New-York tribune., 1922-02-23
Voting Machine
Bill Passed in
Senate, 81 to IT
Tammany Forces Beaten
Despite Their .Jccrs That
Measure Will Not End
Election irregularities
Chicago Example Cited
) WaysEound There to Cheat
During Bal)oiing and ;
Aftcrward, Says Walker
Fronl a sloo corrcarordcrs


ALBANN, Feb. 22.-Thc Tolh.yt-
fcssc bill providing for voting ma
eaines III New York City passed the
Senate to-day by vote of 81 to IT,.
Only tho Democrats voted against tho
measure which Vas opposed bv Tam
many Hall.
Senator Ward V Tolbert. N advo-
Csing the passage Of the bill. sa,d
mat after similar legislation became
isp last year it was deliberately nulIi-
ted hy the New York City administers
ton.
Ine theft Of too elections on be
ralf Of New York CITY candidate for
'nc Legislature. ono Of whom is NOV ~
ei'tng but viii be uuaeated within
" week. would alone bc justification for
TIC passage of this measure, not to
pcas Of the economies which viii re-
ant from the installation of these ma
chimes. said Senator Volbcrt.
Senator James j Walker. minority
leader scoifed At the thought that tho
votinc machine would prevent election
,rsuds.
Calls Tan'ncring Easy
In Chicago aid The Democratic
'-ader they found five nays to dc
'raud the voting machines whiio vot.
inc and three 'raNs TO talnpcr with
them afterusrd With INC irccn,uty
# Now tori ern. these mcthods Of
cheating the voting machinc could be
doubled
senator Walker added tnat people IN
fep ort city llNd to sec the votes
.hov cast
Why. doNu in Now York Citv." ssid
eeraior Edmund Soidl Socialist can.
dates who arc crposed b. ramnany
nominees can't cNcu Get chance t.
&c tho ballots cast for them. let alone
'hc NotcTs I.refer ospcc ALL to two
candidates for aldermen on the Social
lst ticket Tho 0crc duly elected but
Tammsny mon. Who held them for
nearly tpo years. until the courts in
tervened and forced Tho Tammsnv
BOARD % Aldermen 20 count the votes.
which resulted in the seating OF tho
socialists. Voting machines will be Of
great benefit 10 New Work. City. for
thev viii do away With fraud Two
Ncard lot Of talk about home rule
Il the New York City administratio
wont do the right thing. then it should
re compelled to-"
State Wide. Say Republicans
no Republicans, answering the cry
~ the Democrats that the bill violated
the homo rule principle. pQlnted out
nave always been held to be Of state
concern. and that no home rule amend
meDt now before The Legislature would
make the voting machine measure
other than statewide bin.
When New York City uses the ma
chimes it will be the forty-ninth city
In the state to have adopted them.
Several New York City measures
were reported out by committees to-
A ~
OF charitable and religion properties.
In the Senate two bills increasing the
salaries of clerks and county detectives
in the office of the District Attorney
of Kings County were advanced
The Burlingame bills increasing the
salaries in the Police and Fire depart
ments were advanced to the order OF
final passage.
Another salary increase bill of Sen
ably 1t increases the pay of the mem
hers of the New York City tax com
mission from $1,000 20 $4,000 and that
Of chairman of the commission from
$4,000 10 $4,000.
Bucketshop Inquiry Asked
The Assembly to-day passed the
Ferris bill which creates one com
Farms and Markets. The vote was
1O3 to 40 The bill has already been
passed by the Senate and now goes to
the Governor. Il carried with it a
number of amendments to the aeri-
cultural law which are largely techni-
cal. Another bill passed by the AS
sembly WIS the Campbell measure
which prohibits persons convicted of
being draft evaders from holding pub
lie Office.
Senator Abraham L. Katlin, of
Brooklyn, introduced a resolution which
would create a legislative committee
Of three Senator'S and five Assembly
men TO investigate bucketshops and
fraudulent stock corporations. 1t car
res an appropriation of $4,000.