Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-09
ANTI-RACE
BILL LOST
GOVERNOR HUGHES REFORM
MOVE BLOCKED
SENATOR CASSIDY GOES OVER TO
OPPOSITION
Measure Calculated to End Gambling
on Horses in New York Fails
to Pass--May Be Re.
considered
.sy Associated Press.

.5y Associated Press
ALBANY, N. Y, April S.-The vote
of Senator Owen Cassidy of Schuyler,
Republican, late today caused a tie OF
rs to 25 and defeated for the time at
least the two Agnew-Hart bills em-
bodying the recommendation of Gov
ernor Hughes that the legal protection
be abolished which since 1895 has pro-
tected public gambling at race tracks,
whereas 1t is a felony elsewhere in the
state.
Lieutenant Governor Clanler, in the
senate. by casting his vote to break
the tie upon a parliamentary motion,
which but for him would have resulted
in killing the bills for the rest of the
session, saved them for another vote
at the discretion of the introducer. Sen
ator Agnew, at any time when the or
der of business permits him to call up
the matter.
The Importance of this bit of sub
sidiary procedure may prove to be very
great, and if by any means the friends
of the bills can gain vote from the
opposition and at the same time hold
the twenty-five they had today. they
may pass the bills and send them to
the governor.
Hughes Disappointed
Governor Hughes made no secret of
his disappointment over the result of
the days struggle. He would not in
innate what measures he would adopt
in the premises, but that he regards the
matter as far from settled he made
clear by the following statement issued
from the executive chamber tonight:
1T Is impossible to believe the people
viii permit the plain mandate of the
-
test mas not ended, it has only begun.
1t will continue until the will of the
people has been obeyed."
The vote came at the end of a day
so dramatic and intense that people
who have been about the capitol for a
generation remembered nothing like it.
Until the vote of Senator Wilcox, the
last on the list was cast against the
bills. the result was in doubt although
for three days the opposition had ex-
pressed confidence that he would vote
as he actually did.
The most remarkable feature of the
day involves the mysterious absence of
Senator Fancher of Cattaraugus. He
was known to intend to support the
bills, and his vote was indispensable to
their passage. Messengers searched for
him all the morning without result and
the charge was freely made by the
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was involuntary and would prove to be
the result of a conspiracy.
When a recess was taken at o'clock
he was still missing. He appeared at
last when the recess was about half
gone with nothing to say for publica-
ton, but story about his absence told
privately was accepted by the sup
porters of the bills as confirming their
suspicious. and in it's details convulsed
everybody who heard it. The gist OF
1t was that he had outwftted those who
would have detained him, and as he
put II. here l am in time to vote for
the bills, as l have all along intended
to do"
cassiday Does 1t
Senator Cassiday, whom the sup
porters of the bills hold responsible for
their defeat voted On two previous oc-
casions in their favor. although the
friends of the measure admit he has
never promised to support them on
final passage.
Until II o'clock Senator Grattan of
Albany was declared to be in favor of
the bills. At that time, after con-
ferring with leaders of the Albany
county Republican organization he
Went to Senator Agnew and announced
he would vote against them.
Senator Knapp of Clinton, until late
in the morning, was regarded as prac-
tically certain to vote for the bills. but
about the same time he also announced
that he would vote against them.
There was some doubt all day as to
the vote of Senator Folker of Kings.
but when the time came he adhered to
the position ne had all along taken in
the bills favor.
All of the fifty members of the SEN
ate were present, the only vacant seat
being that of Senator Franchet of MI
agara Falls, who died recently. 1t was
agreed that he would have supported
the bills.
Twenty-three Republicans and two
Democrats voted for the bills and sew
enteen Democrats and eight Republi-
cans voted against them. The two
Democrats in the affirmative were Full
Ter of Kings and Taylor of Orange.
The eight Republicans in the negative
were Burr of Suffolk, Cassidy of Schuy-
ler, Emerson of Warren. Gilchrist of
Kings, Grattan of Albany, Knapp of
Clinton, Wemple of Schenectady and
Wilcox of Cayuga.
After the defeat of the bills Senator
Agnew made the usual notion. "that
the vote by which the bills were lost
be recorded and that the motion lie
upon the table"
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Then, apparently realizing that the
defeat of the motion by the same vote
bv which it had defeated the bills
would kill the measures beyond res
cue Senator Agnew withdrew it. In
stantly Senator Grady, who is past
master at parliamentary strategy,
seized the apparent advantage and re-
newed the motion.
Senator Raines came quickly to the
rescue of his bills with a motion to
table that Of Senator Grady Attention
was then called by Senator Armstrong
10 the fact that in these circumstances
the presiding officer would have the
deciding vote, Senator Grady urgently
appealed to the lieutenant governor and
to his colleagues for support for his
motion. but the lieutenant governor
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