New-York tribune., 1905-03-02

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Albany March 1.-The majority leaders OF the
Senate had bad quarter OF an hour to-day.
when a large number Of Republican Senators
started cut 20 have some fun, and. incidentally,
10 emphasize the fact that they wanted bills
reported that thoy were interested in. IT start
ed IN. the course Of the discussion Of a measure
appropriatinC $2T.0t9 10 meet expenses already
incurred by re Superintendent of Elections.
Against tEis the Democrats railed. and then,
withou; worriag. one after another, Senators
Bracket HiHman Lewis and other Republi-
cans. opposed the bill quiet caucusirg went on
untn enough votes had heen pledged TO have the
measure laid on the table. whereupon the revolt
subsideG and the insurgents. having shown their
strength withdrew. on test the vote to table
Was lost. % to II. and the bin passed. So to II.
on the FIST question Senators B"ackett. Cassi-
dy- cobb. CoggeshaIi. Hinncan. Lewis and White
voted with The Democrats.
Senator Foley opened the discussion with an
3Inpass.oned deauaciation Of the metropolitan
elections bureau. and ended with an Endorsement
OF President Roosevelt He said:
You have no Roosevelt running this year. We
shall soon have our municipal elections and II
E1he constitution could be so changed to have our
and State elections, and have them occur every
four years and State elections occurring in the
'year before the national elections, so that you
could not get the help Of that irreproachable
.state tesrnan that true American citizen, Theodore
Roosevelt or men like him. the Repu ublican
party of this State to-day would be in the
minority. and you would have gone down as
you deserve. TO ignomnious defeat.
Senator Raines said:
The policy of the minority is always 10 oppose
lRnything that restricts the Democratic right TO
iVote early and often The result Of the last
election did not indicate that the alleged abuses
of this bureau affected the Republican majority
sn New-York
The Senator paid tribute TO State Chairman
hOden declaring that he had been the best Gov
srnor in twenty years.
Dollars and cents should never be consid-
ered." said Senator Malby. when the money
goes for the protection Of the ballot box" He
appealed TO his colleagues to support the bill
as party measure. 1T would be poor return
for the mastery manner in which Republi-
can State leader conducted the campaign in
New-York last fall" said he. ito repudiate the
debts he incurred II you believe in the policy
i'iaugurated by the Republican party in New
York last fall. vote for this bill
Senator Bracket said that the tendency to
make the bureau political machine should not
~ bout that some has already advanced the
money for which this bill calls
senator Armstrong asserted that the legiS-
'Iature WAS not doing its duty toward the Gov
ernor when 1t held up important administration
revenue measures TO discuss such petty bills as
IhlS- Senator Lewis also referred TO the delaV I'm
action upon the tax bill, which, he said was due
IN part TO the failure of members to attend COM
nittee meetings. There IS a deficit OF between
S3WONW and s6.oo0OOO TO be made up this
ing bills app1opriating money until the amount
OF the appropriation is in sight