New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-11
ALDERMEN LINE Up
ON CURRAN REPORT
Fiuht Put Over Until Tuesday,
but WigWam Begins Cam
paign to Save Waldo.
FULL ATTENDANCE SOUGHT
Tammany Claims All Borough
Presidents Are Against It
Curran Trying to Eliminate
Politics from Fight.

With the Curran committee report on
police conditions turned over to the
Board Of Aldermen yesterday, Com
missioner waldo's supporters began Il
campaign Of opposition, which will be
continued until the aldermen turn
down the proposal to demand the Po-
lice Commissioners removal
Lobbyists for Waldo approached
many OF the fusionists in the board
with arguments against the report and
every alderman in the council received
letter from Ernst Bohm, secretary
Of tho Central Federated Union. COM
mending waldo's attitude toward or
Iganized labor and bidding for his sup
port.
While the actual fight over the re-
port on the floor Of the board was put
over until Tuesday. both sides were
drawing up their lines yesterday when
the report was presented. Both
Bowling, the Tammany leader, and
Curran. sponsor for the report will
work to get out full attendance at
the meeting next week. There were
fewer than fifty members on hand yes
terday, and neither leader cared to risk
the question at a meeting so sparsely
attended.
Claims All but Cromwell.
Bowling intimated that he had rea-
son 10 count on the support of all Of
the Borough Presidents except George
Cromwell Of Richmond, a hope appar-
entity based on the idea that the Bor-
ough Presidents would not care TO APP
prove a report throwing Waldo to the
wolves" and then face the Mayor in
meetings Of the Board Of Estimate.
but the fusion forces declared that
Borough President McAneny and Pres
ident Miller would be found voting for
the report when 1t came up for final
action.
Curran said last night that he would
try to have the report considered on its
merits and without regard to party
lines. When the complete report is
published in The City Record" on
Thursday the chairman Of the commit
tee plans to put copy in the hands
of each member Of the board. With it
Curran plans 10 send a letter asking
each alderman to read the report and
then challenge him with any part of it
which the reader does not think is
based solely upon the record OF evil
dence taken.
The possibility Of defeat for the re-
port in the Board OF Aldermen has
stirred up supporters OF the police in
quiry who contributed to the fund by
which investigators were hired for the
use Of the Curran committee. Or.
William II. Allen, for the Bureau Of
Municipal Research. Issued an official
denial Of the story that the bureau was
planning TO take the matter to Gov
ernor Sulzer If the aldermen turned II
down.
AS DR.. Allen phrased II, the bureaus
interest is in having the impersonaL,
non-politicaL non-partisan facts gath
cred for the aldermanic police investi-
cation used to improve police methods,
no matter who is Police Commits
sioner." and the bureau. he said, had
no interest in the removal or retention
Of particular Police Commissioner.
The supreme need now" DR.. Allen
concluded. lis to learn whether the
Mayor and candidates for Mayor pro-
pose to use the aldermanic inquiry's
facts to reorganize the routine methods
which now inevitably promte incompe-
tency."