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CHALLENGES, SAY, 1pER CENT,
AFTER ALL THE STIR OVER
ODELL'S 100000 NAMES.
And Most OF the Challenged swOre Their
Names In-Mr. Morgan Says Some Of
Them VIII He Arrested, but the Blur
Hasn't WOrked-Last Day Was Quiet.

besA 'eye oo"V vs.
Them WIN He Arrested. but the Bun
Hasn't WOrked-Last Day Was Quiet.
There was scarcely any registration
arrests yesterday. Almost all the men
challenged by Supt, Morgan's deputies
at the polling places since the regis
tration began-some 1000 or more out
OF his list of 250 OO0-swore In their
names, and very few were arrested
upon doing go or those arrested most
were discharged. Now Mr.. Morgan an
pounces, as the late John I. Davenport
used to announce in the days when Federal
supervision OF the State elections was
scandal, that there will be lot OF arrests
Of registered men for perjury. Davenport
used to get a few hundred-and most OF
them were discharged. There Is crooked
registration in every election; there are ar
rests for it, and there is a percentage OF case
whore the arrests are justified, the final
figures being invariably so small as to be
almost negligible in the statistics Of the
election. Governor-Chairman Odell is re-
ported to have been ambitious to knock
out 10000 Democratic votes in this city
this year. Mr.. Morgan said last night.
@We will show to the public in the COM
ing week that there has been repeating
and that it has not been confined to just
one district, either, as Mr.. Murphy was
quoted as saying, evidently referring to
the Van Colt case. In some cases men
have come in and registered on dead mems
names. They were challenged and swore
in their names. We expect to arrest them
this week. There is no doubt, either,
that one certificate Of naturalization has
AZ, l.,
sons. OF course, nobody attempted to
register on a lot OF the names on our lists.
They were names Of persons either dead or
who had moved away. I think 1t can be
said, however, that whenever person
has turned up in the last two days and
answered to a name on the list that per-
son has been challenged. The number of
challenges, even at that. will, l think. be
less than per cent OF the total registra-
ton"
The Republican election inspectors In
some Of the districts took chances with the
Penal Code yesterday and continued to
obey the orders Of their leaders and chal-
lenge persons on the lists" when deputies
were not present who were supposed to
possess the information on which the chal-
lenge was based. The Tammany inspect
ors did not. Mr.. Morgan said that several
complaints had been made of the refusal
OF inspectors to act on his lists. He would
not say whether he would take any steps
to establish his Interpretation of the law
against that OF the Attorney-Generals
office
Deputy Acknowledgement Collins said that
he had received reports showing that his
opinion had had weight with Republican
inspectors, as we'll as Democratic inspeo-
tors. and that few, If any Republican
inspectors We're doing much challenging.
When this report was carried to William
Halpin, chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the Republican county committee,
who is bossing the registration for the
Governor-C Chairman, he said it wasn't
true.
Our men," he said, ARE assisting the
State Superintendent Of Elections, as they
have been ordered to do and are making
challenges from the lists supplied them.
If they aren't they'll be removed, no matter
what Mr. Collins says"
Only one inspector was removed yester-
day and that was for being absent, he said.
Charles H. Knox, chairman Of the law COM
mittee Of Tammany Hall, said that chal-
lenged men who were well known residents
were swearing in their names on the advice
of Tammany lawyers and will be looked
out for from now until election day and
protected.
in one place." said Mr. Knox, chal-
lenge by Morgan man blocked things for
half an hour At the end Of that time the
Morgan man apologized for challenging"
One man who was challenged by a Re-
publican inspector up in the Thirty-ffth,
was Theodore Dieterlen of Bedford Park,
who was for six years Democratic election
inspector lie said:
when l made application to register
l was told by the inspector that he would
have to challenge my vote because my
name had been handed to him as that of
a floater or illegal voter. have been a
taxpayer for thirty three years and voter
for thrty-one years, and l regarded it as
an insult
Supt. Morgan got an opinion yesterday
from Deputy Attorney General Collins to
the effect that the required thirty days
residence in an election district began
on Oct. 8, and not on Oct. 10, as some cleo
ton inspectors had held. 1t was said that
about 1000 persons will be disqualified
under this ruling They have been
challenged.
Mr.. Morgan has issued several hundred
subppnas for naturalized citizens who
have registered and been challenged to
appear at the Naturalization Bureau on
Monday. The subp9nas call upon them
to produce their papers. The law COM
mittee Of Tammany Hall has issued in
structions to voters not to give up their
papers to Mr.. Morgan.
James O'Neill, who keeps Raines law
hotel and lodging house at 1873 South street,
was held at the Tombs yesterday. O'Neills
hotel Is In Tom Foley's district. The ex
animation was adjourned until next Tues
day at the request or Mr.. Fuchs, who wanted
time to get his evidence into shape. Lawyer
John Hoyer, who represents O'Neill, said
he could prove that his client was innocent.
The evidence against O'Neill consists OF
ada vii q ma de nv two Of MOrrans IDENTITIES