New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-25
GOVERNOR In CONTROL.
ALL OPPOSITION GONE.
He WM Get Kind Of Reapportion-
ment He Wants.
IBy telegraph TO The Tribune l

Its4II because at last the minority OF Republican
| senators VINO have wanted TO oppose him realize
'iia' they cannot fight with this leader with the
,ioidl sense OF the party and the state behind
MIN The Senate will give the Governor a re-
count nil even the kind Of recount hill he
wants And If the Governor presses for than,
'iie Legislature viii exhume the amendments
"'''0" would stop up the gaps in the presen,
corrupt practices act and pass them. and even
80 044ipaliylnS bills limiting drasticaIly can
uidateS' campaign expenditures
senator Raines. who has stood consis+ar.,,
"saliiSt the Governor on the reapportionrent
/ as he did in the KELSEY case rnala a. a,t5a,t
/ from his conversation that he had abandoned
completely that opposition.
/ our present PLAN" Senator Rainss said .4s
/ 10 take recess next Wednesday until +bA fol
lowing week. when we will meet. finish nm the
oNu' anu ehds' pass the supply bill and finally
ADJOURN believe the Governor should ba etven
al Ihat ne wants, and will do all in nv no7,-a-
10 put through such measures as he wishes
l sun think that the recount bill sbouId ba 90
amended as TO keep it out of the Navor,s hands
ana hope TO get the Governor to agree with
me on this proposition"
All tue opposition was blown to the winds by
tiie governors message yesterday, practically
demanding that the Legislature stay in session
all Is haste TO get the necessary things done and
get to adjournment Following a roAA+,,e, -
the Subcommittee of the Reanportionr,a,+
committee to-day Senator TulIv its cbairr,a,
o1ncaly declared that that COMMITTEES would ra
port an apportionment bill satisfactory TO Gov
elhor Hughes. and one which would stand anv
test OF the courts that in all probabiIi1v will h.
presented on Tuesday and adopted BY the Re-
| publican caucus at once
POLITICAL HAVOC IN DISTRICTS
The agreement on ACKNOWLEDGEMENT will b +,a
most signal 1t will mean the working of 20
htlcal havoc in Senate and Congress districts II
VIII disturb the relations between county lead
ers and legislators Of the state and national
bodies. which have been the product OF years
OF pohucal man9uvring- 1t will not by any
means destroy the party organization in the
state. because even so drastic reapportfonn1ent
as most people here believe must be made 10
meet Governor Hughes's views will not neces-
sariy interfere with the county organizations
themselves but it will mean the destruction OF
/ those give and take relations by which nonina
tions have been parcelled out in many instances
/ and it will make necessary the formation OF
new combinations of political leaders to handle
the new situation arising from the new dis
1 trictS
/ Just what the reapportionment plan will be
/ even the subcommittee does not know vet
/ Senators Tully and Cobb talked over the stua-
tion for an hour to-day without coming TO any
definite result. Senator McCarren did not at
tend the meeting. He is so disguised that he
went TO New York. fuming like volcano pre-
cedng an eruption The task OF drafting bill
containing a plan which would create districts
irreprOachable alike on the score of population
and CompaCtness is no light Yet Senator
Tuuy apparently has just that in mind
In that task he will have the advantage of
criticism from Governor Hughes. although the
Governor will not take any active part in max
ing the map OF new districts. yet the advice and
criticism of lawyer OF his standing will be OF
great value to the committee. And tho Gov
ernor himself has given great study to the ap-
portionment situation. and has consulted with
experts that subject
BRACKET SEES THE GOVERNOR
Ex-senator Brackett. who was legislated out of
the Senatorship by the apportionment act of last
year. talked with Governor Hughes about ap-
portionnlent to-day. He is recognized as ore
Of the cleverest lawyers in the state and an
authority on this subject Ex-senator Elon
r. Brown of Watertown. who argued in the
Court of Appeals against the 1905 reapportion-
nent and who recently has presented one or
two tentative plans for the Governors consid-
Grafton, was IN town to-day
A solution OF the vexing problem. the law
vers here map IL out on general lines. must wipe
out at least one district. and probably two dis
tricts In the central part Of the state-those now
renresented by Senators Cassidy and WILCOX
because of their population. shifting the counties
which make up those districts TO others Then
there are districts like the one at present rep
resented by Senator Knapp. consisting or Wash
inston Clinton and Essex counties-a narrow
strip of territory about two hundred miles long;
and that represented by Senator Ands-Sulh-
van Delaware and Chenango-and those OF
Senator Observation-Disclosures. Otsego and Scho-
harie-and Senator Emerson-Hamilton. Fulton
MONTGOMERY and Warren-which will probably
be carved because OF their lack OF coTnpactness-
Changes of those districts would make neces-
sary changes IN other parts of the state clear 10
the western end
But whatever readjustment OF counties the
committee finds necessary TO effect a reappor-
tionment which will stand the Governors tests
undoubtedly will be made. Senator Tully saw
the Governor twice to-day, and will go over the
whole question with him before the bill Is In
troduced. And every Senator. whether he
himself becoming burnt offering or not. has
ACQUIRED that degree Of fatalism which says
There is no use in kicking against the pricks."
They know there is in sending to the
Governor a bill which he would veto promptly
and Immediately call special session 10 compel
them to take up the job again.
WANT BILL APPROVED BY HEARST
While the legislative leaders planning TO
adjourn week after next. having passed a re-
count bill amended that it Is essentially q
different bill from the present Prentice bill.
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