New-York tribune., 1907-05-27
THE WEEK In ALBANY.
Important Measures VIII Be Passed
This Week and Ne1t.
IBx Telegranh 20 The Trlhuae.l ]

5Iughess victory over the opposition of few anti
Hughes Senators will be celebrated all along the
line this week. The Senate will adopt. by Repub-
Hcan caucus. reapportionment bill acceptable TO
him. despite the heartburnng of a few Senator'S
whose districts It Will tear apart. bringing in some
cases political death. The Senate will pass the
Prentice recount bill unamcnded Senator Raines
contemplated: ii viii add the passage of the More
land department Investigation bill to its rapidly
increasing list of good works and finally If the
public utilities biz from Mayor Mcclellan
vetoed before the Legislature takes recess on
Wednesday. the Legislature will repass that i'm
portant measure.
Action these important measures practically
will end tine Legislatures tasks. There will remain
three bills which may yet he urged by Gov
ernor Hughes, since they embody recommendations
Ia his message to the Legislature though their
chances for passage have been considered so hope
less that hitherto optimistic Hughes men have
not counted them parts of the Governors leeis-
latve programme. There is the Travis bill provd-
ing for optional adoption Of direct primary nomna-
lions. Reported from the Senate Judiciary Com
Tnittse last week after much work on tba mart of
lis introducer this measure now is in general or
Gers. The general orders calendar will have n be
faken up TO get 20 the recount bill, chance Of
action or the direct nominations bill EXISTS The
Wainwright amendments to last wears corr,nt
practices act and the Wainwright bills provi,jinp
for the limitation OF candidates campaign expendi-
lures are reposing in the Assembly Rules Com
m'tree' which took them over from the Judiciary
ana ttutS committees when il took The
Philips bill limiting candidates expenses amend
&c. row is on the Senate calendar for passage
ADJOURNMENT DEPENDS ON MAYOR
Adjournment depends Mayor Mcclellan The
recount bill. when passed. will be sent TO him
Governor Hughes holds the view that even II this
SPECIFIC bill were not passed. II would be unwise on
broad. genera! grounds not send such bill 10
the Mayor, lest he UP a CRY of persecution bv
legislation" and fight the measure all through the
courts The Prentice bill in form is held by most
lawyers here TO be & city bill. and OF necessity
must be sent to him for approval. Nobody expects
him 10 approve It. The question is how long he
will hold ii before vetoing il. II he acts with thar
as promptly as he has done with public utilities
bill the Legislature may be able to adjourn by
June or G. II he holds il for the full fifteen DAYS
10 which he is entitled. adjournment hardly could
be taken before June Is
Al any rate. since the complete disappearance of
opposition 10 the Governors wishes the Iegslat-
ure Is entirely willing 10 do its part adjourn
ment may come at the earliest moment. A recess
according to Senator RaInes's plans will be taken
this week from Wednesday until the following Mon
day night, but the three working days this week
VIII be busy ones Probably the bill will be
taken up tomorrow night and passed. The ease
with which ii is passed will depend entirely on
Senator McCarren. who will be in a position 10
cause almost much delay as characterized the
passage or the mortgage tax bill last year If he
really cares 10 DO SO Still either Monday night
or Tuesday its passage is certain. Tuesday Will
see the passage of the Moreand bill giving 70 the
Governor power investigate all state densrt-
nlents On that day, also the reapportionment
committee may present the apportonment bill If
Il can be prepared by that time. This at once will
be adopted by the Republican caucus though it
hardly can be passed by the Legislature this week
Then. Monday or Tuesday. probably. the utilities
DIN. vetoed. will be returned to the Legislature to
ne repassed over the Mayors veto, as has been
cone this year with most of the bills he vetoed
CLEANING UP OF ODDS AND ENDS
The week beginning June thus could he de-
No'ed 10 passage OF the reapportionment bill,
cleaning up Of odds and ends. and adjournment
But If Mayor Mcclellan holds the recount bill for
any considerable time. the Legislature will have
10 wait his pleasure. meantime marking time or
taxing up one or two Of the long neglected sub
5ects which many OF the Legislators would rather
forget.
Reapportionment still remains the big thing
ahead To be sure it occupies a somewhat diff
ferent position from what ii did last week be-
fore Senator Raines considered the Governors
wishes final. Now it is certain that when Sen
ator Tully goes to see the Governor with the map
of the new districts. any objections which Gov
ernOr Hughes may make will be met AT once, and
the map corrected in accordance with his judg
nent. But the knowledge that the Governor will
get all he desires this subject has Iessened
interest in II here. Rather II has quckened the
interest, because all the legislators and politicians
are anxious to what striking changes the redis
;ricting sanctioned by the Governor will make.
Details Of the tentative plan considered by the
subj onmt;ee of the Reapportionment Committee
which have leaked presaGa three in
teresting changes. Senator Cassidy's district al
most certainly viii be split up and the prospect is
that chemung will be thrown with Steuben, Sen
a:or Tully's county
Most persons believe that the change VIII restore
Senator Brackets old district, least give
4 district which would enable him to resume his
political sway and take up his legislative life again
4 he desired. The tentative district mapped out for
The Wadsworth-stevens territory, with the addition
Of Allegany County the present Senate district
represented by Senator Hooker would compel
some new adjustments OF relations in the west
ern end Of the state.
REPUBLICANS TO GAIN DISTRICT
Along the Hudson the addition Of Putnam to
Orange IN place Of Rocl5land viii make the election
Of Democratic Senator from that district now
represented by Senator Taylor who won over Sen
etor Goodsell, the Odell man. most unlikely On
The other hand. Dutchess and Columbia will be left
together and the growing power Of the Chanlers in
duchess County. together with the struggles OF
Lou Payn 10 maintain his ascendency in that tel
'1'ory, will furnish interesting study
But beyond all this SURPRISING 1t in interest now
and IN significance as 10 future events. lies the
fact that Governor Hughes, by pursuing his even
course OF strict attention to dutv ana ohedie,co 70
pubic sentiment, has obtained practically all the
pohcles recommended in his message TO the egtz
.a'ure- The significance q that. when Il is renen
Dered that these Teconmenda tions came Ike a
thuhaer clap 10 the startled legislators and no,i
Nciahs' ana that they were characterized IN .,
iidi conversation as Revolutionary" ..iJeaIietic'
s,a,,. neal according to the tendency OF the
iAalFlaual, is apparent
u looks almost .s ir 30. A., .u....
On It's hands once more ., c,,,,.,,oa . "'SS
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