New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-29
Word to Go to Sulzer.


be sent to the Governor as formal com
munication Of the Organization recon
rnendations. probably tomorrow:
First, that If he dares to nominate
for successor to William r. Wilcox
now chairman Of the New York City
Public Service Commission. a man who
has hearst's recommendation. and not
Murphy's. the Senate will refuse to
confirm, that appointee.
Second, that no nominee, whether or
not he be Hearst's nominee. will be con-
firmed if he believes or has announced
his belief in the past in municipal
ownership and operation Of subways.
Third, that a man to be recommend
ed by Murphy for the Wilcox place
and three men to be agreed on by Muir
ply. William II. Fitzpatrick, Of Buffalo;
John II. McCooey. Of Brooklyn: Will
lam II. Kelly, Of Syracuse, and Patrick
E. McCabe, Of Albany. for places in the
upstate commission, shall be named by
the Governor on pain Of break with
the Organization" IL no refuses.
The phrasing in which these demands
are TO be conveyed 10 the Governor may
be smooth and diplomatic The foregoing
is the gist of them.
Another Condition, Too.
( There will be another conditon-tha,
The Governor shall delay appointments
until the subway contracts in New YORK
and the serious situation in which the
city Of Buffalo finds itself. owing 10 the
upstate commissioners lighting investiga-
ton there. be Strengthened out, unless he
chooses to have the Senate hold up his
nominations.
There IS nothing here to show who Muir
ply has IN mind for his candidate in the
New York City commission. The up
state situation is much simpler. and there
is substantial agreement on the appoint
ments there which the Organization
will stand for. Murphy and the upstate
men think George NJ. Palmer, state chair
man. ought to have $1,000 year jot
TO console him for having been state
chairman. They are willing John y. Car
Isle should have one. TO pacify the semi
independent Democracy. The third man
unnuestionably will be Devoe p. Hodson
a lawyer Of Buffalo who has a fairly
good record and is said 10 he up 10 the
job.
Meantime. the Governor is just as undo
cided as to what he will do and when he
will do il, for any indication he gives, as
he was last week. Hearst Is pounding
away at him in the hope Of stopping the
signing OF the contracts.
Governor Sulzer was asked to-day If he
cared 10 say anything about his telephone
talk with the New York politician editor
last night. lie denied with considerable
Won't Meet for . Week.
The Senate Finance Committee, to
which any nominations OF Public Service
Commissioners would he referred, held It's
regular meeting to-day. II will hold
another regular meeting week from to-
day. February 4. and unless an eartn'
quake hits 1t. there will be no special
meeting in the mean time, whether OF
not the Governor changes what seems
TO be his intention now not to send any
nominations to the Senate until Febru.
AIRY i or after.
BY the time Mr.. Sulzer makes nomina'
tions and they can be considered in com
mitteeAnext week, perhaps-the contracts
will be signed, II the information here
gybes with the state Of agreement Of thu
various parties TO these contracts.
The Governor had little information L
give about subways to-day. lie said h
had no appointments to talk OF subway
matters with anybody. He didn't expec
| TO see Clarence J. Shearn, he added, o.
anybody else Of the Hearst forces. 1
anybody came he would have to talk 4
the Governor in public in the big room