The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-16
FATE OF APPORTIONMENT BILL
EITHER THE FULLY BILL WILL
PASS OR NONE Ar ALI.
some Assemblymen Say the TuIly BtII VIII
Not Pass That House Unless speaker
Wsdsworth Accepts N-Grady Pre-
pairing His Attack on r.. VI. Osborne.

Not Pass That House Unless speaker
NadswOrth Accepts U-Grady Pre-
pairing His Attack on n. VI. Osborne.
ALBANY, July i5.-This week, It is be-
heved, will decide the fate OF the apportion-
ment bill. Either the Tully bill, intro
duoed and passed in the Senate at the ECU
lar session, will pass both houses OF the
Legislature, or the Legislature will adjourn
without passing a bill providing for a re-
| a-pportionment Of the State. II the latter
is the case then il will be because the As
sembly will not stand for the Tully bill,
while the Senate will accept no other.
Tonight the two committees on appor-
| tionment were to have had a joint session.
Word was received, however, that Senator
Human, chairman OF the Senate committee,
was III in Binghamton and unable to come
to Albany to-day. As%semblyman Hamm
Of the Assembly committee was also absent,
40 an adjournment was taken until to-
morrow.
Senator Raines says hat the Senate will
stand by the FULLY plan. No change can
| DC rnbue, TIC rhyS, WltuOut pu'ttuk
more Senators out OF business. But As
semblymen close to Speaker Wadsworth
say that the Tully plan will not pass that
house unless Speaker Wordsworth accepts
IL. There are some who say that the
| Speaker Is being poorly advised in this
matter; that had he after the Endorsement
given him by the Assembly at the regular
session yielded by sinking his personal
l coals.-. e.. ,ho -zoI - the rarty, aa vpalI
as trying to uphold the hands Of the Cow
ernor, he would have made himself the
biggest man in the State and his political
future would have been assured.
Assemblymen still are hoping for a COM
promise. but there isn't a ghost OF a chance
Of the Senate yielding an iota from the Tully
plan as already drawn
The attendance in the Senate o-nieht
was surprisingly large, In view of the an
nouncement that they need not come back
until they were sent for. No one has been
sent for as vet, but il ia believed that by
the end of the week something will occur
that will cause the members to come back
10 Albany.
The direct nominations bill is being put
in shape to overcome the objections made
that it is not workable. ~Assemblyman
Il ItiiNitt, wv oppOoOh thV
bill at the regular session. after adjourn
ment evolved a plan which he thought
would overcome the objections that had
been made at the regular session. IL is
claimed that the changes made 20 the bill
improve il, but IL isn't yet workable. As
semblyman Prentioe inserted in his bill
provisions for columns for the different
factions at the primary elections. Gov.
Hughes, though, will not stand for this.
The Governor believed that the direct
nominations bill must be regarded as a
step toward ballot reform. and therefore
should incorporate in it that Massachusetts
method Of preparing a ballot which means
the doing away Of all columns
To-day Representative in Congress
George c. Waldo and Abel f.. Blackmar.
representing the Kings county Republican
organization, and Edwin Sanford. Gov.
Hughes's legal adviser, consulted and
worked on the direct nominations bill.
When they finish the bill il is to be intro,
duced in both houses Of the Legislature.
IL will not be passed. however. until the
Members are sent for. as il 10 Intended to
transact all business in one day and
then adjourn.
Aside from the apportionment and direct
nominations measures the Senate has
the nominations Of Gov. Hughes for Public
Service Commissioners to confirm. Senator
Grady tonight reiterated hat he 10 going
TO oppose the confirmation OF ex-Mayor
Thomas NJ. Osborne Of Auburn as a mem
her of the commission. The Tamm8ny
Senator has been looking up Mr.. Osborne's
private record and not his political record,
and il he makes the same charges against
Mr.. Osborne on the floor of the Senate
that he has in private conversations he
will provoke quite a sensation and cause
Mr.. Osborne to explain or retire from
public life.
Senator Grady's investigations have
led him to delve into an occurrence in
Syracuse which ii is a matter Of police court
record. he says. and which concerns Mr..
Osborne quite seriously. The Senator
says that probably Gov. Hughes was not
informed Of this fact and he proposes TO
furnish some information concerning an
incident in the life Of one OF the Governors
commissioners that has not been generally
known,
Tonight the Senate took suitable action
on the death Of former Senator Henry J..
Coggeshall Of Utica.