New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-08
BINGHAM BILL PASSED.
ASSEMBLY, VOTE. 9a TO n.
Action Taken litter Fire Hours of
Dremy Debate.
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spector Of police temporary detail was passed /
fy the Assembly to-day The vote was % to |
~ mainly divided along strictly party lines |
according the pledges of the Republican |
leaders Of the House that the measure should /
not suffer defeat Nevertheless. a close call Of |
the House was made necessary. Assemblyman /
Koss, the measures chief opponent and one or
two other Republicans voted against it.
s,hwegIer Democrat, from Maurice Feather /
soas district, and Flanagan and Garbe, of
Queens, voted for il. did Croak Of Staten .
Island.
Grizzly the contention 81 those who opposed /
the bib was that # would deprive of some 1
benefits men who had been IN the police force (
al their lives humiliate them and. through the /
changes, introduce politics into the department.
Time and again Democrats warned the Repub- /
Hcans that this measure would be the worst
thing possible FOR the Republican party, until
the soicitude for Republican safety became
really touching. Otherwise the opposition was
mostly a talking match against time hopeless
effort switch enough votes 70 make a least
q good showing against the bill
Much stress laid by Assemblyman Noss
on The assertion with which he opened the at
tack on the bill that he was ''unstained, honest.
possessed Of clean hands and governed in his
opposition only by honest motives
Some Of the other opponents of the measure
corruption fund or even a belief in such fund.
Paradise Jimmy" Oliver, who was booked for
the heavy closing effort against the bill, de-
clared feelinsly that this would be "a dandy
bill for Tammany when we come into our own
again"
TOSS OPENS THE DISCUSSION.
It had been the general expectation that the
debate would develop sensational features or
brilliant oratory. Really there was neither.
Assemblynnan Toss opened the discussion by as
serting his honesty and fervent desire TO be
enlightened about the measures good points.
He said the opposition to any changes of the
detective s6rvice from the detective sergeants
had been headed of by granting 10 them their
nav right of promotion and the title Of 'lieu-
tenant of police" so, really. the only people
hurt by the measure were the inspectors II was
a bad measure and unconstitutional; bad since /
II broke down the Civil Service laws and TER
ribly bad for the great Republican party MI
voss was willing 10 admit that the Police De-
partment was not what il should be.
Commissioner Bingham, he went ON. had been
only one year in the department and no longer 4
in this state He went into the department
with the idea that every man in Il is n crook
said voss TO my mind he is incompetent"
Later he predicted that Commissioner Bingham
would step down and out willingly within sixty !
days.
references
with their charges that Mayor Mcclellan had :
used the department for political purposes. were /
taken to mean that If the bill were passed Cen (
eral Bingham would be deposed in favor Of John !
H O'Brien.
Assemblyman Hoey demanded that he be re- /
corded publicly as opposing the measure with (
all his force and denied emphatcally that he
had received any Of the police corruption fund (
He said that the inspectors were the best men
on the force. and later asserted that Commits
sioner Bingham's chief duties az Washington
were TO lobby for army appropriations and keep
small boys off the White House lawns. Com
missioner Bingham. he continued. had admitted
that he transferred one Kelley because he did
not like his face.
7 suppose he'll transfer some inspectors be-
cause ne doesn't like their Hibernian prohles.'
argued Hoey.
TELLING SPEECH BY A. E SMITH
In the most telling speech made by Tam
many man. A z. Smith declared that most OK
the distinguished reformers," who advocated
the bin were not New Workers and did not
know the citv's needs William Church Osborn,
who Gid patrol work TO catch patrolmen off beat
ne said. lived al Hudson or somewhere else out
Hide the city
''If YOU don't believe me-" said Smith, go 10
fhe tax assessors lists. When they ask him
70 step UP and see the doctor why, he says he
amt a New Yorker all right. Nobody denies
that this bin would take away the right of
The inspectors to go into to find out why
they were removed. Now, another thing. Bing-
ham says. These men are the best had What
does he expect for $1,000? Does he want Paul
Morton 10 leave the Equitable and take place
IN the Police Department, George ". Per-
kins 10 leave Morgan for $4,000 year?"
Amendments offered by Assemblyman Keller
would have detailed the present inspectors per-
manently as inspectors and made them remov-
ably only on charges. with the verdict review
able by the courts on a writ OF certiorarL
in defence of the measure Assemblyman Rob
inson argued that Il was plain business propo-
sition end that manifestly il was unjust to hold
the head OF a department responsible for that
part Of the city's business and tie his hands as
10 his underlings and their conduct The only
view of the bin taken by its opponents. accord
ing to Assem- nblynaan Prentice who introduced
g. was that held by the inspectors themselves
The bin he went on. protected all the rights
and the pay Of the inspectors and no honest.
efficient man need fear II. II was necessary
because the transfer was not feared as means
Of enforcing discipline. It was regarded only as
temporary Inconvenience.
YOss- INTERRUPTS PRENTICE.
About this time the spirit moved Mr.. Voss to
talk again He interrupted Mr.. Prentice with
several questions. and when the latter finished
obtained the floor. only 10 be met by points of
order that he had talked toO long already. The
Speaker said that nobody could be deprived
q the floor and the only thing which could be
done was 10 oonhne the speaker 10 fifteen min
utes time and Mr. VOss has only spoken an
hour yet" he added
Hoss, however. talked on ard on. 10 be
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