New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-11
NAME NEW COMMITTEES
NO PLANS FORMED YET.
First Meeting on Apportionment
Without Resalts-Another To-day.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune.I

I8y Telegraph to Ir1ounel
Albany, July 10-Apportionnent committees
named by both houses OF the Legislature held
their first meeting to-day. discussed the subject
for time, discovered that no figures or maps
were at hand and adjourned to take up work
tomorrow. Meanwhile. the Legislature seems
preparing to settle down into peaceful repose
while the committees wrestle with the affair.
| for Senator Raines and Assemblyman Moreland
in their respective houses gave notice that while
Legislative days would be observed. no business
would be transacted requiring the presence of
members until next Monday night"
Many Legislators who Analysed the personnel
of the two committees predicted that more or
less trouble would be experienced IN obtaining q
plan satisfactory TO both houses. Each commit
tee is composed entirely OF men who have not
served any Of the previous apportionment
committees, but Enthusiastically the Senate COM
mittee IS Raines committee and Will stand
for the TulIy apportionment plan with as little
modification possible-some here think even
with none. The committee is, moreover,
stronger committee than the Assembly,
stronger in numbers and stronger in the per-
sonality OF it's members-and out Of that may
grow some of the i'll feeling which characterized
negotiations at the regular session. and which
aligned the Assembly with Speaker Wadsvsorth.
The appOrtonment difficulty Is still wide open;
neither side has any plan officially, and neither
is committed TO anything specific. There is
largo chance for compromise. yet this chance
seemed somewhat less to-day than 1t did
Monday night and yesterday. when individual
legislators We're talking Cancellation" and agree
ing that it would be best to meet the other side
half way. The Senate committeeman are headed
by Senator Human known as q fighter, and all
were strongly for the FULLY bill at the regular
session.
Speaker Wadsworth and the Assembly opened
the apportionment doings to-day. Senator
Rainess resolution providing that the Joint Ju-
dietary committees take up the question of the
validity OF an apportionment made at this spe-
clal session and also of the legal points in the
Attorney Generals scheme for the election of
Senators next fall came up for discussion. Mr..
Oliver, minority leader. favored tho resolution.
Mr. Moreland. the Republican leader. opposed 1t,
declaring that the Assembly need take no action.
as II was not concerned directly and If It adopt
ed the resolution it would in a sense be guaran-
teeing the legality of an apportionment at an ex-
ira session. The Raines resolution was tabled
by overwhelming vote.
Immediately thereafter the Speaker announced
the Assembly apportionment committee. Its
members Mead. of Albany. chairman: G. II.
Whitney, Hamn. Mills and Burns. Meanwhile
Senator Raines had presented a resolution for
an apportlonment committee OF nine, and when
It was adopted named Human, of Broome,
chairman; Page. Wilcox. Fancher, Dunn. O'Neil.
HeacocE Cullen and Transporter.
The committees met this afternoon. All were
men rather unfamiliar with the technical details
Of the work. and since the only papers before the
committees were copies Of the Tully bill and one
or two briefs apportionment Which Senator
O'Neil had brought TO the meeting. II was de-
cided to study little in preparation for a sub
sequent meeting. The Assembly members got
maps of the state and the county populations
and then held conference.
John J. Murphy. secretary OF tho Citizens
Union. talked with Governor Hughes to-day
about annort,onnent He ia demanding
mathematical apportionment" OF New YORK
County and intends TO ask for hearing before
the apportionment committees when they get I'd
that part of their work. He says that the union.
n such an apportionment is not made. might
consider II necessary to attack the new law In
the courts He declares that in the last appor-
tIonment and he supposes IN tho IuLy OH 80
far as II embodied the Parsons dlstrlctlns OF ne"
York County. districts had been created as d re
suit OF deals between HepuDli0@4 "''N
cratic politicians.
Tho union is interested in seeing that proper
Senate districts created, because wlthou'
them no proper Assembly districts can Dc lhane
Senator Guchrist introduced to-day the OH
h,- ,,,bich he expects TO fight the Travis direct
nominations measure favored by Governor
Hughes 1t provides that the question Oh oHeo'
primary nominations shall be supInltteu oy
referendum to the enrolled voters of both parties
before It may DO adopted In any county. II
must bs adopted also by both parties betore
either can use this system. and IN that proVlS-
ION the advocates OF direct primary hoiuih@
,ions see n clever evasion OF the whole supJeCI
hIu for direct nominations. Friends OF the
Travis measure declare that Mr.. GNchrlst anu
ell the advocates of his proposition KNOW thaI
II would be little short Of miraculous TO get
both political parties in any county to agree 10
an important political issue as direct nomlna~
tlons.
Assenoblyman Foley. OF Niagara. Hearst
man introduced to-day tho Hearst direct nom
nations bill, providing for nomination OF
Irntted States Senators and all other officers nj
primaries. ,, .. ,oso
Senator Raines's resolution relative to appor-
tionment and the election of Senator'S the SEN
ate Judiciary Committee appointed suo-coll-
rnttteeg to consider these subjects ana the
Travis and Gichrist bills.
senators Armstrong, Human and Grady were
Amounted to discuss direct nominations. "hlIe
page Smith and McCarren were named TO con-
slider the validity OF apportionment at a specla4
session and the necessity for an election OF
Senators next fall.
The following committee was appointed IN 'He
Assenobly TO arrange for services in memory OF
Asearoblvnan w G. Hastings OF Newburg
Nance of Orange; Apgar, of Westchester
Rogers OF Broome; Burns and A. e. Smith, OF
New York
MEETS PASSENGER MEN.