The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-10
SENATE NOT LIKELY TO YIELD
No REAPPORTIONMENT SOLU-
7ION rs YET IN SIGHT.

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speaker wadsworth and senator RaInes
Coh~fcr--tsaines. Hal = PlAn by which
TO Appear 60 Save wadswsrth's Face-
Direct Nominations HBln Seems safe.
ALBANY, July Ex-senator Raines and
Speaker Wadsworth spent the day In con-
ference over the reapportionment muddle.
When the Speaker was not engaged with
Senator Raines he had his friends about him
trying TO map out a plan OF Battle. While
Senator Raines lie trying to act N a peace
maker and devise some plan that will
prevent a deadlock, he 10 doing IL without
consultation with the majority of Senators.
SO far az can be learned from CONVERSE
ions with Senators there does not seem to
he a disposition on the part Of the Republic
can Senators to yield to the demands OF
Speaker Wadsworth and It would not be at
all surprising to see the Senate again adopt
the Tully plan Of ap~portionment. What
the Senators object to most particularly
and what stands in the way OF bringing
about a harmonious situation at once is the
talk INDUCED in by the persons represent
ing Speaker Wadsworth. One Senator
said:
Assistant Clerk Ray Smith has managed
the Speaker during the two terms MIR.
Wadsworth sat upon the rostrum to such an
extent that he imagines he. il the whole
Assembly. Mr.. Smith has been the adviser
Of the Speaker In everything he has done.
Everybody knows that il was Mr.. Smith
who killed the direct nominations bill in the
Assembly on the closing day"
It. 10 a matter of considerable comment
thar the entire Syracuse delegation 10 maxi
ing the Wadsworth fight n OF their own.
Mr.. Smith incensed the Senators by coming
out in a statement in which he said the As
sembly would not treat with the Senate II
Senators Cassidy and fully were members
Of an apportionment . committee. The
Speaker says he didn't sec the statement
before 1t was published, but Mr.. Smiths
close relations with the Speaker clothes the
statement with authority that would not
be recognized elsewhere. Assemblymen
Phillips. Schoeneck and Hammond are also
giving vent to expressions that do not
make the Senators feel in a mood to yield.
The two houses will conven again to-
morrow. but there will be few members
present. The A~ssemblymen drew their
mileage money to-day n the first train
that would take them out OF Albany was
boarded. A large number went to Sara
toga. as did many Senators, but most Of the
Legislators went home. The programme for
tomorrow is to appoint n Joint committee
on a-pportionment in thet wo houses and then
take a recess until some day next week.
By III time the legislators come bach 10
Albany IL is believed hat the situation
will have clarified itself 40 that the appor-
tionment bill can be passed.
Speaker Wadsworth has not advanced
a plan OF. a~pportionment whereby be can
escape having Livingston county kept
away from Steuben county in a Senatorial
district. just what Senator Raines's plan
is he refuses to divulge. but il IL believed
he has hit upon a scheme whereby Living
ston county will not have to go with Steuben
and will make IL seem that both Senator
Tully and Speaker Wadsworth nave each
won out and yet leave Speaker orth
in no better position than before. Il ia
known that the Senators will not permit
Of an apportionment plan that will further
disturb the Senators than that provided
for by the FULLY plan.
Gov. Hughes expects the extra session
will end shortly. for lie has made his mr.
rsngemenrs to 60 to the Adirondaoks on
u fishing expedition the lust week In July
anu Ho WOulu HOt tHluh Ol BOlUE dWhV IOF
two weeks. Az lo has planned. " ihs I1sRis-
lature was still la session.
As for tho direct nominations bin tho
Governors ipsistence upon IL 10 making 1t
embarrassing TO the upstate Republican
Assemblymen. They now know how he
has SGT his heart on this reform In. politics
and Aseemblymen canDot dodge voting for
the Trsvis-Green bill on ths ground that
they did not know that IL was tbs one the
Governor desired. The fact that q recsss
IL to be taken showa that ths leaders do not
anticipate any trouble in eating tbs nil,
through both houses.
AZ tho regular session Speaker Wsds-
worth M his Syraous" advisers wsro
particularly active In opposition to ths
bill. This was because OF the help that
Herbert Parsons and Stats Chairman Wood
ruff were giving Speaker Wadsworth in HE
fight TO upset the Tully plan Of spportion-
ment. Now Il 10 regarded as certain that
State Chairman Woodruff and President
Parsons will be compelled to oome out and
favor the Travis-Green bill which he's been
introduced or openly Oppose 1t. They
will not be permitted to kill dic~ot nominn.
lions again by indirsction.