The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-06

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should be asked to pay the bill. The orig
inal plan was to have those named man
damus the Board OF Estimate to compel 1t
to provide for their salaries in case there
was objection.
As soon as the resolution was read Mag
istrate Steinert moved that the matter be
laid over to the next regular nesting. The
clerk started to call the roll. When Magis-
trate Cornell's name was called President
Wahle read a letter from Mr.. Cornell In
which he said that the short notice made il
impossible for him to attend. owing to q
previous engagement, adding: b.,
am particularly anxious to have a voice
IL the debate about the resolution to be con-
sidered at this special meeting. I am un-
alterably opposed TO a change In the present
system Of policemen in the courts. Apart
from the political aspect, | am Satisfied that
the only proper way to preserve order In these
places is to retain the police.
Magistrate Barlow jumped up and moved
that Magistrate Cornell's letter be incor-
porated in the minutes. President Wahle
said il would be placed On file. The motion
TO put off the matter was lost, five to four,
Magistrate Walsh having come in. There
were not enough votes to pass the motion
in the form in which il vas put. Messrs
Barlow, Crane, Mayo and Whitman stuck
together in opposition. Then Magistrate
Steinert moved to adjourn. That was lost,
four to five, Walsh voting not. to adjourn.
Magistra te Finn then moved for a recess OF
an hour but withdrew the proposition.
Magistrate Whitman said he wanted the
matter settled at that meeting: the members
Of the board had been called TO vote OF the
question and he wanted il done He moved
that the resolution he taken from the table
for action.
Magistrate Stsinert suddenly became
solicitous for Magistrate Cornell TO ave a
vote. Magistrate Whitman said that Cor
nell was opposed to the scheme, but Steinert
said it was only fair that he should have
a chance 10 20 on record and therefore It
ought TO be considered at a regular meeting.
Magistrate Whitman waxed wrOth at once.
Il violate no confidence and l speak with
out personal feeling. said he, when / say
that the president and the three member
Of this hoard called this meeting for the
very purpose OF passing this measure. YOU
thought you had got the eight votes. You
haven't got them, but l tear that at some
future time you may have them. l wan to
see this bill killed now. | propose that you
take POUR medicine right now. The very
men who brought us here this afternoon
now ask us to adjourn"
Magistrate MAYO then sprang into the
fight. He declared that the measure had
already been considered at special meet
ings ard that il was a mere pref ext to put
it on to a regular messing. He said Magis-
trate Steinert himself opposed at one meet
ing considering he matter at a regular
meeting. Magistrate Mayo saidi il was simply
a scheme to allow the president OF the
board to unload 100 civilian employees on
the courts. He added:
I'VE are as int elligent To- at a special
meeting as we shall be later. | want to
record my full and unalterable opposition
to the appointment Of these men. l want
nv disapproVal to be made as distinct and
as emphatic a. il possibly can be. We
have been called here 10 vote on this
proposition. l think am entitled to be
allowed TO vote on it
Magistrate Barlow again sprang up and
said he Endorsed every word that Mayo
had said. Magistrate Finn said he had
signed the call and he was within his legal
rights. He also said he was willing to
rave a vote on the measure. When the
vote was taken he voted the other way,
however. Magistrate Crane said he had
been called there on a matter OF business.
A special meeting was always to dispose
OF some matter quickly. He wanted to
have IL done.
Magistrate Walsh asked il the Mayor
had not favored the scheme early in tho
year, and Wahle said he had not written in
favor Of il in his report until Commissioner
Bingham had asked that the police be taken
out OF the courts. He also said that he had
gone with Gen. Bingham to the Board Of
Aldermen to push the plan. He did not
say that Gen. Bingham and the Mayor
had changed their attitude on the measure
as soon as they learned the full import
Of il.
Then Magistrate Wahle launched into a
denunciation of the present police squads
in court. He protested against making
the courts an asylum for aged and infirm
poiicomen." He termed the policemen
Asenile squads inc added:
IF the authorities will not send us real
men instead Of deorepit specimens, some Of
whom ave been on the force forty years
or more, why l say we will take some means
Of getting rid of them
Then President Wahle told Of the Board
Of Estimate meeting. He said that the
manner and added hat he said the board
wanted to appoint a committee to confer
with the Board Of Estimate. Magistrate
Barlow got up and said he vas sorry TO
disagree with President Wshle. but he
heard what the Mayor said and he re-
Rarded il as not at all friendly but as harsh.
He declared that he wanted to say no
more except that he had absolute reason
to believe that the Mayor was opposed to
the scheme.
Magistrate whitman's motion to take
the resolution from the table was then
defeated by an amendment that Steinert
offered moving that the resolution he con-
sidered at the November regular meeting.
President Wahle ruled that such a motion
did not require eight votes and il was
carried by a vote OF 7 to 4, Finelite and
Sweetser having come In. Tn vote in
favor OF the motion was: Finelite, Finn,
Moss, Steinert, Walsh and Wahle. The vote
against was: Barlow. Crane, Mayo and
Whitman.
Magistrate Breen, whose vote the Advo-
Gates of the measure must have to pass II
and make the required eight. did not attend.
IL was said in hisbehalf that he would prob
ably not forget the pledges he made when
Mayor Low appointed him not to let politics
affect his actions as a Magistrate.