New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-15
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SPEEDWAY REPEAL PASSED.
GOING THROUGH THE ASSEMBLY WITH ONE
VOTE TO SPARE.
COUNTRY REPUBLICANS CHANGE THEIR voTEa
TO AYE" AT THE LAST MoMENT-THE
TAMMANY MEN BEwILDERED-HoW RAs-
CALLY JOBS ARE RUSHED THROUGH
As POLITICAL BILLS


CALLY JOBS ARE RUSHED THROUGH
As "PoLITICAL BILLS
[FRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBuNE'l
! Albany, April 14.-The Speedway Repeal bil
passed TIE Assembly tonight, receiving just one
more vote than enough. When the roll-cal was
! completed, the bill had failed, the Tammany
bosses have all along intended it should. But &C
| the final moment several country Republicans, who
had voted against the bill, changed their votes to
AYE, Thus it was saved. The Tammany peo-
| pie scarcely know what to make Of the
situation They had been playing shutflecock and
| battledore with the bill all day. Bush the leader
and Bush the Speaker were both openly against
it, and refused to let it come out of the Com
mittce on Rules until they had taken count Of
noses and were sure the bill could not succeed.
| Then they declared themselves converted, and
| let it escape. They had other lea than that
the countrymen were solidly against it, and that
they and Tammany would he able to keep the
| Speedway and fasten the blame of it on the
country Republicans.
| But tie trick failed. Many country mem
| bers, it must be owned, were sincerely against
the repeal, not only because they thought the
! speedway good thing for the breeding interests,
but because they were not greatly disposed to
help Tammany out of its predcament. But they
had no intention of being played for fools, ana
when they realized that their votes could carry
| the day, they came out for home rule ana pupilc
opinion.
Gilroy, Clark and Andy" White were present at
the Capitol throughout to-day's session. Gilroy
said his errand was to force tarough the Speedway
| Repeal bill. He told the savish creatures who
compose the majority that Mr.. Croker was
thoroughly aroused"-ye gods .rUst think OF
that and that the repeal must be passed. The
fact of the matter is that Senator Erwns blunt
speech the other day furously attacking Plum
kit as u professional jo5ber, and declaring that
Tammany was utterly inslncere in her profession
Of desire TO repeal the Speedway act, had ex-
asperated the bosses beyond measure.
II was the literal truth Their mnion, Webster,
| the chairman of tire Assembly Cites Committee,
who to-day begged Republicans 70 help him out
Of q hole by giving their votes in favor of the
bill was begging them, the very day
before Erwin made that quickcning speech, to
resist the repeal. But the next morning after
the full text of the speech had been
printed in TIE Tribune, Webster going
around among the Democratic members with q
| telegram from Croker, telling him he must report
| the bill at once and compel it's passage. OF all
| the dirty business in which Tammany has been
engaged since this session began, from :" Ed'
| Murphy's IIuckleberry' job to the Election
| Inspectors bill, none has been SO utterly con-
temptible the Speedway juggIery. 1t has shown
Tammany hypocrisy and audacity with all the
effect Of colored cartoon.
The Election Inspectors bill and the Excise
bill. as passed yesterday by the Assembly, will
| come up for final disposition in the Senate next
Tuesday morning. There is no apparent reason
TO suppose that they will fail to pass, although
both will be opposed with all the energy of which
the Republican minority is capable. Mr.. Erwin
and his colleagues are preparing TO expose these
bills in their full iniquity. But what will be the
difference? Nothing Tie men composing this
| legislative majority pay no attention TO argu-
ments. Moral considerations and public policy
have no weight with them as against the man.
dates Of Hill and Croker
| 1t is almost unbelievable that grown mon could
endure the language which has been addressed
by Shechan. Cantor and the two Bushes during
the last two weeks 70 their partisans in both
houses. You must stand by your party, do you
hear?" is the cver-repeated order. This Is a
party measure II may he scheme 70 enrich
Ed Murphy by giving him in fee simple sixty
miles of streets in the Annexed District-but 10
| is a party measure. 1t may be job 10 enrich
4 gang Of Brooklyn politicians by giving them
q bridge franchise and right 10 cover the gro =
I streets of New-YorS from river TO river with
|
measure There are bonds 10 be sold. and some OF
| the proceeds 20 to Tammany and the Brooklyn
ring If that doesn't involve Democratic pr1n-
ciples what could? Partisans may differ on the
tariff or on silver, but what conceivable room IS
there 10 differ on simple proposition 10 enable
the bosses to get Doodle fund or 10 steal an
election SO the Inspectors bill Is party meas
urc The Excise bill is a party measure Those
things are party measures which Hill. Murphy
and Croker declare 10 be so. and if you are
| Democrat, support them you must or your neck
| is the forfeit that's the kind of politics we
are having in the capital city of the Empire
State in the year of grace 1892
When the bill to amend the PoughKeepse
charter the actual purpose of which Is to legisa'e
. lot of Republicans ont of office year before
their terms are up, and then so TO gerry
the city wards as to render the election OF some
Democrats in their places reasonably certain
when this outrage came up in the House today
ono D,mocrnt voted against it. In an instant
dozen IIill.Tammany "hcelers' were all around
him "This j. n party measure, they crlci.
| " "You'vc cot no right 10 vote against your party.
| You're here to stand by the party; change your
vote, lie did nos,change his vote, and his manly
refusal to do so killed the bill; but he was the
loncliest and most uncomfortable man In Albany
| County the rest of the day lie was made 10 icei
that he had done thing which, instead oi entilins
him TO every honorable mans praise, was distinctly
discrcditablc act of betrayal OF treason 10
his marty The praise of Republicans did him
more harm than good. 1t served. indeed, merely
TO acccntuate his guilt, and to render his ace
the more oJious. How necessarily In, Sc methods.
diligently and adroity employed, would accomplish
| their ends on men of narrow ana uneduca'ei
minds is obvious.
| But there are Democrats in the Senate IKE 'lr.
McClclland, General Mcmahon, Nr. Rocsoh, ooiorei
Walker and General Parker, who can speak goou
Enelish and who have moral AMI intellectual
perceptions In their ordinary social and business
relations they arc held TO he men OF more than
ordinary intelligence and scli-asscitlon; ana yes
with the possible exception OF Colonel "aiHer
who did have the courage to vote against the
Hnck klehcrryn Job, all these men have been as