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Show WALDO UNFIT SAYS REPORT New York, June 10. The question of the fitness of Rhinelander Waldo to continue as police commissioner of New York City was passed on to the full board of aldermen today by the aldormanic committer, which for nearly near-ly a year has been investigating police conditions. By a five to four vote yesterday the committee adopted its report with the recommendation that Mayor Gaynor be called upon Immediately Immedi-ately to remove Commissioner Waldo as ' having by temperament and cote duc t shown himself unfit to occupy his By the ordinary' rules the report as It reaches the board of aldermen will be automatically laid upon the table for a week. It is said that the board stands practically tied at present on the question at issue, but that t'aoso who insist upon the removal of tho commissioner are so determined upon the matter that they have perfected plans for an immediate appeal to Governor Gov-ernor Sulzer In the event of the defeat de-feat of the report. This appeal would be taken by the bureau of municipal research, which has co-operated with the committee and which made possible possi-ble a greatly increased scope of In quiry by obtaining from John U Rockefeller. Jr., a gift of $25,000. The governor has authority to go over tho head of the mayor in the removal o( a city commissioner if he desires. |
