New-York tribune., 1890-05-02
Is 1T THE DYNAMO AGAIN I?
RUSHING THROUGH THE BILL TO ABOLISH
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
THE ASSEMBLY PASSES THE CURTIS BILL IN
UNSEEMLY HASTE-MI. sAXToN'S GREAT
HURRY-LooKING FOR THE AFRICAN
IN THE WOOD.PILE.
,BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TElDUNE.1

| IN THE WOOD.PILE.
| tBY TELEGRAPH THE TKIDUSE.1
Albany MAY Are there ANY bounds to
'Ac amDitlon OF the Westinghouse Electric LSht Com
pany And in what way can the state OF Ncw-York
atone Tor It's choice of Westinghouse dynamo t. take
tnc lie OF kcnmler and other convicted murdcrcrs
one Is forced fairly to ask these questions in view Of
the success Of the Electric Light Company in
riding the will Of the State OF NewYork by using the
,l'eu states Courts to pr0ong kcnG!crs forfeited
NE The company for months sought 10 prove the
Electrical Execution law unconstitutional. Defeated
by the decision OF the Court Of Appc~ OF this
,hch obtained the aid OF Judge Wallace. of the United
states District Court, to save the mIrfcrcrs life
rather 70 prevent the OF the clcctrcal execution
apparatus. But IL seems that the company, re
sources are not yet exhausted Now, il Is andaciousy
seeming to abolish capital punishment Itself in the
STATE OF New York. This afternoon thr Assembly,
pdlpably under its influence passed by a large vote
'hc Oil OF Mr. Curtis, Of st. Lawrence County abol-
lshinG capital punishment The bill. If possible. is
To- be rushed through the Senate next week All the
arrangements have been made already for hearing
Oh the bill before the senate Judiciary Committee.
Is IL possible that The state Senate occupied II
will be week constantly with work IN prcpar,tlon
Tor the adjournment Of the legislature will 10 pro
ho'Vl'c judgment hastily a bill OF such vast i'm
porancc! The bin cannot be SlId tuthfully t. have
been considered By the Assembly al least II wa, not
debated General Curtis It's author upon It's sec md
reading. read speech Of hours duration in ts
favor, but, usual on occasion, OF long speeches,
nearly all the Assent lymcn went ont
into the smoking room while IL wa, being delivered
NO one then thought that Mr. Cuiti, seriously thought
Of passing the bill. and therefore no one paid any
attention To the speech or commented upon it ~ a
!ohc and without any scrlou, intent Tie Assembly
consented to the bill being ordered to "A third reading
fc'pIc were little astonl,hcd, however. when Tho
Albany Argus and The Albany Express surrendered
four columns Of their highly valuable space to YER
balln report OF General Curti,s speech. and 1t began
TO b. whispered about that the Westinghouse Electric
Light Company was behind the bill These suspicious
General Curt, pronounced to be- groundc.s He hi..
self had procured the publication of hi, speech In tho
newspapers referred To by promising to take a Ger.
tain number Of copies Of those papers. A. for tho
bill t-cf. he had introduced it for several year, pre-
Vously, and II was only strange coincidence that
the period when he pushed it happened bc directly
after the Court Of Appeal, declared the Electrical
Execution hw constitutional. He knew no,hns
about tho Westinghouse people pushing the
bill. People came to the opinion thas
at least the Westinghouse Company had
decided that the Curtis available for r., pur
pose and WI, giving General Curl, it, powerful aid
n his apparently humanitarian aim. Mr. Ill't. Of
Albany. also developed sentimental interest in tho
bill, and he Impressed vl.h the rhetorical
beauty of General Curtis speech. that upon his
uincnis % tie year
This afternoon. when the Assembly WI, bu,ly en-
raged In the other work, General Cnts suddenly
called up his bill. and Mr. HIT Of Albany made a
fcrvcnt speech In 1t, favor The Assembly listened
with anguid Interest apparently. No one would have
drc1mcd that behind this appearance Il pa,slyi'y there
wa rc,oluc ard wide awake purpose 10 vote for tho
bll
"I trust that this lln viii pa,,." said Mr. mt
because think that capital punishment ought to le
abolished. Humanity calls for and scVolt,d as
executions. au gad 10 Say that at present tlcro !
arr only t"o cls,es Of Tie community who yet favor
-apith punishment aud thee ar ccr-ymcn aud
prosecuting attorneys. have had large experience
in deirn!ms mur!crcr' and have come To tho /
capital punishment should bee abolished
80 replied io tli speech the opponents Of the
hill apparcN' not th.nhIns it would pa. Iut Mr. /
A-,omblymcn. and the vote for the h steadily rolled
En- sad IN IL support that tncre ,oald be- no stronger
argument nj favor of The abolition II capital punish /
ucnt than ihc articles pabii,,i ly thc ncvspapc. 10
thc kcmmler ca,e. Can those publication, ha'o /
ho.n of any bcn"nt'' Lc a,h"i.
Mr.. hnmcnusl 'ad tiat D." hd been IN doabi /
how 70 vol" ~ thc bi!l but have at a,t concluded /
mat the worst u,e 10 which You can put man b, to
Lill him. and shall therefor toi" yea.
Nr GARDENER said D" hyord capital punishment /
a, a deterrent. ana would thefci9o' 'oi" AKA - H.
These were all the spccchc, that were made ON |
the bll from first To last. II VIII Dee seen that
practically the merits ot the measure werc not debated
four vote, In favor ~ the bll and twenty nine vote,
o 'ain,t It. The vote IN detail WI, follows:
Yca,-Mc.sr- Abbey. barton Bianchn.d numcnual
Royce. bradford. Brady J. Irving Buru- W 81. Burns.
I'yrn" Cbllc. clarke Cooney Coon,. Cornell Courtney.
faHfod Currcr CuItls DAVIS. Decker y uI-ey. Iudc..
Fish, Fltts Gibbs. Greene Gfrt,ng.r, Ggoat. Gubord.
Iiarncr Harwood. Henderson. Ifiu. Huston. ALBERT
Johnson. II. {. Johnson, ]. sam John-on. X. =
Johnson, Jones. Krlly. Krrlgan. XII. Klmhal.
kurth, Laruon. Leroy, L'IIomincdieu. Martin Men
u'necr. Miller Mitchell. Mott. MuIancy. %olan. j. J.
% Common. j. X. OConnor. O1ar" Per-on. Rhodes. E-,
>awmiler shelter. sohn.or J. H. Steven, S-on stevens,
william &. stevens sullivan. Thompson. TompAin' Town
send. Tgcaiway. Webster and Whipplc-7L
Na's- Mo-,r, Achcr Adams. Bennett. B'ids's George
II. Bush. Thomas T. Bynes, Connolly. Dickinson. Duhy
afdener, IIoag. King. o. r. Lane, Il; j. Lewis Mi7'
'icBrdc. Monaghan. Page rcalcr Pcar-al Peck, sage
,'lock Shechsn. shields Stewart. Van Ianhen, Wills
md W,slg- -
When the bi announced in the senate To- "lEnt
. be at once ordered tD third reading II ], Iouo,
ul II senator SlNton before n his legislative
'II "t TINS gravity. II wa, obvious lNit 'W "''
lcrdcf the protection 81 his honOiabl" name IT j..
nN thit lie should nave Rrhni'd H.. HI..' "'' of MI,
i"uIh nave h%I'i what an A''rIhhlN UHin w, ~ -, ~
aractcr said when Clerk ChichcrnS annon'd IN & r,e
\sscmbly hi, afternoon that the III had p' ''c AS
iou,e Electric Light Company" -. ...,,,, -. =,
'aid objected t9 the adoption Of senator SlAo' @ @o
ion that the BIN bc ordered 10 lhId ruins' at; a'
ri,on the chairman Of that committee. said tm.
afternoon rather favor the bill for the abolition 81
lat senator Robertson had ALREADY been told that the
ill would be sent to his committee senator saNt2n
motion in favor ordering the bill 70 thir reading
hows III, attitude to"ar IT, II had ,c'ry aIf'S Gon T,n
ntcc shOnld give hearing on the hil ucNt luc9diN
APpafh% & h casnrc @", m Gc Sdnn a % M the Lcg
-alurr of New York act in this hasty and lnron'd
rate manner on hi, bill Of such unusual imponancc
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