New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-12
TO PISS THE SAXTON BILL.
MIR CROKER TELEGRiPIIS THE ORDER.
HIS UENCHMEN At ALBANY IMMEDIATELY SET
ABOUT THE WORK, AND THE JUDICIARY
COMMITTEE REPORTS TIE MEAS

URE FAVORABLY.

ABOUT TIE WORK, AND THE JUDICIARY
COMMITTEE REPORTS TIE MEAS
URE FAyoRABLY.
IuY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUNE.
Albany April 1I.-"Pass saXton Pool bill; nave
all Of onr people support it, This telegram came
to Albany to-day. II was signed :" Richard Croker,
and II WAS directed TO Timothy D. Sullivan. the ram
many member Of Assembly, who has been reported Us
leading the fight against this bill p stop poo'e'ins
I'm CITY poolroOms. The telegram was ciir mated
around the Assembly chamber, and there was an
immediate Kaleidoscope change In the appearance OF
things regarding the that every honest man
In This Stat. has been wanting TO passed by the
Assembly. On the one hand there was
decp gloom, and the other brill
fancy Of surpa sing splcndor Those members
who had heard the rImors Of the existence OF the
large corruption fund 10 defeat the bill Immediately,
saw AL hope vanishing Of getting their fingers on It,
IN, air in their immediate nclghborhood immediately
became blue and sulphurouS. These same men WHO
have been thu most abcct slaves OF the bosses, sna
DENLY took an Intense dislike 10 them and vowed to
break away from the party whip. They also de-
claTcd that they might have something to say about
be- So. when the measure came up on the HOOP
Tho sax,on hlll stock went up by high Jumps imme-
diacly after the rcccip; Of Mr. Crolcr telegram ana
soon after II came II announced that the JuicFrS
Committee would meet this afternoon ana report INC
bill 10 the Assembly Those Tammany members Oh
the committee who last week took part In securing
II snap Adjournment Of tn" committee wcrr now the
most anxious. appEon'ly. f,r meeting. The nc ING
was hcM the bill reported favorabiy. aud there
was only ore member OF the committee present WHO
lad the nerve 10 vote against favornb" report
lie /, Henry IT, Gucnth"r. Of Buffalo There Is no
doubt that the bill viii pass the Assembly and s"t
10 the Governor. For this decent CITIZENS can De
thankful for In the last ten days. when II appeared
tha, Mr. Croker had suddenly lost interest In tn"
i,bt as,uy
Of IT, there Wa, some doubt To it, final passage
II Is known however. that 1t has not been any
sudden ylriuous frenzy that has impcllcd the new
king II the turf to order bis men mere To pas
thi, mcrorious measure II was due to the fact tha'
be- Is a shrewd politician. lie Jaw That tie 'raih
had been started. steam mp, and Tainmnny Han
and the whole Democratic state machine would not
mike an obstacle sufficiently large TO thr.w 1t from
tho track lie wanted To get aboard with his
Tammany followers before the train reached such
hcadwny that II would be impossible. ii" Just go'
on I'm time with Ito entire outa Before him on the
train In the first place was the entire Eepnhh''n
minority Nifty three votes, led by Mr.. Nnlly Mr. flNh
and Mr. Answor,h: then came the seventeen Kings
County Drmocra's over when senator Mccarthy kept
a wacAful eye aud with them were eight or ten
Of the better class Of Dmocras Who represent some
~ the upstate counties. This made about eighty
vote. comfortable majority and nearly two-th'rdS
Of tie cntr" Assembly. Then the ringing editorials
ON mi, I'LL in The Tribune had shown Mr. Croker
that suspicious being aroused that wonld not DE
downcd by hl, silence his non action
some OF the Republicans heard to-day that speaker
suIz.r talked with Mr. Croker III" hngdstancc
telephone last night after the Assembly ADJOURNED
md that the speaker told Mr.. Croker something mat
surprised him. lie said that II Il stated that no
l,, than eighty votes had been pledged for the bill.
and that those who asking r + It's passage il;ui
presented 70 him two alternatives. The first was
that the bin must come out Of the committee and bc
reported and that fair play should he shown 'o IL,
or that not Il single Tammany Hal bill woHid be
passed The chief" thought Of III" Elm-st Job ana
other Tammany jobs that Just now are 10 b" rushed
through. and he quickly came 10 the decision ex'
p!ain- In l, telegram.
Tie meeting OF the Judiciary Committee was not
without incident and In It Il Clint was given that tho
poclroom keepers would not give up the fight with
tll, defeat bat that they would have introduced and
printed a that Will do away with the Ives
Pool law and close mp e." tracks. This hint came
from OF the UrooAlyn members, who on reading
the saxton bill through announced that he WAS OPP
posed To permitting the selling Of pools on t' tracks
and that he was In favor OF wipihg out Tile whole
thing.
81 viii vote With You Ia do that said Mr..
Ainsworth because | believe that the entire system
Is wrong'
Well, said the IIroobyn member. "you will |
find that accompanying this report there will bc
"
pool law
IL II rlinorcd here tonight that the pool room /
men intend 10 do this. To compel the racing Assoc
oia,ious join with them In defeating the saAton
bn. The racing association, which favor climate
contests OF spcrd hay" given iheir a,pIor, to me
saNton bill brcal 70 1t Niil tend t. Go away with
winter racing upon which the pool men thrlve
Nh,n the judiciary Committee was called To order
hi, afternoon present J I'm II. Cooncy, OF
iHooblyn, the chairman Of the 1"nm'ee; Henry IL:
Gurnilcr. If tulalO; Walter l. Durach, OF Brooklyn
NIllinm f. shields. Of Brooklyn; Lewis II. IIahio.
Of New orh: DaufOrth T.. .\iusworth. of OSwcso |
ana Charles VI. Ecll Of Columbia. The absences
assent When h. i wanted; James IL. souihworl Of
WIT Griihn 81 Delaware. Tine session was an rXecu-
y" one from the start MIR. Cooney moved first to
very present, except Gueniher voted TO report
IT lnvoraly list ms 1t came from the Senate.
trocr to examine The books of the racing assocatirns
and ascertain for hims the receipts, wa, taken up
In, j"nciHrc Mr. Martin burst into the room and
wanted to know what had been done with the saxton
bill. The chairman told him.
bill, You ought To have waited until sot here
last week you were anxious to be here in time
could be- taken mp, and am afraid ycu are too late
to get in this replied the chairman.
the vote v which the Controllers biz had nassc o.
saying: I'VE don't want ms blu"
Well We do want H. WAS the answer Of the
chairman ana vol" or the committee 10 reconsider
lost. The two bills will DO reported in thc
morning II spakcr sulzcr Will allow the Assembly 10
The Committee ON Rules will make It special order
for either tomorrow afternoon evening ON second
and third reading and pass the bill by tomorrow
night.
ELLIS PASSED IN THE SENATE.
Albany. April II cpcclaD.-Thc senate DISCO, 70.
day senator McClclland's bill eXcmpting fre ,,.r,os
from taxation. and senator Tarkcrs bill authorizing