The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-12-14
MR.. FISH Is NOT PLEASED.
HE MAY WRITE ANOTHER LETTER TO
MR. MlIBY.

Ir re Cane Have the ways and Means
Committee, His Friends Say, He Won't
Take Any-StnI Farther Complexities
About tho Coveted Assembly tlcrIship.
The Hon. Ham Fish Of Putnam will not DO
Chairman OF any Of the important Assembly
committees at Albany this wlntor Mr.. Fish
made this declaration to his friends yesterday.
lie further asserted that In view OF his long
service In the Assembly and the experience he
had enioved on the Ways and Means Commit
tee. the Chnirmnnship OF that committee was
his ly right.
The Hon. George n. Malby. the Ogdensturg
statesman who Is slated for Speaker. however.
has perem ptorily declined to assign Mr. Fish
TO this Chairmanship 1t goes to DanIorth j.
Alnsworth OF Oswego. who Ia thus made leader
OF tho Assembly. Mr. Mnlby offered Mr.. Fish
the Chairmnnship OF the Railroads Committed
which was declined: and there Is now dispute
between Mr.. Mnlby's friends aud Mr.. Fish's
friends az to whether Mr.. Malby then offered
20 make MIR. Fish Chairman OF tho Cities Com
mittee.
AIr. Malby's friends said yesterday that he
did not. and Mr.. Fish's friends declared that
he did. and there you are. ANY way. Mr.
Fish declares that now he will not accept the
Craftsmanship OF any COMMITTEES savo the Ways
and Means. and this no cannot have Mr..
Malby's friends replying 30 this, declare that
no Republican at Albany Will cry and they
deny that Mr.. Fsh at any time since election
day has been in a position to declare what ho
would and what he wouldn't take.
This, they added was made very clear In the
account printed in THE SuS las. week OF Mr.
Malby's interview with Mr.. Fish at the Wind
sor Hotel. Mr.. Fish was annoyed that what
occurred ut that interview should get into
print. and no wrote to Mr.. Malby saying that
he had understood that the conversation was
Of private character. lie said other
things In his letter to Mr. Maby which
tcrLed 10 mike Dir. Malby responsible for the
publ cation in 1HE SUN of what was under
t.UOl TO be n deep down -in.t tho. woll interview
iish's letter and before leaving for Ogdens-
burg he wrote to Mr. Fish declaring that he
tHe article tic in TINE sGx and he reiterated
firmly that he had not talked Of tho interview
T,n IGf SUI rsG9rte sFh NE f aJnG Than hs
would like 10 get along easily and in friendly
way wit him i possible; that is ayerse to
able to settle any differences existing between
them WITHOUT the Intervention u outsiders
yesterday over tho correspondensc i was
not sa,sioc,ory 70 him and he may write MI Mr
tho two men is not oithe IL est, and Nj. Mnoy
mny, have trouble with Nj Fish at Albany
has hshInd Ills hack The. tuii support OF the he
publican majority. and Mr. Fish Is powerles
s 9TRST yGsTThs s 'sf
district has been selected 10 he Chairman OF
the Cities Committee This after the Ways
and Means, is one OF the most important in
the Assembly.
That contest for tho clerkship took n new
twist. and In lact. is becoming more compli-
Gated every day. 1t Is now declared that both
Charles L. Orr OF Buffalo and Henry l.. Stod-
dnrd OF New lork nte practically out OF the
race, and that neither should continue to
aspire to tho honor. The situation was put
thue: Tho Comptroller comes from Buffalo.
and possibly ha will select BuTaoniai as his
deputy That would ha all the big places that
Erie county is entitled to. The Fourth judicial
district has tho Speaker. the state Treasurer.
and his deputy. md this should dispose ot
tho claim Of uX-Asscmblymnn W. {. stevens
to be Clerk. Now NorS city IL TO
have The Craftsmanship OF tho Assembly
Citios Committee, and Kings COUNTY. in
the person OF Senator George \. Owens. Is to
have the Senate Committee on Commerce and
Navigation. Then what have Queens and Sui
folk either ia tho Assembly or the senate
Nothing. That is why the boom OF eX-Assem-
blyman William J. Ioungs Of Oyster Bay for
tho crrkship Of the Assembly took II fresh
start yesterday. hut the, word has gone
around.loo out for John MontiGnani Of AZ
bany. That county has the Secretary OF state
and will have lots more. hut a little thing OF
that kind doc MT worry Albany county ltepnb-
l!cnns, oven though they had J,OuO Demo
cratic majority AGAINST them on last election
Dur. Albany county Rrpuhlicans will take
everything in sight and then wait for more.
They are all Oliver Twists up there,