Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1931, Page 22

LRt 3 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO? D. Cs AUGUST 30, TAMMANY NERVOUS AS SEABURY DIGS New York Investigation Stirs Worst Fears—Break Near With Roosevelt. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star NEW YORK, August 20 (NAN.A) - Samuel Seabury, silver-haired parson's son who goes to E thedrals, and whose ideals are the purification of the la and of public officials, has rounded o the first year of his investigation into o New York City corruption. A resume of what th able lawyer has accomp! penetrating inquiry which hes Tammany Hall to a state of hot erat s impressive: what may Tammany would prefer Dot to think about i Preferences, however extended to the the past b Tammany scourge be have resigned an moved being e mot of what re officials have disa peared rs have been placed ¢ disbarment. trial and rly twoscors policemen have been suspended or charged. several of them going to pris on perj it convictions To add an open break power and Gov is in the offing. ) sult of Mr ry'’s merciless ferieting Mr. Seabury's 1 lative investigati and it also is not the concerted cry of “politics the investigated Tammany The Legislature is controlled b; rrently with a major vote in the Senate, and the c now is that the investigation is a de perate partisan attempt to save New | York for the Republican presidential nominee. | As the investigatio lls on, ap-| with th pport of Gov Tam y voices a threat of | Teprisal in case 1 many believe h g presidential nomination in 1932 that, of course, ise to speculation | whether Gov. Ro could carry New York State over the passive re-| sistance of an apathetic Tamman Mr. Seabury has been surprised 1o find himself in the middle of a com- plex political situaiion once more. His Position this time differs from that on other long past he is not a candidate for anything. He gave up all political ambition, his clos- est friends say, 15 years ago, Whe resizgned from the Court of Appeals to! run for Governor as—mirabile dictu— | the Democratic candidate with Tam- many backing. That was the year 1916, and Mr. Seabury suffered the same fate Woodrow Wilson did Evans Hughes carried New ¥ great majority. Returned fo Private Life. Mr. Seabury retired, then, into vate life and practice. Almost Summer since then he has spent in Europe, running down old and rare books on law, inspecting cathedrals, pursuing other and like fancies of his desire. Once he bought, and brought home with him, cne of the very paintings if not the only painting William Hogarth ever to reach the United States. It was out of this se- clusion of privacy that the appellate division of the Supreme Court jerked him in August, 1931, to serve as referee and investigate the magistrates’ courts of two boroughs of New York Cit Manhattan and the Bronx. Since then the urge to investigation has been constantly shifti and e: panding. While the magistrates tigation was going on. Gov. Roosevelt appointed Mr., Seabury a commissioner 10 examine charges against Thomas C. T. Crain, district attorney of New York v. While that was in progress Republican-contrelled Legislature | voted an investigation of the gov ernment, end appointed Mr. Seab: chief counsel It is out of these separately autho ized investigations, ail techni in progress, that the table of which has brought Tammany to a low tate of great fright is to be comptled t includes Hurried resignations Francis X. 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Doyle. mil- lionaire horse doctor, who made his million in the last five years by rep- resenting pstitioners before the Board of Standards and Appeals. First, however, must be explained the Board of Standards and Appeals. New York, like most other Aerican cities, has a stringent and elaborate set of building and zoning laws, speci- fying sections to be devoted to busi- ness and others to dwellings, setting up standards to be adhered to in con- struction and otherwise regulating the More than 50 girls ordered released This, was not so much the result how- of Traugott P. Keller, chief engineer of Department of Docks, jumped Charles F. Brady. superintendent Lewis, an inspecting resigned, Lew that he left engineer under oing away in L h haste a $35,000 home appearance of the city and the safcty of its buldings. Dr. Doyle's Rich Practice. The Board of Standards and Ap- peals is a body of a quasi-judicial na- ture, with the right to abrogate any of these laws on the application of in- terested partles aiter a public hearing. Thus, & man who wants to put a gaso- line filliny station in a residential sec- tion appears before the board and re- quests a permit. These persons served Dr. Doyle as clients. His practice flourished, for it seemed that he possessed magic. He appeared to get anything he wanted from the board. He garnered mches in fees in five years, and he testiled when he was brought before a Federal grand for violation of income tax laws (hat ke split balf of his takings with | public official he could not receive im- | session that Tammany has threatened | mized, some one. | munity. to break with him. night The short.of a Jong and interesting | Sweeping Reply Made. el i o gy R story is that Dr. Doyle was brought| p; poyle asked the right to come | has really only just begun. A late de before the commitiee by Mr. Seabury back and purge himself, which he dndlv-exopmerl\z ls the rumored hunting of E V] | by denying, over his previous refusal to | # possivle linl ween Tammany and e ':‘,;d w:hd“'::’mdh' o m;grni'nwc, Ihat Ee had spilt. with sny { Arnold Rothstein, the murdered gam- feen. When he declined to answer for | pypjic omicial. In Dr. Doyle's behalf, | oler. fear he would incriminate himself he|Jjohn F. Curry, leader of Tammany | Tons of records from city depart- was cited for contempt. Eighteen days | Hall, made a sweeping statement that|ments have passed through the hand he sat in jail while his case sped| he considered the investigation a “cru- through the courts to the Court of Ap- | cification” of the Democratic party in | s vitnesses peals, New York's highest tribunal, and | New York. and hundreds of bank accounts. ed on. Because of the Court of Appeals de- | those of Mayor Walker, Mr. Cur What might be known as a | cision, Gov. Roosevelt was asked to call, | George W. Olvany, former Tamman trick ruling. The committee had and did call, & special session of the | leader, down, have been examined granted Dr. Doyle immunity so he | Legislature to pass a bill giving the| The most part of what all this inves- might testify. The ruling was that if | committee the full immunity power | tigation has shown is yet to be thrown Dr. Doyle split those fees with & pub- | which it had thought, before the Court | to the public. What will happen when lic official he was properly in contempt. of Appeals upset, it had. 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