Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-24
HUGHES NOT SATISFIED.
Calls on Legislature to Meet In
 Special Session.
PURPOSE OF ACTION NOT TOLD
Governor, However, Tells Senate Com mittee Measures of Importance Have Failed of Passaee-Resular Session Adjourned-Groans For Hughes.

| Failed Of Passage-Kegular session l Adjourned-Groan For Hughes. l Albany, x. Y, April 24.-The legisla- | ture of 1908 closed it's regular session,
 and the echoes of its closing hours had
 hardly died away before Governor Hughes caused to be filed with the 1 clerks of both houses and upon the secretary of state a proclamation sum-
 moning an extraordinary session. to
 begin on Monday, May II, at S:30
 D. m. The following day, May F, ! also under a proclamation of the gov in the Forty-seventh (Niagara -Oreans} senatorial district to fill the vacancy in the present senate caused by the recent death of Senator Stanislaus P. Franchot of Niagara Falls.
 The proclamation is in the usual
 form and gives no intimation of the purpose for which the governor calls
 the extra session. He would make no
 statement on the subject. The general
 expectation is that he will recommend
 for further consideration the proposi-
 tions of his annual and special mes
 sages of this year, which the legisla-
 ture failed to enact, especially the
 elimination of the sections of the Per
 cy-Gray racing law and the penal
 code. which for thirteen years has pro
 
 Governor Not Satisfied.
 Governor Hughes in response to the notification brought by committee of senators that the legislature was ready to adjourn said he had nothing further at the moment to communicate. He added, with marked emphasis:
 q congratulate your honorable body upon the measures of value passed, and I regret that other measures which are of great importance to the people of the state have failed of pas sage"
 The closing exercises of the senate were more than ordinarily impressive. This is the end of the regular service of the present senate. An unusual 1 number of it's members are for one | reason or another unlikely to return. | The note of sadness occasioned by this fact was emphasized by the memorial | exercises in honor of the late Senator Franchot, who was well beloved by all the members of the senate.
 Kisses For Huqhes.
 The closing hours in the assembly were characterized by a mixture of seriousness and fun. Speaker Wads- worth in a brief extempore speech sum. marized the work of the legislature, in the course of his remarks calling atten- ton to the fact that the assembly, as he put it. ''has placed itself squarely on record on the matter of race track gambling"
 During a recess of the assembly there was burlesque convention" in which Speaker Wadsworth was nomi mated amid cheers for the office of gov. ernor A proposition to renominate Governor Hughes was greeted with mingled applause and groans.
 Both houses cleared their calendars of all bills which stood any chance of passage, and for the first time in many years actual adjournment came within a few minutes of the time set by the resolution. so that the time honored custom of setting back the clock was hardly necessary.
 The assembly adopted the resolution passed by the senate calling for the of a committee to investi gate the finances of the city of New York. The Democrats opposed the 
 Senator Frawley's bill for the pur. 1 ,hase by the city of the Steinway tun. lel passed the assembly. along with Senator Gradys s3,OOO.O0O highway bill.
 The assembly killed by amendment he proposed amendment to the con. ! titution which aimed to create a dis. l of 10 per cent in civil serv. 1 ce examinations for veterans of the l war and the Philip c ,ine and Boxer campaigns. The Page bill. placing telegraph and [ telephone companies under the iuris C fiction of the public service commis f ion. was killed in the rules committee a n the assembly. I The senate passed the measure oi a tssemblyman Francis making manda ory the adoption Of tho three platoon ystem in police departments of first nd second class cities. The assembly threw the lobby into 7 by passing Senator Gas idy'S bill putting bucket shops out of | usineSs. The antibucket shop bill q ees 10 Governor Hughes. That DOT ion of the lobby particularly interest n | in promoting the interests of the . ucket shop men are sore lot. They -ere willing 70 bet 100 to 1 that the assIdy NH would not be passed.
 The annual supply bill passed by q Oih house. apprOpriates about S4.901- {. n. The general appropriation bill ! mounts to about soi.OCO.O10. fl Both horses passed tine hill of As- z Arnold. which. if approved ' ? the governor. will prevent a liquor s Her from IeiHg put out Of business ' P the erection Of a church or school {, ithin 2OO feet of his place. The vote .,
 the assembly was S4 to 3i. in the nate 2s to :. ,- The assembly passed the bill of Sen q o- Page providing for commission [ investigate the conditions of fmmi- 2