Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1907 — Government by Cross-Examination. [ARTICLE]

Government by Cross-Examination.

An interesting precedent in executive methods was made by Gov. Hughes of New York, when he called to his office Superintendent of Insurance Kelsey, and there, in the presence of stenographers, reporters and public men, subjected him to a rigid cross-examination as to the conduct of the insurance department, thus bringing from Kelsey’s own lips the admission that he had kept subordinates in office whoso false reports had already been exposed, and that he. himself, was ill inYcrmed about existing conditions. This pared the way for the Governor's formal recommendation for the removal of Kelsey on the ground of unfitness, which went into the. State Senate. Tl.i s the Governor, by making good his pre-election pledge to the people, put the matter squarely up to the lawmaking body.