The sun., 1910-06-21
.THE LEGISLATURE IN SESSION
LISTENS TO RElDING or THE
G0GERNORS MESSAGE.
LITTLE LlkelIbSOd mat O WIN Change the
nesOlutloa Fer lnVcstiEatlnE COFrnD-
iioR WIll Frame Legislation IN Order
10 Meet the na.OOO. OOO DsnciI.

/ AeNH'N AeAANAAAt8NAa ANAN ~ NNAA Y WANN.E NIll
ResSlutloa Ter investigators COFruD
iioR WIll FFame Legislation IN Ordri
10 Meet ihe aa.OOO. .OOO Dsncii
ALBANY. June 2O-All the LegiSlauir
did tonight was q listen e the rea,ling
Ot the Governors message. and then
lAeut. Gov. White. Majority Leader
Cobb u the senate aud senator's Davis
and Hill went over to speaker Wads-
worth's rUom on the Assembly side of the
Capitol and conferred with him and
Majority Leader Merritt. Assemblymen
Phillips and Conklin and Assembly Clerk
Ray y. Smith.
Lieut. Gov. White and Speaker Wads-
worth under the resolution passed at
the regular session for q corruption in
vessigatiOn tomorrow were 90 announce
the msmbers Of this Investigating com
miitee. but because Of the suggestions
IN the Governors message this announce
meht will he postponed until Il il def.
nitely known II ths Investigating Fesolu-
ton u 10 be changed An Of these propO-
si,Ions viii be given due consideration
and disposed Of tOgethcr on the last day
uf the special session.
The Assembly COMMITTEES 90 which the
Governors recommendation regarding
the investigating resolution is referred
will report back TO the Assembly that the
UOvernor's recommendations have been
mlly debated in tho senate and Assembly
and defeated. and that the Assembly
should stand by its position already taken
on this question Then the investigating
committee under the original resolution
will DO appointed by Lieut.. Gov. White
and Speaker WadsWorth.
Tho plan tonight was for senator Hin
man and Asssmblyman Green again TO
introduce the Hinman-Green direct nom
nations bill and Senator Cobb and As
semblyman Perkins Of Broome 20 intro
duce the Cobb compromise direct nomina-
tons bill, both Of which are favored by
Gov. Hughes. No matter which one Of
these bills IL passed by the senate. the
organization Republican leaders In the
Assembly insisted tonight that il could
not get through the Assembly. They in |
sisted also that although two more than
a majority Of the Republican Assembly
msn favored the Hinman- Green bill. the !
Hughes forces in the Assembly would be
unable to get enough signatures to make
up a majority 10 call Republican caucus
on the direct nominations question.
The members Of ths Legislature on the
Republican side rssalize that something
must be done Immediately 90 frame leris.
lRtiOn suggested by Gov Hughes % meet
the y ,OO0OO0 deficit in the State Treasury
caused by the appropriations VIII ich the
Governor approved yesterday. This is =
big question and IL was decided tonight
Ivy the Republican legislative lead. ~
that u would keep the Legislature here
until next week.
There Wers thirteen senators absent
and about twO-thirCis Of the Assembly
men present when the Legislature con
vened IN special session tonight IN Ohedi- |
ence 20 the mandate uf Gov. Hughes
The session lasted about ore hour lmme- I
iiately upon cOnvening each hCusa ap- /
pointed committees 10 notify the Governor I
and the other branch Il the Legislature |
hat II was ready for bushes R0bcrt H |
Fuller, the Governors secretary whom /
Gov Hughes appointed a state water |
comm ssioner al a salary Of 8. .OuO a month |
ago, carried the Governors message 10 /
he Legislature and presented u with all |
he formalties. The message was read I
By the clerk IN each house and referred
IN the Senate there was little comment i
senator hrackett wanted 20 know whv
he three bills weren't ready on the thrss
Iubiects discussed by Gov Hughes ~
hey could he introduced tonight and
disposed II tomorrow. ~ that b. could
axe his train hack home To Saratoga and
esume tho practice Of law. For hs part
" vas going To vote against all three
IropoeitiOns when they came up Never
heiess he insisted that there should be
10 delay IN disposing of these questions
md getting hack home
senator Grady inquired II the isgisla-
ure Naa 20 take "A reCers while the hills
we're being drafted.
Majority Leader Cobb said that the
'ontants Of the message wers unknown
n him until il was Rad In the Legislature
o-night and that no plans for the special
SESSION had hnen formulated yet The
ienate then adjourned until to-morrOW
morning.
The Assembly disposed II the message
nth A. much rapidity a. possible. speaker
' NadswOTth said thern vas merely ono
sSential n importance m tho thres
recommendations and that was the last.
egarding IN" State usvcnues
The Governor presents absolutely
IOthing new on the PRIMARY QUESTION
aid speaker WadsN orth. while his refer
nce 10 the investigation resolution ~ Z
ghollv uncalled for and unnecessary
n this regard ! want 10 make u plain
hat ! am not opposed b the chfnEa
n the resolution A. the Governor would 7
ave IL. bat what's the use Nou can
hange the phrasrology of the resolution
N you want. hut IN the last analysis
'ou have left Il entirely Ia iheComIuitte, =
nd that iS exactly What the resolution :
'asscd by the legi-latuT,' does We have
lreadv specified the mandatory clauses
Overing evidences ~ corruption grow
lg ont Oi the Aids trial and the matters .
rOughi Out by Superintendent ~ lnsur. =
noe hOtChkiss. and any charge whatever
hitch IL verified by affidavit Under this
solution the committee can investigate
nything II sees NJ
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