New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-23
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The Best OF all Toilet Soaps.
THE BILL FORCED THROUGH
PASSAGE or THE SHAM TROY POLICE RE-
FORM MEASURE

SEMBI.Y-AN ELOQUENT DENrNcIA-
TIoN HY MIR AGNSwORTH
Ivy TELEGRAPH To THE rRlBUNEl
Albany April 92-Thc Troy Police ReorGanza-
ton bill as ''Murphyized" by Speaker Fish and
Mr. O'Grady. of the Committee on Cities. passed
the Assembly tonight by the narrowest Of mar
gins receiving according 10 the coiSlt al the
clerks desk exactly the necessary constitutional
majority sixty-hve votes being cast for H. only
the extreme Partially and convenient second
sight of the tally clerk saved Speaker FISH from
a humiliating defeat, for the recaptulaton OF the
vote was openly delayed by the official at the
desk until Mr. Fish. by personal solicitation.
could obtain enough changes from the negative
10 the affirmative to swell his forces from sixty
three to sixty-hve and then the result was alb
ruptly announced to shut off any possible con-
version the other way
II is doubtful. moreover whether the Fish
O.Cradv- Nurphy bill actually did receive the
votes necessary to its passage and credited To the
affirmative side on the official tally Two mem
hers recorded in it's favor-Mr. Cartwright, of
Delaware. and f. Leg Smith. Of Hcrkmer-are
strongly suspected of having east constructive
vote, enc Of them having lodged a preliminary
vote and having apparently disappeared from the
| Chamber before the final rollca was ordered
The official record will stand however. and the bill
will now go to conference. where it may be shorn
| nerhans Of some of the vicious features intro
| duced bv Mr. Fish and Mr.. OGrady in the inter
est Of Senator Edward Murphy and the Murphy
! Republicans of Troy.
On the whole, Speaker Fish can find little
credit or satisfaction in his dearly purchased
| victory of tonight. Tho whole progress If the
bill through the Assembly was marked by tortu-
Gus and questionable tactics In the first place
by convenient 'misprint' the meas RE- when
WIS legtimately near the foot Of the c..oldar
appeared twice In the order Of bus.n 'ss. once III
its proper place and once at the very top Il the
list Of bills 81 third reading. Mr.. AinsWorth
pointedly called the attention Of the "nair ma
the House to the typographical bluAder "nd in
sisted that any consideration OF the measure to-
night could be had only by courtesy md y neral
consent but Speaker Fish. having ordered the
Clerk to read the title Of the misplaced bli
would not allow his palpable irr"SIiirity 70
he corrected and persisted in forcing action at
once. BY a curious parliamentary jugSle the ~
sembly amendments to the Senate bill We're
never acted on separately, and. after single
motion to recommt Tor hearing. which was
| defeated the "Murphyized' measure was de-
| clared to be on its final passage
The vote which was taken shortly after II
| o'clock showed that Speaker Fish could drive
| but sixty-three Republicans TO the support OF
| the OGrady amendments which were saved
| from absolute failure by the timely aid OF two
| Observation-Disclosures Hennessy and Mckeown. Of
| Kings Mr. McKeowns seat is contested. and
| his case will be taken UP some time this week
Mr. Hennessy supported the "Murphylzed
bill he said because he thought IL would i'm
prove conditions" in Troy. The fight against
| the O'Grady amendments was led by 'ham-
| bers Of Rensselaer,. who. with most OF the
reputable Republicans and Democrats Of Troy.
earnestly favors the Senate bin introduced by
Senator Mullin AS has been explained re-
| peatedly the Senate bill gave the power to
reorganize the Troy Police Department to a
board Of three onicials-the Mayor the city
Controller and the city Engineer who were
selected for this work because they could not
| be controlled by either the Democratic or Re
! publican Murphy faction. The Assembly bill
| seeks to vest the choice Of the new Police
Commissioners in the Common Council both
sides Of which are dominated by the Murphy
ring The Republican followers Of Mr.. Muir
ply were 10 choose two Commissioners. and
his Democratic followers the other two.
Such farccal scheme Of reorganization was
condemned by Mr. Chambers as worse than 10
change at all for it would effect no real reforms
and would simply shift the possibility for po
ganzation and the Republican majority in the
Assembly Mr.. GARDINER IF Columbia County
seconded Mr.. Chambers's objections ana strongly
indOrsed his appeal 10 the Assembly Tor "A luIth"l
I hearing on the bill 40 opportunity. Mr.. Cham
bers said had been given 10 the opponents of the
: Murphy Grady plan Of reorganzati"h L
| offer Their protest before The Cities Committee.
The fire I'm the bill became so hot that Speake
! Fish left his chair and went down on inc moor Il
make defence Of the Assembly amendments
This proved rather lame and inconcuslVe ana i''
! effect was wholly Offset by vehement ana elO
Quent attack by Mr.. Ainsworth upon the enoIt o
the Speaker and tn" chairman OF the Cues com
mittee to deprive the people OF Troy OF all th'
benefits which the Senate bill had offered, and L
render nugatory all the sacrifices made by th'
honest citizens Of that misgoverned city TO biea'
the power OF the Infamous Murphy rng ih'
| blood Of Robert Ross. Mr.. AinSworth cXclalnci
would cry out against such a surrender TO IN
corrupt and criminal influence which had maH
honest elections a mOckcry in TOY MI. ANS
worth did not mince words. and both the Speake
and Mr.. O'Grady WINGED under his Diain-spoKei
denunciatOr.
was lost by vote of 81 t. 63 All the Demo
Gratis present voted with the Speaker 10 pIeVen
further hearing ana ias'tn IN. ,.y,h1, vi "n
chance to vote on accepting the senate measure
The main question was ordered, although MI
AinswOrth protested that the Din was not emu
tied to consideration the face Of the calendar
| Excitement ran high as thee rollcall progresse
and 1t was seen that scarcely enough votes coui
be scraped together 10 pass the bill AZ the en-
OF the call for abscnteeS three or four Wcf
still lacking. and q recapiulation was demanded
This progressed with extreme dehberatloh' an
meantime the Speaker and MS ASSISTANTS Wer
frantically skirmshing for recruits AZ the en-
OF the recapitulation sixty -four votes had bee
l obtained and while the Clerk hesitated to de
clare the result Mr. Higbie, OF Suffolk was wO
over and his vote added to make the require
total detailed statement Of the vote Is a
follows:
Audett Bell Brown, Brush Burns, campo9l
Cartwright w. A. Clark. GARRISON, {. G. Cole
conklin A. r. Conkling Cutler. Dean Fairbrothei
FRIDAY. Gardiner. Glen, Goodsel. Hapn, Haniltoi
: Henncssy Hgbic Hoener, Hoops. Horton. HOVE
p Hustled Kern. Krenwich lawson, lonnsberfy, NJ
! Keown Miller. Niles OGrady. Pavey, Percy, Rea'
\ Volnhard. Rockwell Rogers Sanger. Scanon, !
, F. Schulz Harry Schulz Sherwood, {. J: smith, }
Lag Smith, Steinberg Stevenson. J, " Stewar
THOMSON Tutt!c. Nacheron. Nanamber, Wlemhi
Wilcox Wlds Wilkes. Whine. Wray. speake