New-York tribune., 1899-11-17
THE GOVERNOR COMING HERE
EXPECTED IN THE CITY ON TUESDAY,
TALK ABOUT COMING LEGIsLATloN--Mh' NJ SAiN'"'
MAY BE CHAIRMAN OF THE CON-
MITTEE ON CITIES.

TALK AROITT COMING LEGISLATlON-- pAAA''"S
MAY BE CHAIRMAN OF THE CON-
MITTEE ON CITIES.
Plans for legislation at Albany the coming
winter will be discussed in this city next week
nv Governor Roosevelt, Senator Platt and other
Republican leaders. The Governor Is expected
TO come to the city on Tuesday and nave
luncheon with Attorney General Davies ana
members of the City Clubs committee tha'
prepared the charges against District Attorney
Gardiner He will attend the Chamber or COM
merce dinner on Tuesday evening, and on
Wednesday he probably will have breakfast ana
a long talk with Senator Platt
B. B. Odell. jr chairman Of the Repuphcah
State Committee went to Albany yesterday
morning TO have talk with the Governor anu
give some tips" on the bills which the Re-
publican organization would like to have pushed
in the Legislature. A State constabulary DILL
or a police bill which would be equally eHecuVe
in taking the police force of New 1orK CITY out
of Tammany control, will be among the meas
ures to be discussed Other bills VIII relate 10
the shortening Of the term Of the Mayor apoi-
ishing one house OF the Municipal Assembly,
removing some OF the powers for mischel no"
held by the Board of Public Improvements ana
abolishng some Of the useless ana expensive
offices in the city government. .
Frank Moss, of counsel to the Mazet Eoiiil,i.- I'
tee also went to Albany to talk with the Gov
ernor yesterday. Mr. Moss succeeded Governor
Roosevelt as president of the Police Board IN
Mayor Strong's administration. and both nave
been interested In police reforms. MI MOSS
will draw up a report upon the Mazet nvestiga-
ton making recommendations for various
changes in the city charter and TOT reorsahHa.
tion of the Police Department. AS the report
may be the basis OF legislation, Mr.. Moss nat
urally wants to consult with the Governor re-
garding recommendation affecting the Ponce
Department ., .,,
CITY the Republican leaders have been consider
ing who is to have the chairmanship OF the AS
sembly Committee Cities. If Robert Mazet
had been reelected to the Assembly he would
have retained the craftsmanship of that i'm
portant committee. His defeat has made re-
organization of the committee necessary. Ed
ward II. Fallows, the Republican Assemblyman
from the XXIst District OF New-York County
who is a member Of the Committee on Cities and
also a member Of the MaZet Investigating Com
mittee probably will be named to succeed Mr.
Mazet in the craftsmanship of the Committee on
Cities
There has been talk to the effect that some OF
the Republican organization leaders would pre-
fer Assemblyman De Graw, or Kings. or Assem-
blyman Merton +. Lewis, Of Rochester. TOT
chairman Of the Committee on Cities. George
w Aldridge and State Senator Parsons have
been mentioned concerned in plans for the
naming Of Assemblyman Lewis, but 1t has been
said that Mr. Lewis is looking for appointment
to the office Of County Judge OF Monroe county
which will be vacant by January l, and is
ready to resign his seat in the Assembly If he
can get the appointment
1t is believed by the politicians that most of
the chairmen OF important committees OF the
Assembly who have been reelected will be re-
tained in their chairmanships. and Speaker
Nixon is regarded as sure Of reelection 10 the
Speakership Of the Assembly. The changes In
the Assembly committees, II Is believed, Will be
mostly those made necessary by the retirement
of certain Assemblymen and the election of new
men in their places.