New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-20
NOT ENOUGH VOTES
TO PASS CHARTER
Democratic Leaders in Albany
Can't Rush Tammany-
GaynOr Measure.
TAKE A BREATHING SPELL
Inform the Governor That
divers Funeral Prevents
Work This Week-Then
Go Hunting for Votes.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune.


Albany, Sept 19.-Lack Of votes to
pass the Tammany- -Gaynor charter for
New York City has caused the Demo
cratic leaders to decree that no legisla-
tive work shall be done until the middle
/ CT next week. The excuse they give for
| this new delay is that the funeral OF As
| semblyman Oliver is 70 be day later
than had been expected. which would
| throw action or the charter and the ap-
portionment bill so late that the work
could not be completed this week, any
| how. AS a matter Of plain fact. tho
leaders know. and Murphy and Gaynor
| have been told. 20 their. discomfort. that
the hardest work ND TO date has failed 30
| produce the necessary number of votrs
| for the charter in either house
| Meantime those most Interested in
| having Mayor Gaynor get the power ~
| franchise veto and other important new
| powers in the subway situation and over
! the city's finances will be very busy.
| This weeks delay will be a godsend 20
them. If their arguments cannot pre-
| vail with recalcitrsnt legislators IN that
| time IL is quite possible that egisla ton
will be further delayed No one whose
eyes are open pretends TO believe that this
latest delay is anything exce"t a bit ~
| jOckeying 10 permit the Tammany mon
10 work further on the men whose votes
for the charter are needed but who have
not been driven or coaxed into line yet
This new delay is contrary to the
wishes OF Governor Dix. lie had a con-
| ference this morning with Senator'S
| Frawley, Cullen and Ferris. Speaker
Frisbie and Assembly Leader 4 T..
Smith. These men told him they were
up against a difficult proposition. They
didn't see how they could finish their
work this week. thev said.
Dix Couldn't See Reason at First.
! The Governor urged them To get busy
and stay on the job until the work was
finished, instead OF fussing and fooling
around. He told them the Democratic
Legislature was becoming a joke, and
they were responsible Tor II. The char
ter had been amended. he said: the sp-
! portiormeBt bill was in. and he could
sec no reason why votes on these meas
ures should not be taken and the Legs
lsture adjourn finally by Saturday
night The leaders could see very
good reason. bur they didn't say mucn
2 bout that 10 the Governor. They go
! him 10 promise 10 give emergency mes
/ Sages on the charter and the apporton-
ment bill II necessary, and said they'd
try 10 get through b. tho end of the
week
Late this afternoon thsv Went ~ fNs
| Governor again. TO tell him that thsv
| couldn't carry ont their promise. They
/ said that the Oliver funeral would not
| be held until Thursday Then. they
went on it would be impossible 10 have
! a fun attendance Of either house az the
| end Of the week. SO business might -
well go over until week from Wednos-
1 day. And then the Governor acquiosced
| iu their decision. So no legislation dsys
Will be held until September - whom
all members will be supposed 10 be lcre
! ready for action on the charter and ap-
( portionment.
As a sort OF sop 20 the Goycrucr. Ito
| leaders have promised that tho senate
shall take L vote on the Ferris direct
| nominations bill Senator Ferris thinks
! this measure can be patched Up 50 il viii
resemble a bill more than the crazy
/ quilt which it was when the Tammauy
!
with It. II may be passed as Tammanys
men fixed it-for in that shape il won't
mean anything. No real direct nominal
| tions bill Will be passed by both houses.
| In the week before the charter is taken
up for vote the hardest kind OF work
will be done TO rustic up the necessary
votes TO pass It. The Tammany men
expect Senator Wagner TO be able TO
come here next week, and also Senator
! McManus, who Is III at his home They
are not making many predictions about
Senators Roosevelt. Loomis and Budd.
three Democrats whose opposition 10
the charter as It stands is proclaimed
abroad. They say they expect Senator
| Cronin. Of Brooklyn, and all the other
regular Democrats 20 vote for the
charter They also let it be understood
that they can have two or three Repub-
| lican votes if they need them. This
may be a blum to scare the insurgents
into thinking nothing is 10 be accom-
/ plished by opposition. They would not
need them IL they could hold Cronin, OF
| Brooklyn, even II they lost the three in
| dependent Democrats.
! The Republican leaders OF the two
houses have called the delayed charter
caucus for next Wednesday before the
session at noon. The Republicans arc
not expecting any boilers from this eau
Gus. The Democratic statements that
Republicans will vote FOR the charter
they maintain, are lies out OF whole
/ Tammany Democrats who are rather
weak kneed into voting FOR .he charter
| so as TO be on the winning side.
Rumors of Compromise.
Stories are going the rounds that i'm
portant concessions will be made in the
way OF further amendments TO the char
ter before IL is passed. The Mayors
franchise veto is to go. IL is said. SO.
too, the civil service provisions are u
be corrected so the Municipal Civil Ser
vice Commission will remain under the
control OF the state Civil Service Com
mission. No such agreement mas been