New-York tribune., 1921-06-20
Evidence Is Such That
Removal by Miller Is
Certain, Says Member of
Legislative Committee
Enrigght Expected
To Testify To-day
Refusal to Produce Police
Records Will Mean Con-
tempt Action, Ii Is Said

The joint legislative investigating
committee plans TO begin it's public
hearings Thursday in the City Hall, if
Mayor Hylan's Sinking Fund Commits
sion, which controls public buildings,
grants the committee permission.
If the public hearings do not start
this week it will be because Elon R.
Brown, chief counsel Of the committee,
is not ready to proceed. The commit
tse Is ready, and, according to one of
its members, has sensational evidence
OF wastefulness, inefficiency and graft
IN several departments. Brown has
been unable to act as actively as he
wished until now, because Of suit in
which he has been engaged before
the United States Supreme Court.
One of the members of the commit
tee informed The Tribune that the evi-
dence against one of the county Offices
controlled by Tammany-s such that
the removal of. the head of the office.
an elective official. is certain.
Where such evidence is disclosed the
removing official, in this particular in
stance Governor Miller, will be fur
nished with the facts in the possession
of The committee, and the removal of
the Office holder will be asked.
Controversy in Committee
Some of the graft probers are hoping
that row which has been develoDinS
between two of the guiding lights Of
the committee may be smoothed ou..
before the public hearings BEGIN.
Others are confident that this cannot
be done and that a controversy Of far
reaching proportions will break in the
open and overshadow, for a time at
least, the disclosures made before the
committee.
The trouble has arisen over the con..
duct of. the investigation, and the
breach between the two men mas been
widened by their tempersments. Both
are able fighters. But one Of them has
the oyerWhe!MingS ma jority Of his as
socrates behind fiAsl, while the other is
baI ely tolerated by them. One Of the
committee members predicted yesterday
tfst one of the two would have 70
sever his connection with the com
n.ittee.
Police Commissioner Richard 4. En-
right will be witness before the com
-mittee to-day. Unless there is IN over.
night change in plans Enrignt will be
SUBJECTED to severe grilling by Brown
i&e counsel to the committee is m
ccnseG over the failure Of the Police
Dpppartm comply with .he com
mlttee's subponas calling for the pro-
duttion of certain books and papers.
Cniess Enright promises to produce the
papers already subpenaed, motion to
punish the Police Commissioner for
contempt will be instituted.
May Proceed Against Hylan
Senator Schuyler NJ. Meyer. chairman
OF the committee, has announced that
II Mayor Hylan is found to be actively
ulrectlng the hampering tactics OF the
administration the committee will 20
after His Honor without gloves.
There are numerous other matters
besides the refusal of the Police De-
partment to obey subpmnas which will
be submitted to Enright for explana-
ton And these questions and answers.
IL made public, promise to be interest
ing.
Another possible witness before the
committee to-day is "The" McManus.
the Tammany leader and friend Of
Charles F. Murphy, who could not be
found by the committee for more than
a month after it sent our process serv-
ers after him.
McManus returned to his usual
iiaunts last week. The failure Of the
committee to subpoena him when told
where he could be found was explained
by the chairman, who said that Nc
Manus, through friend, had promised
to appear when wanted. Another rea-
son given was that the assistant coun-
sci handling the particular matter in
which McManus's testimony was
wanted, Leonard M. Wallstein, was out
of town, and that McManus could not
be examined until his return. Wall
stein returns to the city to-day.