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ROW IN THE
ASSEMBLY.
Mr. Hennessey's Resolution Taken in Earnest.
MR.
FOLEY IN A WHITE HEAT.
Mr. Hennessey
Proposed to Congratulate the Public on the Adjournment of
Congress—Democrats
and Republicans Joined in the Laugh, but Mr. Foley
Failed
to See the Joke— Doings of the Night Session.
ALBANY, March 5.—The monotony of the third
reading of bills in the house was broken by Mr. Hennessy (Dem.), who sent to
the desk as a privileged resolution the following:
Resolved, if the senate concur, that the
legislature of the state of New York congratulate the people of the United
States upon their release from the menace to public progress and general
prosperity which existed while the Fifty-third congress had the power to make
laws for the nation.
The speaker put the question of the adoption
of the resolution.
As soon as its import was understood, Mr.
Foley, the minority leader, jumped into the aisle, shouting, "I
object!" "I object!"
The house was plunged into confusion on the
instant.
Speaker Fish hammered the desk with his
gavel, calling for a viva voce vote on the resolution and ignoring Mr. Foley,
who was vainly shouting his objections.
"I ask to have my rights respected on the
floor of this house," cried Mr. Foley, white with anger. "This is an
outrage and I protest against it. I have been here five years and I never saw
the rules transgressed in this outrageous manner."
Mr. Hennessey sat unmoved during the outburst,
with an amused smile at the excitement which his resolution had created.
Some of the Democrats appeared to view the
resolution as a joke and joined with the Republicans in the general laughter. A
few of the others, who sympathized with Mr. Foley, saw nothing to laugh at, and
plainly showed their disapproval of the resolution.
The resolution was adopted.
LEGISLATIVE
TRANSACTIONS.
Doings In
Senate and Assembly—Bills Signed by the Governor.
ALBANY, March 5.—The largest calendar of the
session so far confronted the senate at the opening of the week's work. A
number of petitions against Sunday openings were handed down.
The senate took up the calendar without
delay.
Senate bills passed:
Senator Childs', making bridges over county
lines an equal charge on each county affected.
Senator Guy's, allowing New York to bond
itself for $500,000 for additions to the museum of natural history.
Senator Lexow's, appropriating $2,500 for
completing the sewage system of Hudson River state hospital.
Mr.
Kelsey's, appropriating $75,000 for additional buildings for the normal and
training school at Geneseo.
Senator Kilburn called up his concurrent
resolution amending the constitution relative to the forest preserve and
offered for it a substitute which provides that the legislature may exchange
state lands without the preserve for land within it. This was adopted and the
resolution ordered reprinted.
The senate went into committee of the whole
and advanced several bills to third reading.
Adjourned.
In the
Assembly.
Beginning with last night's session no
resolutions can be offered in the assembly on Monday except privileged
resolutions and resolutions from the senate, except by unanimous consent of the
house. This rule shuts off the flood of resolutions which take up the time of
the Monday night sessions during January and February.
L. E. Chittenden, former treasurer of the
United States, was an attentive listener to the proceedings of the session.
The annual report of the commissioners of
quarantine was handed down.
Bills passed:
Mr. Brush's, changing the age of consent of
females to 18 years.
Mr. Gleason's, regulating the compelling of
attendance of witnesses in civil actions.
Mr. Hamilton's, authorizing cities and towns
to provide for public baths.
Mr. Gerst's, appropriating $25,000 to repair
the north branch reservoir in the town of Wllmuth.
Mr. O'Grady's, exempting wood cutting machinery
from the act requiring conditional sales of personal property on credit to be filed
in town and county clerks' offices.
Mr. Kern's, making the hours of closing of
county clerks' offices 5 o'clock p. m.
Mr. Lounsbury's, appropriating $70,000 for
an addition to the state normal school at New Platz.
Mr. Stevenson's, appropriating $8,000 for
repairs to the Glens Falls feeder of the Champlain canal.
Adjourned.
Signed
by Governor Morton.
ALBANY, March 5.—Governor Morton has signed:
Chapter 68— Senator Lexow's bill, providing
for the improvement of Downing park, Newburg.
Chapter 69— Senator O'Connor's bill, amending the act relative to the
issue of $1,000,000 in bonds for park improvements in New York city.
Chapter 70—Senator Mullins' bill,
authorizing the commissioner of agriculture to compromise in cases of violations
of the law regulating the sale of oleomargarine.
Chapter 71—Mr. Schulz's bill, providing for
the indexing of mortgages and conveyances.
Cash
Register Company Wins.
WASHINGTON, March 5.—The supreme court has
reversed the decision of the lower court in the case involving the validity of
the patent of the National Cash Register company. This decision is in favor of
the company.
The
Woman's Edition of the Cortland Standard.
Forty years ago, says the Chenango Telegraph of Norwich, a woman, who wrote
for the papers, was regarded as a curiosity and veiled her identity under initial
letters or a nom de-plume; to-day it is quite a fad for women in their own proper
persons to edit many-paged editions of the largest city dailies and not only to
edit, but to attend to the whole business management, and solicit for the
advertisements and for the sale of the papers. The scheme originated in
San-Francisco and has worked its way East. It is now raging in Central New
York.
The latest production of the kind is before us
and bears the name of The Cortland STANDARD, dated February 22, and edited by
the Woman's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. The entire proceeds, through the
generosity of the publishers, is to be devoted to a fund for a new Y. M. C. A.
building in that place. The ladies are to be congratulated on having produced
so readable a paper and better still on their unexpected financial success.
The paper contains sixteen pages under the
classified heads of Art, Music, Education, Philanthropy, Medicine, Temperance, Athletics,
Religion, Political Equality, Correspondence, Society, Literature, Finance,
with a department for the Men, Children, City News, Current Events and Secret
Societies. The vast amount of labor represented can only be appreciated by
those who performed it, and concerning which some of them have remarked that
they felt like the woman who rode down the toboggan slide, she wouldn't have
missed the experience for worlds, but she wouldn't do it again for worlds.
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A SLIGHT
FIRE.
Prompt
Work Extinguished it Without Sounding an Alarm.
There was a slight blaze in the STANDARD
office at about 6:30 last night which was discovered at once and was promptly
extinguished. A kerosene oil stove has been kept lighted in winter time in the
pit under the Cox newspaper press whenever the press was in use or about to be
used. The purpose of this is to keep the ink warm so that it will flow well.
Last night as Emmet E. Van Wormer was
returning to the office after supper he saw a flash of light in the pressroom.
Dashing into the business office he called fire, and C. H. White and L. P.
Hine, who were there, accompanied him to the pressroom, where it was seen that
the web of paper on the Cox press was on fire. A few pails of water from the faucet
and sink close at hand extinguished the blaze, though the whole office had
become filled with smoke.
Investigation showed that the oil stove had
probably exploded, and that the burning oil had been thrown up against the web
of paper which hung a considerable distance above the stove, setting it on
fire. The flames followed the web clear through the press to the roll of paper
at the end. The sides of the pit are of stone and mortar, so no fire could catch
there, but the composition ink rolls of the press which were over the fire, and
a wooden transfer roll were ruined.
New rolls will be required. The damage will
probably not exceed $100, and is covered by insurance.
As the STANDARD'S Huber book and job press,
upon which the paper was printed two years ago while the Cox press was being
set up, was in use for a big job last night and to-day, the semi-weekly and
to-day's daily, through the courtesy of the editor of The Democrat, was printed
upon the Democrat's press. The paper hereafter, until the new rolls come, will
be printed on the Huber press.
PROHIBITION
CONVENTION.
All but
Two of the Citizens' Ticket are Endorsed.
About twenty members of the Prohibition
party met last evening in G. A. R. hall and held the Prohibition convention.
The meeting was called to order by Robert D. McMillen. Charles W. Collins was
made chairman, Adolph Frost, Jr., and W. W. Stevenson, secretaries and tellers.
The nominees of the citizens' ticket were
all endorsed by the convention with the exception of two of the candidates for
school trustees, E. F. Jennings and L. D. C. Hopkins. Mrs. Mary E. Lester
Squires and Mrs. Kate Greensman were nominated and J. A. Jayne was endorsed.
A resolution empowering the chairman to fill
vacancies on the ticket was adopted.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
W. D.
TISDALE NAMED FOR VILLAGE PRESIDENT.
J. C.
Reid and W. T. Smith Nominated for Trustees—Brief and Enthusiastic Meeting.
The Republican village convention was held
this afternoon in Fireman's hall and was called to order at 9:05 o'clock by
Geo. A. Crossman who nominated for chairman Dorr C. Smith, who was elected.
E. C. Alger and D. G. Corwin were elected
secretaries and Frank G. Dibble and Harry Swan tellers. Delegates from the
several wards presented their credentials and the convention was found to
consist of the following members:
First Ward—G. S. Sands, C. F. Brown, D. G.
Corwin, G. A. Tisdale, D. N. Lucy, Harry Swan, R. C. Duell, L. W. Rood, Bert
Allen, B. A. Winter, Lawrence Hills, Eugene Woodworth.
Second ward—J. W. Strowbridge, S. H. Strowbridge,
C. H. Price, H. F. Bingham, W. W. Gale, Edward Keator, Frank Dibble, W. J.
Mantanye, E. C. Alger, L. F. Stillman, Geo. H. Ames, N. L. Miller.
Third ward—D. F. Wallace, J. D.
Schermerhorn, C. E. Ingalls, J. C. Barry, Geo. Larabee, C. T. Peck, W. W. Heut,
Benjamin Peters, C. D. Geer, G. A. Crossman, H. M. Phillips, E. H. Bates.
Fourth ward—F. J. Peck, Dorr C. Smith, David
H. Brown, Grove T. Maxon, Arthur F. Stillson, A. C. Walrad, Wm. E. Phelps, M. E.
Corwin, I. W. Brown, Adolph Frost, John Hodgson, Henry A. Dickinson.
The motion was made by J. W. Strowbridge and
was seconded by C. T. Peck that a formal ballot be taken for president.
Carried.
W. J. Mantanye moved that the secretary of
the convention cast a single ballot for Wayland D. Tisdale [incumbent] for
president of the village. It was seconded by several and unanimously carried
amid tumultuous cheers.
John O. Reid, who was nominated by the
caucus for trustee of the First ward, was accepted by the convention and his
nomination was ratified.
The nomination of W. T. Smith for trustee of
the Third ward was also ratified.
John O. Barry moved that the secretary cast
a single ballot for J. L. Watrous for assessor, which was unanimously carried
and Mr. Watrous was declared nominated.
R. C. Duell moved that the convention
proceed to an informal ballot for col-lector. The motion was seconded and
carried. The vote resulted as follows:
Whole number cast, 48
Eugene Woodworth, 28
Fred Tenney. 7
O. W. Monroe, 18
Mr. Monroe withdrew and a motion was made by
H. A. Dickinson that the nomination of Mr. Woodworth be declared unanimous.
Carried,
H. A. Dickinson moved the secretary cast a
single ballot for H. L. Peckham for the office of treasurer. Seconded and carried.
Mr. Peckham was declared nominated.
N. L. Miller moved that the secretary cast a
single ballot for F. D. Smith, L. F. Stillman and G. J. Mager as candidates for
school trustees. Carried. They were declared nominated.
The following nominations for inspectors of
election of the various wards were ratified by the convention:
First ward—Bert Allen and Lawrence Mills.
Second ward—Frank G. Dibble and Day Baker.
Third ward—Duane Howard and Theodore
Stevenson.
Fourth ward—A. C. Walrad and T. H. Dowd.
The following village committeemen were
ratified by the convention:
First ward— R. C. Duell.
Second ward—C. H. Price.
Third ward—G. A. Crossman.
Fourth ward—Dorr C. Smith.
C. T. Peck moved that D. F. Wallace be
chairman at large for the ensuing year. He was unanimously nominated
H. A. Dickinson moved that the committee be
empowered to fill vacancies should any occur among the nominations. The
[motion] was seconded by C. T. Peck and declared carried.
Chairman Smith made a brief speech
suggesting that the committee call a meeting in each of the various wards and
make an effort to roll up the usual majority.
On motion of J. C. Barry seconded by C. E.
Ingalls, the convention adjourned.
At a subsequent meeting of the village
committee D. F. Wallace was elected chairman and C. H. Price secretary and
treasurer. The committee then adjourned until 4 o'clock to-morrow afternoon at
Fireman's hall.
Taylor-Hubbell.
Mr. Frank L. Taylor and Miss May Hubbell,
both of Cortland, were married last Saturday night at 9 o'clock at the
residence of Mr. J. McLean of Cuyler. The wedding occurred in that place at the
special request of the bride's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Keep. Rev.
M. S. Leete of the Cuyler M. E. church was the officiating clergyman. Mr. Keep
gave the bride away.
After congratulations the party repaired to
the diningroom, where was spread a most bounteous repast to which all did ample
justice. Among the wedding presents were a check for $20 from the bride's uncle
and aunt, Rev. and Mrs. G. D. Young of Princeton, N. J,, and one from her
father for $50.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Baumberg of 190 South
Main-st. of Cortland were present. None but the immediate friends were invited.
FROM A
REPUBLICAN.
The
Citizens' Movement Condemned. Criticisms on its Management.
To the Editor of the Standard:
SIR—It would seem as if the Republicans who
are inclined to follow off the so-called "citizens" movement should hesitate
a little and see what occasion there is for it, if any. The Republican party
has been noted for standing by the principles of good government and the best
interests of the people, and it has done so under attacks from the Democrats in
front and the guerillas who always hover in the rear, disguised by their I-am-holier-than-thou
airs and assumptions. The public officers it elects are always ready to perform
their public duties as well as may be.
This year the "citizens" movement
is premature in that it is started in advance of the Republican primaries and
has nominated a ticket to oppose the Republican ticket before the Republicans
have taken any action. It looks too much like an organized attack on that
party. The only excuse offered is a refusal by the Republican league, which is
not the Republican party, and has no right to dictate its policy, to agree to
dictate the policy of the party at the dictation of the organizers of the new
movement, many of whom are not even nominally Republicans. The action of the
league is not the action of the party, and no excuse for any attack on it.
When the action of the so-called
"citizens party" is scrutinized, it is not found to be up to the
noisy pretences of its self-constituted leaders. A convention of citizens is called
by a resolution, accompanied by columns of denunciation of all people except
those who are inaugurating the new move, asking all good people to attend, as
if it were to be a mass convention. But when the people attend it is found that
private caucuses have been held in each ward, among the leaders of these
"citizens," to which a trusted few have been invited, but of which
the public had no notice and in their private gatherings delegates had been chosen
of the true believers only, to attend the convention, according to the most
approved machine or "ring" methods. These delegates constituted the
convention, which was a very spectacular affair after all, interspersed with
many oratorical pyrotechnics and general denunciation of those not of the
elect, who alone could take any part.
This convention, having among its noisiest
leaders some good, earnest, well-meaning men, was also illustrated by the
prominence of some noted political crooks and chronic disturbers, and some ambitious
ones smarting under fancied personal wrongs because of their failure to receive
coveted honors or respect in the other parties.
After having organized a new party and
nominated a ticket to oppose those to be nominated, these same people
encouraged their followers to attend the later Republican caucuses and to
capture them by voting in many of these opponents of the Republican party as
delegates. The Republicans did well in their primaries to hold that those only were
entitled to vote there who were to act with and support their party, and that
those who had organized and were carrying on the opposing citizens' party were
not eligible to help make nominations for the Republican party.
It is ridiculous and almost disgusting to
see men so puffed up with either egotism or hypocrisy as to assume to have all
the good in all parties, and the right to attend a caucus of one party one night
to make nominations and then the next evening to attend a caucus of the party
they are fighting.
The idea that village officers are to be
elected on the one issue of enforcing the excise law is absurd, and is used
merely to mislead well meaning people. Village officers can have but little to
do with that while their main duty is the care of village streets and schools
and interests generally. Village officers cannot arrest any one, nor can the
village police arrest any one unless found in the very act of breaking a law,
without a warrant first issued by a magistrate upon legal proof made to him.
Policemen cannot sit in barrooms, and if they did, no break of law would occur
in their presence. The usual way of proving offenses, and the only way, is to
enter complaint to a magistrate or to the district attorney, and have
witnesses, the habitués of the saloons, sworn, as to the matter. Any citizen
can make the complaint and will find Republican officers able and willing to do
their duty. Village officers cannot act except as citizens.
If these "leaders" are acting in
good faith, why do they not use the machinery provided and not sit back
denouncing somebody else? It is like their stepping aside from all parties and
then assuming that there is no goodness left in those parties because of their
absence. Such men would not wish to rise with common people in a general
resurrection, but would insist on a special one for themselves, with all
details in their own hands.
REPUBLICAN.
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