Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-10
VICE REPORT SIGNED BY
COUNCIL COMMIT
men, Which Meets OH
Tuesday.
BELIEVED TO BE TWO REPORTS
Larger or Committee Report Said
to Censure Two Commissioners.
Members, Decline to Discuss Con.
tents-Glad Long job Is Ended.

The findings and recommendations
or the Council! committee which invcs-
tlsated the Police Department were
adopted Dy the Investigating body last
night. the final executive session be-
san at a:l3 O'Clock. with an intcrmis-
~ O'Clock OF twenty minutes.
until 1l:25
Al mat hour the members of the
committee departed from the City Hail.
sNlhs realistic eXemplifcation OF
lne siience OF the sphinx. Circum
stances. however, made manifest the
fact that harmony had not prevailed;
mat the body had not agreed.
close observers who have followed
the inquiry from beginning TO end are
convinced that two reports wifi be
submitted TO the Board OF Aldermen,
which meets next Tuesday night.
Ask the chairman was the reply
20 all queries vouchsafed by other
members Of the committee at the close
Of the session TO all inquiries concern
ing tho contents of the document
showing the findings and rccommenda-
lions
WIZ DE MADE PUBLIC
NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT
The committee has agreed" said
Chairman Barton II. Grundy. that the
findings and recon mcntations Of the
committee shall not hc made public
are TO be delivered in a sealed en-
veiope. to preclude the possibility Of
premature publicity. regret that |
can give no information At this time,
but il is the VIII q: tn" committee"
Interested citizens who couy erscd
with different members of the invcsti-
eating body at the close Of tho inal
session are s!neula:ly of the opinion
that minority report was drawn by
Assistant CITY Attorney George Wayne
Anderson during tho recess or twenty
minutes. Colonel Anderson appeared
for CITY Attorney Pollard, who has been
confined to his home by illness for the
last ten DAYS
I, is positively known that Council
man Edgar T. English. the lawyer
member Of the Investigating body Of
!rrcd motion to max" public last
night the action taken by tho invos-
tigaiinc body. and that the motion was
voted down II Was rumorcf tina. the
only support given Mr.. Enslish's mo-
'ion came from Alderman William W
declined 10 conhrm thu report Like
wise they refused 10 deny H.
The impression is strcar that the
majority report Of the investigators
severely ccnsnrcs polio" commissioners
''oodc and We'll for personal miscon.
cHc'' ana In milder tone pronounces
the conduct Of Commissioned Mco.ar,b.,
!rdiscrcet
N"ither the majority rcpor; nor that
0! the minority, it is vcntured. is a def
hite' clear-cut expression Of the CON
.c''ohs OF tue committee as to the
h'hcss or unhtneSs Of tho three com
nlssloncrs accused by the Vice Com,
mission. ON tho other hand II IL h
heNed that the reports arc OF su,b +,
nature as To put IT up to the wis,io,, M
We city Council 10 accept or r.iac,
either report
Tho
io!icc Department began ,,i,b a cos
son held March IL Since thar Two
me committee has me, one. or ,virc
IN each week The work has ho.n
aFouous. the body sitting usually from
o'iocH unn! near midnight Several
i"sn nave extended to
-" scores Of witnesses have deem
heard several sessions were given 10
the argument of council Tho COM
'h''ee mas borne patiently with one
interruption after another due TO oxjr
eHcies 'isini from the absouc. =, a,
torneSs or important business calls
upon n .mhers OF The body, conneIInc
delays from time to tim. ,hat wrre
unavo!da bic.
MEMBERS GLAD no ms
DONE WITH ARDIOts TASK
AZ the close of last nights session
each and every member OF tho hodv
III reply TO semi jocular inquiry ey.
never again be asked to submit to sl,r,,
an ordeal as this investigation bad M,
upon him.
Three members OF the Board OF Al.
dermen and four members of tho com,
'rrn Council composed the COMMITTEES
upon which the task of probing tho
charges in particular made in the re
ports Of the Vice Commission to Mayor
A!nslie and the conditions prevailing
in the Police Department in general.
They are: Aldermen Barton H. Grundy,
II. Waverly Melton and William W
Workman and Counciimen Edgar Il
English, Clarence 4. Seaton. George
w -loEers and Edgar Il FERGUSON
Chairman Grundy stated a the close
of the meeting last night that ii was
the understanding Of the committee
that a meeting OF the Common Coun-
Gil Will be called by President r. Lee
Peters is soon possible after the
meeting of the Aldermen next Tues
day. and that the joint session In act
upon the reports shall be held either
on the same night tncXt Tuesday, with
the meeting Of the Aldermen or as
soon after may he found convenient.
WILL GO on VACATION, VOW
THAT inquiry Is OVER
You may say for me-" said Alder-
man Workman last night, that when
the report is received | will be on my
vacation, enjoying myself at n summer
resort Alderman Workman will leave
the city to-day. Alderman Melton said
that business would call him from the
city probably next Monday. or the
members OF the Board of Aldermen
who sat with the investigating com
mittee, only Chairman Grundy will re-
main 10 attend the meeting next Tues
day night, when the sealed rcport is
TO be opened
The cost Of the investigations in
GLIDING the expense OF making steno-
era phic records OF the PROCEEDINGS the
mileage paid witnesses summoned from
other cities and other incidcntals. 10
this time is approximately 900 This
expense is borne by the city