New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-07
A RECORD HILL is PROUD OF.
MADE BY THE DEMOCRATIC ASSEMBLY AT
Albany LAST WINTER.
GAGLAw, DEFIANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION. AND
CALL FOR FREE SILVER.

CALL FOR FREE SlLNEh'
Albany. Oct. e.-Governor-senator Hill points with
PRIDE what he is pleased TO term the record OIL uo
Democratic Assembly OF the last session. lie docs us
mainly when he attempts to stea' from the hcpuon0"
senators the credit for the greatly reduced taxate
The Govcrnor-Senator also declares that his heart
warns to the Irish boy" who Speaker OF the same
Democratic Assembly This being true, he must
naturally indorse his when. as Charles r. NC
Clelland the Democratic leader OF the Denocrd"o 40
semby said, lie left the chair TO get some one Csc
To do his dirty work" Again, too, Mr. Hill must up
hoid seeban IN his defiance OF the Constitution ana ms
intended msconstructon Of Assembly rule 10 pro
vent to the Roman Catholic clergy of the STATE inc
constitutional right Of petition Furthermore' Wv
ernor-senator who will stand back and see msorlues III
eight or ten counties set aside for minotes because
temporary political advantage is TO BIO gained or num-
must support sAeeha's work passing VIGOROUSLY
had appropriation bill By illega. vote Ihen' IL inc
Governor supports Sheehan in these tmneS nc niuSV
likewise uphold him and the other Democratic meuipci'
Of the Assembly for their votes in favor oi INC eo
coinage OF silver. Every Democratic memoer OIL ue
Assembly from Speaker Sheehan down who was preSeh.
in Tho Assembly ON the nlsht of February last voted
On favor of free silver as records OF the Assembly,
which were kept by Democratic clerk and assistants
will show.
1t was at the time of the silver fight In WasnnHloi'
when the Eastern Democrats pretended 10 DC oppoeeu
to fee coinage, and when Mr. Flower, alter inuCh
tackled ON free silver rider to measure. that ham
llton Fish IT,, of Putnam County, INTRODUCED In the
Assembly the following resolution;
Resolved III the senate concur, That the Senators
ana members of Congress from this etate DC reduIeu
10 against the measure known as the nee coi"s0
of silver bill.
Speaker Sheehan was In the chair and while MI.
Fish was speaking to his motion to adopt the res
olution word sent to the Democratic leader 10
rise to debate the adoption Of the resolution Uhoer
he 4 nXrop fOra at leaS
After Mr.. Fish had concluded speaking McCleE
land did as he had been ordered TO do by the Speaker
and it prevented the immediate adoption OF the eSo
luton. On the following Monday night Mr. tlsh de-
termined have test vote on the question: anu W
put the Democratic Assembly on record for OF agsC
free silver. He therefore moved during the evening
the adoption of his resolution The Speaker and Nc
Celland evidently had come to understanding with
the GovernorSenatOr TO the course 10 be pursued
McCclland was his feet waiting for Mr. FISH 10
finish speaking. The Democratic leader Immediately
moved that the resolution be referred to the Ways ana
Means Committee. This is his own committee ana
he took that way of slowly strangling the antfree
silver resolution. instead Of openly killing it on
the floor of the House. To be at all
effective, it was necessary that the resolution
be passed at once
An attempt was made to send the resolution to this
committee without a rOllcal but this Mr.. Fish would
not allow, and he demanded rolLcan which the
Here ale the names Of the Democrats who voted to
hn the resolution:
Beakes, Blumenthal G. H. Bush Dinkelspiel. Duffy,
Durham, Hunting, Judd, Kane, Mullaney, Nolan,
o'Connor Schaaff, Shields, Smith, Byrnes, Cahiu,
Cameron, Connolly, Cooney, Croak Davie, Demarest,
Dempsey, saul, Endres, Foley, Gillette, Gould,
Guentner Haley, Hitt HalcOmG Kerrigan, Lane. o. r.
Lawrence, Martin, Mcbride, McCelland. Mchenna,
Mcknight Mcmahon, Osborne, QrackenbuSh. 0aigley,
Rice Riley, Roche, Ryan, sage Sohmer, Southwoith,
Sullivan, Sutherland, Taylor, Townsend and the
So, aker-5S.
The Republ cans who voted for tie resolution were:
Messas Acker, Briak, Brodsby, Everett BROWN W.
L. Brown, Brundage, Chamberlain, Clinton, Den
niston Deyo, Dickinson Dunlap, Fish, Gallagher,
GARDENER, Green, GToat, Hldreth Hustled, A. John
son. l. sam johnson, Jones, kennedy, Lhomme-
dieu MalGy, Miller, Mitchell, Mott, Noyes, Parsons,
Peck sawmler, Selleck, n. stevens, w. c. Stevens,
Stevenson, StTanalan, Thompson. Truesdel, Varney,
Ward Whipple, White, Willis, Wardbury and WOrden-
10.
Under the rules of the Assembly, the Speaker is the
only member that body who is excused from voting
without the consent Of the house, except in the case
of a Tie vote, he must be recorded. speaker
6heehan, Tamndny candidate for Lleulenant'IoV-
ernOr On a platform OF the most Important
planks OF when was either forged purposey
cOrded in favor of the free coinage of silver.