Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-19 | Page 6 | Legislature Orders Inquiry into Gotham Police Department

lEGISlATURE ORDERS INQUIRY INTO GOTHAM I POLICE DEPARTMENT II Albany b bany ln X N. T. T I Feb 1 IS TIme The The New York York- I state slate legislature today tod-iy adopted IdOf unanimously nl a t rc resolution providing IHO for fOI on a I searching investigation atlon of or the New NewYork NewYork York City police pollee situation h b by a joint committee of or five flo senators and six I as assemblymen se in bi m en Thin The committee p. p i N is to l' l report port before b I March 20 O. O with drafts of oC bills to carry calr I Its recommendations for Cur a reform of or the thc police department Into effect I The rhe resolution re recites tes that recent ti developments have hn disclosed that police police po po- po- po I lice lIer officials In New York City a. a aro allied with violators Iol of nr tho he 1 law and anti hive ha l' l revealed grave e 1 defects In the ad- ad of or the hue criminal III law w Such con conditions command immediate leRi legisla lation la- la tion to 0 the lie end that th the thu con confidence l o of the people In the officials char charged ed with aith tho mal maintenance of la law han and order be he restored rt I The Thc committee tonight ht formally ormall or organized organized or- or b by c electing Senator Robert F F. Wagner a Democratic leader of the tho upper up- up per er house chairman lie Hc was em pow pow- P-J P ed to appoint a sub to KO go KOto goto o oto to New e York to confer with Mayor Ga Gaynor nOl District Attorney Whitman th the l committee e and others Pubic Public Pub Pub- lie lic ic h hearings probably will begin there thereon on February 20 0 j and continue during tue following e week I The committee dots does not exp expect et to io employ counsel until It I Is ready to to draft act legIslation Th Tho Th purpose of f the tIme committee c Chairman Wagner said ald tonight ht Is notto not noto to o investigate In te evils ils but bitt to invent In leg leg- an anti i to I dt d e ways wars and means to o abolish lh the evils elis which already have been heen jeen disclosed d or oh whiCh h ma may he be dig l sed bv by th the Investigations In no now being nude I