The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-07
PROBE COMMITTEE LOOKED UPON
 AS FARCICAL
Two Men Named Received AID. pointments as Liquor Prose- cutting Attorneys From County Commissioners Whose DOings They Are to Investigate

New Haven, June 7-At an ad- Journed meeting of the country repre- sentatives held at the County jail yes Blakeslee. as chairman, announced the following committee to investigate the management of county affairs by the county commissioners:
 Senator Dennis A. Blakeslee, New Haven, republican, contractor, chair man.
 Senator John Hurley, Waterbury, democrat, liquor merchant.
 Representative Omar Platt, Milford republican, liquor prosecutor.
 Representative Abner P Hayes Waterbury, republican, liquor prose cutor.
 Representative Arthur W. Marsden Madison; republican, judge of probate
 Representative Charles K Bush Orange, republican, prosecuting of- 6cer of the borough
 Wilbur F. Parker Meriden, repub- 1fcan, manufacturer.
 At the meeting of the county sena- tors, and representatives held in the supreme court room in the local coun- ty court building yesterday and later adjourned to the main office of the County jail in Whalley avenue it was voted that an investigation into the management of the affairs of the county by the county commissioners be ordered in consequence of the crit icisms directed against the manage ment in the past, and that the sessions of the committee to investigate should be open sessions.
 A resolution asking that counsel be allowed to appear at the expense of those desiring the same to present the case for them at the investigation and to cross examine and ask ques- tions was defeated by the significant vote of A to g. The committee was not named by the county delegates them selves, but it was voted that com mittee of six, with Senator Blakeslee at their head, should do the investigat- ing, Rnd that this committee should be named by Senator Blakeslee as chairman. Senator Blakeslee yester- day afternoon announced the commit tee presented above containing two liquor prosecuting agents of the coun- ty, who are appointed by the county commissioners, one member who is a liquor dealer himself, manufacturer, the prosecuting officer of the borough of West Haven, and one judge of pro- bate.
 While the resolution calls for an open and thorough investigation, there was a great deal of dissatisfaction around the city Vn all hands last night lnG dClIOuS OI the county meeting as distinctly satisfactory, and as not likely to provide the inves- tigation and public knowledge of county conditions which those who have been urging an investigation de- sire. The appointing of a committee to do the Investigating instead of hav- ing the delegation do it, the general make up of the committee, which was considered audacious, the leaving of the appointment in the hands of one person of the political importance of the chairman of the delegation, who has had several contracts from the county, and finally the barring of counsel from the investigation were generally looked upon by great many interested citizens as unpro- pitious for the satisfactory settling of the mooted questions involved.
 Chairman Blakeslee announced last night that the first meeting of the Investigating committee would be held in the county court house in one of the court chambers at 10 o'clock next Monday morning.