New-York tribune., 1910-01-25
ADOPT PROBE PLAN
ACTION BY SENATOR'S
ON ALLDS CASE.
Inquiry Limited to Printed
Charges-Osborne and Lit
Heton Chief Counsel.
GBy Telegraph to The Tribune


ators in conference tonight practically
adopted procedure for the investigation
was determined to give Senator Conger,
before the Senate. an opportunity to
he desires in connection with the matter
mentioned at the so-called insurgent
Senators conference on the night the
Legislature organized. If Senator Conger
refuses or declines to make formal
investigation of the article in THE
Evening Post" and the charges con-
tained therein
The conference did not block out the
rules of evidence to be followed 1t was
decided to limit the inquiry to the one
case mentioned in the printed charges,
although. unless some rigid limitation
of competent evidence is made, it is quite
probable that from this specific case a
general investigation may result.
The conference convened about o. M,
after brief session Of the Senate. Sen
ator Bracket read a tentative draft of
the proposed plan of procedure. Then
ensued a general discussion in which,
most Of the lawyers of the Senate took
part The phraseology Of Mr. Brackets
draft was altered and amended. and
finally the conference broke up without
a formal vote on it.
LAWYERS ASK FOR TIME
4 telegram was read from Conger's
attorneys demanding that they have
twenty days in which to file formal
charges against Aids, but the confer
ence decided this period should be re-
duced to about week. If within the
period stipulated Conger fails to file
the charges, the Senate is to investigate
the statements alleged to have been
made, and Aids is to have a similar
period in which to file an answer
Subpnnas are to be issued for wit
nesses in the name of the Lieutenant
Governor and countersigned by the clerk
OF the Senate, and the witnesses will be
compelled TO produce any documents re-
quired. The investigation will be con-
Quoted by the Senate acting as a COM
mittee OF the whole, which excludes the
Lieutenant Governor from presiding, but
he names the presiding officer from
among the Senators.
The procedure is to be the same as
that of any court Of record. An objec-
ton by counsel for either party may be
appealed TO the committee of the whole
when five Senators vote that an appeal
shall be taken. The final verdict is to
be on the question as to whether the
charges have been sustained or not sus-
tained
1t was decided to devote the first hour
of each day, from IL to IL, to legislative
business so as not TO delay the work of
be taken up daily and. continued until
5 D. m. -
CONGER'S LAWYERS DEMOCRATS.
Both men in the controversy COM
pleted their arrangements as to counsel
to-day. Senator Conger said that he
had engaged James W. Osborne of New
York, to represent him. With Mr.. Os-
borne will act David Van Hoesen, Of
Cortland. who for several years has been
Senator Conger's lawyer. Both men are
Democrats, Mr. Van Hoesen being one
Of the few Democratic Assemblymen
ever sent here from Cortland County.
Mr. Osborne was Assistant District At
torney of New York County FOR several
years. and won high reputation for
his handling of big cases.
THE fact that 1 have retained Messrs.
coiI
Conger ought to preclude the notion
that there is to be any let-up on my
part. / am, quite naturally, anxious to
go to the bottom of this entire thing. 1t
is Of the utmost Importance. not alone to
me and my friends and TO Aids and his
friends, but to many others, too. Several
persons may be brought into this before
It is ended. There will be some spicy
things said when the inquiry gets well
under way.
81 don't ina gine it will get well started
for several days. 1t would be hardly
fair to start right in before the attor-
neys have an opportunity to prepare
their cases / have talked with Mr.. Os-
borne and with Mr.. Van Hoesen. and
have told them all I know about this
matter. They are now making their
own investigation and in many ways
preparing to go to the bottom of the
case. They will want to get all the
facts I, of course, want full inquiry.
and 1 have no reason to think that there
will not be one. There are some men in
the Senate l am sure would insist on
sweeping inquiry, and l don't believe
any one Will attempt, even if he were
eager to do so, to put the brakes on
1t was learned later that Augustus
Van Wyck, of New York, would also
represent Conger.
CONGER NOT WORRIED.
Senator Conger came here this after
noon. Apparently he is not the least
worried as to the outcome of the inquiry
Mr.. Van Hoesen was here tonight
! He will confer with Senator Conger to-
| morrow. He would say nothing about
| the case tonight except that he knew
Senator Conger meant TO go clear to the
bottom of affairs, and nothing could stop
| him.
Senator Aids has engaged Martin w
! Littleton, of New York, as his chief
counsel to act with Lewis E. Carr. Of
| Albany, and Lewis z. Griffith, of Troy
| Mr. Littleton was on the scene to-