History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . including amendments. Sheehanruled that the minority substitute had not been debatedsix hours, thus opening the door for unlimited debateby the offer of new amendments and construing thecloture rule into nullity. He refused to put an appealfrom his decision or to order a roll-call, but on demandof Charles T. Saxton, the President pro tern., John , the Clerk, did call the roll and the vote wastaken unseating McCarthy. Then Isaac H. Maynardobtained from County Judge Clute an injunctionrestraining the Clerk from calling the r
History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . including amendments. Sheehanruled that the minority substitute had not been debatedsix hours, thus opening the door for unlimited debateby the offer of new amendments and construing thecloture rule into nullity. He refused to put an appealfrom his decision or to order a roll-call, but on demandof Charles T. Saxton, the President pro tern., John , the Clerk, did call the roll and the vote wastaken unseating McCarthy. Then Isaac H. Maynardobtained from County Judge Clute an injunctionrestraining the Clerk from calling the roll, except underthe direction of the presiding officer. When the Senatereconvened Sheehan attempted to prevent the approvalof the journal recording the unseating of McCarthy,but Saxton, asserting his right as a Senator to preventthe usurpation of the Senates power by the Lieutenant-Governor, himself called the roll. Sheehan and Cluteboth retired from their untenable position. A Senate l4New York Tribune, November 18, 1893.^^Appleions Annual Cyclopedia, Wheeler Hazard Peckham Wheeler Hazard Peckham, lawyer; brother of Rufus Wil-liam Peckham; born in Albany, , January 1, 1833; grad-uated from Union college; admitted to the bar and practicedlaw with his father in New York City, later in St. Paul and again in New York. His growing fame as a constitu-tional lawver and his argument on the constitutionality of taxinggreenbacks won for him the friendship of his opponent in thecase, Charles OConor who as deputy attorney general duringthe exposure of the Tweed ring made Peckham his assistant;district attorney, New York county, 1884; nominated by Presi-dent Cleveland in 1894 for judge of the United States supremecourt but his nomination was not confirmed by the senate be-cause of the objections of the New York senators to his inde-pendent political tendencies; died in New York City, September27, 1905.
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