Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-16
New York Governor
Y \. ship Fight May Re-
!. Sae,sult in Use of Ply
sical Force Today.
EACH SIDE DETERMINED
NOT TO YIELD TO OTHER
LIEUT. Governor Sharply De-
cIines to Accept Impeached
Executives Proffer to Submit
Controversy to the Courts.

ALBANY. N. Y, Aug. 16.-All
negotiations toward having the
courts decide who is the Governor OF
New York were declared off today.
For the third consecutive day Will
liam Sulzer. the impeached Governor,
and Martin H. G1ynn, who was
elected acknowledgements, occupied
offices in the capitol. each claiming to
be the chief executive.
Indications were that the dead
lock would last till the meeting of
the Legislature next Tuesday. If not
longer
= Neither claimant endeavored to in
terfere in anv way with the other.
Each seemed to be marking time,
waiting for the other to take the Of
fcnsive.
The proposal of William Sulzer. the
impeached Governor, that he and his
rival Law their respective claims be-
fore the courts for speedy settlement
came to grief last night. Lieutenant
Governor Glynn. who claims that he
is Acting Governor by virtue of Sui
zers impeachment, notified Mr.. Sui
ger that he had no intention of ask
ing anv court save the court for the
trial of impeachment. to decide The
question.
Mr.. Glynn's refusal places the o"
tire situation at sea again. Indica-
tions late Yesterday afternoon were
that there would be an amicable ad-
tustment.
GIynn's Refusal q Surprise.
Mr.. Sulzer's lawyers conferred with
Mr.. Glynn's regarding possible meth
DDS of taking the issue into courts.
and it was generally expected that a
way of doing this would be devised.
- IL.
a distinct surprise to Mr.. Sulzer's
friends.
at is beyond my power to barter
awav any of the functions attached
to the office in which l am placed by
your impeachment" reads Mr..
Glynn's reply to Mr.. Sulzer's sug
gestion. "Anv attempt on my part
to do so or to stipulate a method by
NHch It might be done would prop
erlv place me in the position you
now occupy-that of being impeached
for malfeasance in office. I cannot
and will not attempt to do it.
VIII Only Yield to Physical Force.
II hold myself in readiness to per-
form and shah perform every func-
tion of the office of Governor except
insofar as I am restrained by your
Illegal action or by physical force"
No one was willing to forecast this
morning what the day would bring
forth
Among the reports current was one
that Mr.. Glynn expected to go in per-
son to the executive chamber and at
tempt to perform the duties of the
Governor. Mr.. Sulzer asserted that
he did not intend to relinquish any
of the rights of the governorship.
The words physical force were
brought into the controversy for the
first time bv Mr.. Glynn's letter
Last night was the worst passed
by Mrs. Sulzer since she became i'll
of a nervous disorder several days
ago, but her condition this morning
was less alarming, according to bulle-
tins issued by the attending physi-
clans.
Breach Is Now Complete.
The breach between Sulzer and
Glynn is complete and there will be
no further conferences between their
counsel so TAR as now known, on the
question of submitting the contro-
versy to the courts.
c. Cadv Herrick. Suffers chief
counsel. in so announcing today. said
that he did not expect to make pub
lie any plans of lawyers for the i'm
peached executive.
1--WE are preparing our case for
trial" Mr.. Herrick said.
Interviewers asked Herrick what
the next move would be.
"I don't know that there will be
next move" he replied