New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16

some Of the Tammany Senate leaders
were going around the chamber but
tonholing wavering members ana nrs-
inc them To stand firm on the vote
against SulZer.
One of the Senators who had been SO
approached, Platt was told, and ne 80
reported to the Governor, had eaiieu
the attention of President Cullen to the
incident. and announced that while ne
had been inclined TO find Sulzer guii'S
on the charge before the court the ao-
tivitv of his opponents had brought
him 10 the decision that he Wouio nave
TO vote mot guilty.
Piatt told the Governor mat seVeral
sof the Senators who had voted IN sui
,zer's favor to-day intended TO make q
united demand tomorrow morning
that the doors Of the court should be
thrown open and that all the future
deliberations and votes of the court be
taken in public
*.
matter should be decided in secret
session." Governor Sulzer said TO MT
.Platt, when the secretary made MS re-
port to him tonight.
The Governor had been told by some
of his friends that the reports OF the
vote which were being circulated were
optirelv false. and for a time he held
to that view.
e.. Platt convinced him, however that
his report was reliable. and that IL hao
come directly from one Of his triehoS
in the court. who had voted with MIN
steadily throughout.
81 have been receiving telephone calls
from points ali over the state To-Day
the Governor then said TO his secretary
asking me whether a vote had been
taken yet and If so, on what charge 1t
had been taken. and especially inquiries
as to how the Senator from that par
ncular district voted.
"I was forced to tell them that while
/ had heard various reports. earlier III
the evening, the court members mao
been bound to secrecy. and that there
had been no definite official announce
-nent. of any vote, or, indeed, whe'her
ANY vote had been taken
&C.,. 81 Governor Continues to Hope.
/. +; The Governor said that he believed
mis- Office entitled him to be advised as
10 a vote which had been taken, ana
that he could see no reason for secrecy
after the votes had been duly regis
tered ....
The Governor told Plat that despite
ihe defniteness of the reports con-
viewed to him ne could not feel certain
that the court had voted him guilty, but
inclined TO the notion that the vote re-
ported 10 him must have been on the
question of admitting the first article
rather than on the question Of convict
ing him under it.
When the court adjourned tonight II
was the intention TO resume executive
session tomorrow morning and go on
with the consideration Of the other
articles OF impeachment in their nu-
merical order in the light of the merits
of the proof presented BY the Assembly
Board Of Impeachment Managers.
>. The general opinion is that this will
take all day. or at least well into the
afternoon, before proceedings have
reached point where the court will
resume its public sessions. 1t is the un-
fierstanding Of the lawyers here that
the courts views on the question of
the Governors guilt or innocence en-
each article will be registered in this
tentative fashion: then some further
proceeding be taken to register formal
final votes before the court votes pub
licly on the question:
Shall William Sulzer be removed
from his Office Of Governor of this state
for the cause stated in the article Tor
articles) of the charges preferred
against him upon which you have
found him guilty"
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