New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-19


primary bill failed of passage in the
| Senate this evening. The vote was %
ayes to % noes, but at least two Repub-
licans and probably a couple more, voted
fo1 the bill who would have voted
against it without hesitation if their
votes had been needed to kill it,
After killing the Governors measure
the Senate slaughtered the Grady-Fris-
/ bic bill. the infant fostered by the Dem
ocratic League, by a vote of IL to SO.
Nobody assumed mourning for it. The
vote in detail on the Hinman-Green
measure follows:
Ayes Republicans, Agnew Allen, Brough'
Burlingame Cordts, Davenport DAVIS f' 41t1
Hill, Human, Hubbs. Mackenzie Newconb.
Rose, Thomas and Travis; Democrats, Gardner
Noes-Republicans AIT Bracket. Coats, cobb,
WainW1pht White and Witter: Democrats
Bayne. Caffrey, Cronin. Cullen. Frawley, Harden
Harte, McManus, Schulz, Stilwell. c. D. sullivan
and Wagner.
In the vote that followed on the
Grady-Frisbie bill the Republicans voted
solidly in the negative. Eleven of the
fourteen Democrats present voted aye
Senators Cullen and Harden registering
their disapproval of the bill and Senator
Gardner abstaining from voting.
Old Guard Rejoicing.
The Old Guard is rejoicing nightly
tonight at this defeat of the Governors
bill by both houses. This is interpreted
as ending what they call the direct pri-
mary craze" for the session and for all
time to come. However, there may be
slight mistake in these calculations of
the organization leaders. Senator Hin
man, while he declined tonight to press
a motion for reconsideration of the vote
which killed the bill, says he certainly
viii try it again within the two days in
which ne may make that motion.
Moreover, Senator Cobb feels very con-
fident he can pass his amended COM
promise bill in the Senate and put that
up to Speaker Wadsworth and his fol-
lowers in the lower house. He thinks
that it would command there much
more support than the Green
bill received. And as this bill in its
amended form provides for fair de-
gree of direct nominations the As
sembly bosses and the leaders in the
political game outside the Legislature
will not be in the least glad to have it
presented to the Speaker and his fellows
on the Rules Committee, with the entire
state watching it's treatment there
Hope is not lost by any means" said
Senator Human after the vote THE
fight has only begun. We can kill the
Meade-Phillips bill in any case
Anybody who thinks this is the end
of the effort to pass a direct primary bill
is much mistaken" said William H
wadhams, president of the Direct Pri-
maries Association That work will go
on. in this session of the Legislature
and through the state in preparation for
the next legislative session, if neces-
sary. A majority of the Republicans in
both houses of the Legislature voted for
the Human Green bill l think that is
a sufficient index to the action the party
will take on the subject in the coming
campaign"
Several Interesting Episodes.
The vote on the Governors bill pro-
duced several interesting episodes Six
SPndIOTS-DdNu DtiIlOCIdE, bIOuSu-
Emerson. GIedhill, Kissel and Schlosser
pa ssed the first rolcall. On a call for
absentees. Bayne voted against the bill !
explaining that he thought it went too |
far. and he didn't care very much for
the idea it set forth. anyway. Brough |
Emerson and Gledhill voted for the bill !
although Emerson and Gledhill were I
counted on by the opponents of the |
measure if their votes were needed. |
They were permitted to vote for it be |
cause of sentiment in their districts. |
KisseI and Schlosser voted against 1t, |
though Brooklyn men said Kissel would |
have voted for the measure if his had |
been the deciding vote.
AS soon as the vote was declared. Sen
ator Human made the customary motion /
to reconsider the vote, and asked that it |
lie on the table. Senator Cobb protested. !
Raw B. Smith clerk of the Assembly |
who in similar case in the lower house
ordered several Assemblymen TO vote /
down Mr.. Green's Identical motion was
signalling violently to Senator Cobb and |
other Senators against this delay. Final /
X after considerable wrangling Senator !
T5inman for the time withdrew his mo-
tion The incident raised considera BILE 7
excitement because of Smiths activity |
although that is expected in the Assem-
blv. There was other Assembly activity |
i'm the Senate to-day. Speaker Wads- /
worth and Assemblyman Jesse Phillips |
devoted some time and much energy to /
senator Witter and couple of other
senators. although there wasn't any par
ticular likelihood that they would stray
from the wadsworth fold.
Human Criticizes Wadsworth.
The debate preceding the vote on the +
hill was not so long as that in the in
come tax fight yesterday. but was far
,;yaIier Senator Human did not hest
tate IN call spade a spade. Though he |
7;d not mention them by name he crit
;a;sed Speaker Wadsworth and State
committeeman Belts severely for recent
,,t+ersn ces against the Governors bill
=, erect he declared that the Speaker
ma not dare stand out and let the
<orie know how he conducted his no. /
,,t;,sl affairs He and Senator Newcomb
,,,aintained that the Republican party /
.,-,.o,,ah its representatives in the Legis-
:, t,,re was responsible for action toward /