New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-20
SITUATION At ALBANY
CAUCUS OF ASSEMBLYlIEN
Speaker Summons Legislators to
Return on Tuesday.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Albany July 19-FoIlowing the example OF the
Senate which will hold caucus on Monday night
on the two apportionment bills now before 1t. the
Assembly will hold caucus on apportionment on
Tuesday. The result of the Senates caucus. to all
intents. is known W. on the result of the AS
semby caucus will depend the solution of the ap-
portionment tie-up. n II decides to stand by
Speaker Wadsworth indefinitely formal dead
lock. such existed at the regular session, will
result. The Speaker feels confident that the As
sembly will stand by him
Word sent to all the Republican Assembly
men to-day 10 be in attendance Tuesday morning.
Some small bills may up for action after
which recess probably will be taken until the
Assembly Judiciary Committee make a re-
port on the direct nominations bill. 1t is the
speaker wish that the legislators shall not be
made TO return for nothing. If no action to
settle the reapportonTert trouble is taken After
the Judicary COMMITTEES reports a caucus of the
RepubncanS viii be called to take under consid-
Grafton the question of reapportonment. No bill
Is now before the Assembly, but this question
could be taken up on a report of the Apportion-
aaTLt 'oIhliuee or in any one of several ways.
without much doubt the Senate will have adopted
ds caucus measure the compromise plan embody-
lus uree or the districts In the latest Assembly
pan by the time the Assembly caucus is held.
Ihus, IL II should he decided then that the Assem-
ply was willing to accept that plan. IT could be
mace a party measure and the Legislature might
adjourn by Friday surely. There is evident on
many sides desire the part of Assemblymen
as individuals to settle this affair and get away
from Albany permanently; but many of those who
In private speak in that fashion likely To stand
with the Speaker, unless a general stampede comes
Some people here think the Speaker himself is
preparing 10 yield. but he said to-day that the sit
uaton was not changed in the least, far he
concerned.
The Assembly Judiciary Committee was TO have
held hearing the Travis direct nominal
tons bill to-day. but no quorum present. so
II went over until next week. Congressman Waldo,
who is acting for the Independent Republican clubs
of Kings County, helped draft the bill, explained
that II was meant to provide procedure by which
the permission for direct primary nominations in
the existing primary law might he taken advan-
tage of by those organizations desiring adopt
direct primary nomina tions. 1t applies. he says.
TO cities, incorporated villages with than five
thousand population, and to counties wholly within
a city.
The measure provides for official ballot practi-
cally the Australian ballot. adapted nj the re-
quirements. Under this bill officers elected within
any division which may adopt the direct primary
nominations system under the primary law may
be nominated at the primaries. besides the Candi-
dates for party offices within those divisions The
Senate committee which has this bill under con-
sideration has not reported it. Probably IL
will submit report week
Brief sessions were held by both houses of the
Legislature to-day. No business done. Gov
ernor Hughes TO the Senate the following NOM
nations Of managers OF the state custodal asy-
lum for feeble minded women at Newark. Wayne
County: Sarah f, Armstrong. OF Penn Yam to sue
coed Nellie r. Hotchkiss Albert z. Fowler. OF
Syracuse, 10 succeed Edward X. Burnham: Benja-
min Chase, Of Rochester to succeed Ellery G. AL
len; Robert Dey, or Syracuse, to succeed Walter
T.