The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-30
ALLDS IS BRANDED
As A BR|BE-TA
Senate Votes to Sustain
Charges Made by
Conger.
RESIGNS BEFORE
ACTION is TAKEN.
Case Is Now Finally Closed.
Charges Against conger May
Be Investigated - General
Graft Inquiry Will Prob
ably Be Undertaken
by Legislature.

Albany. y. ", March .p.--Joth2In i.
Aids went to his home in Norwich
tonight private ci.isan. branded as
a bribc-,aker by his former colleagues
in the Senate. and by mis- own act no
longer member of that body. Sena-
tor Conger. wto filed the charges
against Aids, stayed here to fight
The battle that confronts Conger is
no longer to prove his charges To
this extent the Senate vindicated him
to-day. when forty of its forty-nine
members voted that the charges had
been sustained by the evidence
brought before them.
II is believed that Conger came to
the Senate to-day prepared to resign
as soon as he received this vindication.
However that may be. he did not re-
sign, and developments make it likely
that he will not DO So
The cause of this is resolution In
troduced by Senator Cobb. the ma
iority leader. providing for the ap-
pointment of a committee to present
to the senate charges against Conger,
growing out of his connection with
legislation. and the use OF funds to In
fluence the members OF the LeSfsla-
ture or other persons with reference
thereto"
The Cobb resolution was referred
to the Judiciary Committee. II is eS-
pected that the committee VIII repor,
il promptly to the Senate. There
seems to be no longer any doubt tia;
the present Legislature will conduct /
general graft investigation. With
the Aids case out OF the way, the
question OF thorough search into
the dark alleys of past legislative his
tory lies unavotdably before the Re-
publican Leaders.
Case Finally Closed.
Alldss resignation absolutely closes
his case. All that the Senate coula
have done, after sustaining the
charges against him. would have been
to put him out. and such punishment
his own act forestalled While bribery
is crime under the statutes. the al
Legations against Aids concerned
something that occurred ten years
ego, and the statute of limitations
would prevent any criminal prosecu-
ton, had any one felt inclined to
bring such proceedings.
The Senate Finance Committee dis
cussed informally. at an executive ses-
sion this afternoon, the question of a
general investigation, but no action
was taken.
OF the forty who voted to sustain
the charges that Senator Aids had
demanded and taken a brlbe, twenty
nine were Republicans and eleven
Democrats OF the nine who voted
against sustaining the charges, four
were Republicans and five were Demo-
Gratis.
Aids was not in the Senate cham
ber to-day A statement given out
by Alldss counsel declared that
Aids resigned on the advice of his at
torney, because the latter was salts
fed that the case would not be de-
cided on the evidence. but by political
exp ediency brought to bear from
"Washington and elsewhere
Resigns Before Vote.
Half an hour before his colleagues
were scheduled to begin voting on the
question of whether he took a. bribe
while a member of the assembly in
April. 1901. Aids to-day resigned from
the Senate.
This action is taken as indicating
that Aids, after a poll OF the Sena-
tors, found there was majority
against him. and that the vote of the
of the whole would be
followed by his expulsion by the SEN
ate.
His resignation. nled with the Sec
retary of State, gives no reason. 1t
is to take effect Immediately.
Aids Draws Pay.
Before Aids resigned he went to the
financial clerk of the Senate and
signed for his salary to date.
Allds's resignation having been read
In the Senate soon after that body was
called to order, on motion of Senator
Brackett a recess of an hour was
taken.
The significance Of this action be-
came apparent when it became known
that a. movement was on foot to ADOPT
a compromise resolution declaring that
the Conger charges had not been sus-
tanned, but that. nevertheless, enough
evidence had been deduced to warrant
Allds's, resignation.
AS soon as the recess was taken
of the Democrats ana he
publicans. mingled, gathered IN 'ne
senate library. There Lewis p. carr
one OF Alldss attorneys. made a
speech.
Mr.. Van Hoesen, OF conger's legal
sta r. was called in shortly after. The
notnt was raised that. inasn,uch as
A1i1s lad resigned. there was no
lonrar any question before the Senate
ava mat a vote on the Conger charges
was unnecessary. The conference de-
o,ded that 1t was the duty of the COM
r,it1ee of the whole to vote upon the
question of whether or not the charges
we're sustained.
WANTS FULL INVESTIGATION
Hughes Declares Political Household
Needs Dtsinfecting,
New York March 29.--Governor
Hughes was cheered at New Rochelle
Ir,lt 45ae, no tad