggregating 81 600 days at an ex-
pense to the county OF over SIS oOO. The
report also says that in the opinion OF the
COMMITTEES nineteen out of every twenty
convicted for stealing rides on trains were
in fact either Migrants or tramps and should
have been dealt with as such.
The report also says that In some cases
the county has paid as high as s1o25 week
for board Of prisoners in the county jails:
1926 week being charged by the Sheriff
for board of the person as prisoner and
81 week as witness. Also that charges
of 20 cents mile per head we're made for
tie transportation of prisoners TO and
from the Goshen and the Newburgh jails,
whereas the law allowed for each convict
only IL cents mile.
The member of the committee which
prepared the report, Mr.. Wells OF Goshen,
refused to sign it, although he presented
no minority report. He was the 0dell chair
man of the committee which had audited
some of the Sheriff's accounts. He pro-
tested, after the reading of the report that
the report was a one man affair and that
he had rot had fair show in the investi-
cation OF the facts. Mr.. Ward, the Demo-
cratic member of the committee, and Col.
Weygant, the chairman, both denied this.
Then some inconsiderate Democrat ntoyed
that the report be received and fled and
printed in the proceedings Of the board
for 1903 -
Senator Supervisor Goodsell, Governor
Chairman Odells henchnian on the board,
came to the rescue and moved as an amend
ment that the report be submitted to Mr.
Wells for further examination. The mo-
by a strictly machine vote. Then a reso-
luton was passed calling for the appoint
ment Of two other members OF the board
to serve with Mr. Wells in reconsidering
the report and authorizing the committee
to report on the report which Mr.. Wells
had refused to sign. Wells was made
chairman Of the committee, and, for all
the people of Orange county know to the
contrary, he is still serving Nothing has
been heard Of the report since. The other
two members Of the committee are Mr..
of Greenville. This is what Chairman
George Moshier of the board said when
asked what had become Of the Committee:
IL don't know; maybe their Ell orts have
killed them"
1t is the privilege Of Orange county
voters to guess in what the committees
eff orts have consisted.