New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-21
MINES PLAN UNDER FIRE
JEROME CONDEMNS 1T.
Thinks 1t Night "Localize Craft
THEORISTS" Says Erhardt.

Theorists" Says Erhardt.
IN Characteristic fashion District Attorney Js-
rome unburdened himself of his ideas resarons .ne
report of the Committee Of Nine yesterday ne
tends to peruse that document eareIuAy' Nna' ~
MAY, discover where went all the skill and re-
search of the committee. With one or TWO Oh Inc
ideas advanced he agrees. but the others ne S'i'
siders useless harmful
The bureau for the control or ganaohns ene ca
else situation and disorderly houses he dismissed
CURLY with "A bully good thing to iocaiize graft
How the ofacers'd rush to get JOBS tnerei e
added:
with the a6Oshng s Of 5ni Pstfsss
heartily sympathy, as any one Else nissioner
also Should have power to reduce man
It's good thing. too to give tne t Aside
from those things l don't know Of mucn "a Iae
F tas TO SO nv var discriminating ss nine 5dsn an TIE
committee has said oeySad which the
Commissioner hasn't already the power % 20 how
much power the Commissioner really has no"
u Hes got Chief inspector, now. Detail him or
some other maIl-it doesn't make bit Of difference
sslsm" i YOU hold him responsible for the dis
cipIne and efficiency Of the force NO legsda1O OF
the mems efficiency. with the records OF sns
The committee evidently has tried to get separate
the duties of the police as detectiyes and
larry. That's good thing-one OF the most needed
police
geants ought be set back to pounding the streets
and men detailed to detective service because OF
tective service in this until there are separate
INTO consideration the peculiar qualifications needed
and providing for sufficient pay 70 ouy those qual-
tive searching for the Iawbreaking criminal. and
the constabulary, working for the enfercsmenr OF
between Scotland Yard and the bobby on the
What you want is not any different arrangement
from what exists right now. but different method
S Gd %sh MORE %eas ype s reeds
you ever saw In your life and this idea is an at
your captain in the precinct now-hold him respon-
without graft and if he doesn't do it. break
him, good and speedily.
Your Police Department accumuates all the IN,
formation IN any precinct h. were v nna nfrei
bcb {t tio +I IT1, $500 a-a TIE 1qfH
Precinct. II the captain there was running
with every house in the precinct listed. and there
wouldn't be day when the movements Of every In
get them from his men. who'd get them from the
that information is in the hands of his men-ts
alarming almost, the information which Is latent
bureau thered be fifty or sixty men lodging
around town trying to find facts already in the
The question Of tenure of office is trying one.
eTe ' we are really Working back 70 modcaton
! of the system against which we all howled 6loody
murder twenty years ago-the holding OF office by
the department heads for long terms. The IDEAL cal
havior the Commissioned to be removed only on the
fling of written charges. Public opinion wouldn't
| dare remove a man who didn't deserve it, What
| have dared to remove Waring If he knew that t1e
| charges must be fled in writing, to be answefSSd
eity's death rate was lower than it had been
before; there was less contagious disease the city
| in the Health Department. What Mayor would
| have dared to remove Lederle?
Mayors to s say to Mr. Plias that he was guilty Of
PFef OF fdfy in that WHICH mSs the
ira Peif the ce1a p for pace on the
| Bryant Park fence Mr.. Pallas might be unable to
know aqsat mss E rsrt that 81. IS
Oakley a little If the Mayor sent word TO him to
tell all about certain gas @ 1ob gyOSS r
combe accumulated might figure interestingly In
| that, too. 7.----- "a
Joel B. Erhardt ex-Police Commissioner. thought
| the report was a waste of effort. The mon who
| drew it were nice men. said but theorists
who should have stuck TO their lasts He also
/ said:
had hoped that the. committees would strtkg out
granted their requests, but the Responsibility
would not have been e on 3ar Ihe tS
goes untouched. while they ask for legislative en-;
or for which the Commissioners has power. II a
can't hold that place ace l9ns sroTh Which 70 us 40
| ally greets his attempts at reform. how can re-
fem Dera dc e6r for they know tS S stay
| longer than the Commissioner.
| Commissioner ,McAdoo said that he was IN IaVOr'
generally speaking of the ideas put forth in the
hill but disIiked certain features. When he was
| told that some of the Police Department heads
| had declared the bill the most asinine ever
| nut out in public" he answered that the system
| worked in Paris.
| Discussing the work and the report OF the COM
| r,ittee If Nine er-Assistant Corporation Counsel
| James McKeen the member from Brooklyn. said
| yesterday: -
rnittee 10 recommend legislation to take away the
| nnwer of the Mayor to remove the Commissioner
| and TO make the Commissioner irreInovaDIe TOT
| term Of years except trial charges The com
| aHIaV with the spirit and letter of the charter
| which makes the Mayor responsible TO the people
| 80 tis Comuissioner Very strong Appeals were
| made TO the committee 10 modlIy or aDolsn lhs
| e1r;t of certforari by the Supreme Court This
question is still receiving the earnest attenton o.
| he Committee. Tt would seem thar n any changt
We're made it should be made applicable TO al
city employees
Isaac NJ. Kapper who member OF the Chartel
Revision Committee drafted the chapter on polic'
laws and regulations. said:
The creation of a chief for indefinite perto'
| still leaves the Commissioner the chief or police
| and nothing is accomplished by the creatlon o
| such an officer If We are to have chler or Ponc
at an. other than the Commissioner, he should b
| amenable to higher authority, such as I'M
Mayor.
| A subcommittee of the Committee Of Nine wen
| to Albany yesterday to present to the Legislative
body the bill.
WAY TO STOP Sinking