New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-16

valuable information by permitting
them to make any disposition they
hose Of complaints made to them pN
.itizcns. Mr.. Waldo replies that an
complaints received at station housc'
arc entered in proper books maintained
FOR that purpose. RENAME
not placed on the theory that mon VIII
forward serious complaints against
themselves"
The specifications Of the selen'h
charge. which were divided into iour
sections by the aldermanic report aho
rrouped under the general charge that
he had not controlled but had coddled
the superior officers of the depart
ncnt" the Commissioner answers win
smother denial
He explains that the pension BOARD
composed Of the presidents of the cap
lain's. lieutenant's. sergeants ana pa
,roImen's associations, and established
Nv him, is nothing more than suosu-
ute for the pension clerk of former
administrations. and that the action OF
this board is advisory, not binding
upon the Commissioner.
He granted the request OF the heu-
tenants association that officers or
that grade be permitted TO have I'M
numbered badges because he did not
believe numbers were necessary on
,ieutenants' badges he says, and he
does not think that such action lays
him omen to the charge of "coddlng
the lieutenants.
Reinststements Defended.
Commissioner Waldo gives long de-
fence on the third and fourth specihca-
lions of the seventh charge-which are
concerned with his action in remtting
tho fines of forty-two commanding ofn-
GERS and his reinstatement Of many Of
fcers dismissed by his predecessors.
NO fine has been RENTED by the
present administration" he says, "eX-
cept in the interest of justice, and IN
no case where not justified by the ac-
tual records Of the case"
Concerning his reinstatement, Mr..
Waldo says:
NO member of the department has
been reinstated except where IT was
believed that justice demanded such
action. Altogether I reinstated fifteen
men. eight of whom had been dis
missed by Commissioner Cropsey, one
prior to that time. and six had been
dismissed by me-"
Commissioner Waldo defends each of
his changes in the detective bureau
methods as having contributed toward
an Increased efficiency of that bureau,
and denies that. in the language of the
tenth charge he has seriously i'm
paired" its efficiency.
The aldermanic report charges that
he had shown a "vindictive spirit III
imical to the efficiency and morale of
the department. as illustrated by his
actions I'm the cases Of Lieutenant Jonn
f. Stanton and Patrolman Otto Milky.
The Commissioner denies this fatty,
and says he did not know either Of
these men personally or by sight.
He ascribes their dismissals TO the
evidence presented against them. and
says that Stanton's dismissal had no
connection with the fact that he had
Just testified before the aldermanic
committee as TO the abolition Of the
bureau Of investigation at Police Head
quarters by Commissioner Waldo.
on the twelfth charge. that he ham
pered and impeOed the aldermanic IN
quiry by restricting the work Of their
Investigators at Police Headquarters
Mr. Waldo replied that this statement
is absolutely false adding a final
sling in the general direction of Emory
r. Buckner, the chief counsel to the
aldermanic committee, in these words:
The methods employed by the chict
counsel Of this committee were such
that ] deemed it safer, in the interests
Of truth and justice, 20 have all eXami-
nations OF members Of the department
made at public hearings