New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-04
nrRATE ON POLICE BILLS.
,,roR RAINES LAUNCHES y TRADE
AGAINST THE MAYOR.


AToRs ILL AND IT LOOKS
AS THOUGH THE BILLS
COULD NOT PASS
THE SENATE.
,- ,rr,,, y CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBCNE.l
Albany Aprjl SIT looks to-Iay as though the
3, o,otiop IN the Police Department of
~oy-york. the Police Magistrates Removal act
40 Legal Sales bill. and. in fact. every New
81, reform, measure could not be passed by the
cite Senate. This will be owing to the absence
4, consequence of sickness. of three OF 'ho i''-
nublican Senator's namely. Henry NoHer| "i
pr,okIvn: George w. Robertson. of PeekSkH ana
1Jorrv J. Coggeshal. Possibly Coggeshal. VINO
q. IN Albany may be able to get to the senate
hut as IL is known that Senator Reynolds "i
prooklvn. is opposed to the Bipartisan Ponce
,u being in favor If q single-headed loilce
commission. and opposed also to ponce re"r-
ca,ization unless policemen are Srall'eu U'e
right Of appeal the Republicans will still be one
s.o sbort of enough to pass these measures.
,s for the Police Magistrates bill. it is locked
nm in the room Of the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee and there seems htte liKehnoV" "a '''
escaping from that committee.
senator Wolfert is i'll with heart disease In
prooklvn. Senator Robertson came here very
al He would not have come TO Albany unless
no had known that his vote was needed 10 pass
the New-York police bills. A vote was not
taken yesterday. and last night Senator ROBERT
son found himself suffering from what threat
ened to be an attack of pneumonia. ms "lie
was summoned here from Peekskill, ana his
family physician was also requested to come.
This physician, Or. stephen ;. Horton ad-
,,ised that he be at once removed 10 feeks-
kill. as he was in danger of long illness
DIR. Horton said that the Senator would not De
chile to be in his seat in the Senate for at least
two weeks to come. As for Senator Coggeshall'
he is i'll at his lodging house in this city.
The Bipartisan Police bill was to be considered
.o.dav in the Senate. and Senators O'ConnOr
ond Iexow permitted it to be considered. al
though they knew they could not pass it, They
resolved not 10 attempt to pass ii. AS a con-
sequence. an inconclusive debate on the measure
followed.
Senator Stapleton. as soon as the bin was an
rounced offered an amendment providing that the
~,ontments in the Police Department should be
,sken from a list prepared by the local Board Of
Civil Service Commissioners. After three hours
debate this was rejected by vote Of % 70 2Sena-
TORS Stapleton and Lamy voting for 1t. Senate:
stapleton then called up the Police Reorganization
bill. and offered an amendment TO H. making
Mayor Strong an eX-oifcio member oi that board
in case Of deadlocks This amendment was re-
iacted BY a vote Of - to 2-Senators Lamy ana
Stapleton voting for it.
The debate upon the Bipartisan Police bill was
made the occasion. by Senator Ranes OF an at
tack upon Mayor Strong and criticism Of his APP
pointments Senator Raines read his speech ana
the general belief was that it had been sent to him
BY the Plat literary bureau to be read 70 the Sen
ate and then sent out to the Plat newspapers TOR
notification. Senator Iexow defended the men,
hers If the Committee Of Seventy and the Com
noittee OF Ten from Raines's attack Senator
1exow declared that the Committee Of Seventy
was not opposed TO the bipartisan bill.
In the debate on the proposed amendments,
Senator Raines said he felt interest personally
in the bills and it had been asserted that he
helped frame them at Mr.. Platts suggestion. He
denied this If the Senate approved the meas
ures as does Mayor Strong. and as do other
officials they should pass these bills. which are
caucus measures. But even the Democrats may
vote for good bills and some may vote for this
He did not believe that any Republican would
be foolish enough u oppose the measure lie re-
viewed the events leading up TO these biiIs
Gueras hanging on the outskirts OF bo'h par
,es he said first saw the situation in political
life last fall. They impressed their ldeds on 'le
reforners and insisted a guerilla ticket. II
even deiNdnOeN tidl d ~ 4'i'~-''-
mated for Mayor.
In q moment of weakness everything was
conceded but the vital point that the Mayor
should be a Republican. Then the eoody-goody
refornoers insisted on naming all the other men,
and II was conceded. 1t WAS grievous ms
take and gr.evously must the Republicans en-
swer for it. And what did the people get out
Of this concession into which the Republicans
and reformers were buncoed by the sueIlAa9 :
He answered this BY reading long uraa"
from a New-York paper against the Shef'' J"
Office, showing that two criminals had peeh APP
pointed there This, he said, was specimen
trick Turning toward Senator Stape'oh' ne
said
and yet some deprecate criticism OF oIlc'd''
Put what divinity doth hedge a king or even
MAYOR that he may not be criticised Perhaps
only a Republican who has worked early ana
late for his marty may be criticised and even
ostracizcd This deceives nobody ana dsgus'S
everybody. New-York City has Mayor VINO
seems 10 have an idea he was elected by other
than Republican votes 1t is said that ne Is
keeping pledges, but they must be those MADE
before election, because he has kept very Few
since"
Continuing. Mr. Raines said that before cleo
lion the band played and all was harmony anu
Golf played "for keeps" He lampooned the
Mayor and reformers in string OF comic verses
which created much laughter. He asserted ,hat
the motto now on the wall was not Goa bless
Our Home" but Reform Pays: 1T Is Clhch.
He said the Mayor seemed to think he must APP
point Democrats 10 carry out reform IDEAS. n
few buncoed Republicans may Complain Una |
election promises are not being kept but we
would get over II. Those in Once VINO doh
get over IT may have 10 get OUT. lie reciteu
the Mayors appointments, which. ne said' were
the magnificent gifts Mr.. Grace would carry
over to Tammany Hall from the hcpuDhcah
Mayor. II was barely possible Mayor Strong
had been buncoed in appointing Chafie5 H.
Woodman. We can't be abused ior wanting
our share when a reform Recorder wants 'he
-., ,rr..-I....,, u.nc alu,aNs a Girace man ana