New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-06
WORSTED.
BTNGH4IfS NEW ATTACK.
Walsh and Hussey Made to Vince
Bill To BE Pressed to Passage.
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ny Telegraph to The TribuneI
Albany, March 5.-Of the three police inspec-
tors who came here to-day TO oppose the bill
permitting Commissioner Bingham to make the
inspectors job a detail retanable good be-
havior, two went home tonight much sadder
men. for their police records attacked in
scathing terms, and charges Of police graft
were voiced openly IN connection with one.
Commissioner Bingham, Selling as an illustra-
ton Of tho necessity of his bill the presence OF
Inspector Walsh declared IN biting words
which fairly made that official shrink in his
seat: Here sits another inspector over whose
head made raid last week l had evidence
that poolroom had been running ten days. He
says, or would say, l suppose. that he didn't
know 4. ] say it was mis- business TO know tt
And just before the hearing was ended ].
Aspinwall Hodge. who spoke for the bill.
marked: Since Inspector Hussey is present. 1
regret that he didn't speak. He might have SAID
something about the story that fourteen gam
blers IN the city protesting because their
assessments have been raised from $500 to 500.
l would have liked him 10 deny that he knows
Frank Farrell or tell us who his wardman is.
These are all matters Of common report. OF
course, they be denied. But the police
should be like Caesars wife. above suspicion"
COMMISSIONER WANTS RESULTS
The hearing on the bill which had been re-
committed to let the inspectors present their
side of the case. was fun of unexpected turns
which did not do the police any good. Com
missioner Bingham, who answered In few crisp
sentences the long speech made by Colonel
David s. Mcclure for the inspectors riddled
their attitude that they had vested interests in
their Jobs. He wanted to know whether it was
an evidence Of the discipline in the police force
foat of hor potp To
gainsay his ideas about the good Of the depart
ment and TO tell the people that they didn't
know what they wanted. What I want IS re-
suits" declared the Commissioner, emphatically.
Henry De Forest Baldwin, of the committee
Of fifty, who followed him. declared that every
body in New York was convinced that agree
ments existed between the police and harlots
and gamblers Yet no Inspector had ever broken"
4 patrolman for this Illicit connection. he said
Then he related the results of some police work
undertaken by himself. William Church Osborn
and many others, which showed that in one
police precinct. over which Captain Hussey WAS
commander. 40 per cent of the patromen were
not on their beats. Conditions in three other
districts were nearly bad, the smallest per
centage of off post" being 1917
The effect produced by Commissioner Bing-
hams arraignment of the inspectors and by MIR.
Baldwns recital of police inefficiency was so
strong that Colonel Mcclure tried to neutralize
# by declaring that Mr.. Baldwin was derelict
In his duty If he had not preferred formal
charges against the captains in whose precincts
he discovered such laxness and asking Com-
missioner Bingham If while he was an army off,
Ger he had not been conspicuous IN lobbying
for army measures. He did little good. how
ever. Five minutes after the Cities Committee
went into executive session the bill was re-
ported out again by vote of to 3. The three
who voted against it We're Assemblymen Burns
and Smith. Of Tammany. and Farrell a Demo-
Graf. of Brooklyn. II will 90 on the calendar to-
morrow and be pressed To passage 10y the Re
publican leaders in the House.
THE INSPECTORS SIDE.
Colonel Mcclure representing eighteen Of the
nineteen inspectors, was the first speaker He
began by declaring that If all the stories told
about the disposition Of the leaders in the AS
sembly We're true, there would ne little in
arguing against the measure. While the Police
Commissioner. he went on. took occasion at
public events 10 say that his bill must b.
passed and seemed always trying TO reach
members Of the Legislature. the inspectors
could appear AT the hearing or be represented
BY counsel only by permission OF the Commits
soner; and that privilege was doled out TO
them" Inspector Cortright had been on the
force forty years. Mclaughlin thirty-n!ne Muir
ply forty and Cross twenty-nine. Yet this bill
seeks to treat them as chattels-as if they had
no constitutional or moral rights said Colonel
Mcclure. They have rights and are not 10
be treated wooden men. Bingham says IT'S
his measure and if they don't Ike it they can
get off the force They have plenty Of money.
Is that the spirit in which Legislators should
consider this bill? This is unfair and indecent
and decent man viii countenance It. Cross
and Donald Grant and Mclaughlin all were dis
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reinstated b. the Appellate Division Yet Bng-
ham considered them good enough for impor-
tant posts.
President Roosevelt as Police Commissioners
was as forcefu and able dscipnarian as any
who ever held the place. Great men have held # |
since his term. They never found it necessary
TO have this unjust and unfair remedy. Bling
ham has power enough lie suspend Cort-
right-that old man who served his country in |