New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-18
Newspaper Assassination.

The Tammany leader characterized the
case against Cohalan as one OF news
paper assassination" and ascrlbed the
motive OF the owners OF The World IN
taking up the Connolly matter 10 desire
for revenge on the Cohalans because OF
Surrogate Cohalans decision in the case
Of the estate OF Joseph Pulitzer.
Levy quoted from an editorial in me
Evening Mail" which he characterized as
the Progressive party paper In Ne"
York I'm which the Judiciary Committee
action in generating Cohalan was tul'y
approved" and then ended with an appear
10 the Assembly, not to treat tho question
from a partisan standpoint.
In the Senate, Elon r. Brown, the he-
publican leader. was the only MEMBER
who made any address before the vote
was taken. He upheld the report OF the
committee. and declared that any DOUBT
should be given 70 Justice Cohalan.
Senator Hewitt, in explaining his vote
against the adoption OF the eNonerauhs
report. declared that Justice Cohalah
should be severely criticised for accept
ing connolly's money under the circum-
stances. Senator Sage. who also Notea
against the report. said that an eXamina-
ton 81 the record OF the testimony had
convinced him that the 50 per cent charge
had been sustained. Senator Thompson
took the same view. adding that II the
committee report had been unanimous ne
would have been willing 10 accept It.
The dissent Of the two Assemblymen'
however" he said, lied me to 90 over
the record with great care. and | am
satisfied that the first charge was sus-
tanned"
The Tammany Senator's voted solidly
for the adoption OF the report without
Offering any explanation OF their votes
After the Cohalan matter had been dis
posed Of the majority floor leaders In both
houses announced that an adjournment
would be taken tomorrow until next
week, when the work on the Governors
financial bills and appointments will be
finished. and the extra session brought 10
an end.
The vote i'm the Senate was:
For the adoption OF the Judiciary Com
mittee report generating Cohalan: Blau-
welt Boyian Brown. Carroll. Carswell,
Coats, Cullen. Duhamel, Foley Frawley.
Healy. Heffernan. Herrick. McClelland.
Mcknight. Malone. Murtaugh, Patten,
Peckham, Pollock Transporter Sanner.
seely. Simpson, Stivers Sullivan, Torborg,
Wagner. Wende, Wheeler. and White.
Total. 81.
Against the report: Argetslnger. Hea-
cock. Hewitt. Palmer. Sage. Thompson,
Whitney and Wilson. Total. S. Absent. 10.
The vote In the Assembly was:
For the adoption OF the report: Birn-
krant. Bowie. Brereton. Burden, Burr.
Butts. Campbell. Carroll. Carver. Caugh-
Ian. Cole. Gothic, 'Cronin. Cuvillier, Daley.
Dennen. Denney, Donohue, Dorst. Doty.
Dox. Edwards. Elsner. Linden, Esqulrol,
Evans, Fallon. Farrell. Fitzgerald. Fin
ngan, Garvey Geoghan, Geyer. Gibbs.
Gllen. Goldberg. Grace. A. Greenberg
Grimme. Burnett, Hamilton, Hammer,
Hover Hughes, Jackson, Jones, Jude,
Kane. j. A. Kelly. j. j. Kelly. ]. ID. Kelly.
p. j. Kelly. Kenney, Kerrlgan, Herman,
Knott, Kornobls. Lane. Larrimer. Levy,
Lewis. Macdonald. Machold. Madden. Ma
lone, Maloney, McCue. McCullum, McDan-
iels. McElligott. McGrath. Mckee, Nc
Keen, Mcmahon. Norton. OBrien O'Con-
nor. oxford. Pappert. Patrie, Phillips,
Prime. Pullman, Robinson. Rozan.
schaap. Schinerdecker Schwarz. ]. l..
seely, seelye. Silverstein. Small, ]. A.
Smith. Myron Smith, Sufrin. Sutphin.
Sweet. Telford. +. j. Taylor. T. d. Tay-
lor. Tudor Ulrich. Van Woert. Walker
Ward. Well. Willmott. Wood. Yale. Yeo-
mans and Speaker Smith Total. 1i2
Against the report: Adler. Allen. Bax-