New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-01
ALBANY.
SPEAKER MCGUIRE AND HIS FELLOW DEM
OCRATS.


OCRATS.
SAGE OF THE INSPECTOR BILL - REPORTED BY
TIE CoMMIITEE-HIs WELCOME To RETURNING
DEMOcRATs-REPLY BY Mr.. DAILY
ORION TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUNr.J
Albany. April 3O-Speaker Mcclure furnished
the DAVIS entertainment in the Assembly in little
speech which served as the sauce for the dryer de-
tails of legislation. The Conference Committees
report on the Inspector bill had just been adopted
BY vote of so 20 2, one of the latter,
Mr. T. c. Campbell voting against it be-
cause the provision for public examinations
had been inserted, when Mr.. Mcclure rose
to question of privilege, and proceeded to assail
his Democratic friends in his usual interesting fash
ION Whatever service the Speaker has rendered to
his party OF his own reputation he has been great
boon this Winter 10 spectators and correspondents.
He said that for his action on Tuesday last he has
been characterized by The Uorld as a disorganzer,
and The El,Rira Gazette had charged him with
having, as Speaker of the House, violated
all rules of parliamentary courtesy and
parliamentary law, and with having made speech
in the interest of canal contractors III the interest
Of fraud, aud " in opposition TO the wishes OF his
Exceency the Governor" IL was also SAID that
the only coadutor lie had on tho floor was the cor
rupt member from Onondaga Mr.. Mvorn. In reply
10 get any man to vote for the Senate amendments.
lie challenged any one to show that he had done So
or that he had attempted to influence the vote
OF any member upon any bill before the
House. from all the positions he had
taken he did not propose TO take any
back track. lie had marked ont policy which he
thouCht TO be Democratic, and that policy he in
tended to pursue. He did not believe that there
should be an irresponsible detective going about the
State pryn9 into mems secrets and holding secret
examinations And now one thing more. lie well
coined back his Democratic brethren to the position
he had taken AZ first They had gone over the fence
like sheep after strange gods it true, but they
had only erred temporarily, and they had now come
back He congratulated the Democratic majority
OF tho nouso that even at this late day they had
come to a sense Of the enOrnity of the Inspector bill
If he were OF home on his farm he would Kill fatted
cal i'm their honor
Mr.. Daly was stimulated to rise to a question of
privilcge in reply and apolOgizcd by saying that he
was always unwilling TO provoke debate. lie
thought that after foHr five days Of consec-
utiye QuarTeliug, the HOuse would be entitled
at the hands Of the gentleman from Chemune
TO a little peace. But it seems that they
were not to have il. The supporters of the bill had
taxi the action they did only because they desired
10 demonstrate to the people their sincerity OF pur
By accepting WHAT lltN COIiu Ett lIOIu LVH-
stature 1--WE only acceded," said he "to the
amendments of the Senate on the assurance of
q member of tho Committee that the bill
as passed by the House would never receive. the
assent of the Senate. We have not recOded one
iota.r "WhOm does the gentleman mean by We"
broke in Mr.. McGuirol docs it include the Gov
ernor 70 al include" said Mr.. Daily, 1.-The intro
Queer and the supporters Of the bill" Referring TO
the Speakers assault upon Tammany Hail. Mr. DAILY
said that in advocating this as well as other meas
upe, hc was actuated 10y no motive but an honest
one. As soon as Tammany Hall ceased to be the
representative of honest principle Of government
he would retire from il. He unable 10 see the
improperly Of member from New-York doing what
he could for reform when the management Of the
canals had been for the past % years disgrace to
the State.
Mr.. Mcclure, who is never content without the
last word and is generally happy when he has had
it, replied with considerable grim humor that he had
been misunderstood if he had been supposed to make
any reference to reform in Tammany Hall. He had
not done so either seriously sarcastically, and
would not be responsible for the statement that
there was any reform about that institution. This
closed this brief skirnish, in which Mr.. DAILY made
his most effective little speech OF the session. and
Mr.. Mcclure was to be seen an hour or two later
among the spectators in amicable converse with the
gentleman who pulls the string on which he now re-
fuses to dance-Mr. John Kelly.
The Canal Ring are reported as jubilant over the
insertion of a single word i'll the Inspector bill as
amended by the Senate, which, they claim, prevents
examination by the Inspector into completed work.
This change consisted simply in the insertion of the
word being" so as to allow the Inspector to in
spect work being carried on" The Governors
supporters, however, make light of the matter, and
cav that it was not intended that The Inspector
should make such examination but that he should
watch and supervise public work in progress. Ru-
mors have been spread about too, of a coming veto
of the bill. OF this there is not the slightest prob