New-York tribune., 1907-06-22
ADJOURN WEDNESDAY.
NAY BE SPECIAL SESSION.
Com promise on Apportionment Pos
aibIe. but Seems Unlikely.
[By TeIegranh % The Tribuae. ]

IBy Telegraph The Tribuae.l
Albany. June 21.-With the reapportionment
situation still far from any settlement. both
houses of the Legislature to-day adopted a reso-
luton for final adjournment Wednesday OK
next week. Some compromise on apportionnnent
still is possible before that time. although SEN
ator fully. head of the Senate conference COM
mittee. and Speaker wadsworth both believe 1t
is improbable Certainly. ii agreement is
reached. Governor Hughes will call extraordi~
nary session TO take up this subject
Daily the situation becomes more critical, and
the necessity for the adoption of some reappor-
ton more pressing Aside from the hold-up OF
the Legislature itself which everybody here is
denouncing little less than scandal. there
is the urgent necessity of immediate reappor-
tonment as to Senate districts. that the Assem-
bly, districts therein may be laid out The ap-
portiOnment bill declares that the supervisors
of counties must meet on July to map out the
Assembly districts. That date. to be sure. could
be changed to one later. but Assembly distract
conventions are scheduled in many counties for
the next week and the weeks Immediately fol-
lowing. II the deadlock is not broken soon a
situation not much short of chaos must follow
IN the political world.
Despite this. the leaders of each side calmly
accepted the adjournment resolution to-day ard
seemingly almost welcomed the prospect of a
special session. In many respects a special ses-
sion would offer advantages and ease UP some
amount of pressure which could not be relieved
if the regular session were prolonged Friends
OF Governor Hughes know that he desires greatly
that the Legislature finish its business soon
as possible and adjourn. There many bills
some two hundced AT least-held by the clerks
OF the two houses lest they be sent to him
ten-day bills. Among them the supply and
approprfa ton bills both of which merely as TO
the physical labor of checking up items and
verifying the text requires more than ten
DAYS work If a final adjournment were not
-+a% Sv1l
selves without money for current needs So. If
agreement cannot be reached 20 permit early
adjournment. the Governors friends say that
adjournment followed by the special session
would meet his views nicely. since they think
he considers 1t imperative that the business now
before the Legislature be finished. An adjourn
ment on Wednesday. therefore. would permit the
mass of bills to come to him as thirty-day bills
and relieve the Executive Department.. while
also it would be some relief TO the Legislature
itself
Many legislators think that before Wednesday
/ afternoon the deadlock viii be broken Some OF
| the men closest to Speaker Wadsworth, men
who will stick 10 him in any crisis privately are
/ advising him to yield Seemingly there is little
/ prospect that he will yield further than he has
/ done.
Can YOU see any prospect Of agreement be-
/ fore adjournment" the Speaker was asked to-
/ day
! Not the slightest he replied. IF the Senate
| still sticks to the TulIy bill I have yielded al
/ that I could The Assembly has yielded at least
| two-thirds Of IT'S contentious. We cannot go
| further. We will not take the Tully bill with
! out some changes"
| Then that throws the question into
! special session. does II not?"
| Il suppose there will be q special session
| called TO dispose OF it. II We cannot get IL fin
| ished by Wednesday, why. we'll take the spe-
| ciaI session"
| The Senator's say openly that the Speaker now
/ is holding out only because Of personal pride,
| aud that all that keeps the Assembly with him
| is a desire TO save its face" Having abandoned
| his contention that Livingston County should be
/ kept within the 34th Congress District. he has
/ no right 10 demand that it shall be put with any
/ particular counties because OF the effect on his
/ own political future. any more than any other
| Assemblyman. Senate leaders declare ts
We are willing to change the Senate plan 10
/ the extent of shifting Delaware and Madison
/ counties as was suggested by the Assembly"
| said Senator TuIly to-day Since that was re-
| jected. though, it IS unlikely tnat any naeetin,
| Of the confe-cHce committees will be held ex-
/ cept possibly formal session TO sign report
/ OF hnal disagreement We viii conCede that
/ point to the Speaker and the Assembly If thew
/ are sticking on a question Of obtaining some
I thing which looks like a concession. Beyond
| that we cannot go We viii make changes
IN any district in the western part of the state
/ because TO do that would sacrifice Senator'S
more than one or twO-who surely deserve as
much consideration at our hands as any mem
/ Der or the other house. even II he be the
| Speaker
No break in the situation can come before
/ Monday or Tuesday. Most Of the Senators went
nome immediately after adjournment this morn
/ ing AssemblyTpan Merritt chairman of the
Assembly conference committee also went home
last night and Speaker Wadsworth is going to-
night What may happen next week is the great
problem which is bothering them all Senator
Raines was asked to-day if he believed anv nos
stbility existed of an agreement before Wednes
day afternoon
Yes. 1t is possible" he replied but his tone
was not hopeful Meanwhile. influential As
semblymen are working against the Speaker
sherman Moreland, OF Chemung majority
leader. is torn between a desire to be IovaI 10
lne speaker and his own personal interests Al
most any solution of the Speakers personal de-
hcultieS must sacrifice Nj. MoreIand's poltticaI
future Mr. Rogers of Broome who is pre-
venting the transacting OF any business in the
| Assembly these DAYS. also is hot against the
| speaker because local bills OF his have been
held up. He is working against the wadswo-f,
| apportionment schemes The prospect is that
/ II any Assembly caucus is held next week tna
/ Speakers cause will lose many OF its sunnort.
| ers at the last caucus and Senators are Count-
ing on something of the sort 10 weaken his
position so obviously that he must Weld com,
! pletely before Wednesday
II IL