New-York tribune., 1908-05-28
ALBANY PROGRAMME
4 RECESS NEXT WEEK.
Probable June II or
12-Hughes Sends Message.
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Albany, May 27.-Having counted noses anu iouu
| that not majority of legislators dared oely uo'
Hughes by taking adjournment before passing
| again the anti-racetrack gambling bills, the
leaders of both houses to-day, after series u co
ferences mapped out definite programme ior 'ile
remainder Of the extraordinary session cohNeheo
| two weeks ago.
| A recess will be taken on Friday until Monday
June s. That night next day Senator foeihei
is expected to be here, according to lniorhia.'o
received in several quarters to-day lhen Wv
| ernor Hughes will resume his recommendations Ior
| the repeal of the Percy-Gr racing law me
Legislature will pass on that clean up all us o'heT
work and adjourn sine die June il or H. Inc
Assembly voted to-day adjourn June L. but the
Senate did not concur in the respiution-
Meanwhile though lacking the courage 20 defy
the Governor outright because of the pubic sup
port they know he has. good body OF ieslslators
publicly and privately lose no opportunity to heap
insults on him by slur, taunt and innuendo HIS
sending in a message to-day containing recommeh-
dations for several pieces of needed tnoush not
sensationally important legislation was made the
occasion for a bitter speech of deauncation and
attempted rdicue in the Assembly by Mr. Palmer,
of Schoharie. In the Senate various members Or
ganzed an impromptu farce, in which was bitter
drift of gibes and jeers at the Governors person
ality and policy.
AFFAIRS MOVE SWIFTLY.
Affairs moved swiftly to-day. Hughes men, hav-
ing the dilatory tactics which were in vogue
up TO last night and knowing the efforts made by
political bosses and representatives OF the racing
interests and others inimcal to the Governor 10
stir up bad break between Legislature and execu-
tive, argue that failure to accomplish TINS portehos
well for the success of the ant-gamblng meas
ures. Some of them consider the bitterness shown
today bitterness attendant the defeat OF the
anti-Hughes contingent But only the Governor
crystallize the public sentiment necessary to
the passage of the racing bills, and his qther
measures in the short time remaining.
Early this morning the anti-Hushes men thousht
they had the situation all figured out. They were
going to have resolution introduced in the Assem-
bly, setting adjournment sine die for next Thurs
day, regardless of whether or not the racing bills
had come up for vote again. But just about the
time carry this scheme into execution several
Assemblymen began to get coId feet and weak
knees. while of the anti-Hughes Senators
who had been loudest in their denunciatien of him
ceased TO complain about the torrd weather here
Then. 10 complete their decentralization, came the
report that the Governor about to send in a
message Nobody knew what it might contain,
CONSERVATION reigncd for few minutes.
Senator Ranes and Speaker Wadsworth there
upon went downstairs TO see the Governor. They
described the situation to him briefly, and asked
for some guidance the procedure to be fol-
lowed for the rest of the session. The Governor
told them that by June he expected to be able to
say definitely whether he should have fur
ther recommendations to make to the Legislature.
That sufficient for them.
Immediately conference of Republican Senators
was called. at which the Speaker, Mr. Merritt the
majority leader, and other Assembly leaders were
present. There the scheme for a weeks recess was
adopted. Considerable toward the Gov
ernor manifested. Senator Cassidy wanted to
adjourn next Thursday thereby dodging the
track proposition. He got four votes for his mo-
tiOn. Senator Hooker wanted the TO extend
until after the Chicago convention but this
voted down. Senator Hinman suggested that the
Legislature stay right on the job continuously
LEGISLATORS SOMEWHAT APPEAsED.
returned to work somewhat appeased though none
the less opposed the Governors recommended
tons Indeed, the Assembly Judiciary Committee
immediate thereafter slaughtered the direct nomi
nations bill jovially and when Mr.. Green, its in
troducer. tried to resuscitate the victim by moving
discharge the committee, the entire Assembly
chased him away and overturned his ambulance.
BY a vote of to 2 the committee refused to
port the bill, and c. r Foley's direct nonina-
tions measure, drafted along somewhat different
lines. also. Green and Hamn were those who voted
for 1t. Thereafter, when the Assembly convened,
Green moved TO discharge the committee Bev-
erley R. Robinson of New York, attacked the meas
ure vciously. He declared ii was full of imper-
fections II would be unworkabe, and should
be passed, as if passed, any organization fail
ing to adopt it would be subjected to mputatiOn
of unsavory motives for refusing. He said the
scheme proposed would force political workers to
spend much more time and effort in the field add
ing the remarkable conclusion:
IN practice it would weed out of the most
valuable members of the Legislature"
Assemblyman Phillips. chairman of the Judiciary
Committee which twice refused to report the bill,
defended that and attacked the bill.
The motion to discharge the committee was lost,
80 "a. gain of three votes for the bill over the
vote when Assemblyman Francis, at the regular
session. took a similar motion out of Mr.. Green's
hands and had the bill killed thereby. Thus the
Assembly at this extra session already had killed
two of the Governors most important recommenda
tions-the direct nominations scheme TO abolish
misrepresentation party bosses. and the new Public
Service bill for telephone and telegraph companies.
ASSEMBLY PASSES THREE BILLS.
The Assembly passed to-day three bills. designed
20 embody recommendations made by the Governor.
They are those of j. S. Parker, creating
camille inspection bureau in the State Department
Of Labor; B. r. Robinson, TO provide more COM
plete means of indentifying electors in New York.
and r. r. Robinson. reducing from so to 400 the
number of electors in election district in New
York.
The Assembly Judiciary Committee reported
unanimously the Phillips bill to prevent an cleo
tor from signing petition for nomination unless
he is entitled to vote for such candidate. The
committee amended the D. c. Robinson bill 10
regulate political parties to make it conform to
the amendment made the McCarreq bill by the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
Rv practically unanimous vote the Judiciary
Committee reported the bill of Senator Page plac-
ing telephone and telegraph companies under the
iurisdictior OF the Public Service commissions.
The Assembly this afternoon passed q joint reso-
luton fixing upon Thursday. June H. at y. m. as
the time for final adjournment OF the extraordinary
session. The resolution went to the Senate for con-
currence, where il handed down and referred
10 the Finance Committee.
The Governors special message included the fol-
lowing subjects: Enlargement of the powers of the
State Court of Claims. appropriation for further
elimination of grade crossings, Improvement of
harbor facilities at Syracuse, appropriation
appeal to the United States Supreme Court in the