New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-07
CROKER BOWS TO THEM.
TAMMANy FINANCIERS DON'T WANT THE
SAXTON POOL BILL PASSED.
1T WOULD CIT OFF GOOD DEAL OF THEIR
CAMPAIGN REVENUE. so THEY USE
EVERY MEANS TO BLOCK IT-SULZER

1T WOULD CUT OFF poOD DEAD ~
CAMPAIGN REVENUE. so THEY USE
EVERY MEANS TO BLOCK IT-sULzER
HOLDS 1T TWO DAYS.
rrov rur r,crLAR CORRESPONDENT THE IRIBUNEi
ALBANY April ellis Majesty Richard Uamiiy
name Croker II seems. reigns over n ilmed mon
archy on Manhattan Island. Every one had supposeo
that he was an absolute King ana that wheh III s'
that the Saxton Prescott bill prohibiting the SAFE u
pools horscraces In cities should be passed. d, Wv
Legislature. the iii could he coisidcreo do "'
Governor Flowers hands.
Iut n oppears that even Mr.. Richard Croker has 10
bow TO The will oi H.. finance ministers OF 1amhahy
ual. They have to obtain the money 10 wage po
Iiticai wars. and good deal OF IL has come VI i''e
years from the booksellers In Ncw-lork C'y' Nhe"
Mr. Croker, therefore. after buying racehorseS anu en-
tering Into partnership with Michael r. Dwyer III 'he
racetrack business issued orders that the poorooms
shoud be closed and that legislative enactment should
be passed TO keep them cosd permanently, 'he
finance ministers alarmed ana they nave lorceu
Mr. Croker TO dror the Pool bill. No longer Is to
be sustained by Tammany Hall Senators or Assembly
men; for it threatened to cut OH an enormous CUT
rup,ion fund from the treasury of the organization
II wns only week ago to-day that the Tammahy Hall
Senators with the exception Of Mr.. Punkitt, voted
for the bill II passed the Senate by vote OF "a 10
o-Sena,ors Punktt and McCarren voting against H.
In the Assembly 1t will have different late lor
there the Tammany Hall Assembymen Will oppose H.
Already the Tammany Hall speaker, william suffer-
has given 1t stab by holding 1t upon his desk TWO
days.
The bill has occupied q scandalously long period
In its tourney from the Senate to the Assembly ana
II may be said that 1t Is disgrace u t'e
LEGISLATURE that any Of its acts should be ueateu Ill
This manner by its servants Just one week ago
to-day the bill passed In the seha'e' anu YET
II was not announced I'm the Assembly untl To-
md prrpdt n n
has been wasted in the purely mechanical labor OF
carving n legislative bill fifty feet-frOm one side
OF the Capitol to the other Every one can see the
aim of this Intentional "holdng back" OF Dill.
The Legislature adjOurns two weeks from to-day' anu
there are hundreds Of bills upon the calendars OF
hn,. Honses The loss of q week, therefore, by a
bill in obtaining place the calendar OF either
TIouse Is almost fatal to It, Probably the Pool Dill
can be considered as dead
An inyestig alton to-day showed that Senator Sax
ton took the Pool bill soon as 1t passed The
Senate on Thursday last, to the engrossingroom OF
the Senate and asked that 1t be at once engrosseo
These directions were obeyed, and the Dill was en-
crossed and ought TO have been signed by Lieutenant
Governor Sheehan Monday night OF this week.
Senator Saxton secured Mr.. Sheehan's signature 10
the bill on Tuesday at noon, and hmseH look lhe
bill to the Assembly Chamber, handed 1t to speaker
Suzer and requested him to announce 1t TO the
Assembly and refer it to the appropriate committee.
Mr. Sulrer did not heed this request. He held the
bill OIL his desk as though 1t were most precious
document Wednesday passed. and yet the Dill was
unannOunced At last Senator Saxtons patience was
exhausted, and he went TO Mr. Sulzer ana asked
him when he was going to "hand down" that bill.
Mr. sulxer replied that he would like to think the
matter over. .
IL advise you, Mr. Speaker" sald MI. oa3toh' W
report the bill to-day"
Mr.. Sulzer that Mr.. Saxton would not submit
To any further maltreatment OF the bill, ana ac-
cordingly consented to release it. little later he
did so, referring the measure TO the Assembly Jul
dietary Committee. But precious week mas peeh
lost.
ANTHONY Comstock had an engagement with the
Assembly Judiciary Committee to-day to address them
upon the Saxton Prescott bill prohibiting TIE se4ie
of pools on races in city poolrooms, but the COM
mitteo fairly ran away from the meeting speaker
Suffer had referred senator Saxtons Dill 10 the COM
mittee and Mr.. Comstock intended to move that Do
substituted for the Prescott bill, thus advancing II In
the Assembly. But when Mr. Comstock entered the
Assembly library, where the judiciary Committee
meets no discovered that Mr. Cooney, the Chairman
was absent, and that Mr.. Guenther, OF Buffalo, was
acting as chairman. The committee would not give
Mr.. Comstock chance to speak upon the oaA'oh
bill, but hastily adjourned
This Is an unmistakable indication that the Assembly
Judiciary Committee intends to smother the BILL Its
members will hold on to the bill with as tight grip
as that with which the Senate employees and Speaker
suzer have held 1t for the last week-since 1t was
passed by the Senate. 1t is almost strangled now
by their efforts and is scarcely breathing. IT Will
die with the Legislature on April 90 ana never VIII
reach Governor Flower, who would surely sign It,
The Assembly Judiciary Committee and speaker
Suzer would not dare to make IL palIable effort 10
d the BILL as they have done, unless Richard Croker
had directed them to do So Is 1t possible ihat tle
rich poolroom gamblers OF New-fork City have MADE
In advance a large Champaign contribution" TO Tam
many Hall for its fall election expenses and that all
this buster OF Tammany Hall Senators and Assembly
men about passing the Prescott bill was merely
Bringing a bell" for the poor0Om gamblers Ito come
I'D TO the captains Office and pay for their passage
That is the Interpretation given tonight by some
To Tammany Halls spasm of virtue IN declaring Tor
the hll III so. the abandonment OF the bill indi-
oates that the game has been successfully played.