The New York herald., 1921-10-02
ATTACKS ENRIGHT'S
HONORARY DEPUTIES
ROSTER AS ILLEGAL
Senator Brown Asks Meyer
Probers to Find Reason
for Their Retention.
WAR EMERGENCY GONE
Ten Unpaid Citizens Have
High Police Authority
Over Paid Force.
GEN. DU PONT HEADS LIST
Allan A. Ryan, DR.. Harriss and
Others of Prominence Are
Among Officials Named.
GEN. DU POINT HEADS LIST

chief counsel to the Meyer legislative
committee, in a statement issued last
night attacked the legality of the con-
tinued existence on the roster of the
Police Department of a long list of
Special Deputy Commissioners and
other officials appointed by Commits
sioner Enright ostensibly as a war
measure. Prominent on the list of
Special Deputy Commissioners is the
name OF Allan A. Ryan, the broker
through whom Commissioner Enright
made profit of $4,000 in a stock
transaction in Mexican Pete. Another
is DR.. John A. Harriss, who offered to
give and then lent an automobile to
the Commissioner
Mr.. Brown holds that the passage
by Congress of the peace resolution
automatically rescinded the authority
for the appointment and further carry
ing of these men on the rolls of the
Police Department, and suggests that
their continuance in Office may be be-
cause Commissioner Enright hopes for
further and other gratuities than the
$4,000 from Ryan or the use of the
automobile from Harriss."
Suggests New Line of Inquiry.
Mr.. Browns statement begins with
the suggestion that the list Of honorary
officials of the Police Department be
made a subject of investigation by the
committee. and then continues:
These officials were appointed pur-
suant to Chapter 651 OF the Laws of 1917
of New York. which authorized the ap-
pointment Of special officers during the
existing state Of war While the war
was continued by the city for the pur-
pose of issuing s15.000,000 Of long term
bonds per year in violation of the pay
as you go policy. there seems no room
for doubt that the term of these tenn
porary officials ceased with the passage
by Congress OF the resolution declaring
peace with Germany and Austria Hun
gary.
We are no longer in a state of war
for this purpose. although the period Of
war will not terminate for another year
for the issuance of bonds. This will
considerably reduce the force in the
Police Department. as the Charter pro-
vides that the Police Department must
be administered by a group of public
officers Of full responsibility ranging In
authority from the Police Commissioner
to a patroIman, and by no one else.
u.t,g .f off a tc et,f-
ficiently entertaining in itself as illus
trating the danger of passing laws con-
ferring general authority o. such char
acter. The exercise of the discretion
was wonderful beyond the imagination
of any one who voted for the law. But
the attempted continuance OF this body
of officials in office after the authority
for their appointment and tenure has
ceased would suggest further reasons for
their appointment and continuance In
office than the protection OF the country
in a state Of war. Is Il possible that
they are continued in office because. as
the Police Commissioner said upon the
stand. he is In hopes OF further and other
gratuities than the $4,000 received from
RYAN. or the automobile from Harris?
Further investigation may throw further
light upon this point"
Honorary Police Omcinls.
The list or honorary officials OF the
Police Department, all OF whom serve
without pay. as given In the current or
ficial list, is as follows:
Special Deputy Commissioners--Gen.
T. Coleman du Pont. Edmond A. Gug-
genheim, John A. Harriss. Allan A.
Ryan. John NJ. Shaw, Rodman Wana-
maker, DR.. Carleton Simon and Douglas
/. Mckay.
Honorary Deputy Commissioner--Mrs.
George w. Loft.
Honorary Deputy chief-Henry X. s.
williams.
Honorary Consultant Surgeons--Dr.
Edwin II. Fiske, DR.. Charles Gordon
Heyd, DR.. Marvin f. Jones. DR.. John j.
Moorehead. DIR. Robert Forrest Barber.
DR.. Edward J. Donlin and DIR. Samuel
NJ. Johnson.
Miscellaneous honoraries follow:
Captains, Robert G. Barclay and Emil
Ieindorf: dental surgeons. DR.. Edward
Appel. DIR. Leo r. Gieberich and DR..
Knute Hansen; optometrist. DR.. Harry
A. Cohen: pediatrist. DR.. Aage II. Han
sen physiologist. DR.. Charles II. Nam
mack: neorologist. Sylvester r. Lee .
orthopcdist, DIR. Fred III. Albee urolo-
sist. DR.. Walter y. Browner. historian,
Otis. r. Wood secretary to Special
Deputy Commissioner Simon. Major Au-
ia