The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-04
MCCALL FIERY IN
DENYING CHARGES
Continued from FIRST Page.

harmed by this transfer Of stock" said
Mr.. Lewis. Judge Mccall should have
protected the city at the meeting Of the
opposed the resolution permitting the
Edieo company to purchase the stock,
instead OF remaining passive, and he
should be removed from Office for neglect
of duty upon this one instance OF lack
Of action"
you might say with equal force that
the same charge might be made against
Commissioners Wood and Williams" in
terrupted Gov. whitman.
Most certainly" responded Mr.. LewtA
Hi.ts ~ Charges.
Afterward Chairman Thompson init
mated that charges would soon be forth
coming against Commissioners Wood
and Williams upon this and other
points, and that their removal from
office would ensue before the middle OF
January. Commissioned Cram Is to be
permitted to serve out his term. which
expires January 81.
Promptly at moor the Governor
emerged from the inner room OF the
Executive chamber and announced the
opening of the hearing. He read the
charges filed against Chairman Mccall
and as soon as he had finished Judge
Mccall approached the Governors desk.
Governor he said, you will OBJ
serve that I am here to answer these
charges, neither pale nor flushed with
excitement. I am not humping the
desk. I am not leerinS at anybody.
But I am Allied with righteous ZIG
ton"
The beginning OF the hearing was the
. exact counterpart OF the hearing given
TO Commissioner Mccall last winter
when the Thompson committee first nled
charges against him. II differed only in
the opening by Judge Mccall. who was
especially scathing in his references 10
Senator Thompson, at one time refer
ring to him AZ "a petty customer" The
occasion was during a discussion on the
alleged failure OF Chairman Ca 10
enforce certain orders OF the conmis-
sion. when Judge Mccall exclaimed
with a show OF anger:
Governor Whitman. let me tell you
h a I never will be rushed on my feet
unduly by any panderer to sensational
rot. I vii do even Justice in accord
ance with my best judgment. No
clamor. no investigating committee.
with IL. slanderous in%sinuations and
allegations. will alter or change my
curse IN my Official action.
Attack On Thompson.
Launching into an attack on Senator
Thompson. who had the hardihood TO
ask me II. at the request OF his com
mittee. ! would stop work in BROOK
lyn along Fulton street" he added
And he summoned two of the COM
n~nissioners TO him in a Brooklyn rate
matter pending before them as Judges.
He got those two men TO hand him up
written opinions In a case not yet de-
cided and printed one OF them in the
newspapers"
only with the consent Of the Com
missioner Mr.. Lewis iHterposed. He
never got that consent" shouted Judge
Mccall.
II got 4, myself Mr.. Lewis replied.
From Commissioner Williams
Yes"
ITO print ~"
To make IL public"
When Williams came TO me and told
me OF his I said. What kind and man
ne- of man nave you fallen to be? Why
didn't you tell him to his face that
YOU were a Judge and refuse TO dc
this This was my feeling and under
standing. and l knew l believed ! was
talking Of "A man who had pledged
secrecy and arbitrarily violated II thu
next day"
Judge Mccall said he had noth.ns
further TO say or this except that hs
was wrong, as II was the first time hs
had heard OF the way the article cams
TO be published. and certainly would TAX.
Mr. I<wis's word for Il.
The Governor then asked II there wa,
anything further to be said by eitheI
side.
II don't care TO go any further int
the case said Mr.. Lewis. Everything
is on the records and they are betor'
you"
"l've argued to an end" said Judg'
Mccall. IAN I can do IL TO thank th'
Governor for his courtesy and for IN.
time he has given
do you wish TO say anything abou'
the use OF the automobile Mr.. Levi:
asked the chairman.
NO SIR" SHOUTED Judge Mccall II
ringing tones. y will not dignity H."
Senator Thompson laughed audibl,
and Judge Mccall turned squarely rounc
and glared at him. Mr.. Lewis took VI
the automobile charge then. declaring
that Judge Mccall had violated rules o
the commission IN using It.
NO rules of the commission reQuir,
any such thing Judge Mccall said wher
Mr.. Lewis had concluded.
No Animosfty, says Thompson.
Just as the Governor was about I,
close the hearing Senator Thompson
asked for recognition. He sale he has
no luminosity toward Judge Mccall. al
then read four lines OF the record o
the hearings In New York in which
Judge M-Csll answered affirmatively
question OF Senator Thompson's as q
whether the Judge did not have Just a!
much interest In the Kings County Ligh
stock Of Mrs. McCalls as II II wer
his own.
''since that time" Senator Thompson
said. Judge Mccall has not cooperate,
with me in this matter, I am sorry tina
a person has to come hero TO answe
such charges. But there is a create
thing ut stake.
II believe that Judge Mccall nrnl,
believes in the things he has done. An
in his answer That II his view, II
Is the wrong man for the place. He wa
educated wrong. He In the wrong kin
of man to be placed In charge OF e
important n branch Of the government
as this.
IL believe II Ia a duty to the State tina
such a man as he. when II Is shown h
has been so careless, should be removed
1t does not make n bit OF difrerenc
whether he owns the stock or his wifi,
Il is not a question Of disqualification
but a question OF what Is tho prope
kind OF man TO administer the grea
public service laws"
Not only Chairman Thompson and IN