New-York tribune., 1903-04-15
CUT DOWN MCULLAGH.
BITTER AGAINST DOBLIN.
Insurgents" Help Democrats to
Reduce Appropriation s25 900.
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Albany. April 1.-THE independent Repub-
Iicans. Senators ElsherG. f. r. Brown and
Bracket. made an alliance with the Democratic
Senators to-day proposition to cut the aP-
preparation for the deputies of Superintendent
McCullagh. of the Metropolitan Elections Dis
trict. and succeeded in reducing it from Sl0oe"
10 $4,000 The appropriation bill which car
ried the money for McCulagh. along with
large proportion of the rest Of the expenses CT
the State government. was then passed by the
Senate under an emergency message from the
Governor
The bill will now become the subject Of a con-
ference between the Senate and the Assembly
and it is possible that the Republican majority
in the Assembly will decline to consent to the
reduction Of the appropriation for Superntend-
-ent McCullagh's deputies. There may be dead
lock over the matter. as twenty-four Repuh-
ncan Senators opposed the reduction
The debate in the Senate was particularly bit
Ter and sharp Philip Doblin. the Lessler- Quigg
witness in the submarine boat bribery charges
before the House of Representatives. came in
for an attack Senator Bracket saying Of him;
He should stink way into darkness and reflect
on the he'll TO which he is consigned and where
he must suffer henceforth-''
There was another sensational scene when
Senator McClelland declared that it was lie
that the Catholic students at the Yonkers Sem
tnarv were concerned in attempts TO vote ille-
salIy If Senator Raines intended TO make such
& statement he said. from the typewriter state
rnent from John McCuIlagh, Senator Raines
knew IL to be a lie
Senator Grady first addressed the Senate on
the McCuUagh appropriation. saying that the
department was indefensible. and that if there
had ever been a good reason for its existence
the occasion had passed away. The Police De-
- E,l, arx-
Republican must concede were safe, and that
the assistance Of 1000 policemen TO
be had in the interest of honest elections. With
such a force there was no necessity for continu-
ing rival department that maintained
simply because Of the graft and the Jobs that
were TO be disposed among the favored workers
Of the party in power.
Senator Malby said that the evidence from
Eew-York City continued 10 be overwhelming
that men were registering and voting Illegally
He did not charge one party with fraud more
than another but he insisted that while cor
ruption was rife there necessity for the
department. and the consensus Of opinion every
where was that it should be continued.
Senator Elsberg said that he believed that the
department should be continued for time
longer. br+ he insisted that there was not now
so much reason or necessity for ii as there had
been originally. The same conditions do not
exist and the police power now in proper
hands He thought that $4,000 would be
enough this year. and next year further cut In
the appropriation might be proper
Senator Raines vigorously upheld the appro-
priation. and maintained that it should not be
reduced He told Of the frauds that had been
committed under the auspices Of great politi-
cal organization and declared that it was not
surprising that the Democrats should assail this
department and seek to cripple 1t after they had
viewed the great damage that had been done by
the Elections Bureau.
Senator E r. Brown said:
voted for the bill under which the superiIn!-
teTdent was appointed and am gao Nolso ioE IL II.
because a man does not nave 70 run pack tar
through the pages Of history before he discovers
ssionally conditions existing in the city of New
York which are Incompatible Win an hohesC s Eots'
To correct that condition this Pin was S elaGlsS. 90
ne F,n1Sitfes Its' md mink speak within
bounds when I say that prior to this year there
has ,e-.n no more frequent caller upon that COM
mttoe than the chief of this department This This
he i'll sail through unnoticed. although the eX-
is my judgment that he has irreParaby lost his
cecapies He cannot again be heraided in three
columns DAY for three weeks In the metropolitan
oe his employees named Do5lin. engaged in corrupt
lobbying At Washington. and sustain his contention
for pure ballot in the city
Senator Raines interrupting Senator Brown.
said:
VIII the Senator give way? ! want to say the
Senator that he is absolutely unjust. abso-
Jufeiy rnisstates :he case that ! when he
ascertains the facts he himself would be the first
70 apologize the he attacks and TO this
Senate for the sta tements he has made.
Senator Brown, continuing, said:
Very well: it would have been good thing if
the chief had appeared here say his availability
Is lost: say that and competent man with
S75.01l viii do more for pure elections in NeU-GOrk
than the present chief with 100000. and for that
reason Notwithstanding the embarrassment Of the
committee. which ! exceedingly regret feel com
PEELED my vote on the matter in cOndernna-
sion of the head OF that department and OF that
department Il is low managed
The roll called aid the 900 amend
171ent adopted. ayes % noes "a Senators
Bracket Z r. Brown and Elsberg voting with
the Democrats The president then handed
down emergency message from the Governor.
calling for the passage Of the bill amended.
Senator Grady protested. but the amended bill
was passed.
FOR TAXATION COMMISSION,