New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-13
SENATE VOTE IN DOUBT
Four Primary Measures 10 Be
Considered in Upper House.
FIGHT FOR : HUGHES BILL
Machine Men Jubilants but Gov
errors Friends Are Not
Disheartened.
lRr relerrar,h to The tribune

ed down in the Senate to-day with lhe IN
Outstanding that it would be reported lrp'ii
the judiciary Committee in time LOT con
sideration on Wednesday with the othei
primary bills That will make TOUR hlea9
ures TO be considered then-the hlhlhah-
Green's bill. favored by the Governor tile
organization measure the Democratic
Leagues bin and the Cobb compromise
BILL.
What the Senate will do with them no
body knows, in the present upset state OF
the Senatorial mind, owing TO the general
conditions of disturbance and lack OF
leadership in that body. Indications are
that there will be very interesting session
a. that time The. Hinman-Green people
will put up hot fight for their bill SEN
ator Meade expects his bill to be passed.
Senator Cobb has some hopes that MS
measure will be the one to reconcile all
conflicting elements.
The Senate Judiciary Committee to-day
reported the Human bill to limit the eX-
penses of political candidates. 1t is COM
panion bin to the direct nominations bill
and will be considered with that measure
Governor, Hughes would make no COM
nlent to-day on the Assembly's defeat OF
his bill Neither would most of his fol-
lowers talk for publication. About all the
talking was done by the other side. There
the triumph was Ill concealed Rejoicing
at the coming downfall Of all "reformers
and shouts of glee at the time when we
get rid of Hughes and go back TO the old
ways We're heard on all sides. Jeers at
the Governor were almost as frequent as
at the end Of his first term, when ire ma
chine leaders thought he was out of the
way and his kind of leadership disposed of
THE Wadsworti Light Infantry"
Reactionary talk and the reactionaries
were in the ascendant. In a joke some OF
ire Wadsworth followers organized what
they dubbed the Wadsworth light in
fantry'' as an auxiliary corps to the Sen
ate "old guard" Just what is the Senate
''old guard now is hard to determine
However, there is no mstaking a deter
mination on the part of numerous Senator'S
who gave service to the old guard lead
ers to follow the Assemblies lead and hand
ore to the Governor" in their phrase.
Just how this is to be accomplished is
doubtful. Some Senators are considering
plan 10 pass the Hinman-GTeen bill, on the
theory that the Assembly would refuse to
adopt It, and the Governor, the Senate hav-
ing passed it, be debarred from calling an
extraordinary session on it. Thus the or
ganlZdUOnS lOnQeSI iOpS VI SCtti4io
through the session with no primary legis-
Iation would be fulfilled. Some others ad-
vocate the passage of the Cobb bill. which
the Assembly certainly would refuse to
PASS and others are for accepting the
Meade Phillips bill as the best thing OBJ
tainable.
In all this the direct primary people Will
play part. They not feeling discour-
aged at the outlook. Instead, they are go
ing ahead in the Senate with certain grim
attention to the business on hand when
NAV mean trouble for the machine before
they get through with it. They are not
making any prediction about the passage
of any. legislation. But they are perfectly
willing TO predict that before the GOV
ernor's bin Is killed there will be some dis
turbance. and anybody who wants TO at
tend that funeral will realize that he has
something of his own TO mourn for
The Fight To Be Continued.
Also direct primary men here, in and out
of the Legislature. said that If the Lead
ers wanted to delude themselves with the
notion that the defeat of the Governor >
bill would mean the death of the effort 10
obtain a direct PRIMARY law, they were
welcome to whatever comfort they coulu
GET out of that idea The promise was
Z
primaries in some cases in the campaign
in all nolitical units where results could
ha obtained and in the next Legislature, Ii
necessary.
The machine people in their present re-
ioicing are a little Hshtheaded.;' remarked
a direct primary man. The result is that
they can't see straight or appreciate the
value of events. They don't realize that
the way this bill was killed in the Assem-
hIv gives point to the worst things that
ever were said about boss rule. 1here
was a vote on the Governors DILL as was
nroniseds But were the members LETT Tree
10 vote as they desired or believed right!
! Well, hardly.
As an instance of what this man meant
tho story told to-day about the experience
| of Edward A Doherty. Republican. OF me
! ODD District of New York County is illU-
minating Doherty is new man this year
unused to legislative and political ways
| According to one OF his fellow Assembly
men. Doherty was picked out as game for
~ oroanization men He was known to
| favor the Governors BILL but il was thought
/ ha co,,1d be influenced. His colleague says
Dohertv was piled with liquor. then taken
! into the Speakers room and urged TO
switch -Four times his district leader. Am
! brose Neal called him on the telephone
while the Speaker was working with him
and Joined forces with the Speaker in the
effort TO get the young Assemblyman 20
vote against the Governors bill Doherty
didn't switch. One of the most significant
features of this is that Tammany Hall
Assemblyman who is recognized as part
of the bipartisan clique which controls al
fairs In the Assembly played a part in the
work on Doherty.
MIR. Grscom at Albany.
LLOYD C. Griscom, chairman of the New
York County Republican Committee, was
here to-day trying to get favorable consid-
Grafton of some of the New York County
election bills He had talks with various
Legislators, including Senator Cobb. Some