New-York tribune., 1920-04-15
Assembly Vote
Bars sThompson'
From the Floor
Senator Who Asserted Mem.
bers We're Drunk When
Socialists We're Expelled
Denied Usual Privileges
Twenty Go Unrecorded
Senate Asked to Expunge
Remarks FrOmIts Record:
Author Says He Has Proof
From G Stof Correspondent

ALBANY, April 14.-The Assembly
by vote to-day decided it's members
were not drunk on Mark A. Daly's
liquor Or anybody else's when they ex-
PEELED the five Socialist members. State
Senator George F. Thompson, the au-
thor of the charge of intoxication, was
accused of trying to make the Assem-
bly, appear contemplate.
A resolution entreating the State
Senate to expunge his charge from its
records was adopted. and Senator
Thompson himself was disciplined by
being barred from the rarely exercised
privilege Of entrance to the floor Of the
Assembly. A suggestion that the
Thompson charge be investigated by
the Assembly was vetoed before the
Assembly met. Twenty Assemblymen
failed to vote in deciding the issue as
to whether they or their fellows were
intoxicated on Expulsion night"
Before the resolution offered by As
semblyman Louis A. Cuvillier, which
aims at erasing the Thompson charge
from the Senate records, was adopted,
all the abuse that eight or nine AS
semblymen, speaking in rapid success
sion, could lay their tongues to.
Ready to Prove Charge
Thompson, after the Assembly had
acted, declared that he stood ready to
prove his charges if an investigation
we're ordered. He said tonight he has
information that more than $4,000
worth Of intoxicants were consumed
by the Assem- blymen on the night of
the Socialist custer
Some of the Assemblymen have in
formed Thompson they will back him
up and testify to the scenes of drunken
ness witnessed on the floor of the AS
sembly. 1t is doubtful if there will
ever be any investigation Of Thomp-
sons charges.
The proceedings in the Assembly fol-
rostrum between Sweet and three Of
his lieutenants-Assemb George
N. Jesse, Of New York; Assemblyman
Cuvillier and Minority Leader Simon
Adler. 1t lasted half an hour and Adler,
Cuvillier and Jesse returned to their
seats.
Jesse asked for the floor and
launched the attack on Senator Thomp-
son.
"The remarks by Senator Thompson"
said Jesse, were a malicious slander,
an infamous and deliberate lie, and he
uttered malicious and deliberate SLAM
der on this body. Thompson is a delb-
crate. malicious and wanton liar. He
ought to be denied the privileges of
this floor and he should be ostracized
by decent men, and when he dies he
should be taken to some isolated spot,
for his body would pollute the earth
and air where it is laid to rest"
Another Sweet lieutenant, Martin Nc
Cue, of Tammany Hall, next asailed
Thompson.
"He is drunk with arrogance and
conceit," said McCue. "He attacked us
for ousting the Socialists. There was
another little fellow over there, Sena-
tor Miller, who also attacked US, but
some one gave him kick in the shins,
where his brains are, and woke him
up. They were all little fellows who
attacked US. Take the poor little Board
Of Aldermen Of the City of New York
They attacked US. We are dignifed
body compared with them.
'"Thompson intimates that we were
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