New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-15
ALLDSPRECEDENTAU CURS
EXPULSION OF ST|LWEL[
As Before. Many Senators Re-
turn from Home Districts
with Opinions Changed.
.UP TO WHITMAN, ANYWAY
Vote To Be Taken To day After
Each Side Has Summed Up
for Hour and a Half
Tammany Aloof.
{ BY Telegraph to The Tribune.

{ BY Telegraph 10 The Tribune
Albany, April l4.-After a summing up
Of the results OF the graft inquiry con-
Quoted last week by the Senate Judiciary
Committee, the Senate will vote to-mor-
row night on the question: Shall Senator
Stephen j. Stlwell be expelled from the
Senate" While. of course. the result is
not by any means foreclosed. If the drift
against Sulwell continues at it's present
rate Of speed IL is almost certain that
he will be expelled
There is being repeated here tonight
lust about what occurred the night before
the overwhelming vote was registered
against lothian =. Aids. Senators who
last week indicated their belief that the
case against Stilwel had not been proved
seemed 20 have changed their minds since
their trips home over the week end Ii
was that way with Aids. Men who even
the night before the vote assured him
that they would stand with him 10 tEe
DEAN voted against him the next day
They had got in touch with their districts
and found out what the voters thought
about Aids.
\ distinctly lively sense Of personal re-
sponsibilty is apparent among the Sena-
tors tonight. They realize, to judge from
their conversations. not only that their
individual record OF this vote viii be
watched by their districts. but that tho
Senate itself is not the final arbiter in
this graft charge. save as to the mem
bership of Stlwell in H.
What il the Senate does vote 20 sus-
tain Stilwell?" queried Senator tonight
Whitman will take up this matter as
sure as you're alive. Suppose he has him
indicted. Then where would the Senate
stand? We'd look Ike a fine bunch Of
hghbinders wouldn't We?
IL was different with the Aids case: the
statute OF limitations had run. Ia this
case the statute of limitations hasn't got
in its work. Practically every Senator
knows that whether the Senate cXpels
Stilwcn or eXonerates him, the Attorney
General will send the case TO District At
torney Whitman and perhaps designate
special Attorney General TO work with
him IN the grand jury proceedings.
desperate effort was being made to-
night seemingly by Stilwells friends 10
prevent any summing up Of the case be-
fore the Senate tomorrow. one Senator
said he didn't want TO have TO vote on tho
question after the lawyers had come In
and made spread-eagle speeches against
stilwel which had gone all over the
state.
Then Il man happened Ia believe the
other way and voted for Sulwell he'd be
IN Dutch with his constituents ne de-
clarcd.
This effort. or course. would have been
of some slight benefit to sulwell u II
had succeeded But IL didn't and couldn I
have. for IN the original resolutions out
lining tho procedure adopted by the Sen
ate there was clause providing for sum
ming up. The effort GOT far enough to-
night however. 10 prevent the adoption
OF q resolution offered by senator MIr-
laugh. chairman Of the Judiciary Commit
tee. setting an -Four Tor the summing Hp
and the vote That will be adopted to-
morrow morning. 1t provides that sui
wells counsel may sum up the defence
for an hour and hair. beginning at .
2. m. Then Attorney General Carmody
will sum up on the other side for the
same length ot time. after which the vote
viii be taken.
stnwolrs friends have had a sort Of
dim hope that orders would come from
Tammany Han that he was 10 b" cN-
orerated. Nothing Of the sort mas oc-
Cured Everybody who - Boz a position
to speak with authority. from Senator
Wagner down. says that tho "organiza-
tiCn" has kept It's hands OF absolutely.
and that each member Of the Senate VIII
be expected to vote solidly according 20
the dictates OF mis- judgment and his con-
science
The Republican Senators held an in
formal conference tonight on the Stilwell
case. There will be nothing like caucus
action on it, but the indications were that
most OF the Senator'S Of that party con
sidered the Kendall charges 10 have been
sustained and would vote that way.
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