New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-27
A DEFEAT FOR THE CANAL MEN.
UNABLE TO SECURE ENOUGH VOTES TO PASS
THE IMPROVEMENT BILL.

rNApr,E TO SECURE ENOUGH VOTES TO PASS
THE IMPROVEMENT BILL.
Albany, March 26 Special).-The canal men IN .he
Assembly received today the first serious setback at
they have had at this session. Their dearly chesheu
hil approprating 100000 TO lcngthen the LOCKS Oh
,l,o Erie and the Oswego canals, and to bottom-out
III. Erie Canal suffered defeat 1t was the secohu
s,ac,ol order on the list OF today's bills; and MI
Guenthcr. Of Buffalo, the chairman OF the Canal Com
n,ittec called It up. Mr. Gallagher also OF buhalo
who IL an intense canal man, was the hrst 10 DC ros
pi,cd by the Speaker. lie had carefully prepareu
tvpe.written speech In support Of the bill Inc Dill
80, ,e old story from canal mans side OF IT, OF
CHA, in their minds the canals have done for the state
Mr.. Deyo made the fight against the Dill nc shu
,, ,ho policv of the canal men was ruln0us 10 the
ox,, interests He deprecated the course thaI lheS
,rc,e nur,,,ng I'm coming yearly TO the Legislature
for a largo appropriation for the support Vi t"o ''
ard then right on top OF that pu'ths III 4"
special bin for more money Their oeha"uS "ou."
o,..,a,,v be fatal to the canals, and unless this
,vI,,esl onslaught the Treasury OF the 9'"', ''V
10 All end soon the people would rise up anu "ioU On,
,ho canals altogether. lie moved to recommt inc Oi
40 the Canal Committee for the purpose oil ma"In5 an
amendment that $4,000 OF the &ppiOpIl''4'" -
used in repairing the upper ana lower "oh""h III"
the scboAarc Creek aqneducts, which the S'''e SUPER
iptendent of Public Works and the state Engineer ana
c,rvevor say must be repaired Immediately or Csc
ca, damage will be done to one OF the canals. Ills
,o,iop to recommit the bill was lost b. vote Oh
43 10 SO. - a., - Il,
The handing question was then the final passage oil
.h hin Mr. German wanted a call OF the House.
hr, inasmuch as the previous question had oeeh
o,aenad the speaker on the point raised by Mr. Dey"
so.iesa that a call could not be taken. The canal
men never worked harder that they did to get votes
Arthisb They hurried around the chamber rom mehOet
20 member In hope Of getting enough votes 70 pass tAe
b,u The clerks desk aided them materially seldom
has the roll been gone over more slowly Tran " was
an ibis hill Then when the absentecs were asked for,
,ev we're called with great delibeiation. Near the
end Of the roll the canal men discovered that only
a. votes had been cast for the bill This was four
less than enough TO pass II.
The detailed statement of those who had voted was
,ben asked for SO that additional time would be given
10 rally the men again. The list was again gone
,rrouqb with painful sIowness and deliberstiOn. la
soe OF the canal mems efforts they could not scare
-, any more votes and they were made decidedly
angry when Mr.. Ryan changed his vote to the
NEGATIVE The result go TO az Here is the vote
In the afHrmativc-Messrs. Aspinall. Blumenthai,
nrods,y. Byrne, Byrnes. Cahill. Cameron, Clarke.
Co,,.llv Cooney Croak. Demarest Dempsey, Dennis
tor Dickinson, Dinkelsplel Drypoichcr, Duffy. Dwyer
Endres Farouhar Foley, Gallagher German, Green
enenfher C;uibord, Hit, Holcomb, Hustled. Alder,
Iohnson Judd, Kelly Kcrriesn, LHommcdieu. Martin
Mcbride, McNiahon Norris. O'Connor Osborne Painer
nassHs ngtglsy. Rilsy, Roche schsap seleex shslda