New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25

New York City Democrat, and who
fought with the seth, said in speaking
for the bill:
"a distinguished service medal was
pinned on my breast in France after
my first battle. But to be frank about
1t, I'd rather have had q bottle Of beer
handed me-"
Assemblyman Charles H. Belts. au-
thor OF the daylight repeal law, a Re-
publican Of Wayne County. led the
fight against the passage Of the bill
WHICH was preceded by an Intellectual
attempt of Assemblyman Maurice
Bloch, Democrat, of New York. to dis
charge Rules Committee from further
consideration of his beer BILL
Congress-" said Belts, "has passed a
law. and every one must obey the Con-
stitution and support the law"
McCue, who followed Belts, char
acterized the Volstead act as . lie on
its face.
'lf every one was to attack the Con-
stltution as you do" retorted Belts
TINS would be country of anarchists!'
McCue winked at Belts.
Swssa's Final Drive
When the Walker Gillett bill came
from the Senate according to parlia-
mentary custom 1t went to the Assem-
bly, Committee on Rules. Speaker
Sweet let it be known that he would
not report it out. This forced Colonel
Glllett to move the discharge Of The
committee. which was carried by a vote
OF 81 to 81
The vets gained one more vote when
the bill itself was up for final passage.
The vote in the Assembly showed but
one Democrat voting against the bill,
J. Van Wagenen, Of Schoharie. OF the
Republican majority. 81 voted for the
bill in the lower house and 56 against.
Thirty-four of the Democratic minority
OF 50 voted with the wet Republicans.
The Assembly vote follows:
Ayes = Republicans: Amos, Baum,
Blakely. BLY,, Bourke, Brundage. Camp
bell, J. T. Carroll, Caulfeld, Chamber
lin, Crowley. Damico, Dimin, Doherty,
Donohoe, Fearon. Forbell, Fox, Comp
Ter. r. H. Gillett, Halpern, Hawkins,
Jesse, Lee, McWhinney, Mead, Moore,
Morrissey, Miss, Mullen Neary, Pellet,
Petite, Roosevelt Ross, Seelbach,
Simpson, Miss M. L. Smith, o. j. Smith,
Soule, Steinberg, Stitt, Trahsn. Ullman,
s; s; 3. Va Van Wagenen, Wallace, Webb,
81.
Bu9sS osrre w Bsas5ey eos esss
Cross. Cuvillier. Dickstein. Donohue,
Easton, Evans, Flynn, Gillette miss E.
W, Griffith, Hamill, Healy, Henderson,
Kelly, Herman, Leininger, Lentol, Lind
say. McArdle, McCue, Mcdonald, Nc
Kee: Mclaughlin q. F.. Mclaughlin
q. JO Patr1yhowski, Reilly, Reynaud,
Schwab, Taylor. Total, "a.
Grand total, 85.
Noes-Republicans: Adler, Ames, D.
H.; Ames, H. L.; Belts, Blodgett,
Bloomfield, Booth, Brady, Cheney,
Cole, Cowee, Davies, Dobson, F; Dob
son, G. A.; Downs, Duke, Everett, Fen
ner, Gage, Gardner, Hager, Harring-
ton, Harris, Hausner, Hunter, Hutch
inson, Jacobs, Jeffrey, jerks, Judson,
Kenyon, Latin, Lee. Long, Lord, Lown,
MacFarland, Machold, Martin, Nc
senss I hoxe SN sats9 s Rssss s Rs
c: c.. Tallett, Thayer, Tyler, Walrath,
wheelock, Whitcomb. Williams, Tim
norman. Total Sc.
Democrats-Van Wagenen, ii.
Grand total, 81.
Speaker Sweet did not vote, and re-
fused to announce whether he was wet
or dry. There were two absentees-
Peck, of Rockland, and Witter, of Tioga,
both Republicans.
minority voted for the bill. Six Re-
three against it. There was but one
absentee in the upper house, Senator
c: c.. Lockwood, Republican, of Kings,
who is confined by illness to his hotel
here.
The vote in the Senate follows: -s,
Ayes ~ Republicans: Abeles, Bur-
lingame, Karle, Law, Sage, Walters and
Whitley. Total, 8.
Democrats-Black, Boylan. Carroll.
Gothic, Dodge. Bowling, Downing. Dun
nigan, Farrell, Xaplan, Kelly, Lynch,
McGarry, Mackrell, Miller, Ramsperger,
Russell, Schackno, Sutherland, Twomey
and Walker. Total, 81.
Grand total, 81.
Noes-Republicans: Baumes, Brown,
Burling, Carson, Davenport, Ferris,
Fowler, Gibbs, Hewitt, Kasson, Knight,
Law, Loman, Lusk, Marshall. Mullan,
Pitcher, Swift, G. F. Thompson, G. L.
Thompson, Towner. Walton and Yelver-
ton. Total, 20.
Democrats-0.