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to get the records of other police off,
GERS. whom he named, as follows:
IT want you gentlemen who are inter
ested in law enforcement in your Ma
tions Capital to write down to Mr.
Dougherty, the commissioner OF police
and have him send you the police record
of all of the high police officials down
there. Get the police record OF In
spector Pratt. the assistant superin-
tendent; get the police record OF In
spector Brown: get the police record OF
Inspector Shelby, and read them over
like I read this one, and you will see
why your law enforcement has failed
In the District of Columbia.
Blanton's attack on the Commission
erS was made in connection with his
charge that the special trial board
before which Capt. Burlingame is to
appear in connection with the Blalock
charges will be "hand-picked." This
remark was prompted by a query by
Representative Schafer, Republican, OF
Wisconsin, as to N.lether Mr.. Blanton
had not agreed to the selection of
Burlingame to sit on the trial board
before which the celebrated charges
against Policeman Orville Staples, whom
Blanton defended, were heard. Mr.
Blanton did not answer the question
remarking that "Oh, Burlingame was
hand-picked,"
Referring to the forthcoming board,
he said:
"They will be hand picked, and will
tell you why. Did you know that one
of the leading lawyers, who represented
Fenning (former Commissioner In that
famous case here, who, all through that
hearing before the judiciary committee,
sat there and defended him, one of the
leading lawyers here, was partner of
Mr.. Taliaferro, who was made Commits
Sioner, and when the Gibson committee
forced Fenning to resign and get out,
and when the Gibson committee showed
the contracts that Commissioner Ru-
dolph had with the District government
enriching himself and his own firm by
reason of such contracts, we forced him
to get out
why. these two Commissioners,
Dougherty and Taliaferro, were ap-
pointed in their places. That is the
reason you have an Scent car fare
here in the District of Columbia, with
$4,000 little school children paying an
8-cent car fare every day, with the
holders of the street railway stocks
making fortunes, with the stock having
gone up 800 and 400 and even 500 per
cent within the last few years; it is be-
cause of this association, and this is the
reason you cannot get anything down
there IN the District Building"
Letter Read Into Record.
The letter, addressed to Chairman
Gibson of the subcommittee investi-
eating District affairs, was read into
the record by Mr.. Blanton with the
statement that the writer felt "if his
name was known his life would not be
worth Is cents In Chinese money" It
followed:
Sir: All the near-beer bars in WASH
ington, D. c., which have been in BUSH
ness since the City of Washington, D. c.,
went dry have police protection. The
money is paid weekly and daily to the
captain of each police station and they
give Maj. Hesse his part of the loot.
when the vice squad start out to
make raids upon the fellow who has
not bought police protection, all of the
individuals who have police-bought pro-
lection are phoned message about the
vice squad being on their way to their
When they get this mes
sage, they hide all the whisky and stop
selling until the excitement Is over.
Go up to 142I P street northwest,
buttons Buffet. he sells whisky seven
days per week from z am. to midnight;
west, stand in front of these two places
and watch and you viii see they own
P street; also watch 1927 p street
northwest, and see the gambling going
on there all day. These two bars do
a land-office business. See this for your
self.
"See Hughey LAWYER, full fledged bar
on G street between Sixth and Seventh
streets northwest. He pays the first
precinct SIS every morning the minute
he opens the door for business and SIS
more when he closes.
IT could mention so more places If
necessary.
when you investigate the p street
places watch how many police 60 into
these two places and get their drinks
and their lunch at buttons"
Error in Precinct.
The G street place, cigar and soft
drink establishment, is in the sixth
and not the first precinct, and Capt.
ThaddeuS A. Bean, IN command OF the
latter precinct, had his attention called
to the error by q number OF friends.
Capt. Bean said members Of his
command have always been active in
their efforts to prevent violations OF
the prohibition law and were loyal to
the public and the department. There
were two instances of members OF his
being before the trial board
last year, he said, and they were on
trivial charges.
cerned . said Capt. Martin Reilly of
the sixth precinct, II have nothing to
fear. The statement gives me no
cant. Reilly said he had received
complaints about the alleged
sale of liquor there, and members OF
his command have raided the place
several times, he added, but so far as
auriov ySroS rQypr there