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= bill will fall to pass
: Senator Lexow then spoke in favor o.
Z the bill. He declared the measure to b'
. constitutional. and said the question o.
consolidation had already. been passed
upon, and there was no need OF a fur
ther vote. The duty Of the Senate. III
said, was to provide for the preparat tior
Of . charter.
Lexow said the Legislature had al
ready been denounced for Its inactivity
towards Greater New York. and II II
failed to provide for the carrying ou'
q the wishes Of the people four-fifths
Of the inhabitants of the tSate would
rise UP and brand 1t with shame.
Senator Cantor indicated the attitude
Of the Tammany and Demochatic Sena-
r. SS e iss os s sy asfsnaeE Clause seade'
that the Csmmissionerships would not
6s apportioned. out Just as political
ofnces are awarded.
The Deal Denounced.
Senator Guy followed Cantor and re-
peated the former objections, and Sena-
tor O'Connor then denounced both Brad
Icy and the minority for the deal which
ke said had been made between, them to
defeat both the Greater New YORK ana
ths Police ss sad eon,empa,ed the
delivery OF Tammany votes to defeat
the Greater New York bill, or. at least
10 cripple It with referendum ins; G.a,se nm IN
hcs reorganization.
OConnor made vicious attack upon
Bradley. for becoming party to such a
you personally denounced the abuses
of the police force in New York." he
said to Bradley. and urged remedy;
n order to defeat the Greater New York
bill. Such a trade is shameful.
:~That you did make such trade. or
ware wiling to Inake bs +, wGrd rsad over
The roble Senators then INDUCED IN
three-cornered argument over the ques-
tiop Of legislative ethics, IN,
xritten the card defining his position.
He declared he had never made any ti.
rect trade, but said. emotionally, that
the people OF his city the rights that be-
'0seea Senator % MM MeMahon-1 asked whether
the Senator (O'Connor) will press this
Matter for the Grand Jury.
-O'Connor-This il a matter for the
Grand Jury.
serious. and j deny all the assertions.
that / have ever made deal OF any
kind. ! never hit man under the belt
] have never done anything OF which
am ashamed
"Why OConnor." he said. shaking his
nst towards the latter s seat: = am
hood in your makeup to cover, mos,
quito. / deny that l ever said that l
had made q deal"
attack upon bradley. and Cantor de-
Tended the Brooklyn Senator.
Kilburn became enraged and de,
nounced the deal between Bradley and
the minority. He said that the deal was
. direct violation Of the law. and should
senator Cantor reiterated his denial
said the history OF the Republican ma
jority in the Senate this session was
nothing except a history of deals.
the referendum clause should be incor-
porated in the bill or that oConnor
:hSSsidi & Sssi apologize to Bradley for alleging
O'connor Takes II Back.
O'Connor recanted by saying he didn't
know as fact that Cantor and Bradley
had made a contract. because he didn't
but O'Connor said II was we'll known
that st. Clair McKelway and one Will
lam Sheehan had conducted the negotia-
BEEN made and wal wa. nc now in operation.
Lexow defied Bradley to ueny that he
had agreed to vote against thu ltsce-
bill in return for Tanmany
votes against the Greater New York
bill.
Lexow said the main purpose Of call
Ing up the bill this Afternoon was to dis
cover whether there had been deal. and
to compel Senators to go on record.
I.ieut.-Gov. SaXton SAID that the
amendments offered by Bradley were
framed to go in Senator Reynolds's bill
on the Greater New York. and not In
the Lexow bills.
Bradley then moved that the Lexow
bill be recommitted to the Cities Com
mittee with Instructions to incorporate
the amendments where they belonged.
The vote on 1t was Ii yeas. l6 nays,
and the motion was lost by the follow
ing vote:
Yeas-Ahearn. Bradley. Cantor. Cot
ley, Collins. Guy. Mcmahon. O'Donnell.
O'Sullivan, Parker. Reynolds, Rice, Sui
Ivan. Wolff and Wolfert-l5.
Nays-Childs. Coggeshall. Donaldson,
Higgins. kilburn, Lamy, Lexow, Mulin,
OConnor. Parsons. Persons, Pound
Raines. Robertson. Smelser and Staple
This brought the bill up before the
Senate clear Of amendments. Reynolds
offered an amendment empowering the
commission to decide upon referendum
The amendment was defeated by the
same vote. Reynolds attempted to
further delay the bill by moving to lay
!; aside. but this was defeated.
The bill was then put on final passage.