New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-22
DEMOCRATIC PRETENCE.
PROFESSION AND PRACTICE AT ALBANY
rpr RECORD OF THE PARTY INCONSISTENT WITH
rur PRESENT ATTITUDE OF The LEADERS
....-,.r. - AN-rI-MnNOpOIISTS


! THEIR CAREER As ANTI-MoNOPoLIsTs.
,.,,,i -,'r prcrrAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TEBUNEl
/ A,p,vy. Nav 2O.-Lately a visitor to the new
o,tol while buving a cigar in one of the corridors
COW that the woman who had charge of the cigar
stand was reading the Arabian Nights Entertain
/ ,,ontp ..Do Won like the book 2" he inquired with
corclcss air As he lighted his cigar. yes she
/ ,hod "but if seems 50 improbable Are the Demo
cratic Senators who in former years acted IN the n-
terest of corporations now sincere in their dccara-
ZION that they feryently desire the passage of
Railroad Commission bill 1t seems s. imprOba-
ble" In those past years nothing would have
pleased them as to bring about the present appar-
emily irreconciable difference of opinion about the
bill.
Their course throughout the session has tended 10
this end Senator Jacobs, their leader, came here
al the beginning Of the session charged with hav
ing been a corporation Senator by the Anti-Mon-
opOlv League. SO effective was that charge that
his usual majority of thousands had shrunk to "A
scant hundred. He was anxious to rehabllitate
himself in the eyes of voters at least so far as an
outward record of votes in the Senate could do So
With great flourish he introduced in the first week
of the session a stringent Railway Commission bill
which is yet asleep on the es, never to be awak-
ened by its author. He then skilfullg manGuv-
cred the band of Regular Democrats that
with The Tammany Senators fomented This
action as is well known, led TO the practical lock-
ing up of the Leg stature for two mOnths-and
the postponement of action on a Railway Commits
son bill.
Finally the Legislature released itself from its
bonds and the Assembly passed Railway Com
mission bill After long debates in the Senate. the
bill was on the point Of passing when Senator
Jacobs suddenly discovered that 1t would be I'M
wise 10 permit the present Republican Governor 10
make the appointment of railway commissioners;
because if the bill should not actually become
law till next year 1t might 50 happen that Demo
cratic Governor would make the appointments.
Accordingly, with the AID Of thirteen Regular
Democrats, he defeated the bill Yet, in company
with his associ ties, he viii doubtless be found on
the stump in the fall loudly boa,tiug of his anti
corporation record.
To disintere.ted Observers here his whole action.
and that of his Democratic associates, throughout
the session. has the apprara CO of plot to defeat
the Railway Commission bill. They have not car
RED out the pledge made AT the Democratic state
Convention held in This city last fall that RAIL
way Commission bill should he passed. On the
other hand all the Republican senator's except
one voted for the bill thereby fulfilling the pledge
made lay the Republican State Convention held at
/ New York.
has been handled in the same rusin,ccrc way 10y the
members of the Democratic majority IN the Legis-
lature 1t wa, in F,buar, thai Two committees en-
powered 10 draw up a plan OF rcapportiOnment were
appointed. Each contained a majority # Demo
Gratis: 80 that The control Of the subject was wholly
/ IN their hands Il may be SAID that The ALLEGED
coalition between the Republicans and the Tam
many Democrats prevented the committees from
dong any work That objection could not be urged
AGAINST the Assembly Reapportionment Committee.
+ .Ich had a majority of Regular Democrats. There
duty was the slightest obstacle 10 their present
iucanapportonmrut bill 10 the Assembly and asking
the far-uuded men of both parties 10 pass IT, That
/ ha, been neglected. Mr.. Shanry. the chairman OF
the committee. over three weeks ago appointed
/ subcommittee to draw up a hill The sub
/ committee has never met. II, chairman, ) Stanley
/ browne has drawn up a blll, but doesn't iNn W
whether or NOT II viii be satisfactory to ms socl-
atrs: ana each OF these associates Is also slowly
/ drawing up Dill. And the Legislature l. 10 al
/ juurn within two weeks. There cOuld not 3D.. any
/ clearer evidence that both the Regular ana Tam
many Democrats never have intended to pass "A re-
/ appor. iOnment ulll thiS session.
The uuIn.,er oI hi Is on The order of third reading
u noth Houses is large, but there are not many OF
great importance. except the Civil Code III the
senate. Assrmblymau Patten has managed 10
>muggte through the Assembly a blI authorizing
the construction OF another hallway bridge across
the Hudson River IL Is a. follows:
Nothing contained IN Chapter 81, Laws OF 1850.
! entitled " An Act To- provide for eNcavd lug AID
/ unucluug aud bridging tor tiauspouaton purposes
/ within villages and clUc~ of tlls >ta'c. sinai be-
/ construed as authorizing the prl Illug oil the Hld-
son River: provided. however. mat aIY COMPANY
heretofore organized requiring bridge To connect
/ portions OF g., road and which has uIcd IL, maps
and piOH.es prior To september 20, ISL, may con-
,truct and CON ,lrie the uuuer tAc supervision
/ of the state engineer and -urNcyOr.
Tie bill OF The Emigration COMMISSIONERS TO
/ exclude immigrants from Castle Garden for
| whom an ADMISSION lee Of nifty cents has
hot been paid uy tAc lore IA steamship companlc>
Is also cine order 0i ,lid reading ia the senate
/ ILe enormous appropriation for thc Brooklyn
Bridge !, Oh the order of tllrd Teailug IN The As
srulhlv Why this b.il l. delayed ~ Il stery. ne
New-i York and Brooklyn Excise uu. is Iu tuc order
| oil tiir.! reading ia tine senate MI >pragucs ~
cl>. bill which The only ono h.ey To- pass, abol-
sniuc he lhrce bed claus Is in Tic order OF
/ tnIri lcadIu5 ia the ASS mb.y.