The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-12
MCCALL ASKED
TO RESIGN, is
p.S.C. REPORT
Chairman Is Questioned as
TO Relations With the
Victoria Theatre.
WITNESS DENIES HE
DEALT WITH BELMONT

NI\E.SS DENIES HE
DEALT WITH BELMONT|
Judge Edward Il. McCalrs final APP
,..Ia.,r On the witness stand before
90 T,a1 psun legislative committee yes
,.rl,y drew out Of the air IL persistent
,ppor that he had been asked to resign
b.. chairman of the Public Service Com
mission. senator Thompson. chairman
4 III, COZ mittec. left the room with
Jude. Mccall and did not return for
overall minutes lie became "a sphinx
tr the rest nf tho day.
=, j.. known that the majority OF the
committee believe hat the revelations
Of Judge McCall's stock dealings and tho
s,b,sducut turning over to Mrs. Mccall
q , batch Of Kings County Electric
flsh, and Power Company stock with
~, the formality of paying a transfer
.tN. or the production of any document
.,-y evidence TO show that Il was a bona
AIDE gift. have east a shadow upon the
a,ncSS 81 Judge Mccall for the position
re uoN holds.
II IL also known. lnasmuch as a hole
IN the public Service Commission would
,, plugged by the appointment OF a
= NA- = - AhAhh wv
committee would not he unwilling 10
recommend the dismissal Ct Judge Nc
cal.
onI, n smile From Thompson.
When the possibility that he had asked
Judge Mccall tn get out was suggested
10 senator Thompson he smiled enig-
ma;cdllv and walked away. No one
sIse OIL tie committee even smiled Judge
N.... ,.,.tl -. - p.
ne bearing. hut he hadn't left any word
81 his otiic" hat lie wouldn't he around
a. usual this morning. Despite the per
,.S,eu,s Of the runor. friends of Judge
Mccall predicted that n the Thompson
committee gets his job II will not be
;a-oIrh ANY acquicscence on his part.
As Il climax to the testimony that
has 3epl offered tending to show that
judge Mccall L. unit 10y reason of his
,,cck dealings, because he has aroused
,hs ouMiiy uf oscar lIdmmerstein and
helgsr he once advised with counsel
.or August Belmont. the contEittec called
20 d." stand yesterday afternoon Col.
William Hayward. once campaign man
sstr Tor Gov. Whitman, later chief in
yeStigator for tho Thompson committee
stl now a mi OF tho Public Service
coHir lssion.
After telling how hard he has worked
10 clean up business left unfinished by
Commissioner Maltbic. whom he sue
ceedcd, Col. Hayward produced "A type
Written record showing that he and
Commissioner Williams would get the
prizes :: any were offered FOR regular
attendance at the meetings of the COM
mission. on the other hand, he said.
| Judge Mccall, chairman of the COM
MISSION, has attended only thirty of the
~ meetings the commission has held
since April | last. the day that Col.
Hayward went on the commission.
Hearing Against Edison Company.
Featuring Col. Hayward's testimony.
however. was his account of what hap
rered 1T a hearing he was scheduled to
cy" lu the matter of Alfred Moritz
agdlnSt tho Edison Electric Illuminating
Company of Brooklyn. There appeared
At this hearing, OF October j last. :. J..
ioran, 4 law partner of William +.
SlechII. who was counsc for the
Edison company. Mr., Moran asked II
ne other commissioners might attend as
10 had AN important witness for the
Edison company In the person OF James
t. Alison Of st. Louis. Commissioner
hayward made no objection, he said,
and the other Commissioners came in,
Judge Mccall taking the chair. Then
III. Allison began to testify in a way
calculated to make Moritz look ridiculous.
to say nothing of the New York Court
- Appeals. Moritz was there for the
smplc purpose Of getting a better rate
ron the Edison company. a thing he
had been trying TO do for three years.
COL Hay ward minated hat If no
objection had been raised to Allison's
testimony Moritz might have to wait
'hIC" Years more. But, he said, when
10 tried 10 close Allison up the other
Commissioners, taking the lead of Judge
Mccall. agreed with Mr., Moran that
What Allison had to say was all COM
pet,nt To ray nothing Of relevant and
material They voted Hayward down
I'm" after tim. until finally Judge Me
can l"ft IN" hearing and Commissioner
| Wilhans tralled into the Hay ward camp.
Another hotter received by the commit
/ - from oscar Hamme rStcin brought up
anew the question of Judge McCalIs
a',orucs ship for the United Booking Of
fces Nj. Hammerstein was Of tho
or'r'o0 that Judge Mccall entered tho
case only recently, Judge Mccall said
'ha, wNIlo NJ felt under no obligation
70 repy to the "crazy scTecds' Of the
manager he would say that lie had been
rp4rs N the case since 1913, when
liamucrs'ein got $225 600 from Judge
Mccall Client aud the Pa.ace Theatre
ConpInv. Questioned on the fact that
'ae seventh avenue subway had put tho
Victoria Theatre out of business Judge
McCt.l said he couldn't help that be-
cause tie commission merely oheyed the
law IN removing Hammerstein's sidewalk
thamper boiler.
Ills theory evidently is" said Senator
LeTls, that because Of your being a
Publ Service Commissioner and at the
zane time counse for his opponent
ae vii mot bc able to get Public Service
Commission engineers to testiN for him
when ,Ge case to trial.
"Absurd,'' Says Judge Mccall.
81 wouldn't dignity that by an an
ave -lI! Judge Mccall. TITS too
ate,
IH' committee then turned it's atten-
ion p. ID suit brought against the Park
low Realty Company, OF which August
H''uIl, is the chief stakeholder and III
RA'u Judge Mccall appeared with
Cha..'s stewart Dawson as counsel for
ne con- pauy, Judge Mccall explained
mat d. Wa called in by Mr.. Dawson be-
''I.' o. u.- familiarity with a tax ques-
-'h ''t' Vas at issue.
I."'r -'uce that time he continued,
Il 1'N .Htpcr which ! shall not name
..s 'opA representing me as the counsel
mn o.. III -L. WAAAa Ia "a a. thn