New-York tribune., 1907-06-08
DEADLOCK UNBROKEN.
BOTH SIDES INACTIYE.
Speaker AlOne Can Clear Middle
adjournment Waits.
rBy Telegraph to The T-,byne


Albany, June Both sides in the reappor-
/ tionment deadlock. which Speaker wadsworth
! has precpitated on the Legislature convinced
that little chance exists for compromise. have
/ settled down into suen inaction As the situa-
/ tion stands tonight the Speaker has brought to
/ pass muddIe which he can clear only by with
/ drawing from his position or winning his fight.
/ He is determined. and the Senate is equally de-
/ termined. The latter has certain tactical ad-
vantages. Each party tacitly accepted the situa-
ton to-day Informal conferences with no hone
OF compromise were held and the solution put orr
until next week
There is distinctly picturesque phase to all
this-the idea that young man OF a
family whose political power has waned so rap
idly within year should tie the entire Legis-
Iature of the state into hard knot and force
an additional week to one of the longest sessions
on record The odds seem SO overwhelming that
a certain attractive spice of daring attaches tn
the Speakers course; but the average legislator
does not view it in that light Evon those who
were the hardest hit under the TulIy plan are
mutterIng hard things about the youth who
hopes to tame the Senate and compel it to adopt
his plan.
What the result win be ''is in the cards" All
the political world here is speruating about H.
1t somewhat resembles the physics proposition:
What happens when an irresistible force meets
an immovable hodge" Much talk of compromise
floats around the corridors OF the Capitol II
compromise is mentioned to any one of the prin-
cpals in the affair his answer is rather con-
temptuoUs laugh.
TO BE FORMAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
To a certain limit the course of events is sure.
The Assembly will pass the Wadsworth version
of the apportionment bill Monday night
This being the Senate bill amended. win go
back TO the Senate and be referred to the ap-
portionment committee. which will refuse to
accept the amendments \ formal conferences
committee OF the two houses then will have to he
appointed and with that committee will rest the
task of recoucting the beIIigerents rather than
with the informal committees which wrestled
with the problem last night. Beyond that all n
wild speculation. One OF the ideas abroad to-
night Is that if both sides persist in the refusal
to compromise the rival plans will have to be-
submitted 10 the Governor in the hope that by
his approval CT rejection he might cut the knot
Yet even those who discuss this scheme recog-
uize that the Governor has said he not
favoring any specific plan. hut was standing on
the demand that whatever plan was adopted
must he constitutional and equitable.
Meanwhile adjournment depends on the adop-
tion of the reapportionment bill When at .. so
this morning the reapportiOnmeut committee
/ and the Assem- Iymen who had been comforting
Z
adjourned beaten, all hope of adjournment this
week was gone. Now even the most sanEuins
people concede that adjournment cannot come
until the latter part of next week.
Gradually touch of personal bitterness is
creeping into the conversation Of the legislators
vitallv interested in the rival apportionments.
The Speaker comes in for much censure for put
ting the whole Legislature 70 such inconvenience
merely because the plan adopted by the Senate
happens 10 hit him and his father, already hard
hit by recent political commissions on the other
hand. the Speakers friends declare that he had
been assured that the western part OF the state
would not oe redistricted Otherwise he would
have paid strict attention to the work of the
Senate COMMITTEES and perhaps have appointed
an Assembly committee 10 work with the Senate
committee.
MANY BITING REFERENCES MADE.
Many biting references are being made to the
fact that the Speaker is using his official posi-
tion further his personal interests. though the
situation now hardly is unjust the
reapportionment of last year. which retired Sena-
tor Stevens the WadswOrths political enemy
All this is indicative of the stress which Will
accompany the work Of the conference commit
tee next week.
Various objections raised to-day to the
Speakers plan. One constitutional quirl has
which in the belief Of those who discussed it
might cause the Speaker To abandon his four
county district proposition. The constitution
provides that counties. towns blocks which
from their location may be included in either OF
two districts shall be placed to make the
said districts most nearly equal in the number
of inhabitants. excluding aliens"
With this provision in mind. members OF tbs
reapportionment committee got to figuring and
found that two districts more nearly equal by
about two hundred citizen population might be
made If GeHesee were placed in the district with
Niagara and Orleans than If the Wadsworth
plan were adopted. That district would leave
Wyoming. Livingston and AIlegany in a district
the territory represented by ex-senator stevens
before last years apportionment- Yet the chief
significance of this objection is that 1t would
put Senators Hooker and Franchot the two
Wadsworth Senators into the same district
necessarily retiring of them. One OF the
chief objections 10 the Speakers scheme is ex-
pressed by sandy Smith. Lou Payne's Senator.
who might become victim. His present dis
trict is Columbia -Dutchess- Putnam. The Speak
cr's plan joins Orange and Putnam. leaving
Senator Smith weaker by Republican county.
and In two-county district. one of which is
about under the control of the Democrats
Chambers Columbia and Duchess would make
district not certainly Democratic as Rich
mond and Rockland. but district which might
elect Democratic Senator.
SENATE COMMITTEE SITTING TIGHT"
Al the conference last night this was pointed
out so vigorously that the Speaker said he
would abandon that feature of his plan II any