El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-13

/ day for the extra expense or leg
| islature that stays in mock session
without acting. simply to prevent the
/ governor from removing and appoint
| ing officials and TO intimidate him by
/ threats OF impeachment
Government StrangIed.
The two bosses have strangled the
government OF 100000 inhabitants OF
an area OF more than $4,000 square
miles. and they propose 20 keep 1t
strangled py continuing the farce of
a legislative session at an extra cost
of $1,000 a day until the end Of the year
if necessary.
It is an almost unbelievable sight in
the capital of the greatest and richest
state in the union.
Upstairs the royalty gorgeous halls
OF the senate and assembly are empty
and the dim light shines on marbles.
gtldingS and carvings without dis
closing a human form.
Yet the legislature is in eXtraordi-
nary session and the taxpayers are pay-
ing $1,000 a day to its employees. Three
or four members Of each house are in
Albany only to meet and take recess
every two or three days
Really no Legislature.
The legislature has refused to pass
the direct primary law il was called
together to enact It has refused to
pay any attention to the governors
recommendations. It refuses to adjourn
because that would allow the COVER
nor to make ad interim appointments
and go on with the work of govern
ment, which today is paralyzed.
As a matter of fact, there is no leg
islature- The men who are paid to
make the laws for New York merely
carry out the orders of the Tammany
and Republican bosses
Boss Murphy is playing golf on Long
Island He issues his daily commands
to Albany over the long distance tele-
phone. They are Obeyed to the letter.
Twice a week boss Barnes goes to the
room of senator Brown, the Republican
''laeder," and makes known his will
Bosses Act Together.
The two bosses act together against
governor Sulzer without any pretense
of partisan division.
Not only does the legislature ignore
the governor and defeat the work of
government by refusing to adjourn, but
1t cut out of the general supply bill
the $4,000 that has always been given
to the executive for invests ations, and
refuses to let him have a dollar to
enable him to search out and punish
grafters in the highway department
conservation department prison de-
partment and other places where ring
sters have been getting fat
The extraordinary thing about this
IS that It has been customary to vote
these executive investigating funds.
even to governors Of hostile political
faiths.
Governor Sulzer has been left with
out dollar to employ Investigators
and go on with the work of Riding the
departments Of gratCers and incompe-
tents.
Nothing like it has been seen in New
York before.
Tammany Leaders BoRstinE.
The Tammany leaders openly boast
that they have deprived the governor
of everything except the power to en-
ploy stenOgraphers.
They have refused to confirm the
important appointments he has made
and they insist on keeping up the sham
legislative sessiOn-at $1,000 a day ex-
tra-sO that he cannot fill the offices
between sessions.
This is the degraded and disastrous
effect of a dominated legislature
upon the public business OF the state
today.
And all because governor Sulzer
would not put boss Murphy's henchman
Gaffney in control of the S66. OOO. 600
which is being spent on public roads
and insisted on pressing for an honest
direct primary law against the VIII
or the Murphy-Barnes conspiracy to
perpetuate boss rule in politics and
government
Bliss Murphy controls the attorney
general and the state controller.
Murphy's Threat.
1t was OF April Is that governor Sui
ger saw boss Murphy for the last time
and left with the threat ringing in his
ears, I'll have you out of office in six
months"
Since then the ring has tried to black
mail him into obedience; has trailed him
night and day with hired spies; has
sent private detectives to search his !
record in Washington, in Albany, in ]
New York city. in Alaska and in his |
bOyhOOd home in New Jersey.
But the thing that should arouse the 4
people to a realizing sense of danger |