New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-09
POLICE DEPUTIES ASKED
DESPITE SUFFERS VETO
Last Section Of Curran Commit
tees Report Recommends
Charter Amendment.
ESTERBROOK SIGNS DRAFT
Shipley Also to Give Support,
and Passage by Aldermen
Is Probable After
Delay of Week.

Delay OF week.
The last section of the final report Of
the Curran committee, entitled "Organl-
cation and Personnel of the Police De-
partment" was made public yesterday
and will come up for final action before
the committee this morning. Alderman
o. Grant Esterbrook. who has been con-
fined to his home by tonsillIts since the
first report recommending the removal Of
Commissioner Waldo was adopted, signed
the final draft of the report at his home
in Brooklyn yesterday. and, with the
promise of Alderman Shipley one Of the
two fusionst hold-outs, that he would
also approve IT, Chairman Curran was
confident that the report would be adopt
ed by the committee.
Curran will ask for a weeks delay bee
fore action by the Board OF Aldermen.
He wants the report TO be in the hands
OF all the members for at least week
before they vote upon t. Alderman Frank
Downing, Tammany floor leader and
minority member of the committed prob
ably will acquiesce I'm curran's demand, If
he does not seek TO extend the time to
two weeks. Bowling intends 70 submit
minority report, defending Waldo on the
ground that the evidence before the com
mIttee does not justify the harsh criti-
cism OF the Police Commissioner embodied
I'm tho majority report
IT is possible that the report will not
go before the Board OF Aldermen until a
week from tomorrow. II bowling wants
II that way, as the fusion members be-
have all the time he wants, I'm reason, to
put his minority report before the board
simultaneously with the majority report
Narrow Margin, il Adopted.
With the retirement OF President Mitchell
the fusion strength in the board is nomi-
nally Al. as against 81 Tammany votes
Neither Curran nor Bowling. however
expects TO hold all his supporters in line
and IN the interchange ii is believed that
the report will be adopted. II at ALL by
narrow margin.
The section made public yesterday Is
largely repetition OF the preliminary
legislative reports. which were made
earlier by the committee. so that the
Legislature would have the aldermanic
inquiry results before il when II was con-
sdering police legislation
Home rule, with the Police Department
governed by local legislative and ex-
ecutive authority. is the first and most
emphatic recommendation In this section.
Tho civilian commissioner, rather than
the chief Of police, is approved. but tAe
committee favors an eight-year term for
the commissioner. with a salary Of $1,000
- year.
The frequent changes IN commissioners
are condemned as being at the root OF
the present crippled administrative eff
cheney OF the office. and To obyiate such
changes the committee recommends that
the commissioner should be removable
only by the Mayor or Governor. and then
only after a public hearing
Public Hearing as Protection.
The Mayor or Governor should have
the absolute power 10 remove the COM
missioner after such public hearing"
SAYS the report mo court review OF the
proceedings should be allowed. Under tho
plan proposed Capitalization OF power
and responsibility in the Mayor would
not be impaired. lie would still possess
tho unrestricted power OF removal, but
would 20 compelled to assign reasons for
his action.
a Mayor should be willing 70 take the
public into his confidence In so important
a matter II required TO grant the com
missioner public hearing a Mayor would
hesitate before removing him for purely
personal or political reasons
one OF the recommendations embraces
practically the same idea as that adj
vanced by one OF tho police bills intro
duced by Senator Robert T.. Wagner In
tho last session OF the Legislature. That
is the plan TO increase the number OF
deputy commissioners and TO decrease
correspondingly the number OF inspectors.
Tho deputy commissioners" bill was We
toed by Governor Sulzer. and the alder
manic committee now suggests charter
amendment TO enable local authorities 20
increase the number OF deputies as oc-
casion requires.
Tho inspection district Is too large 20
serve as an administrative unit, the re-
port says. and Il recommends that the
precinct be made tho unit II advocates
the abolition OF inspection districts and a
substantial reduction I'm the number OF
inspectors.