The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-01
Senate Committee Agrees
to Give Him Hearing.
he WILL NOT RESIGN JUST YET
Governor Hughes Calls Special Elec
tion For April % For Sue
cessor to the Disgraced
lothian P. Aids.

Albany, n. Y, March 31.-Governoi
Hughes has lost no time in calling
special election to fill the vacancy caus
ed by the resignment of Senator Jo
than z. Aids, who quit the senat.
before forty senators upheld the Con
ger charges against him. Governor
Hughes has designated April % as the
date for the election in Aids district
the Thirty-seventh. which comprises
Chenango, Otsego and Madison coun
ties.
Ralph w. Thomas, professor IF ora
tory at Colgate university, is to sue
ceed Aids as senator. Madison county
is for Professor Thomas, and judge
Arnold and Assemblyman Stephen G
Clark of Otsego county say that that
county also is for Professor Thomas
nomination, as they consider him ar
ideal candidate. Professor Thomas
was connected with the state board OF
regents for IA number of years and is
member of the state board of chari
ties.
Senator Benn Conger announced
that he did not intend to resign Il.
least until after he had a chance tc
discuss the resolution offered by Sena
tor Cobb and referred to the senate
Judiciary committee proposing an in.
vestigation of his acts. He succeeded
In, h.,,
ton on this resolution for the time
being, and when the question came uI
before the committee it was decided
to give COnger a chance on Tuesday
next at 10 II. IN. to explain his position
Senator Conger is of the opinion
that he has performed public serv-
ice in exposing Aids. When Louis
Il. Carr of Aids counsel heard that
Senator COnger was around explaining
to senators that it would be unfair to
scalp him after he had started the
great publication wave in the legisla
ture Mr.. Carr said ironically, Yes.
they ought to give him a loving cup"
The Hughes senator's, who first
heard Conger charge Aids with brib-
cry, insisted that Senator Conger
not be expelled from the senate. They
held Conger up as public benefactOr
and demanded to know where Conger
benefited by his attitude toward Aids.
They declared that Conger was
brave man, who let his tongue slip at
the Hughes senator's conference and
then when his confidence was violated
and the charges he made peddled
around he stood his ground and prov
ed them. He had done public serv-
ice, the Hughes senators argued, and
he ought to be praised instead of be-
ing expelled by the senate. This il
the particular point Senator Conger
will argue before the judiciary com
mittee on Tuesday next.
Senator NewcOmb was perhaps the
most determined senator TO extOll and
defend COnger.
''ro punish Conger," said Senator
Newcomb, "in view of his disclosures
which have resulted in inestimable
benefit to the state, would be unwise
from the point of view of public poll
cy. This principle is fully recognizes
in provisions of the state constitu-
tion and the penal law relating t.
persons disclosing bribery
Further Investigation of legislative
corruption must be had To serve no
tice by eXpelling Conger that any one
making disclosures would instantly be
delivered into hostile hands to be de-
stroyed would close the mouths of
necessary witnesses and defeat the
ends of justice"