Evening journal., 1901-02-19
RumOr That AddiCkS Played
Against His Supporter
BETRAYED BY PARTY FRIENDS
Tobacco Trust Lobby Wins Signal
Victory Over The Senator Who
WaS Fighting 1t
Stan Correspondence Evening Journal

STAFF Correspondence Evening Journal
Dover. Feb. 19.-Scandal seems to fol-
low in the train Of every anti-cigarette
bill introduced in the Delaware Legislq-
ture. When it was learned that Senator
Brasures notice and bill to prohibit the
sale or manufacture of cigarettes, Gig
arctic paper and cigarette tobacco in the
State Of Delaware, and that it was an
idea Of his own, and not backed by the
lobby. it was believed that for once there
would be no scandal. But that belief
was dspelled yesterday when the House
reconsidered the vote by which the bill
passed the House and sent it back TO
committee. in the face of the protests of
Senator Brasure 1t was Union Repub-
lcan representatives against Union
Republican senator, and it is alleged that
even Adidcks himself played hand in
the big game to throw the anti-cigarette
bill back into the face of his staunch
supporter, Senator Brasure.
But the worst OF it is that the scandal
involves the integrity Of the Union Re
publican attorney for the Legislature.
There has not been such an Addicks
mix-up here since he has been in the
field for senator.
BRASURE Is MAD.
Senator Brasure is mad all over. for he
feels that he has been betrayed by his
party friends. His anti-cigarette bill,
which had passed the Senate and House,
and was ready for the signature Of Gov
ernor Hum, who had promised to sign it,
is back in the hands Of the House Com
mittee, on Taxation and Revenue, and
there is little likelihood that it ever will
see the light Of day again. He triumphed
against the Tobacco Trust for a time, but
his joy was short-lived, and now he is
looking backward with regret and
forward without hope. He has found
his fight against King Nicotine a
pretty, but disastrous one, and now heI
lives only for revenge.
He is mad because Speaker McCom-
mons, Representative Moore and Repre-
sentative Layton, three Union Repubi-
can members of the House, went back
on him at the eleventh hour.
He is mad be ause he believes that
Frank II. Davis, the Union Republican
member Of the legislative legal staff,
played him false in drawing the hill and
making an antagonistic representation OF
its character TO Representative Hope, a
Union Republican member.
1t is even limited that no less a person
age than J. Edward Adidcks himself ex-
ercised a potent influence in determining
the fate Of the BILL and that he was in
duced to do SO by no less a parsonage
than National Committeeman Gibbs, who
is said TO be friendly to the tobacco in
terests
1t was Representative Moore who
made the motion to reconsluer the vote
by which the bill was passed. He said
that while he admitted that the effect of
the use of cigarettes was very bad, and
that there was nothing more offensive TO J
him than the smell Of cigarette, he be- /
lieved in having a bill that would hold
water, which the Brasure bill would not. !
ilt tHdldtAellLtu IL as II loollNH piece ul |
legislation, which would have no effect
whatever on cigarette smokers. II the |
oill was not recommitted he would be
glad to have his vote recorded in the neg |
ative when it came to the question Of
whether the bill should pass or not.
Representative Hardesty made an inn |
passioned appeal to the members not 10
reconsider the vote. In painting a pic !
ture Of the evils of the cigarette habit, |
he quoted copiously from the Scriptures |
and ended by appealing to every man |
present 10 cast his vote in the negative |
on the motion to reconsider and thus re- |
lieve the boys of the most damning Of
all vices"
The vote to reconsider the vote pre- 4,
vailed as follows
Yes-Messrs Ewing Gooden. Hcarn. /
Healy, Hutchinson. HOlcomb. Kitchen.
Laytoa. Monaghan, Moore, Pepper, Pret-
lyman. Robertson, Shalcross. Short
Scotten. Warren, Wright Speaker Me
Commons-19.
No-Messrs. Aron. Baynard. Chandler.
Clark, Clendaniel. Dayett. Finn. Har-
desty, Hodgson. Hope. Pilling, Ralph,
Vinyard. West and Whte-15.
Absent-Mr. Long.
Representative Moore then moved thar
the bill be recommitted. and that motion