Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-24
Police Investigators Want All In
formation Adduced by Vice
Commission.
COMPROMISE is AGREED TO
City Attorney and Stcnographcr
Will Prepare Excerpts Relat-
ing to Police Department.

public TO know it,
Alderman w W. Workman thus de-
clareh himself To the Council commit
to" invest;cating the Police Department
last night His dramatic protest
agains; the procedure camc after the
committee. b. a vote Of TO g. had
refused TO adopt resolution calling
upon the Vice Commission to produce
Tor the Information Of the Investigators
what is known as the secret budget"
The resolution was offered by MIR
Workman. Alderman r. Waverley Mel
ton and Councilman Clarence y S"aton
voted with Mr.. Workman. Chairman
Barton II. Grundy and Councilmen
Edgar B English. T.. n. FERGUSON and
George w Rogers voted against the
demand for the secret budget"
WANTS ALL THE EVIDENCE.
INSTEAD OF FRAGMENTS
Alderman Workman had no sooner
voiced his protest than Alderman Mel
want 20 say exactly the same thing.
We should have the 500 pages. w. can
better judge the case il we have ALI
OF the evidence, instead OF fragments.
This information. which is denied us,
mas been given TO others One minis
ter has preached "a sermon on it,
presume he saw tho 800 pages. for he
IS quoted as saying in his sermon. 4
speak from the book"
Attorney Murray VI. Mcclure. counsel
for the Vice Commission. intcrrup,ed
MT. Melton to deny that the secret
budget had been handed promiscuously
about Mr.. Mcclure declared that. so
far as II. was aware. Rev. r. -. c.
Maciachlan. -. D.. the minister referred
TO. had never inspected the 500 pages
of memoranda. He said he was posi-
tive that no person not a member Of
the Vice Commission except himself
had ever handled the secret budget
n" had it for a time In his possession.
but did not examine It,
THINKS a FEW PEOPLE
NAS THE VICE COMMISSION
Il believe" said MIR. Workman. that
few persons ran the Vice Commission:
that just few were diiirent in ques-
toning the witnesses they had before
them. and that men went before that
body making statements in which they
risked life. lawsuits and other pcriis
we should know what those statements
are. VINO made them. who asked the
questions and everything that trans
pired before the Vice Commission"
An animated debate cnsucd. Motions
ana resolutions were put. withdrawn.
amended. Finally the investigating
body adopted the following:
Resolved. That the Vice Commission
furnish TO the City Attorney all tes,i
mony in its possession, and the Citv
Attorney, with the aid OF the official
stenoSraphcr. take all the testimony
thcrefrom that refers to the Police
Department and furnish copies TO this
committee"
The resolution was carried. 10 l,
Councilman English voting in the
negative.
MCGUIRE PLEADS AGAINST
OPENING "SECRET BUDGET"
The lively episode In the investiga-
tion came after the crowd of spectators
had departed. The committee took a
recess at IL o'clock The spectators
left under the impression that an
executive session was to he held ONLY
the members of the committee. few
policemen Commissioner We'll and the
newspaper reporters remained
Attorney Mcclure argued and plead
ed earnestly against bringing the
secret budget" into the committees
hands He suggested that the 500
pages be submitted instead 10 CITY At
torney Pollard. and that the CITY At
torney be instructed to hold conference
with him. the Vice Commissions conn
sci. such testimony as Mr.. Pollard
might select TO he then handed 10 tho
committee.
Aldermen Workman and Melton de-
clarcd that the inaccuracies in the Vice
Commissions report were sufficient
reason for making a close examination
of the full budget, witnesses having
testified earlier in the night to such
inaccuracies as the mention of Me
Carthy's name in the commissions re-
port by mistake for Wells, and the
naming of house in one locality for
Il house In another.
ENGLISH WANTS ALI.
PAPERS BURNED At ONCE
II have heard" said Alderman
Workman, that the whole of the 500
pages or some part Of that record even
went before the Ministerial Union"
Attorney Mcclure assured the AL
derman that he was misinformcd
Councilman English, who voted
against every motion designed 10 bring
the secret budget" or any part OF 1,
further than the Information now be-
fore the committee. made vain effort
to have the body request the Vice Com
mission to burn the whole of the tes
timony bearing upon vice conditions.
His motion was defeated
The names OF two more of the mem
bers of the Police Board were called
10y a witness during the session. but
nothing to the discredit of either was
said by the witness. He was Harry r..
Sweet. patrolman. who was recalled
for cross-examination on his previous
contradiction of statements accredited
to him in the Vice COMMISSIONS re-
port. The discrepancies were incon-
sequential, except as showing that the
record was subject to challenge as in
accurate.
Policeman Sweets testimony before