The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-09


Measuro AFTER the scnnte's ThinibieriE-
rinE-Fnssett's Committee SHOULD Inves-
IlEate tho Bridge Management.
ALBANY, May s.-The Bridge Reform bill
IA dead. II misery loves company. Senators
pirkett and MoCarern may take comfort by
reading the list OF forty-nlne Assembymen
given below and find company for themselves
In sharing the condemnation OF New York and
Brooklyn bridge users, and, indeed, OF oil OF
the denizens of the twin cities. Yet they are
not equal sharers. The whole forty nine arc
no more TO blame for the defeat OF the peoples
will than are the two Senators. for It
was largely on account Of what Mr.. Connolly
called the "thimble- rigging" that had been
done with the measure that some well-mean-
ing men like himself voted against it. The
others wero partly OF tho Needless class OF In
competent legislators, and partly the partisans
Of both sides whose love Of patronage or the
fear Of losing il dictated their votes against
the bill.
1t was only after two days Of effort that Mr.
Andrus. Chairman Of the Cities Committee got
Rchance this afternoon to report some prlvi-
legged bills. Among them was the Jacobs
Bridge bill. relieved OF the burdens Birketted
upon 1t In the Juggling Senate Committee. 1t
WAS now measure for improvement and re-
form. The cumbrous Board OF Trustees was
reduced to six. one appointed by each
Mayor and tho others eX-ofcio Nom bers,
the Mayor and Comptroller OF the two cities.
The experts 10 decide tho question OF
improving terminal facilities were a board OF
four two TO be appointed by the Mayor Of each
city, and no chief engineer Of the bridge to be
included. A majority vote o! this Board Of
Experts was to be binding. All OF these pro-
visions and those about the land to be taken
we're the ones agreed upon with the property
owners and supported by Mayor Chaplin
and CORPORATION Counsel jerks; and there
WAS no elevated railroad Joker in
1t either Republican Leader Fish. to whom
this bugaboo appealed the day before with
terrifying effect. was sure OF this. He moved
that the Assembly 20 into Committee OF the
Whole on tho bill, and explained all this In
favor of the bill rs we'll as the fact that the bill
was acceptable 10 tho Corporation Counsel OF
the city OF New Io,k.
Even tho assurance that the, authorities Of
both cities were In nvor Of the bill seemed to
fail on leaf ears. The astute Sullivan inter-
rupted Mr.; Fish to INQUIRE whether the loop
hsd been & # q III the S
Yet Mr.. Connolly was not satisfied, He thought
because he could not understand the bill that
said was about the thimble- rigging that the
bill had alreaty suffered. He shook his fists:
grew wild cd and red-faced' and got himself
Mr.. Mcfernan OF Brooklyn made terse but
showing how it met the approval of the officers
and PEOPLE Of both cities. The moving cause
M us ne bLggs the d1
cow carried on and he pictured eloauenty tho
ianger 10 human lite that exists, under the
stand how, any ono who heard Mr.. McTernan's
speech. which was continued until oil OF the
could not SEQ the excellence Of the measure
s and its remedial promises but Mr. King cyl,
B1ooklyn's Representatives. showing more
about the bill than those from New York. he
gTese h"f AK eavs te s fs sgsn
an. adverse Senate to be won over and
f the dsa Of the ETC., ME- s
made another effort when this had been car
hs SE the rbse 81
i Hj' resembled Mr.: Con@oys. except tia.
Wa nbou moved to table ths motion ton
carried. This WAS the vote:
YKis-BlAnchneld bradford. Brady. j. Irving, Burns
". G. Byrnes Thomas p ByrneA Clark, Connolly.
Cooney, Cornell kCrawford Duffy. EndreS Everett
HoaE Albert Johnson Jones, Kelly, KerrRGn- kmball,
King. LArmOn b. b. Lewis, Il. J. LeuiS Martin Nc
BRIDE Miller Mitchell Mott Nolan J. J. o Connor J.
t. O'Connor oIIare. Peck, PiersOn, Riley Saunders
schaH. Sches, sohmer, Stein. j. II. stevenS Stewart
Sullivan. suzer Webster and WilIis-4H
Nns--Abbey AcEner. Audrus, BAllGntine, Bumen
thai, Boyce, Bridges Robert Bush, Christie, Coons
Currier, CurtS Davis. Decker, Dempsey. Deyo Dinke
spiel Fish GARDENER. Gibbs Greene Gretsinger, Groat
5. Lane, McTernAn. Mouahan Nixon, PearsAl Rhodes.
Rice Sellck sheehan, Shelter Nelson Stevens, stranA
han, Towne, Trcadway Weed, and whne-44
The Brooklyn mon who voted against the I'M
provcment Of the bridge are Mcbride. Cooney
OConnOr. Kelly. Shields. Schali. Banchteld
and Bvrnes. ali Democrats. The Brooklyn
The protection and comfort OF the people, were
McTernan; q Democrat, and Gretsinger. |
Weed, and kurth, Republicans. The New
Workers who voted against the bill were |
Duffy. Sullivan, Brady. Martin Sohmer, Sulzer. |
Hafiner Byrne kerrlgan, O'Hare. Connolly. |
Stern, Webster. and Clarke, Democrats. and |
King, Hoag. and Lewis. republicans. The New |
Workers. who voted for Improvement and |
against the fatal tabling of the bill were:
Monaghan, Dlnkospiel, and Blumenthal.
Mnlaney, MenninRer, and Wissig did not vote.
The failure of the repaired and I'm; Birketted
bill in tho Assembly was only n little quicker
death for the measure than would have fol-
owed favorable action by the Lower House.
The Senate would not have ooncurred in the
Assem- bly, amendments. 1t has become known
tonight that by the misrepresentation that tho
people OF Brooklyn were In favor of the reten-
lion Of tho od-fogy Board OF Trustees Birkett
got the Senate Republican caucus to resolve
last night TO take his Wow OF the question.
There were some Senators. however. like Mr.
OC"n1or, who dssented from this action
almost as strenuously as they did In the Collins