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they found that it was all right and I had accepted it, then Wagner tried to call back the lieutenant governor so that he could take the floor and be chairman of Rules again. Sullivan sent some perfectly worthy and obedient Tammany henchman of his own out to delay the lieutenant governor and take him somewhere else so that he wouldn't come back to the Senate because if he did, then Wagner would be chairman of the Rules Committee. He kept him up there in the speaker's seat so he couldn't come down and be chairman of the Rules Committee. It was awfully smart parliamentarianism as well as politics.

So they all got the idea and the bill was voted on as amended. Jim Foley voted against it, having previously spoken for it. When I saw that I knew that Big Tim and Newcomb had been telling me true, because he was always Murphy's spokesman. We lost several votes, but we got enough.

That was when I had to bring Big Tim and Christy Sullivan back - they'd gone to take the night boat to New York. I telephoned to the boat, got the captain and told him to tell Sullivan that I said it was important for them to come back because Foley was changing his vote. We got somebody to filibuster a while until they got there,