New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-01
Speaker Says Governor Is
Trying, to Conceal
Own DupIiCity.'
SEES HIM VIRTUE AS
CONSCIENCE PRICKS
Calls Charge That an ApprOpria.
ton Agreement Was Evaded
MiSstatement.
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Albany. March 3l.-Thaddeus G. Sweet,
Speaker of the Assembly. in statement
issued tonight branded as msstatemelts
some of the charges made by the Gov
error regarding the failure of the As
sembly and Senate 70 get together on the
appropriation and supply bills
The Speaker tells OF his efforts to get
the Tammany Senate to agree on the
financial bills that would not mean the
loss Of millions TO the state. Mr. Sweets
statement follows:
The comeback Of Governor Glynn is
amusing. and | can see him writhe and
squirm as his guilty conscience pricks
him He states that he has had experts
from the Controllers office going over
the Assembly bills and calls attention TO
items therein. For three weeks experts
from the Controllers office assisted in the
preparation OF these bills. and that is
why the Assembly was able TO cut out
millions of dollars requested in the report
Of the Department of Efficiency and
Economy.
why don't you explain TO the people,
Governor Glynn. where your Tammany
Senate was from 10 o'clock in the morning
until $50 at night, when il should have
been attending to the legislative duties,
as was the Assembly? Why don't you
tell the people something about the bills
as thew we're sent back 10 the Assembly
by the Senate?
ut doesn't need an expert from the
Controllers Jffice TO tell you how impos-
sibe il was for the Assembly to concur
in these bills and leave it possible for
state departments to administer the af-
fairs thereof. cut for the sole purpose OF A
second attempt TO force the Assembly 10
compromise. and give your Tammany
office grabs by your hitherto successful
eleventh hour tanning process.
Your first charge | brand as an abso-
lutte misstatement Of facts You say that
| evaded your charge that was standing
on the Senate floor when the amended ap-
preparation bill passed the Senate. do
lot evade it. neither do | deny II. | pro-
claim that | was there interceding with
the Senate members OF the conference
committee for a meeting to consider the
amended supply bills, but without success,
while you were hidden away from access
Of our Assembly committee. l left the
Senate Chamber and walked through the
corridor TO the door Of the Senate finance
conference room with the chairman oil the
Senate Conference Committee, Senator
Frawlev. still endeavoring TO arrange
meeting, but to no avail, whereupon }
proceeded TO the Assembly and prepared
to adjourn
I'm calling attention TO the three DIS
carrying appropriations for my district
YOU forget that the one for $4,000 IS the
.iinetto bridge bill, which YOU told me
last December YOU would sign as soon as
could get it to you in the regular ses-
sion-a bill TO restore a bridge destroyed
though barge canal construction ana
where human life had been sacrificed as a
result thereof.
zone bill was for 10000 TO abate a
nuisance in the heart Of the city or ui-
ton. caused by the abandonment OF the
old canal by the construction of the new
barge CANA, anu tue dbdt'hhtHN "'NN"
for upon the recommendation OF the
State Health Commissioner. DR.. BiSss
man eminently qualified to pass upon the
necessity for it.
The third bill. carrying an approprla-
ton Of $4,000. TO be taken from the
Barge Canal fund, was TO construct a
channel to eliminate an annual damage
charge against the state by food waters
occasioned by more barge canal con-
struction.
ION. Governor. YOU are talking about
subjects unfamiliar to you. DO not. ike
The ostrich, attempt to conceal your own
duplicity by hiding your head under what
vou would have others believe was my or
the Assembly's hypocrisy. Calm thyseh.
cool thy fevered brow and find comfort
i'm the words Of Nathan unto David; Inc
Lord hath taken away thy sin. but the
boy shall die.