New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-22
AN END TO FILIBUsTERING.
TIE DrLAToRY SCHEMES OF HILL. JONES
AND GRADY 10 BE FRUSTRATED.

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THE DrLAToRY SCHEMES OF HILL, JONES
AND GRADY 10 BE FRUSTRATED.
rH,s NEW RULES OF THE SENATE WILL PREVENT
: pwMoCRATIo DELAY :. ON WITH REFORM
LEGISLATION THE REPUBLICAN WATCH.
woRD-MANY CHANGES IN THE
RAPID TRANSIT MEASURE
THE FAssETT PRISON BILL.
,v,ox rHt REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE rRBusE1
Albany, April Ex-Governor Hin and his two will
49, servants, the LieutenantGovernor and Senator
GRADY. made remarkably poor reckoning when they
ss,red that brute endurance, bundozng and lawiess
80 could check the progress Of legislation. All
,hr,e were used on last Friday, but the Republican
,cr,ty ruanf,lly and courageously chung together,
"a voted down motion after motion to adjourn, and
800 the Senate 10 session until the clerks desk
,sared Nothing but the coming In Of Sunday morn
tho would have caused an adjournment had not the
y,srsocrats broken away from the rule and whip of
rIm Grady and Jones and promised 10 quit illbuster
A.. and 60 10 work Il the Republicans would agree
% an Adjournment Hereafter, however, the Demo
s.s are likely 10 gain httc consideration from the
penutaioans. Throughout the entire session they
s.ys heeu treated with the utmost fairness, but
.hsv have shown their utter inaoiIty 70 appreciate
a. ana Willingly entered scheme, laid out by the
cmerrfor and Grady, to stop inc "neeis Oh iegisiar
ton ,o,v.-.r =. rr.rsD,.a
a." .,.ress m the Senate rules, which have been
-, dina under consideration by the Republicans.
sr,.ndmsuts to the rules are now made neoes-
go since the Democratic leader Grady.
h.s declared that he VIII prevent the
,..saso of the Excise Commission and the
Electoral Reform bills If 10 is possible for him
a. 40 40. Therefore the rules will be amended SO
a., the preyious question be called for at any
Avs and the time Of speaking on any subject limited
% eya minutes at least Other changes will be made
With reference to the powers of the LeutenantGov-
snor. Under the administration Of an ordinarily
ta,rminded honest man there would be no necessity
A making any notifications to the rules, but Lieu
1000 Governor Jones has shown suoh an utter dis.
,soard for common deceDcy and fair play that there
4. mn other recourse but 70 limit his powers as far
a. consistent and compel him to observe some OF the
r,es which he elected to enforce Mr.. Jones has
harmed all his parliamentary knowledge In three
sessions Of the Senate and when he came to Albany
assr sccepting the nomination for Leuten Gov
amor. which Roswell P. Flower cast aside.
IA knew about as much Of parliamentary
,au as schoolboy. His work of last
xeak showed that he is either stupidity ignorant or
tlfnIy vicious, and the lister seems &c DO nearer
the correct condition for one accuses him OF lacking
intelligence.
II the Rapid Transit bill is beaten It viii DO the
fsut alone Of Democrats, who have used It TO keep
from the Governor reform legislation which is as much
desired under the existing state of things as is rapid
transit In New-York OF these measures the principal
ones are the Excise Commission bill and the saxton
Electoral Reform BILL both OF which will DO reported
to morrow night, from the committees in which they
have been considered The Democrats will mako
s fight TO prevent this but their efforts will be use
less and need be everything else will be allowed to
give way for these That Is the plan now
on foot
One result Of the Democratic attempt to beat the
Excise Commission bin and the Electoral Reform bill
has been to bring together all the Republican members
of the Senate for these two important bills. They
have clearly seen that the Governor has given orders
to keep these bills from him IL is possible thing.
and thu Democrats apparently willing TO make all
SORTS Of sacrifices to obey HIS orders. On the other
hand, the Republicans have declared that they VIII
stay here until next fall to pass these bills
while the discussion on the Rapid Transit Dill
has been going on, the Fassett Prison bin has not
been lost sight Of week ago The Tribune pointed
out the many advantages which the system pro-
vde for under this bill has over the Yates law, ana
majority Of the members Of the Legislature now seem
disposed to pass this bill 1t viii probably 90 through
the senate this week and reach the Assembly before
Fa,saav A canvass OF the leading members Of both
houses shows that the bill win not have the opposi-
ton hat Is looked sr. The serious condition of the
oouycts 50 prisons and penetentaries has oy this
time become fairly well known, and there are few
who would be willing to take the step backward that
the Yates Law makes necessary.
Tina Rapid Transit bill as 1t IS now in the Senate
has been changed considerably from the condition
nat IT was In when the Corporation Counsel, Mr..
Beekman, first put 1t into Senator Ives's and Mr..
Crosbys hands. The first Important change places the
responsibility Of granting the franchise for the read
suualy with the Mayors Rapid Transit Commissioners
and tho Sinking Fund Commissioners, and the franchise
Is not to DO given over unless oy
uaIorfy vote Of these two Doarus
Again, the phrase which allowed the Sinking Fund
Commissioners TO reject any and all bids for In
suficienoy Of amount, for any other cause.' has
besu so modified that the commissioners win not have
this great amount of power, which they would other
xtse possess. Then Broadway can DO used for an
arcade road only, and tho company building the road
cannot mako It half elevated and half surface, but
Il ponst be entirely one or the other. These amend
,nents besides number Of less important ones, were
made by Senator Fassett, who has given much caro-
and study TO the measure Senator Vedder put In Two
amendments which m0dty somewhat the Dill one
of these preyens the existence Of more than one set OK
Mayor,s commissioners at one time, and the other
makes the lowest rate Of fare to be charged the con-
sdersticn IA bidding for the franchise rather than
the amount Of money paid to the city for i'd Sem
stor Laaghin, Of Buffalo. has put in an Amendments
which authorizes the commissioners to consider some
other means Of motive power than steam. whlcn was
tho Only power considered in the bill senator rIece
act in his cable railway amendments, reconVeniuB
the cable commissioners and bringing back 70 LILO
the cable company. IN
AZ 80 comes from the printers tomorrow night Plenty
Of time Will be given to study them, and ID learn
lust what the measure In It's amended shape really
provides, before It Is allowed TO pass and 10 to tho
Assembly
CANDIDATES FOR THE NEXT SENATE.