The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-20
BEAT PARSONS and RUB IT IN
BITTER APP0RTIONMENT FIGHT
IN COUNTY COMMITTEE.
Odell Majority Try to enc Him to Albany
With Their Plan, but He Refuses TO Go
Except to Fight It Bad Language
When He Declared Quiss Is Chosen.

Except to Fight It Bad Language
When He Declared Qulgs Is Chosen.
The discussion Of the rival Republican
apportionment plans by the Republican
county committee last night led to one Of
the stormiett meetings that body has had
In a long time. For nearly three hours
there was a wrangle between the two fac
tons and more than once there was an
exchange Of threats OF blows.
The plans Of the Odell-Halpin faction
we're declared adopted by Chairman Par
sons, but the viva voce vote taken on them
was so evenly divided in the volume Of
sound that Mr.. Parsons could easily have
decided that his own plans were those
carried, but that would have meant a roll
call, which would have shown a large ma
jority against him, The meeting was
held at the Murray Hill Lyceum and it
was full Of committeeman n outsiders.
Many Of the outsiders undoubtedly voted,
and il was this fact which made it seem
that Mr.. Parsons had almost as many mem
bers on his side ae had Billy Halpin and
Lemuel E. Quigg, who led the fight for the
Qdell plans.
In the afternoon the executive committee
met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel and at a vote
taken there on the plans twenty-three of
the ~thirty-six district members voted for
the Odell scheme. Mr.. Parsons will now
take the fight to Albany and is confident that
the Legislature will map out the new Senate
districts as he recommends.
The leaders who voted for the Odell-
Halpin plans at the executive committee
meeting were Hines Of the Second district
n Ill., I AD,na@r ENNrfh. VA
Colt, Fifth; March, Sixth: Hackett, Seventh;
Halpin, Ninth; windolph. Eleventh; New
stead. Twelfth; Pegnam, Fourteenth;
Koenig, Sixteenth; Quigg, Nineteenth;
Gruber, Twenty-frst; Pine, Twenty-fourth.
Alexander, Twenty-sixth; Gunner, Twenty
eighth; Lauterbach, Twenty-ninth; Neal
mond, Thirty-third; Ten Eyck, Thirty
fourth; Healey, Thirty-ffth, and German
Of the Annexed District.
The leaders who supported Mr.. Parsons
we're Delessando. proxy for Merwin OF the
Tenth; Joveshoff, Thirteenth; Wanamaker,
Fifteenth; Page, Seventeenth; Henkel,
! Eighteenth; Shea. Twentieth; Lexow, TWEEN
t~y-second; Mckee, Twenty-third: Parsons,
Iwenty-ffth; Wilson. Iwenty-seyenth;
oficio members of the committee, 6.
Kremer. vice-president; T. Barnard,
finance committee chairman, and George
Blagden. treasurer.
When the meeting last night Of the county
committee was called to order Mr., Halpin at
once rose TO offer q resolution to the effect
that the plan adopted by the executive com
mittee should be made the plan of the
county committee.
Leaving the chair to speak in opposition
to the resolution. Mr.. Parsons said that the
object Of his committee had been to lay cut
the Senate districts in the best interests Of
the Republican party, and not for the inter-
ests of certain leaders. He moved as a sub
stitute for Mr.. Halpin's resolution that the
maintenance Of individual interests should
Of the party, and that in mapping out the
districts the basis representing population
should be the votes cast for Governor in the
ele ctions Of 1902 and 1904
Eventually after an acrimonious debate
Mr.. P~arsons's motion was ordered to be laid
on the table and Mr.. Halpin's resolution
was declared to have been adopted.
The Halpin crowd sought to put Mr..
Parsons in a hole by naming him as one
Of a committee to urge the Legislature to
mittee. Mr.. Parsons refused to serve, be-
cause he said he purposed fighting the
Odell plan. While Mr.. Quigg vas berating
Mr.. Parsons for refusing to obey the call
Of the organization whoss servant he was
Mr.. Prentice moved that the name OF Mr.
Quigg be substituted for that OF Mr.. Par
Sons.
Chairman Parsons put tine motion hur-
riedly and declared it carried despite the
protests Of the Oddities.
For ten minutes there was pandemonium.
the Odell men using bad language and
declaring that they had been treated with
bad faith. During the uproar there we're
cries of Adjourn, " and while Mr.. Parsons
hesitated to take advantage Of the motion
and declare the meeting adjourned, which
would have left him with the best of the
situation, Mr.. Halpin demanded a roll call.
This led to further uproar, but finally
an agreement was reached to take the names
of both Mr.. Quigg and Mr.. Parsons of the
committee to go to Albany and the motion
for the roll call was withdrawn.