New-York tribune., 1905-02-01


the chairman of the meetng, when he was in
Albany in company with Lawrence veiiler. BY
the terms of the resolution passed at the meet
ing. Mr.. Fox was to name himself as one of the
committee The othtr members he named yes
terday are:
JOHN G. MILBURN. JACOB H. sCHIFF.
ELIHU ROOT GEORGE McANENY,
/ ~. SELIGMAN. II. Def. BALDWIN,
WIN. c. OSBORN. JAMES MKEEN
The committee Of nine Is to inquire into the
organization. discipline and administration OF
the police force of the city, seek 10 ascertain
what improvement may be accomplished by leg
islation and to promote such legislation. Mayor
Mcclellan and Police Commissioner McAdoo are
in sympathy with the committee at the outset.
and the suggestions for legislation which Mr..
McAdoo sent TO the Mayor. announced yes
terday, will be submitted to the committee
basis for it's work. The committee has power
to fill all vacancies in any of its members
decline to serve and to add to it's numbers if a
larger committee is desired.
AS already told in The Tribune the movement
which led to the meeting at the Chamber of
Commerce to discuss the police problem
started in the City Club. of which Mr.. Fox is
the newly elected president, and of which Mr..
WELLER is the secretary. The trip of Mr.. Fox and
Mr.. WELLER to Albany believed TO have for
one of its objects the learning whether Governor
mittee might recommend. Mr. Fox declined to
talk on the subject. either at Albany his
return his city home last evening.
Governor Higgins was asked last night If he
had seen the reported declaration of District
Attorney Jerome that the police situation was
up TO him." as he had the power of removal Of
both the Mayor and the Police Commissioner
Il did not see it. but I not surprised"
said the Governor. 1T has also been suggested
to me that I have the power of removal of the
District Attorney, but l have not considered
the question of his removal or that of either the
Mayor or the Police Commissioner.
Few Of the members of the committee named
by Mr. Fox would talk about the work of the
committee last evening. Mr Schif would not
say if he would serve on the committee
Mr. McAneny said at his home last night that
l. understood I'll the uenlbefs of tn = T'7lInittee
had accepted the request to serve. A meeting
will be held tomorrow evening he said, Tor
the purpose OF organization"
Mr. McAneny said he had not been Informed
as TO where the meeting would be held, but he
supposed it would be announced to-day by Mr.
Fox He declared that any discussion Of the
selection Of chairman would be premature
CAREERS OF THE MEMBERS.
Jacob H Schiff is a member of the firm Of
Kuhn. Loeb g. Co.. bankers. He is director OF
the National City, Western National and Co
lIrnbia banks the Morton Trust Company the
Equitable Life Association. the Western Union
Telegraph Company and other corporations He
IS president of the Montefore Home for Chronic
Invalids and an ex-president OF the New-York
Chamber of Commerce He founded the jew
fsh Theological Seminary. the Semitic Museum
of Harvard and the Nurses Settlement of New
York
John G. Muburn was admitted TO the bar in
April 1874. and formerly practised in Buffalo
He has been member of the firm of Carter.
Ledyard & Milburn. in this city for about
year lie was president of the Pan-American
Exposition in 1901. President Mckinley was
taken to Mr. Milburn's house when he was shot
and died there.
Isaac X. Seligman is the Of Joseph Selig-
man. the banker After he was graduated from
Columbia College in 1876 he went into the bank
ing business with his uncle, Jesse seligman.
Henry DeForest Baldwin is lawyer. at No
40 WaIl-st He was graduated from Yale in
lsS5 and from Columbia Law School in 1887.
William Church Osborn has practised law IN
this city since 1889. He graduated from
Princeton In 1888 and from the Harvard Law
School in 1855. He was a member of the
Constitutional Convention of 1894 and In 1899
he was appointed by Governor Roosevelt a
member of the State Commission in Lunacy.
He resigned that office in 1901. He was several
times chosen chairman of the Putnam County
Democratic conventions.
James McKeen is a lawyer, living at No. lo6
Henry-st. Brooklyn. He has been prominent
I'm civic movements for years. He was As
sistant Corporation Counsel, in charge in Brook
lyn under Mayor Low, and year ago last fall
was q candidate for Supreme Court Justice on
the Republican ticket. He has been member
of The executive committee of the New-York
Far Association. During the campaign in which
Charles A. schieren was elected Mayor OF Brook
Ivn he was chairman of the Citizens Committee
which assisted in the election. He prom
inent in the Citizens Union in the first Low
naien Mr. McKeen was member Of the Char
fer Revision Committee. He is q trustee Of
Packer Institute and president Of the New
yorl Colonization Society. He a member of
re old Board of Education of the city of Brook
Wv, was president of the Hamilton Club for ten
x-ears and for two years was president Of the
Brooklyn New-EnglaDd Society AT one Time
ne was @ member or the hihgS Couht tepGp-
IIcan General Committee
I.eorge NcAneny iR secretary of the National
f-iTfI Service Reform League, and ne has been
actiye in Civil Service reform work ior many
years -. -. W.. -,
been for years one OF the prominent lawyers OF
the CITY. and has been active and prominent IN
Republican politics AS lawyer ne mas peer, .
counsel for many captains and inspectors or
IoIice al "a rious times and. after his retire.
I11ent from Office he was counsel Tor fonce IN m
spector Cross and helped TO get MN pach INTO
fhe police force through the courts
Austen G. Fox was a member or the COM
,,,ittee of Fifteen and the only lawyer on that
eornn1ittee He was special counsel Tor the prose
cTtion of members Of the police force VINO were
,Sto.ad in consequence OF the disclosures be-
&c the Iexow Committee in 1894, having been
,rnointed by District Attorney Fellows for that
purpose He has been prominent lawyer OK