The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-21
HIGGINS CLOSETED WITHPLATT
HOOKER URGED no RESIGN TO
SAVE A SPECIAL SESSION.
Hut Ills Friends Say Els Wo1't--If lie Would
the Gas Commission Would do the Price
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thinks Railroad
SO,rr.!ission Won't nc creased.

the Gas Commission Would DO the Prlcc
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thinks Railroad
IOnrission Won't nc IEcr eased.
Gov. Higgins walked into the main COR
ridor OF the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday
afternoon at ?:55 O'Clock and sent card
to Senator Plat. In few minutes the
towheaded buttons" returned with the
nv ssage Senator Platt is enga ged >
Gov Higgins was standing at the clerks
desk chatting with group Of friends and
smiled n. the word from Senator Plat.
Tho clerk quickly grasped the situation.
Who did you tell Senator Plat wanted
10 seq him. he Inquired Of the towheaded
one
Mr.. Mcguire replied tho youngster,
showing the card on which the Governor
had written his name.
-Maguire!' gasped the clerk. $50 BACK
end tell the Senator Gov. Higgins wants
to see him" In another few minutes the
messenger returned with the word "Sana-
tor Plat wants Gov Higgins to come up"
The towheaded messenger explained that
on his first visit 20 Senator Platts rooms
he knocked and the Senator cried Come
In The messenger, reading from the card.
said Mr.. Mcguire wants to zee you.
Tell him I'm engaged, said the Senator
Senator Platt was awaiting Gov. Higgins
and could give no time to mir. Mcguire"
as he was to take the $40 O'Clock Erie train
to his country home at Highland Mills
Some Republican politicians seem to
think the relations between Gov. Higgins
and Senator Platt to be 30 deicate that
they explained the Governors visit to
Senator Plat yesterday by saying that
the Governor bad sought the interview.
Senator Platt before leaving town cor
rected this by saying that he wanted to see
the Governor at the Governors convenience
and had telephoned to the Governor asking
when he was to be in town. The Governor
reptile, and an en- ga cement was made for
23o yesterday afternoon. Gov. Higgins
didn't get to the hotel until 2.55 He thought
the Senator was TO :srlatt, in town over
Sunday and therefore he had taken ii easy.
Senator Platt left the ho.et for Highland
Mills at 3:l5, 30 that tbs interview with the
Governor was short and rather inconse-
quential.
Gov. Higgins said: "The Senator and
discussed sevsrA matters, including the
makeup Of the gas commission and per-
sonal measure. l have given no serious
attention to the selections for the gas COM
mission. There seems to have been more
interest In the water commission at least
there was unit II IL became known that no
salaries were attached to those places.
Then the applicants began to shift their
applications to places on the gas and other
commissions. / shall have no trouble in
filing all the places on all the commissions.
when are YOU to call the extra session of
the Legislature7"
Late in june replied the Governor,
'or In October. 4------.-.-s.s...-.. ..-,-.---
Gov. Higgins eaid that It wasn't necessary
for him to name specifically in his call the OBJ
jects Of the extraordinary session. After
the Legislature has assembled. however,
it can act only on such subjects as he rec
omends to its consideration.
Concerning further gas legislation"
continued the Governor. there seems to be
a great diversity of opinion. some saying
yes and others no. with many insisting that
the gas commission has full power in the
matter"
Gov. Higgins gave no inkling of what
he will do with the bill to take the franchise
granting power from the Board of Alder
men, which bill Mayor Mcclellan has vetoed
and which was passed over his veto; the bin
TO increase the Railroad Commission, the
Mayors four year term bill or the Raines
anti-fake hotel bill Indeed, the Governor
was non -committal to a marked degree.
Senator Patt said: Il laid before the
Governor certain suggestions as to the
formation Of the gas commission and one
or two other matters which the Governor
will take under consideration. l did not
discuss the railroad commission bill with !
the Governor, but 1t is my impression that
he will not sign it. My impression on this
matter is not based, however, on anything
the Governor said to me-"
Senator Platt was greatly interested in the !
bill taking from the Board of Aldermen
the franchise granting prerogative and |
turning that power over to the Board of ,
Estimate. Senator Platt has not favored |
the bill increasing the Mayors term to four
years, which is now in the hands of the Mayor
and which, if he approves it, must go back
to the Governor for approval or disapproval
The opinion yesterday was that the Mayor
will sign this bill.
Gov. Higgins az a matter of fact, didn't
appear to be quite certain whether he
would call an extraordinary session of
the Legislature at all "ether in June or
October The original purpose of the
proposed extraordinary session was to
dispose Of the unanimous report of the
Assembly committee against Supreme
Court Justice Warren B, Hooker of Ere
donna. The charges against Justice Hooker
have dragged along over a period of nearly
two years ending in the unanimous de-
clsion of the Assembly committee, which
the Republican members largely dominated,
that Justice Hooker should lie removed
from the bench. With the gas commission
to be in operation either June or July /,
1t has been urged that the commission can
smooth out the gas wrinkles and that tho
STATE should not go to All expense OF $40 900
Tor an extraordinary session Of the Legi.-
atn.c to take up the Hooker case, the con-
'en'ion being that a Republican Legis-
ature couldn't very well override the
unanimous verdict Ct tho ASS emily com
mittee that Justice Hooker should re re-
moved.
Hence it has come about IL ut Justice
Hooker is being urged to resign, on the
ground that In facing an extraordinary
session of the Legislature he but faces
removal, and that an extraordinary session
NJ TIE Legislature on the eve Of the Mayor
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