New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-01
prv1EW OF THE SITUATION.

.,vxr-aoyERNoR CORNEIL's PosIT1oN-HosIiL-
Yry OF coNKLISG MEN TOWARD HIM.
,pY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUSE'l
.,-, Nav 31-The vote Of the Legislature
-. ,,ov he expressed. compactly, as follows
To xncceed Conkling-Conkling, 80; Wneeiei' o &c
Cornell. Q; Rogers, 13 all other RepuoIcaiS 20
r.eobs b3: Bradley, to succeed fialt-t is''
90 Depevr. 21 4: Lapham, 8; Cornell, II; all o'iei
panrblcans 35: Herman, 81. This demonstrates
one thing at least-that Mr.. ConklinR aud MI
cannot be elected. Mr.. Conklings vote varies o,i'
one from the estimate made for hm IN tneSo W"
matches Yesterday leaving him nineteen Vo'eS away
from n majority of the Republican members anu
fortv.six votes away from majority oi 'no
Ieeislature. In fact he has just one-thlru o' 'no
Republican vote in the Legislature. More '"a"
tbree-fourths in full attendance wouio DC necoo-
sarv To elect and no sane person for moment sup
that he can be elected by the present Legisla-
t,re. Some of his faithful adherents go on saying
so brovelv a. il is only part of the gamblers blum
often seen in politics ~,
sill more significant fact appears respecting MI
Plat. His vote fell six below that OF Mr. Conk-
ling. II he shall lose four votes more bringing ms
ann total down to twenty-five, the expected dead
lock would have vanished 80 far as Mr. Platt Is
concerned. 1t would only need then cOncentra-
some one of the candidates to see one Senator
elected and so much of the ground cut
away from under Mr.. Conklings feet. 1t is GER
taiuly serious question whether Mr.. COnkling
could maintain himself any length of time, with the
outer works already in possession of the enemy
He has now margin of only nine votes over the
number necessary to make a deadlock, and In case
Senator Should be elected, this margin might soon
prove broken reed.
The six members who voted for COnkling but not
for Platt were Senator Winslow, who voted for
Wheeler Assemblymen Bingham, Cowles and Hurd
who voted for Crowley, Assemblyman Evans who
voted for Cornell, and Assemblyman Derrick who
voted for John NJ. Francis.
These facts have altered the situation materially.
The best political judges here now inclined to
look for the election of two Republican Senators
before the Legislature adjourns, and the Democrat
Who was yesterday swimming on bladders i'll a sum-
mer sea Of glory finds himself stranded to-day on
the hard probability that the next Legislature will
not be consulted regarding the successors to Messrs
Conkling and Platt. To-morrow's ballot will be
watched with great interest. If Mr. Platt should
lose anv of the votes he had to-day it
will be. only reasonable to expect the choice
of one Senator before the end of the week.
And when the deluge has begun with the election of
one Senator 1t is difllcult to believe that even Mr.
Conkling can stand in the way of it very long.
Judge Robertson. who has shown throughout this
matter a cool Judgment in estimating the prospects
o. hisown party which few politicians have said
today that after to-day disclosure OF Mr. Platts
weakness he should look for the election of SEN
stor on Thursday. On the other hand, ,'sOme MEM
bers expect that tO-mOrrOw's ballot will be much
like that of to-day, except for probable concentra
ton of Administration men, and do not expect
marked changes, if there shOuld be only one ballot
II is difficult, of course, to form any estimate Of
the tendency of the unattached men from tO-day's
scattered voting but salient facts in it are of
significance. The chief of these is the large vote
given for Governor Cornell even larger than the
innate telegraphed last night. In the two houses
he received the several ballots the votes in all of
twenty members. 1t is known that this vote
would have been larger if Governor Cornell had not
made SPECIAL efforts early in the morning, before
the balloting began, to stop certain votes
from being cast for him. But ii is large enough as
IL is to set all the gossps going and to keep poll
ticians on the lookout for an attempt to stampede
the Legislature for him. The Governors own posi-
ton ID must he said is still shroudcd in some mys
terry. It is claimed. and all the evidence goes to
chow that he has done all he could do consistently
with a proper regard for the dignity of his high
Office to aid Mr.. COnkling and Mr. Platt. The bal
lot to-day shows that the men who stood nearest to
him, the men whom he would be said i'll
the ordinary sense to control, voted steadily for
Conkling and Platt, and other men ofinluence here
whose relations toward him peculiarly close,
have been working hard for the several candidates
He has done so much for them that the Administra-
ton men, who have been considering the advisable
ity Of making a union ticket of Governor Cornell
and one OF their own pronounced men, are disposed
to show little irritation because they think he has
done too much for Conkling and Plat.
On the other hand certain of the Conkling
men show great bitterness toward him. be-
cause, as they allege. he has not done
enough they 90 10 far 10 accuse him of
downright treschery. A leader of the Administra-
tion members said to-day that this feeling was 20
strong that he should not be surprised il an attempt
was made TO elect Governor Cornell. 70
zee the Conkling strength thrown against
Cornell. and even for some Administration
nan to hurt Cornell all the moro. Meanwhile Mr..
Conklng's feeling toward the Governor is unknown.
The fsct that General Arthur and John F. Smyth
- hostile to him has long been known, and may
account for this acting against him now. No one
sstrns ready to say that Mr.. Conklng is at all dis
eatisasd with the Governors course The fact
aoabtleS N that he has not been
Wiling to do all the things the desperate
sasn among the Conkiing fraternity wanted him to
q the same time going as far as he could to help
ro friends ont Of tho mire into which their folly
- piungedthem. 1t Is easy to imagine that course
nke this would not satisfy desperate faction. On
=. " Other hand, il is known that his vote would
neve eesn larger to-day IL he had not taken meas
sfss against 1t. and also that II was spontaneous
movement
q Ine feen Who voted for Cornell to-day were all
who felt that his Intermediate position
- tne party nsde him peculiarly available
esndidase upon whom there might be union Notone
tnem was an Administration man, oil were men
a 80 isst january were supporting the Conkline
eapdi6ato for Speaker and the Conkline candidates