The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-19
CANT BRING PEACE
FINDS THAI SENATORS WON'T
BULGE on APPORTIONMENT.
MEANWHILE WadswOrth's Men Are Trying
Their Hand at RedistrictinG New FORK
n Kings Senate Passes Night Court
r BtlL but the Assembly VIII Wait.

and KINGS Senate Passes Night Court
= BILL but the Assembly VIII Wait.
ALBANY, June Ex-senator John Raines
had a CLEAN of hope last night hat possibly
NtChShis master hand he could pour oil on
the troubled waters in the Legislature
over the a~pportionment bill and fix things
30 that the Legislature could finally adj
journ this week. but he acknowledged
tonight that he cannot be the peacemaker.
sAfter talking with the Senators, he said.
II find that il Is the consensus of opinion
that the Senate will stand pat on the Tully
hul, and we will therefore stay in session
Nntil the Assembly recedes and adopts the
Tully PLAN
This will be disquieting news to the ma
prity of A~ssemblymen. who were told
last week by Speaker Wadsworth's friends
that the Senate was bound to give way soon
and that the Assembly would win out.
Speaker Wadsworth, however, says that
the Assembly will positively not adopt
the Tully plani and there matters stand.
One OF the most perplexing problems is
what Speaker Wadsworth's oonferees are
doing. Assemblymen Merritt and Sohoe-
neck continue 10 parcel of New York and
Kings counties into squares, not caring
whose district is affected or who will have
to suffer. They are fixing up the districts
of the two counties 30 that there will be
no shoestnng districts there. This has
caused the question TO be asked as to
whether Speaker Wadsworth has a traitor
in his camp. for they are seeking 10 hit
the very men who are the friends OF the
Nothing would drive State Chairman
Woodruff and Herbert Parsons TO the sup
port OF the Tully plan 30 quickly as the
Further changing of New York and Kings
counties in the reapportionment. They
came here last week and labored in behalf
of the Speaker. yet the men who are Teoog-
nized as doing the bidding Of the Speaker
are trying to break up their ~strongholds.
Assemblymen Merritt and Schoeneck worked
all day to-day on their new scheme OF ap-
portionment. What is to be gained by it
no one outside of the trainers OF the plan
seems TO know.
Another pertinent question that is being
asked by Assemblymen is n that is causing
considerable embarrassment. When\
Speaker Wordsworth called his CAUCUS Of
Republican Assemblymen he submitted an
apportionment plan as the one that should
be passed and has been passed by the Assem-
bly,. Since then the Speaker and his friends
ave run away from that plan a half dozen
times and have seemingly forgot that such
a bill has ever been passed.
1t is declared that not until a second eau
Gus has bcen held and the Republican As
semblymen vote to recede from their DO
sition on the first Wadsworth bill can there
be any scheme formulated for another APP
portionment bill. That there is something
in this is shown by the fact tina: the Repub-
lican Senators were called into a second
caucus and since then not once have they
entertained n suggestion that they con-
slider any other plan than the one provided
for in the Tully bill. Technically the Senate
could refuse TO confer with the Assembly
conferees on any other proposition save
hat of the Wadsworth bill, which the
Speaker arranged so that his father would
be taken care of in his ambition to regain
control of the Congressional district.
The Speaker has no thought of calling
q second caucus for every Assemblyman
recognizes the fact that they are not fight
Assembly. They admit that they are
merely standing by young Jim.
Not until the last day of the session,
therefore, will there be any business trans
acted. Somewhat to the surprise Of all
there was a quorum present in the Senate
to-day.
The Senate passed unanimously Senator
Agnew's night police court bill for New
York city. The bill had to be amended to
meet the objections of Gov. Hughes cited
IN his veto message of Senator Hasen6ug's
bill, which provided for additional police
court Magistrates in Brooklyn and Queens
boroughs.
The Agnew bill provides for two additional
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long a period as the Board Of Police Magis-
trates may determine.
The only business transacted was to
appoint a conference committee on adj
journment. Senators Armstrong, Page
and Grady were named as the Senate COM
mittee. Assemblyman Phillips, who is
Speaker Wadsworth's chief lieutenant in
the superintendent fight, is the chairman
Of the Assembly Committee and he says
there viii us no proposition TO adjourn
entertained by the Assembly until the
apportionment question is settled to the
satisfaction Of the Assembly.
While the Assembly Rules Committee
will report the night police court bill at
ono there is not much chance of il passing
until the last day of the session.
Assemblyman Rogers resorted to-day to
the tactics that have made him decidedly
unpopular with his Associates. For some
months there has been pending in theAssem-
bly, Railroads Committee, and lately in the
Rules Committee. a bill affecting the Bing-
hamton Street Railway. When Mr.. Rogers
was asked some time ago If he wanted the
bill he said he didn't know. : Finally he dis
covered that there was politics in the bill.
and he therefore asked for it. When he
made his request for the reporting of the bill
the Rules Committee decided hat it was a
bill that should not be reported.
Because Of that, when an attempt was
made to-day 20 pass bills in the Assembly
Mr.. Rogert objected to each bill. As there
were only SAirty-two Assemblymen present,
tnht maze II necessary 10 adjourn until
tomorrow The Senate adjourned until
2 O'Clock Thursday afternoon.
When Senator Raines fixed hat hour he
had in mind a plan whereby he could bring
about a compromise on the apportionment
bill, and he thought then that possibly the
Legislature could adjourn on Friday. But
he had his talks with the Senators after
ward, and that put a new phase into the
situation. Even he did not realize'that the
Senators could he so firm.
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