The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-08
MOVED FOR REGISTRATION DAY
q 600 Police TO GO TO UNICCGS-
TONED REGIONS.

They are 10 DO the OricIal Challenging
-supi. MOrEan's Lists Of VneiIgibIes
Are 10 he Handed 10 Them ami They
Have Their Instructions From Bingham.
In the four days Of registration for voting.
the first Of which is to-day, the police of
the greater city will have entire RESPONSE
billy for challenges on behalf of George
" Morgan, superintendent OF Elections, and
transfers that IL IL said will affect 5000 men
NJ the force will be made for the occasion.
The Morgan lists OF those ineligible to vote
will he put in the hands OF the policemen
assigned to the l,4S8 registry places in
Greater New York and il will be the police
mem, business to see that all persons at
tempting to register under these names are
challenged.
Snpt. Morgan said yesterday that this
was. he thought, ar improved scheme for
putting through a clean. honest election,
hardly possible with the limited force OF
deputies at the command OF the Bureau OF
Elections. There we're several conferences
the past week between Commissioner
Bingham and Supt. Morgan, and on Satur-
day Mr.. Morgan addressed a letter to Com
mlssjoner Bingham regarding the use of
the police in making the challenges.
The letter aid that any peace officer
may act as an election oficer and added:
Any election oflcer who omits. refuses or
npglects 10 put the challeng e oath to any
applicant for registration after he has been
lawfully challen ged violates section Ali OF
the Penal Code and commits a felony. II the
applicant for registration Is chalen ged and
refuses 10 make oath to the questions pat
N him and the answers given thereto by him
or refuses to answer any questions upon the
chalen gs aridavit such person is not entitled
10 he registered. and IL his name has already
been entered upon the registry books the
word disqualified must he placed by the
registry board in the remark column after
such name. ANY omission. refusal OF neglect
TO perform this duty on the part OF the registry
board is r felony under section Ali Of the
Penal Code.
Under the provisions Of section 7 OF the
metropolitan elections district law ] do here
ny cali upon you to cause the arrest OF any
election oficer who in the presence Of an
officer Of your department violates the pro-
VISIONS OF the a bove mentioned section OF the
Penal Code.
Inc eleCJlOu ueDuJleS are TO ACT merely
as roundsmen. going about from one reg
istration place to the other and observing
how things work. In case OF any trouble
they will notify the Office downtown and
special men will be sent. There are on the
list 10 be furnished TO the police 5000
names Of persons dead, convicted OF crime,
reported to have removed from their previ-
ous districts, stricken from the lists by
order Of the our or who ave had their
naturalization cancelled.
The police instructions were drawn up
in harmony with the letter l sent TO Com
missioner Bingham said Mr.. Morgan
yesterday. His attitude has been one of
extremely cordial cooperation. 1t is not a
part of the police business TO look after
the men entitled to register. They do not
have TO go outside Of the cases OF men who
are challenged.
Commissioners Bingham has ordered
the transfer for the time being Of the po-
lcemen detailed to act at the registry
places from their accustomed districts
to others some distance away, in the inter-
est Of impartiality."
For the first time in three years requests
have been sent out to the police to get a
complete list OF all hotels in the city and
10 get an accurate account of the persons
@rtlllly entitled to vote who live there.
II Is charged that there is repeating and
false registering from some Of the better
class hotels. for the reason that suspicion
&C is existence there is less likely. The
bureaus Of health and the fire. building and
police departments in Greater New York,
New Rochelle. MountV ernon andy Onkers, all
in tho metropolitan elections district, have
lcen asked to supply lists Of places having
IQuor taxes, with the idea Of stopping
hotel coloniz,ng and false registration.
Goodwin Brown, secretary OF the depart
mont OF health in Yonlters, wrote TO Supt.
Morgan that although there were about
5o places having liquor licenses in that
ne ghborbood the health board could not
flrn sh the information required, -be-
cans" although Yonkers has grown greatly
in twenty-five years the department Of
health still il on the same footing as it
was twenty-five years ago"
The bureau will have the lodging house
reports in to-day and the police will get in
structions as to the men qualified to reg
ister from them after a short study has
been made.
Plain clothes men as well as those in
Uniform are included in the orders trans
ierring men from one precinct to another
for duty at the polling places.
The report at Police Headquarters was
that the orders for registration day trans
iers would cause an entire change between
some precincts Of the patrolling force from
roundsmen Town and that in all 5000 men
Will he affected by the order.
A large number Of warrants for ineligi-
bles suspected OF an intention TO register
were distributed among the police last
night 10 be served II occasion arises.