New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-15
DEMOCRATIC OBSTRUCTION IN THE SENATE.
WASTING TINE IN TRYING TO BLOCK USEFUL
LEG1sLAT1oy-THE COMMITTEE on TAX.
ALTON AUTHORIZED TO TAKE TEsTI.
MoNY AT DIFFERENT PLACES.


ALTON AUTHORIZED TO TAKE TEsTI-
MoNY AT DIFFERENT PLACES.
albany Jan. II (speciaD.-An hour and a half OF
the peoples time deliberately wasted In the Sen
ate this morning by the Democratic obstructonistS.
whose sole object at this session Is to block useful
legislation. The opportunity arose when Senator We'd
der who has accomplished 50 much as tax ~former'
presented business like resolution, authorizing the
committee on Taxation and Retrenchment IN sit and
hear testimony in different places during the present
session and to employ counsel and stenographcrs at
So day. 4 similar resolution has been presented at
previous sessions and has invariably been passed after
SLIGHT opposition. But this time Mr.. Ives Of Pool
BIZ fame was selected to offer objections. and he dd
GO with a persistence that he afterward regretted
VIII the gentleman explain the object OF this mo
TONI he asked. insinuatingly, when the clerk had
read it.
Its object" replied Senator Vedder. "is to dis
cover now sources Of taxation
"And is it intended to act upon II at onoef"
at is"
"Then l move that 1t be laid on the table,
"Wby are Won 50 unreasOnable?' asked Senator
Erwin lnterposing. GAS reform senate let us start
of with this motion, for the committee is an excellent
one and has done useful work and has Just been
copied in the Assembly.
.. / know of great good the committee has ever
DONE retortcd Mr.. Ives, dsdainfully. " Besides
the new Senators should have time to examine INTO
this notion
]
ait Is proper to pass it now. Anybody mentally
qualified to sit here knows, ought to know, that
you can't begin an investigation in five minutes. As
TO its usefulness, taxation laws passed during the
last fifty years have been so beneficial a. thOse
passed through influence during the last five years
see what Democrats themselves are doing. When the
last Collateral Inheritance bill passed had
positively 10 lombard the Executive TO get 1t sncdahd
the true of the bill taxing corporations
Yet in his last message the Governor not only recon-
mends the Collateral Inheritance ill., bat advises that
Its scope be enlarged it is in the bill introduced
last night, which, by the way, drawn before the
message was written. The committee is committee
of work. so far it las not the state 81 900
year"
Isn't it true cried Senator Cantor seized with
sudden inspiration, that the committee already has
power to summon persons before 1t and send for
papers, exactly the same as the Committee on Cities,
for Instance? ~
No. The Committee Cities summons persons
who, as a rule are only too willing 10 appear. But
the witnesses required by our committee generally
reluctant to face invest CATION and do their best
The credit for tine Collateral inheritance bill
remarked Mr. MCtrrcn; soi1iy' bei'ns, to Mr.. \. G..
Chaplin. lie originated IT, senator Nelder. how
ever. denied this mputaton, AID declared that hc
had drawn the iii lIm,cI! nearly year before Mr..
ChaDln evcr smoke Of il. hen senator Brown, for
tie sake OF appearance. also attempted gcnt, pro
solerny Object t. these pcrambustng committee.
"Thcy do aid NJ Ives returning to the charce.
during the summer like tine Committee on Tiusts'
Tie Committee on Trust, - echoed senator Neddcr.
In adjustment. Why. the gentleman was on that
committee himself. lie voted for It's continuance.
lcre Mr.. Ives flushed and began 10 look sheeplsh.l
lie voted 10 entail expense OF $40 or 10 a gay
on The people, and the Governor ye'oei n ipr rG
payment OF his attorney. The only ATTORNEY VINO Ep'
his pay Roger A. Pryor. that fine Hover Oh thc
good Old days OF Democracy And yet inc. sent
comes here IN squcriGng as an ecOnoW 81, lhtV
committee ought 10 have died the death OF inc uli
righteous long before The gentlemans attorney oe1"
We'll. the .'c eonmi:tcc DESTROYED the sugar Trust
anyhow" began Mr.. Ives. weakly. But he soon 81
down. and the motion to lay on INC taIie WIS cg
feated by seven votes, after Mr.. Ncdder had VOuch
safed the additional information that his own cApe
10 tho state far had been eXactly fl4; ana ul,'
Senator Cantor mad Acknowledged tdt inc c"'"''
tee has done considerable good work. .,.-....
NJ Vedder's motion was then adopted Dy tilt t,
votes. having been modified so a. 10 preclude "u'i"S
TO attorney. - -. -.
Senator Linson, Governor HIPS most rusty hehNHh
man, called a caucus OF Democratic Senators III INC
Lieutenant Governors room TINS morning 10 tahe
ecton with regard TO the minority representation Oh