New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-23
SIXTEEN ALDERMEN UNITE
THEY ALL VOTE TOGETHER ON CERTAIN
MEASURES.
THEY SEND THE APPLICATION FOR AN EAST
RIVER TUNNEL AND BoB-TAIL CAR
CASE TO QUEER COMMITTEES
GENERAL STONES VIEW


RIVER TUNNEL AND A DoBTAIL CAR
CASE TO QUEER COMMITTEES
GENERAL STONES VIEW
OF THE AFFAIR.
An effort TO ovIvc the project of granting to the
NewYork and Long Island Railroad Company the
franchise TO tunnel the East River met with remark
able series OF vcisstudes in the Board of Aldermen
yesterday. n. J. Barry presented petition renewing
the application for the tuunel which IS substantially
The made last year. and he moved that all
the papers, plans and communications which are con-
nected Herewith be placed before the Board or the
proper committee Mr.. Barry's motion was lost-16
to 0-and Mr. Sullivan moved to refer the petition 10 the
Committee on Docks. Mr. Fltzsimons opposed the
motion. He thought 1t would be Just as appropriate
TO refer IL TO the Lamps and Gas Committee or the
Committee on Markets, or on Street Cleaning IL
belonged either to the Committee on Bridges and Tun
ncls nothing Mr. Gregory supported Mr. Fitz-
imonss Views and moved to refer the application to
the Committee on Bridges and Tunnels while President
Arnold remarked that this certainly the proper
committee Tho presidents suggestion fell unheeded
the ears of the sixteen Aldermen who had beaten
the first motion and they again voted in solid phaanx
defeating Mr. Gregory's motion. When the question
REQUIRED upon Mr.. sullvan's motion TO refer to tho
Committee on Docks, the combination again hung
yallantly together and adopted It. The united six
teen were Aldermen David Barry Butler CarIIn
Clancy, Cowie Diver, Dowd, Flynn, Glllgan, Goetz
Hammond Rapp, RInckhof, sullivan, TAFT and Walker
nine Tanmany men, five Republicans and two County
Democrats
On the last vote which decided the reference Of the
petition to the Committee on Decks Mr. Hammond did
not record HIS vote with the sixteen although he had
voted with them on all tho preliminary motions. On
two other important occasions yesterday, when a
struggle was made 10 refer the boba7 car ordinances
requiring the employment Of conductors to the Rail-
road Committee, instead OF 10 that upon Streets as
was decided, AIr. Hammond voted against the combln
alton and in favor Of referring 10 the Railroads Com
mitee. It believed, therefore, that 1t would bo
doing Mr. Hammond injustice TO class him per-
manently upon the combination side Of the chamber
Tho Docks Committee is composed of Messrs. Walker
Rinckhof, Butler TAFT and GoetE. The Committee
on Streets has for its members Messrs. Flynn sul-
van, Mnehhof, Rapp and Morris. Both committees
Il will be observed, contain majority Of those whose
course the tunnel and railroad cases attracted par
tlcular attention, and II pointed out that ma
iory were members OF the coterle in the last Board
which opposed tho Fourthave. electric motor project
and were found voting against other plans for I'M
proyement There was great deal Of talk yesterday
both within and outside Of the City Hall about the
possibility Of combines for boodeH and Il was ireey
predicted that this going TO be great year for
Aldermen capable Of apprecatng how their bread
buttercd.
General Roy Stone, the president OF tho New-York
and Long Island Railroad Company, said last even
ing that he not surprised at the peculiar action
Of the Board Of Aldermen In referring the petition to
the Committee on Docks, although he had 10 con-
fcss astonshment at tho adverse votes Of some
Of the members He referred, he sad particularly to
several Of the Tammany members and to three Of
the Republicans.
~The sending OF the application to the COMMITTEES on
Docks,7 said tho General, @wss the as bury
ing It, with the intimaiion that It shall not be
rcsurrected until the terms Of those op
posed to the measure have been COM
piled with. ! was sppnscd OF this intention
week ago, 20. was not prepared for such bald
and barefaced way Of letting Il be known expected
tho fairness Of reference to tho Committee on Rail-
roads, where we were sure OF consIderato hearing at
least But the composition OF the Docks Committee
forbids the hope Of reasonable treatment cannot
fail tc observe that tho majority Of the Aldermen
who are opposing our project arc tho same men who
acted as obstructionists as regards this and other
measures for the public benefit in the last Board.
The propositions made last year were unmstakable.
A said In so many words Il control such
number Of votes IN tho Board. You can't get your
franchise without them. They are absolutely essen
tlal to you. Whom am TO see TO make the arrange
mentsf' They were informed that We would not pay
one cent, and our petition was buried. The burying
process Is now tho first move, and past experience
leaves us 10 infer what Is expected. But VIC are as
lmmovabo on that subject as wo were last year
Not one cent viii bo PAID wha'evor may DO inc r
suit.
al am far nom believing that the Tammany
leaders approve this way Of doing business. On
tho contrary have the best Of reasons for knowing
that IL not only does not meet with the sanction OF
tho heads Of tho organization, but that they do not
mean TO permit the disgrace Of repetition OF last
years tactics for which they were not then responsible
believe that those who control tho organization and
tho city government determined upon thoroughly
honest administration, and that tho persons whose
action tends to cast suspicion upon them VIII hnd
themselves in unpleasant position AS it Is we
can only 20 forward and continue the presentation
of our case the best we may. II the permission 60
build tho tunnel given Without delay we could
have n completed In Fifteen months Public senu
mont is unqiestiOnaby With us Among the papers
which the Aldermen to-day refused 70 be taken nom
tho file and placed before them ape the signatures or
nearly 600 scd eltireus asking that the tunnel DC
eonsir,,cted M Is no wonder that demand should
ro nm to Albany for the abolition Of the Board of
Aldermen when such scenes bo enacted there as
were witnessed In IL to-day"