New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-29
AWAITING"DOUGH" WAGON
FRANCHISE OPPOSITION, COACHED By
MURPHY AND SULLIVAN. ARE
POOLING LABOR.

waiting for the dough wagon That sizes
I'D the attitude of about twenty Tammany and
Wiloughby Street aldermen toward the Penn
sylvania tunnel franchise. 1t is an attitude that
Tammany Hall believes in and has become &C
custoined to- Charles f. Murphy, the new
leader of Tammany Hall. knows all about the
situation, and the aldermen who have joined
in the 'holdup' of the tunnel franchise have not
been censured by him.
Some of the aldermen opposed from con-
scientious motives to the present form OF the
franchise and the formation of the combination
in the board whose members are hiding. or try
ing to hide, their real motives behind the cloak
of sympathy for organized labor has put these
honest aldermen in an extremely embarrassing
position
The combine" does not take the Pennsyl-
vania at it's word. The men who think that
there ought to be something doing for them
say with great complaceney that the Pennsyl-
vania company is rich, and if the subway inter
ests were willing to pay $4,000 for little thing
like the Lenox- extension, the Pennsylvania
company. which asks for much more, ought to
come down" handsomely for its franchise.
Not in years has organized labor been so COM
pletely fooled by sharp "boodlers' as this time,
when 1T has been induced to rush to the sup
port of a bride seeking combine" in the Board
of Aldermen, whose members are only too ready
to labor as cloak.
With Charles F. Murphy and Timothy D. sulli-
van secretly coaching the opposition TO the tun-
mel franchise. the Tammany men feel secure in
the game they playing.
The railroad committee was to have met yes
terday at the City Hall to consider the franchise
resolution. Alderman Diemer sent word TO
President Fornes's Office that the committee
would not be able to get together until Monday.
President Fornes still Is in hopes that the fran
chise will be passed. but the indications now are
! that the combine backed by Murphy and
! Sullivan, will be able to defeat the resolution.
II is a case, in the Sullivan vernacular, OF
waiting for the dough wagon"
President Cassatt of the Pennsylvania recent
! " said to a prominent city official: I'VE have
come to New-York for this franchise with clean
hands, and we are going to keep our hands
clean. We will not pay one cent for the grant
| ing OF this franchise beyond the terms stated in
| the proposed contract"
AS before noted. the combine in the board
| does not take the Pennsylvania at its word.
! They can't believe II. They waiting for the
/ dough" wagon. They confident that the
Pennsylvania will not abandon it's enterprise,
pany viii be willing, before the robins nest
again, to pay the combine" $4,000 apiece for
services" in connection with the granting of
the franchise.
Senator Plat was quoted yesterday in a
Washington interview saying that the legis-
lature would probably assist the Pennsylvania
IN getting IT'S franchise if the aldermen did not
act promptly. The Tammany men replied that
Governor Odell will not permit the citys control
OF the franchises TO be taken away Senator
Plunkitt said yesterday that IF any such at
tempt made the Democrats. with their
ty-eight, would hold up appropriation bills by
preventing a two-thirds vote for them.