New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-21


tending attorneys can sign away the peoples
right to have an electoral dispute judcially deter
mined and the courts duty to determine II
on their application 1t involved the proposition
that LAWYERS can forbid "a court TO perform It's
statutory functions, and that these particular
LAWYERS were a Legislature. Senator ROesch IN
sisted. too, that Judge Maynard was all right be-
cause the temperament of the lawyers WHO hah
investigated his conduct was not judicial Inc
logic OF this will appear to all. lie delended
Maynards silence at the meeting OIL the olate
Board. because that body knew all the facts,
meaning, / am bound to suppose, that MI 1aDer
lied when he said he did not know
that any other tl:an the Mylod return
was in existence. Mr.. R0escn concluded by
remarking not without reason, that he presumed
nothing he had said or could say would change
anybody's mind.
Senator O'Connors speech was full of hght
.You stand by Maynard" be said, because you
can't help it. He made you. Every man OF
you who has craftsmanship has it as the direct
result of Maynard's act of theft. He created
YOUR majority: and if you were honest here, ana
voted as YOU believe, you would have to vote
n give I'D your stolen goods. When the resolu-
ton TO investigate this Judges conduct was
brought forward here, Senator McCarren cynl-
cay laughed at the idea. What's II all 1or!
he cried, we all know how it's going to come out
You Republicans will vote against Maynard, ana
we Democrats will give him certificate OF char
acter.' This was brutal candor but it had the
merit of being candor. You have here your
seventeen votes two of them the product OF TINS
man Maynard's shameful crime. 1t is not to he
boped that the benefciaries of his act VIII sur
render their ill-gotten gains.
~ agree with Senator McCarren mat
the investigation was farce. ohy oie
- tho witnesses summoned by the
committee gave material testimony ana we are
nrepared TO prove that the only material point
in his evidence was lie The majority did not
darn 90 into the facts Senator Roesch, the chair
mon ~ the committee and Senator Cantor, your
leader here gave us sacred pledges that we mign'
call and examine any witnesses whose evidence
We Thought necessary TO show all the facts. lhey
broke their pledges Not TO this hour have theS
made any explanation of course when couiu NC
only ftlv characterized in language do not care
to utter. ,;
~Of course | know why they broke their
nIedres. We all know. They did II because
thew had to because the bosses who nave con-
trolled YOUR every act In this Legislature 0'
manded them to do so. They opeyeu' as you al
have obeyed, the mandates OF these oosSeS' Oa'
nrer was TO prove that the statements maze III
;oritv report is predicated, were generaliy mar
trutbs and. in vital instances, unqualihed mis-
concentrations We had some OIL o"-
uitnesses actually present in the rooH'
but YOU would snot hear them ms Is uioi
ouahly known to the people OF
OF what value are your pleas ana EXCUSES 80
this fact is in everybOdy's mind ioui Al. ~
cation wac sham, fraud; had mere'S io' Wv
nurposc of bringing in this untruthiui anu c'"I'"s
report Go on, now and adopt H. iou "N
vour seventeen fraud-made votes lhey mhi "e
IN ANYTHING that is demanded OF them ~" "a"
mako your report too hot or 100 coio ioi ~
They do not know, probably they no NV
what it contains: but as they are tolu u 'o''' ~
they will. Now then, line them up.
senator Cantor undertook the task OF closing inc
- Gov tho Democrats. His speech, from ilrst
90 las. was an attack upon the Bar ASSOCIATION anu
non its motiyes. He said it had prejudsed MAY
nards case-as if that made any difference III ca9o
-, rreiudqment turned out to be true ana correct
Az Cantor,s further defence consisted oil aiiega-
ems that Republicans were bad people lie eaiu
,bev stole elections the inference Deng t'iao '''i'
nv tho Democratic were justified in similar c'ui'0
lie insisted that for years the Democratic pa'"
-, h.on kent out of its rights by an unialr
Penublican apportionment; the ihicienoc e''s
hat if IL could not recover its rights Dy ho'eS'
means foul ones were necessary ana IL h''e'
sary proper -s,. .o.s
senator Mullin observed that Maynaros ac's
sinca the discovery Of his conduct IN cohhec-
Con With the Dutchess County returns had been
the acts of guilty man. lie had complained tha'
10 bad NOT been allowed to testify in the pro-
coedino before Judge Cullen, saying that the any
Gov which he was subpoenacd was consultation
d.y in The Court Of Appeals" But 1t was on
that day that he took his seat Tor 'he hrs' u"e
90 a member of the Court. What could ne nave
% consult about? Is it conceivable 'ha' an hoieS'
man would give that excuse, or any eAc"Se' ~
failinc 10 defend himself when accused oil dh III
,a,nons crime? Would lie not on the contrary
,un IN the courthouse, and never rest uilui "o
had vindicated himself? But what wa My
pard's excuse for failing to respond 10 ''e pa'
Associations invitation? Why ull ne hoU 0o'.,
before this commttee-a friendly committee,
ever there was one? These factS OIL 'nc'H'o'''
condemn Judge Maynard. , :. 49, Con,
These speeches concluded the debate Ill the och-
.to and the vote on Senator SaxtOns motion was
immediately taken. The Democratic meinoers
yho had been of in the ante-ro0rns amusing 'heI-
selves during the discussion, now hooked INTO the
room. All the Republicans supported thf molio ~,
ali the Democrats opposed it, IL wac lost, ana the
or oinal motion to adopt thc majority rcPoiV woo
carried by seventeen votes 10 fourteen
An account of the session would not be complete
which failed TO notice that MI NC, arreh, III eA-
nlaininr his vote remarked that he thought per-
hans his speech two weeks ago was lltte TOO
aia;n that he did not intend to lie brutal, and
boped he had not hurt anybody's feclings; bnt he
aid what lie had said on the theory that II was
Unsuitable 10 tell the truth. Senator McMahon
ssvb.n his name was called tersely declared that
MAYNARD had done nothing that any lawyer might
not. with entire propricty, do: and that he ald
little clique of lawyers known in New York as the
Bar Association, to explain his conduct
The vote III the Assembly, ueNciOPu
the full Democratic strength. by 81 yeas 70 -
nays the majority report was adopted Many
Interesting and effective speeches, notably one
hnt in all cases they were rcpetitiors OF those
already reported as having been made IN the Sen
Ate l.. f. q.