The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-29
TODAY DECIDES ALLDS'S FATE
THE ACCTSED SENATOR SEEMS
CONFIDENT o. ACQCITTlL.
4 Frtead Whs POlIes the 90 senators aays
AIItz win Get - Votes The General
impression O., IISweNer. Thai ne Win
Be Convicted by n Decisive Vote.

impression o.. How ~ cr. That He WIN
Be Convicted by n Decisive NOte.
ALBANr. March - When senator
Aids retired tonight he seemed To think
| that the senate tomorrow would not
vote TO sustain the ConrI- charge that
! he demanded and acCeC1Nl a brihe ot
81. on when he was a meInaer of the A.
ssmbly in 1901. On the other hand the
insurgcnt Sena tors. who have been direct
ing the ight against Aids. expressed
the firm belief that Mr. Aids would he
convicted by the senate by "A vote 81
about n to ~.
senator Allds's friends insisted that
there were thirtv-one votes in the senate
in his favor. nut "A careful analysis IL the
situation did not seem Co Justify this
claim. 4 friend ~ senator Aids late
tonight polled the forty-nine Senators
who nrr 60 vote on his case tomorrow
and gave twenty eight Senators to Aids
ard twenty-one against him. IL would
require the vote of twenty-five Senators
TO sustain Aids.
senator Aids was in his COMMITTEES room
near the Senate chsmber tonight. He
did not seem 20 b., disrnayed at the reports
Aids Senator'S numbered over thirty and
that the number was increasing. with the
expectation that there would lie an ava
lanche Against Aids Certainly Il ia APP
parent that when the Senators loft Albany
last Thursday the expectations Of Allds =
friends were hat thirty-one Senators
would refuse vote to dignity h" Conger
charges against Aida. The outs am
precision about lcGislatiy" halls tonight
was that there was not chime" for Aids
on the yot" tomorrow. som" ~ thos''
who opposed Aids went ~ far a. io say
that Aids would not get ten votes.
The only fac, beyond dispute tonight
was that Tomorrow session II the
Senate would To- prolonged during the
day and possibly INTO the night before
all the votes were cast Each senator
has he rIgAt to explain his vote and ~
- likely that ~ lcait nin"t",n ~ twenty
~ the forty-nine TO vut" on the flt. Of
Aids will want 10 talk
senator Brarkett has a long argument
prepared while he refused t. give
any indication tonight - what q con
tanned ~ seemed certain that th. saratoga
senator would go into IN" testimony
taken during IN" seven weeks Of the
trial with great detail and wind up 10y
voting against the accused senator
senator Brackett took senator Human
aud senator RIOS" into the Cities com
nittSe room tonight and rel;eirs.'i his
speech before thcm
II Aids D.. adudgsd guilty of bribery
to-Inorrn~ II will l,s great shock to him.
Tie has been confident Throughout that the
longer charges would not b- sustained.
There was excitement about tine senate
chamber tonight /, waz confined q w.
gether 10 the Aids case II unnerved me
Legislators They did not want To -tay IN
session and quit seven minutes after they
met The Assembly went t. the senate
chamher about seven minutes longer.
L.ttl" groups st"od about the senate
corridors grabbing word or r,Imor mere
and there and parting all N" rick'si M
Information or transformation together
IA the hone ~ getting = fairly accurate
line IN what - going g. happen o. senator
Aids tomorrow.
SONS. of the senators rnu.t confident
that Aids will get the worse end ~ ~
Wsrs willing to listen ~ others not quite
- sure. while half dozen Senators had
rplls.slls IN their desks surrounded by
m"mu"rs attempting To- dope out tho
situation. for time tonight " looked
as though every man At III" capitol i'm
tere~tSd IN the outcome q tomorrow
vote mad hts own rpllrlll aud his own
tally - the posi- lie result
some II the Republican senators Said
that tho unC"r' lintv IT IN" situation to-
rIght was urat'v good proof that the
Republican bp-Hr~ were k~epiny tN"I-
haIids ~ ana a." Democrats FELL ~" Sam"
Vav
II 10 eVpeC'sd that there " u b. hig
surpTIs. IN the vote ~ ia" Bropklvn
senators. both Democrats and Rspuhl
cans There a." rv" R'puhli~an soma
tors from kiugs. four ~ whom are ron-
troll..d hy Wundrur and there ar thrs-
Democratic ~ uators. II - "NT"Ctr" that
all 81 IN" "IgN' Kings SENATOR ~ ruting
Mt Republican. and cullen. Democrat.
will vote Tor Allds
senator Alld- = friends wov" rVp"cting
the vut..- q the two Eri" - natur-. DAVIS
and Hll. and The tWD Mrur'-' senators
Mead. and Whit" hIt 10 was pointed Int
that u was hardly "Nf-art.i thai b. would
have their support e MopiriIn was u,f
going 10 do f.'ttar Tor hun m kInR-. \Ht
SinC. IN" vut" IN TN" ra,-.'rack bills tWp
wears age has a roll call own s.d - much
Interest," A. 'u-murruw lineup II 90.
Senators uu the Nllds cas-.