The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-04
MEAN TO BLOCK The TUNNEL
ALDERMEN'S RAILROAD COMMIT.
TEE DELAYS 4 VOTE.
Promises 10 Report Next Tuesdsy--McCail
Wants TO Can Eight Hours = nay and
Let II 60 at That-Michaei J. Daddy
ButtOnhOles Alderman Downing

| Let II 60 At That-Michaei J. Daddy
Butt0nhOIes Alderman Downing
The policy Of delay which has directed
the movements Of the Aldermen's Com
mittee on Railroads in its consideration of
the Pennsylvania tunnel franchise resulted
yesterday in fruitless meeting and a post
ponement until next Monday afternoon to
| give the members further time for thought
All the members Of the committee declared
that its findings would be put in writing on
Monday 40 that the subject may come be-
fore the Aldermen AZ the Tuesday session
Many Of the Aldermen who are not mem
bers Of the committee were about the City
Hall yesterday TO find out what had turned
| up and how the committee was going to
split on the vote. Politicians appeared
| there, too.
Col. Michael j. Dady gided into the
corridor and held Aldermen Downing
| (Rep) Of Brooklyn in conference for twenty
minutes. Alderman Downing has often
| been accused 10y his colleagues of being
| Dadys man and has always replied
that he was proud to do anything reason
able that Col Dady might ask OF him
Downing has been classed as doubtful
on the tunnel franchise. He has declined
TO say just what his position il now With
Col, Dady was former Police Co mmissioner
| William F. Phillips Of BROOKLYN.
The first thing the committee did was
( to go to a room on the second floor where
the light was good and pose for a photo
graph, The nine put on their most agree
able faces Chairman John Diemer was
in the centre and the Others were grouped
about him. just before the photographer
| pressed the bulb one of the Aldermen
| asked
| What's this fur. anyway
| For Capt. Titus" came a chorus from
the. ranks of the lookers-on.
Whatever peculiar characteristics may
| appear in the countenanCes of the photo
| graphed committee may be due to the
| answer.
h was suggested that the Aldermen
could get greater privacy in the Office of
President Fornes OF the Board Of Aldermen
on the floor below. Accordingly, they
piled down there, President Fornes was
attending a meeting Of the Sinking Fund
Commissioners, 80 the Aldermen smoked
the room gray. widowed in the upholstery
and cast ashes on the rugs In spirit of
| independence. just as a measure of pre-
caution. the door was locked from the
outside. This very secret session lasted
until 4 O'Clock.
As the Aldermen filed out each had the
same stereotyped reply
We mutually agreed to adjourn until
Monday, said Chairman Diemer. -,
We mutually agreed tina; a report should
be framed then without fail" said Alder
man John 7. Mccall.
we mutually agreed not to take vote
on the question to-day said Alderman
Owens.
| The parties to these mutual agreements
declared that part of the session had been
devoted to few new stories told by menu
bers and Ia the reading Of letter from a
property owner who Thought the railroad
the pole-to take the whole squares Of
! property and not parts OF blocks.
According to the Aldermen who are
outspokenly for and against the franchise
the men on the fence did not commit them
selves fatty, Some Of the Aldermen y ere
curious to know what effect had been
worked on Alderman Downing by his in
terview with Col Dady and Mr.. Philips
| He wouldn't tell
1t Nae accepted as true that if Downing
| should So itch to the support Of the fran
chise, Klett Qep) nil vote the otner way
Alderman Mccall. the Tammany leader
OF the Board OF Aldermen, said the ma jority
| report from the committee would he against
| the franchise In It's present form
Il " III insist on the Insertion of the eight
hour day clause. said Alder man Mccall
Il might consent to waive the prevailing
rate OF wages clause and other conditions
that re have been insisting on, but
II hold out for the eight-hour clause to
When Alderman Kle,t came out Of the
| meeting he said that he wanted TO hear
mo re- arguments from his fellow members
before making up his mind. Alderman
Reginald S. Doull and Alderman Timothy ID
sullivan We're in the lobby. Alderman
| sullivan said:
A fine story that about n million dollars
being called for to pass this franchise
They're dragging the senator into this
| thing Why, it, absurd. He never. me IL
| toned the Pennsylvania tunnel to me-
| Why, should he? I'm Of age. The fran
chise IA beaten. | believe the Pennsyl-
vania knows 1t and intends to take the
matter up to Albany. There may be
| there"
| The constantly repeated story that the
| Sullivans were managing the hold-up OF
the franchise brought Senator Timothy d.
sullivan TO speaking point yesterday.
He said, too. that he hadn't spoken to Al
derman sullivan about it.
=, The Republicans are trying to bring
| Tammany Hall into this matter" said Sen
ator sullivan, AN can say is that haven't
touched 1t and know Mr. Murphy hasn't il,
But II were member of the Board OF Alder
men I'd work night and day for the prevail
ing-rate-of-wagesc clause and the e ght hour
day provision and besides I'd insist on a
contract which would require that every
man employed on the construction of the
1
| States and legal resident Of Greater New
York. The Pennsy lvania is foreign cor
poration and its refusal to grant these
demands shows that II intends to bring it's
labor here from Pennsylvania and Jersey
and pay whatever wages it secs fit TO pay
| All the talk about Doodle Ia rot There
hasn't been any hol dup It's perfectly on
| the square"
Alderman McInnes Of BROOKLYN, vice.
president Of the board, who is for the tunnel
franchise, said he feared It would he beaten
| next Tuesday. A canvass of the board
indicates that the vote will be nearly two TO
one against II In its present form.
report in favor Of the franchise has been
drawn. 1t probably will be used by the
| minority Of the committee. Aldermen
Goodman, Peck and Owens will sign such a
report even II they don't get the fourth man.
The Board Of Trade and Trsnsportati ton
adopted una nimously yesterday resolutions
| urging the Aldermen TO pass the franchise
Immediately
ERIE TRACKLAYING STOPPED.