New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-31
BILL TAMPERED WITH.
Kelly. Ludlam, Farrell. Belts and
Draper Open, He Charges.

Albany March :n-The hearing on the Cam
field gambling bill to-day developed one OF the
most remarkable sensations OF the session, when
fl was accidentally discovered that the bill as
before the Assembly Codes Committee had been
so successfully nisprinted that even II passed
il would allow Richard \. Canfield TO escape.
Nor was there any great chance that this was
due 20 accident. for AssembIyman Wainwright,
who introduced the bill. stoutly affirmed that
he had drawn il to take effect Immediately
It has not been amended by the committee, and
Yet as it appeared the files to-day il read:
To take effect September l. or. in other words.
was so tampered with rs TO defeat its object
and leave an open season in Saratoga for gam
ble-s during t}e summer. That this remarkabla
incident was the result Of an accident is possi-
BILE. but that 1t is due to other influence is
theory widely held at the Capitol.
Scarcely less sensational was the bitter.
hement and even passionate deaunciation Of
District Attorney jerome. who sor the fourth
time urged the passage Of the bin. directed at
Senator Brackett who had asstiled his chyrac-
ter on the floor Of the Senate IN the recent de-
pate on the measure attending its passage in
that body last week. Mr. Jerome said in a voice
vibrating with emotion:
care not because it is Richard Garfield This bill
reaches this man or that What care Tor IS that
man can for twsnty long ys2r5 % stand up and and
legislature of the state 70 the end that public
What spectacle Il is that this convicted gambler.
this felon with the taint Of prison on him. with
Providence and estsbiis6 his art gallery in the city
Of New-York: that he can indulge in his Whistlsrs
and his peaChhlOw vases and for twenty long
years defy the law that he is so possessed % power
ure building impenetrabe wall around his
gambling house in Saratoga by forcing his advocate
sponsible leader of the majority in the Senate de
Slared to be his paid attorney on the floor Of that
b01y- 9l . "A Drc 10 %
warrant issued outside Of Saratoga inside. And
When the suicide. The Victim Of the uneven en-
forcement Of the law. was lying at his door and
the blood was trtckling down ms doorstep. L 90
JudsnentS @ oy { SuyH a nan Is aIe l11'' NJ u, R -
Gale Mitchell the only victim: there was Felsten-
nitted suicide the result of losing 5000 900 in his
cred with ruin and with not a little blood.
Continuing. Mr.. Jerome directed his remarks
at George Gordon Battle, who opposed the bill.
while declining to give the names OF the persons
he represented. and TO a clerk representing Al
fred Lauterbach. attorney for Jesse Lewisohn
in the trial before the Court OF Appeals. He
declared he represented the 100000 citizens Of
New-York State. Said Mr.. Jerome:
This man Garfield. he is the man with this record
Of blood and ruin who stands up and dehes the law
and the legislature and what voices raised in
opposition to this bill? The voice of Lauterbach,
counsel for Jesse I.ewisOhn who says he ought not
to testify because he a criminal and gambed:
the voice OF this man Battle, who is unable to tell
TO have their names mentioned. II IS not this
crook Garfield this ex-conyict g alone why, 81
all officials unless you give US the power to sup
press them
LARGE FUND TO DEFEAT BILL.
reat ny e tb noT sr Of these gambers mar the public
press charges tnat large fund has been raised to
Go man % receives bribe to defeat this bin or at
least I won't believe any man does until have
heff ayfd hUf gid Her
IsRs tBo nTb1r belisve r. When he S,s done sver
thing he cared to for twenty long years. and been
strong enough 70 say either II defy YOU or II can
buy you" What I want IS the power to make
laws respected the power to make you resP@eGted @
aimed at one man alone IL has been stated that
IL would affect one man. It will. bat 10 Is not
situation we have come to to-day in NeU-York Citys
Down there at this moment Is Honest John
house: there is Lou I-udlum. recently from New
Haven. with two wooden Indian policemen outside
than 100000 on his Thirty-thrd-st house: there is
Lou Belts. the partner OF Ar Adams. in abso-
lutte authority. so that Adams Is receiving weekly
Draper. the notorious exManhattan Bank robber.
ana DaIy an anu 20 SOnsy, m ~ anu GO SuIo ia GO go rIsht @ On
right to ask the strength and the power OF this
is but one II Is not that some poor unfortunate
gambler should go into exile. should even pe.sh in
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corrupt public oficers and this legislature.
District Attorney Jerome also submitted a
long brief covering the constitutional questions
involved in the proposed law. and pointed out
the significant fact that no protest against the
bill had come from any bar association or sim
liar body OF lawyers He emphasized the point
that the Court OF Appeals in the Lewisohn case
did not condemn the statute because OF its pur-
pose but because OF it's form.
MR. JEROMEs READY REPLY.
When Mr.. Battle attempted to interject a
Hypothetical case IN which the new law would
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