New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
HUGHES WON'T MEDIATE
DEADLOCK CONTINUES.
Radical Plan Suggested By assembly
Proves a Boomerang.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune ]

far from solution of the difficulty ever,
while personal rancOr and political manOeuvrins
taking high place in the negotiations of the
representatives of the two houses. No decisive
action be taken until Monday night pos
sibly Tuesday. and the growth of public sentt-
ment in regard 70 this unparalleled condition
before that day will prove a potent factor IN
the equation then.
Appeals made to-day TO Governor
Hughes which In effect urged him offer help
toward getting compromise to abate his re-
quirements to certain features OF any ap-
portionment bill which should meet his ap-
provaL The Governor declined 20 interfere In
any way as a mediator the ground that the
Legislature tied up because OF personal and
political differences in which manifestly he could
not interfere. Neither would he consent to
modify his ideas as to the requirements of the
constitution which any proper bill must meet.
Friends of the TuIIy bill hailed this action
with considerable joy, II indicates TO them
the improbability of the final enactment of any
plan other than that adopted by the Senate
caucus. All the other plans have contained
districts which the score of population and
compactness were further from complying with
the Governors suggestions than the worst dis
trict i'm the FULLY plan Beyond this, the As
sembly itself is not sticking to any particular
plan. but is making haphazard suggestions
every day; the supporters of the original
Senate bill feel that their position is growing
stronger daily while that of the Assembly i.
being weakened in direct proportion.
a RADICAL PLAN SUGGESTED.
Out of the Ineffective conference held Iasc
night has grown condition which might carry
the trouble far beyond its original possibilities
and cause reanportionment of New York and
Kings counties along strictly mathematical and
geographical requirements. regardless Of all
personal and political elements The Assembly
conferrees suggested a radical plan along those
lines as 10 the upstate districts. but omitted
to include New York and Kings the territories
OF Herbert Parsons and State Chairman Wood
ruff. who espousing the Wadsworth cause.
AT once the Senate took up the demand. de-
claring that it should be carried out TO the
end Now both sides are a trihe afraid OF the
result either presses this question to it's logical
end
After the failure of the conference COMMITTEES
last night to agree on any COMPROMISED little
hope was entertained that agreement could
be reached to-day. Just the committees were
gong into session word reached Senator Tully
that his father had died This naturally re-
quired his presence at home, but he urged the
eonferrees to continue the meeting in the hope
that some agreement could be reached. None
and that all the committeeman might not
be kept here. subcommittee consisting of SEN
atOrs Cassidy and Smith and Messrs Merritt
and Schoeneck were named 70 carry the
work. \ long meeting Of the subcommittee
this afternoon left the subject just as wide open
These subcommittee. because of questions
which arose at last nights conference, were en-
powered to- wait on the Governor to ask him il
he would consent 70 a bill creating districts
with population less than half OF Westchester
County This involved the question of giving
two Senators to Westchester. Governor Hughes
replied that he could accept no such BILL That
reply meant that he believed it would be mad
visable to create two Senate districts IN West
chester County until it had grown considerably.
and that condemned the committees to cOns1d-
Grafton of still new groupings OF counties or an
acceptance of the TuIy bill 1t shut out un-
mistakably the latest Assembly proposition
PLAN SPRUNG AT CONFERENCE.
II was at the conference last night that this
plan was sprung-not. many Senators declare.
for serious consideration, but TO act as a VERT
table apple of discord. II is the most remarkable
of all the plans suggested for many reasons
Under il districts of the widest variance in size
would be created. many districts would lack the
usual degree of compactness and two additional
rpstate districts would be sacrificed with net
loss of four Republican Senators The districts
fixed by this plan. 70 which Speaker Wadsworth
gave his consent and support. were;
SUFFOLK Nassau.
Queens. two districts
Kings. eight districts.
New York. twelve districts.
Richmond ROChland
WeStChester. districts.
Orange Sullivan-Putnam.
Duchess Column bia- Greene.
Ulster-Delaware
SsChoharie- OtsegO- Montgomery
Albany.
Rensselaer,
Saratoga Schenectady.
Washington Warren Essex Clinton.
ST 1aWrence-F Franklin.
Lewis Herkimer- er-HamIltOn-FultOn.
Jefferson OSWegO-
Oneida.
OnOndaga-
NfadisOn-C Chenango- -Broome.
ChemUng-T -TiOga- -TOmpkins- Cortland
Wayne Cayuga- Seneca.
Alegany- -Steuben- Schuyler
Wyoming LiVing gstOn- Ontario Yates
Monroe two districts.
Genesee- Orleans Niagara.
Erie. three districts
CattarauguS-C -ChautauQua.
The Assembly conferrees had many copies oe
this plan prepared for distribution. When they
presented it they heralded 1t as radical ma the
matcaI apportIOnment which grouped counties
without regard to the personal interests or poIit-
caI welfare of anybody. The Senators suspected
a trick on the part of the Assemblymen TO force
them into the position of declining to accept
this radical plan. and then hold them up
to the state delaying solution of the difficulty
WOULD WIPE OUT UPSTATE DISTRICTS.
Discussion of the details of this plan showed
that districts would vary in size from S9.S13.
| the Queens districts to 1j3.446 for the Wash
ington- -Warren-E Clinton district. IL would
wipe out two upstate districts because OF the
creation Of two districts in Queens and West