The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-10


the Objectionable features OF the bill were
stricken out on Wednesday at Albany and
he senate Judiciary Conmitteo, Of which
Senator Bracket ia chairman, reported the
bill favorably. The drastic provision that
deputies Of Supt. George W. Morgan Of the
Bureau 81 Elections might enter private
residences and hotels and lodging houses
and question citizens living therein was
eliminated and 20 was the provision giving
suDt Morgan 200 additional deputies to
serve throughout the years. at a salary
Of 81 500 each and l25 at salary Of $500
each. The provision giving the Odell New
York county committee this increasd
patronage was 90 nsdered altogether out
Of place. and It was asserted that II had
the usual Odell- Halpin spectral figure Of
graft behind it.
The discovery that Senator Plat and eT-
Gov. Black have met and come 10 "a salts
factory agreement" led TO number Of
interesting bits OF information As the
movement progresses additional chapters
will be opened. The history Of the Repub-
loan party in the State, for the last two
years especially, it is asserted, demon
strates bayond peradventure that it has
been under the domination Of Edward H.
HAIIlMlAAl anu -hAs OalEllt AAdA ltGAAllEl lbs
sought constructive legislation that would
benefit the party but that Mr.. Odell's
administration Tor nearly three years back
has been punctuated with bills which bene-
flied only Mr.. Hartman and Mr.. Odell.
Several days before Mr.. Odell sailed for
Italy he boosted that he was worth s. 900, 900.
When he entered the Governors chair on
Jan. /, 1901. he was a poor man. Mr.. Harr-
man now boasts that Mr.. Odell left him in
charge Of the partys affairs at Albany.
and It is known that Republican legislators
Of characteristics especially known TO the
lobby and 70 the Black Horse Cavalry visit
Mr.. Hartman on their weekly trips TO New
York city.
Richard Croker naively. canjilly and
almost exuberantly declared that as the
eader Of Tammany Hall 1 have been
working for my pocket all the time Mr.
Hartman anu Mr.. Odell, Republicans say.
have not been 80 candid as Mr.. Croker,
but the events Of the last few " ars and the
work OF the departments at Albany and the
bills passed by Mr.. Odell's decree and signed
by him demonstrate that Mr.. Ham imam
and Mr.. Odell could tIuthfully adopt Mr..
Croker's statement old they 50 desIe.
Senator Raines, formerly a Plat man Of
the most pronounced type, Is now a HarTi-
nnan-Odell folio weT, and Senator George
r. halby. Mr.. Raines's coadjutor in the
Senate, Is one Of Mr.. Odell's high captains.
Speaker Nixon Of the Assembly, while
agreeing with Gov. Higgins on most mat
tefs OF legislation, Is not altogether 10
sympathy with certain features Of the
Governors administration, nor Is be be-
hsVsd 10 be Rltoge ther committed to an
alliance with Mr.. Raines and Mr.. Malhy,
II b does think II proper TO maintain tie
appearance Of it for the moment.
Gov. Higgins, 20 one Of bis II lends said
yesterday, Is inclined to believe that tho
system of indirect taxation introduced BY
Mr.. oden in 1902, imms diately after he
gained practical control of the party. is
open TO grave criticism. However. it is
not the purpose Of the Platt-Back com
bination. it IL said, 10 question at the mo-
ment any Of Gov. Higgins's policies or
tboss which are being carried out by the
txiumvirs, Raines, Malby and Nixon-at
TIE command OF Edward II. Hartman.
whom Mr.. Odell has left as the gIsnd com
mander Of the party. One of Mr.. Blacks
fTifnds said last night, though, that at a
political meeting in Rensse laeT county last
fan be attacked the system Of inonect
taAAAigh AuD ivy NlN9 eAN cNANA AAC-
publican ne wspapers in the county, fienGly
TO Mr.. Black, cid not think it auyisa be 10
print bis speech at that time.
Speaking Of Mr.. Black further. it was
made known that Abe Griber has no
authority 10 speak for the Ex-Governor in
political matters. They are law partners,
and that's all. Mr.. Blacks friends, both
In politics and among lawyers, have had
kraFfaNfrr in aot~ipy hot ha hoa 81
gained in renown since Grlber essayed to
speak for him politically, for the reason
that Gruber is very seriously discrr dited
In bis own district the Twenty-frst Assem-
bly, district Of this county. Indeed il was
made known for the first time yesterday
that when Gruber had a talk with Odell
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in December.
and Immediately thereafter proclaimed
that Black is TO DO United States Senator
Gruber was Immediately ted to quit
. shooting Oh his hair trigger mouth, and
TO go way back and sit down Cruber's
proclamation at the time. It was asserted,
did more harm 20 Black than the utterance
Of any other one person could at that cru
cial period. Grlbers record il not one
Of the stand fast" kind. He's for Gr1ber
In thirteen different ways, and more ways
lot OEuDeT II ne tlluhh II dQNl-dDies IN
turn he deserted Plat and Roosevelt. and
momentarily he deserted Odell. and, ac-
cording TO the rule Of political sequence.
Gruber, politicians expect, will essay 70
desert Black whenever Gruber finds IL
agreeable for Gruber TO do 40. The point
IL. according TO the politicians. that Griber
Ia beyond the deserving period-that Is,
his desertions have never amounted TO
much, and 50 discredited Is he in his own
, district now that his desertion OF any partic-
ular Republican Of prominence would be
accepted az benefit rather than an injury.
E1-Representative Wallace T. Foote OF
Port Henry is now in California. but in
letters recently received from him he still
recalls with bitterness the desertion OF
Black by Odell. Mr.. Foote'S pet question
in his letters ia And how Is that yellow
cur dog Odell?' This II given merely
as a sample Of the feeling Of some Of Mr..
Blacks friends against Mr.. Odell Il
can't understand, though said one Of
Mr.. Foote'S friends last night, why Wally
put on the dog
The Piatt- Black combination in the Re
.,,kigcap IA vroa aeaarFad sill oyart-