New-York tribune., 1907-06-18
NO BREAK In DEADLOCK
NO QUORUMS PRESENT.
Subcommittee NO1C Toying zgith
Manhattan Borough.
IBy TelesraDh 70 The rribuns.I ]


Albany. June 17-No break came IN the reap
poItionment deadlock tonight. and. hot, tired
and disgusted. the Legislature settled down TO
another week of sordid dickering and personal
pickering over political potentiality.' Neither
House had a quorum present. Business trans
acted merely nominal. and from now on
until some settlement OF this difficulty is reached
the Legislature will be merely name, a symbol
Of expense to taxpayers and of annoyance to its
members. . Senator Tully was unable TO attend
the session tonight as the funeral or his rather
was held to-day. He will be here tomorrow,
and the efforts 10 carve out some kind OF reap
pOrttonment plan which Speaker Wadsworth viii
let pass the Assembly will be continued. Mean
while. there Is much talk tonight OF a recess
from tomorrow until Thursday and from then
until next Monday.
The Legislators seem to be taking in solemn
earnest their threats to sit here all summer"
but there IS every side vague idea that
sort Of compromise will be reached this
week. Idle rumOrs of every sort are afoat TO
furnish some excuse other than absolute stub
bOrnness for the deadlock One Of the favOrites
is that the Senate wants to know the men WhOna
the Governor intends TO name for Public Service
Commissioners. and so intends to sit here until
July l, when the public utilities bill will take
effect This is made to seem little far fetched
by the fact that the reapportionment bill pro-
vides that by July 1 the boards Of supervisor,
Of counties electing two more Assemblymen
shall meet to carve the Assembly district An
other is that the whole affair is a preliminary
skirmish in the big battle for delegates to The
next national convention and that the President,
having State Chairman Woodruff and Herbert
Parsons. president Of the New York County Re-
publican Committee on his side. is desirous OF
having the support Of Speaker Wadsworth also,
and so is helping him in this fight. In confrma-
ton Of this idea. politicians point the unusual
interest which Woodruff and Parsons have dis
played in this situation All Of this makes in
teresting hot weather gossip for tired legislators
and they are taking advantage OF IL
State Chairman Woodruff and Herbert Par
sons are expected here tomorrow morning.
Their visit will be for the avowed purpose OF
settling things" They will. il is understood.
throw the weight of their political power in Jhs
scales in the interest of Speaker Wadsworth-
Friends OF the Speaker are not at all cordial
in their remarks about this duet Of New York
politicians They insist that Mr. Woodruff has
hurt the Speakers interests more than he has
improved them. and gloomiIy predict that the
pOrtending visit will spell the adoption OF the
original Tuly plan and the prompt and decisive
defeat OF WadswOrth." They point out that
about everything that Woodruff has come Up
Albany to get he has never got. and that
everything he has come here 10 advocate has
been beaten
At present subcommittee are doing all the
work on the reappOrtionment plan Work on
the carving Of Manhattan Island has made prog
ress TO the extent of three districts straight
across. from river TO river. This the upstate
men say Will make excellent constitutional dis
tricts. New York County men say that districts
one-half mile wide and three miles long hardly
are as compact as possible.
The subcommittee dwindled to Senator Schoe-
neck and Assemblyman Merritt to-day. but they
stuck manfully by their task of redistricttns
Manhattan. They collected all the available
maps. sent down to the Insurance Department
for adding machines. acquired an expert on
mathematics and began their work BY p. m.
they had made three districts and acquired a
distinct loathng for the task Instead of divid-
ing Manhattan Island north and south and then
chopping out districts. the subcommittee are
looping OFF districts from river to river. as q
bologna is cut" The first district extends from
the Battery north to Broome street The north
ern boundary has slight Jog" in it. but it does
not follow the approved lightning blaze path
which the boundaries of many districts have had
in previous years.
The second district goes as far north as 9th
street. still from river 70 river This too, has
a Jog" but the irregularity is not pronounced
District No. extends TO 10Th street Above
that the committeeman figure they Will have no
trouble in mapping out perfectly regular dis
tricts. since the streets, until they get up into
Harlem and The Bronx. at right angles AS
the political effect of all this they have little
10 say. They declare that one Republican SEN
ator may be returned from New York County.
but that even that IS somewhat doubtful They.
all being upstate men. have not tried to study
out the effect this redistrctins will have on tho
political leaders and heads OF Assembly dis
tricts and their clubhouses.
It's all sad. OF course" commented one menl-
Der of the conference committee. but the con-
stitution doesn't mention these fellows obvi-
ously we can't consider them"
The subcommittee has not taken up Kings
County yet. There the districts are somewhat
regular save the 4th and the 9th; but to correct
these. changes would have TO be made in many
others The problem of making rectilinear dis
tricts there is not simple in Manhattan.
either, because of the different shape of Kings
County. The subcommittee expect 10 work
several days yet before they get their mathe-
matical apportonment of New York City COM
pleted-