The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-30
M'CARREN HALTS COMMITTEE
1T MUST SHOW CAUSE WHY HIS
EXPULSION BE NOT ENJOINED.

He Had Not Believed That COnners and
Murphy Were Serious In Their Attack
Now Resolved TO Protect Himself and
Fellow state COmmitteemen OF Kings.
Senator McCarren has surprised the sub
committee recently appointed to try him
on the charge Of having been disloyal to
Hearst during the recent campaign. The
subcommittee Of seven was appointed by
Chairman Corners Of the Democratic State
committee, and after holding a preliminary
session 1t adjourned over the holidays and
set the first hearing for January 3.
Yesterday Lawyer Isaac NJ. Kapper,
representing Senator McCarren, secured
from Supreme Cou Justice Kelly in Brook
lyn an order to show cause why an i%niuno-
ton should not be issued enioining the
SUBJ committee from expelling the enato
or any other member Of the State COM
mittee.
Mr.. Kapper bases his motion on the
ground that the State committee has no
authority TO expel any OF its members, as
they derive their authority as members
from the party convention, and the COM
mittee has no authority as to its own MEM
bership.
The order to show cause acts as an in
junction upon the SUBJ committee until
such time as the motion is argued and de
cided, and thus the meeting called for
January 8 will not be held, unless the sub
committee ignores the order Of the court,
which is not expected. When the order
was signed certified copies of it we're made
and will be served upon each of the seven
State committeeman making up tho sub
zzu~uus+1~o Whan Ganafnr MCCarran UNA
spoken to regarding the present step, he
said:
1T has been my belief all the time that
the State committee had no authority to
expel its members. l have never changed
my views on that point. We have decided
to proceed on this theory instead OF waiting
for the committee to take action and then
fighting for reinstatement There will
have TO be a settlement of this question
sooner or later, and we prefer to have il
as soon as We can get it,
Senator McCarren, it was stated, had
not believed hat Chairman Corners Of
the Democratic State committee and Charles
f. Murphy Of Tammany were serious in
their determination to bring him to trial
before the State committee on the charge
OF treachery to Mr.. Hearst. Senator
McCarren, 1t was added, had been sceptical
of any eriou intention TO GUST him as a
member OF the committee and thus attempt
To destroy him as the Democratic leader
of Kings county until a few days ago, when
he learned that 1t was the additional inten-
ton Of Chairman Corners and Mr.. Murphy
| to Dust McCarren's fellow members from
Kings county on the committee and thus
win over the entire Democratic Kings
county organization to senator McCarren's
factional adversaries. The Kings county
State committeeman are NJ. j. Cummings,
John W. Webber, Thomas F. Wogan Gust
appointed Corporation Tax Assessor by
Comptroller-elect Glynnl; M. T.. Butler
John l.. Shea and Conrad Hasenfug.
Senator McCarren's friends said last
night at the Clarendon Hotel, Brooklyn
| that the senator had become convinced
that Mr.. Corners and Mr.. Murphy meant
mischief, and he had taken steps to protect
himself and his associates on the State
committee from Kings county.
Senator McCarren's friends went on 10
say that the charge Of treachery was ridicu.
lous, and they pointed out that Mr.. Hearst
fell behind Lewis ~Stuyvesant Chanler,
candidate for Lieutenant-G Governor, in King
county 1910 and in New York county
II $40.
-The contention Of William J. Corners
chairman of the Democratic State com
mittee, that Senator McCarren, Demo.
cratic leader of Kings county, should bt
tried on a charge OF t~reaohery to Mr.
Hearst said q Democrat close to Mr.
McCarren, has provoked a smile or two
among Tammanyitee, who say that Mr.
] Murray. the leader OF that ancient organiza'