New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-09
OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS.
CHAIRMAN BLISS RESTORES HARMONY.
WOMEN MAY VOTE ONE OF TRrsE DASs-oLD 10
s,,vs ~ rur srATR SENATE.

WOMEN MAY VOTE ONE OF THrsE pAss-oiD 40
SUES IN THE srATE SENATE.
(yRoM THE REGULAR coRREsr'srxsf Nv III" .
AIBaSr March s.-The advice OF cornehus NJ
Bliss, chairman OF the Republican s's'e 'on'",..o
to tho Republican senators, that they shoui" uoio.
.ct,on u,on the matters which they arc not agrcco
and GEO II they cannot harmonizc their dnerences VIZ
fo,lowcd to-day Senator Nct'der uiu not pioSs lne
consideration OF his bin for tho appointment OF Coo
~, ~ II Grant. Edward Kcarney and Dcnais f.
Rurse rs Quarantine Commissioners IL was spo-
cIal order but senator Ncddcr made pretext OF the
of senator Arnold TO push the consideration
ovor mill Monday next. IL the bill had been de-
hated there was prospect of some Of tho KepubhcAn
Senators opposing It,
put the Republican senators having loaded their
cannon OF course mad to fire the and they hird 'hem
Mt the Democrats Oddly enough tho bill which gave
them an excuse for thus bombaiding the common po-
liticai cncmy one to give gentle woman tue rs"
"a vote in tho cities of the State This measure WAS
introduced BY Senator Coggcshal who dch'cieu a
speech radiant with rhetorical fireworks In us pchaii
Senator Low asked Senator Coggeshan TO accept an
amendment limiting the right Of suffrage to women
who are taxpayers In the cities
Senator Raines said that II men who are not lax
payers can vote, women who are not taxpayers
should also DO given the same privilcso-h women
taxpayers arc authorized to vote.
Senator Coggcshall declined to accept the amend
mont.
-wiu you not exempt New York City from the pro
visions Of this bill ~ Inquired Senator Cantor
NO. do not think cam replied Senator Cosses-
hall
well i move that all the cities of the state OK
ceps Utica (ncar which Senator Coggesha Hives, shall
be excluded from tho provisions OF this BILL, SAID
Senator llnson (Dem)
Il hope the amendment will DO rejected SAID
Senator Murphy for II this bill becomes law wo
Democrats will have 10000 majority below Aarcm
Rr.dgr in the city OF New York.
senator Coggeshall sfoutiy opposed The amend
mcni and induced the Senate to eject 1T. ,
Then Senator Iinson said that the Rcpubicans al
had given the right of suffrage to negroes in order to
all the United States Senate with carpet bag Son
atois aud then had stolen everything from tho Pres
deney downward"
This aroused Senator ycdder, who sent for the
records Of tho Legislature of 1879 and 1873 aud
showed that David Il. Hill, then Democratic AS.
semby man from Chemung County, had voted against
the Constitutional Amendment conferrng the right OF
suffrage upon cOlOrcd mon. Senator Fedder then
eulogi1ed that action of tho Republican party.
Senator Reilly (Dcm.) accused tho Republicans 81
having neglected to pass bill for census In this
Why Governor Hill twice vetoed such q bin," in
terrpied Senator Fasscti no then In reply TO SEN
stor I.nson, said: "Why the democrats had stolen
every hing portable In Washington whom Abraham
Lincoln came into power in 1861. There was not .
in the Treasury But when the Republicans lcit
Office after twenty four years they had large sur
Republicans return TO power they will find an empty
Treasury"
third reading.