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Show SOCIALISTS BARRED FROM LEGISLATURE DRAMATIIC CLIMAX COMES TO FIGHT IN THE NEW YORK ASSEMBLY. Five Men Recently Re-elected by Their Constituents Are Deprived of Their Seats, Three Being Expelled and Two Tendering Resignations. Albany, N. Y. The assembly of the New York state legislature on September Septem-ber 21, by a vote of 90 to 45 in each case, expelled three of the five Socialist Social-ist members Louis Waldman and August Au-gust Claessens of New York and Charles Solomon of Kings county and voted 87 to 48 to permit Samuel A. Dewitt and Samuel Orr, Socialist members mem-bers from the Bronx, to retain their seats. The two last named, however, after a vote to reinstate Waldman had been lost, 81 to 52, took the floor in turn and verbally tendered their resignations. res-ignations. The proceedings were not unlike those that occupied virtually all of March 31 and Into the early morning of April 1 at the last session, when all five were barred from their seats, except that the dramatic situations and excitement that attended the first ouster were lacking. The resolution Calling for the expulsion expul-sion of the five Socialists was Intro; duced by Colonel It. II. Cfillett, lsftifJl)-lican, lsftifJl)-lican, Columbia county, and the judiciary ju-diciary committee, to which it was referred, re-ferred, reported the resolution back to the house for consideration without recommendations'. Following an all-day discussion, the vote was taken on the expulsion of Waldmnn, Solomon and Claessens, the vote being 90 to 45. Assemblyman Dewitt, after the voting, vot-ing, gained the floor and said that, while he had the privilege to sit in judgment of his three comrades, he refused re-fused to sit in a body so un-American that would pass such judgment. "I resign," re-sign," concluded Dewitt. Assemblyman Orr said he had given notice that he would accept no compromise. com-promise. "Tliis move," he continued, "is purely a question of politics, and I can not stay in a body with those who have proved themselves un-American until the house purges Itself of the un-Americans who made those decisions." |