New-York tribune., 1920-12-06
Robinson and Steinbers
to Present Bills Calling
for Joint Committee of
Nine at Opening Session
Especial Attention
To Police Planned
$4,000 Will BE Asked to
Engage Counsel: Scna-
tor Assails Hylan Regime

\ resolution creating 4 joint leg
lslative committee TO investigate tie
Hylan admiyistration, especially The
Police Department and some of the
county departments in New York
City, win be introduced in the Legis-
laturc as its opening session, the
night of January g.
Senator Theodore Douglas Robin
son, former State Chairman of the
Progressive National Committee
and nephew Of the late Colonel
Roosevelt, will introduce the roso-
luton in the upper house, while AS
semblyman Joseph Stcinbcrg, rank
ing Republican member from this
city, will sponsor the measure in the
Assembly. Leading legislators be-
lleve its passage assured.
The MISUNDERSTANDING resolution
is now in tentative shape and pro-
vides for committee Of nine mem
bers, consisting of four Senator's
and five Assemblymen 1t is so
broadly drawn that the committee
viii have power to subpoena wit
nesses from any part Of the state
and compel the production of all
books, papers and records Of any
city or county department. An ap-
preparation of $4,000 viii be stipu
lated to engage counsel, process
servers, detectives and other assist
ants.
Civic Organizations Back Irouirv
Prominent legislators throughout the
state are back Of the proposed investi-
CATION, and they will be supported bv
the more important civic organizations
in this city
Conditions IN New York City" said
Senator Robinson yesterday, "are the
worst, perhaps, in its history. If hal
the reports one hears and reads a-e
true the Police Department is not af
iordln2 adequate protection to life and
property.
The people VIII not tolerate ! cor
tnuation of the conditions obtaininc
here. And plundering politicians may
as we'll realize this now. instead Or
coming to Albany in January to tr,
to stop an investigation OF the admin
istration OF New York City"
Senator Robinson then referred 10
other attempts to investigate the citv
especially tho Police
Department, since Mayor nylau -ool.
Office.
No Throttlng of Probe
There are stories in circulation re a
garding the sinister methods employee (
to throttle these Investigations al their
BIRTH continued Senator Robinso~.
But there will be no throttling Of this
investigation. The public pillory awaits
he man who attempts any soft osl-
ailins on an honest and thorough ln-
vesugatlon Of the acts oi t1e Ian...44-
crew which has been running things
IN this city for the last three Yeas.
Boss Tweed was a piker compared
to some Of the Tammany politIcians
who have become millionaires 1T the
expense Of the taxpayers Of the City
OF New York. We have it on the au
thority of Tammany men themselves
that graft and corruption stalk abroad
and defiant in New York City. We saw
4 veteran Tammany legislator from
this city, Assemblyman Louis A. Cuvil-
her, introduce a resolution at tue las
session OF the Legislature calling for
an investigation OF the Hylan d iminis-
tration, espcc ally the Ponce Depart
ment, and Of District Attorney Swann's
Office. We read Mr. Cuvilliers state
ments in the press at the tine thst
gentlemen from New York City who
were then n Atlantic City tried . pre-
vail upon him TO withdraw his reso-
luton. And we saw in the newspapers
that Mayor Hy.an ard some OF MS pc
lltical playmates were then enjoying
the breezes at the New Jersey coag-
resort.
Calls Conditions Here Revolving
"But Why Mr.. Cuvillier's resolution
was not adopted I DO not know But
! DO know tina. the newspapers since
the introduction of the Cuvlllicr rcso-
luton have been filed with stories o.
ment and in District Attorney Swann's
Office who were indicted for alleged
crimes committed while in office, and
| know, also, that the Lockwood com
mittee, which IS concerned solely with
housing conditions, has uncovered a
startling trai. of graft There have
been score or more indictraerts ss q
result and the talk is tnat there AKA
more 10 follow. Sucn conc.t!oos
could not exist under wc.i--ra@rxa
adsrin'-tI~.,op-
conditions here are revoitinc 10
every decent American. II the lock
wood committee which is not empow-
cred 10 go after corruption in official
circles, can reveal the horrible state
Of affairs which is only too familiar 10
those who read. not only in New Yorl
City, but throughout the country, ore
can imagine what a committee nat
termed after the Lexow committe.
can do.
Robbers and Assassins at Large
"lf we had nothing else beforcytis. tno
expose Of conditions in the Pore Dc.