The evening world., 1914-03-27
Republican Assembly Insists on
Wiping Out Tammany's
Bureau of Efficiency.
DEADLOCK SEEMS FAST.
Clocks Are Stopped and Each
Side Is Trying to Wear
the Other Out.
By Samuel NJ. Williams.
(otsm Correspondent Of The Evening
Worldly


(otsw Correspondent os The EVENING
Worldly
ALBANY. March 27.-At five min
utes before noon to-day tho clocks
in both Senate and Assembly were
stopped a. q signal that the two leg.
islauve houses have been dead
locked. and the session will be con-
tinuous until one side gives in. Tho
Issue In what particular items will
be cut out Of tho appropriation bills.
All last night . conference COM
mittce worked over item by item.
agreeing on many minor ones until
they came TO the department of
Emciency and Economy. and there
all negotiations ceased.
mot . penny for It." declared tho
Republican Assembly. Very WELL"
replied tho Democratic Senate. mot
. penny for any Of your bills"
Lieut. Gov. Wagner and Speaker
Sweet are both quoted as declaring
there would bo an extra session.
The two houses waded through
their long calendars OF local and
general bills hour after hour. waiting
for further news from the conference
room.
They slaughtered each others pet
bills right and left and the crowd
watched with all tho delight Of .
Roman audience. Speaker Sweet In
tho Assembly took repeated drives at
the lobbyists. but almost A. fast m
he routed them out they crawled
back in again.
ALL THE LOBBYISTS PUSHED
BACK BEHIND RAIL.
Finally he ordered everybody ex-
ceptinE those having privilege OF tho
noor TO be kept back OF the rail-. Ser
geants-at-arms had to escort some
Of tho more persistent ones off tho
floor. including an eminent church.
man lobbying for religious and tam
perancs bills. who thought hts cloth
entitled him to exemption.
The Senate having taken . recess.
the lobbyists went over to that cham
ber. But when the Senate resumed
session they were ordered from, the
room.
II no agreement is reached on ap-
proprlation bills the Legislature will
sit through the night and on into
tomorrow. each side trying to ex-
hsust the other. II neither gives In
they will finally agree to adjourn anu
an extra session viii have to be called
by the Governor In order that the
Government may be supplied with
funds.
MAY COMPROMISE ON HALF A
PIECE OF PIE.
Gov. Glynn and Lieut.. Gov. wag-
ner have advanced proposition
looking to a compromise. They have
suggested that the appropriations bill
carry only enough money to run the
two departments In dispute from
Oct. until Jan. 1. Such a course
would involve taking a chance that
the next Legislature will be Demo-
cratic and 1t does not appeal to the
Tammany leaders OF the Senate. But
tho final hours Of the Legislature are
always characterized by compromises
and the Tammany leaders are quite
familiar with the methods and needs
Of their upstate Republican oppo-
nents.
| Speaker Sweet and Assemblyman
Mcdonald. chairman OF tho Ways
and Means Committee. are the active
leaders In the movement to wipe out
the Tammany departments and thus
reduce the appropriations total. They
declare that the Tammany majority
In the Senate 10 inspired by a plan
to load" up departments In which
Republicans are employed. The all
night conference. according to Speak
er Sweet, established that the As
sembly can do nothing but stand by
It's original position.
This conference was entirely un-
Official" said Senator Murtagh. tho
Democratic floor leader. ''The rules
OF the Legislature declare that an
official Conference Committee shall
not be appointed until the last bill
has passed both houses. Most OF us
have been working continuously for
thirty-six hours and under such a
! strain that at Q o'clock In the morn
ing It u impossible to iron out diff.
ferences. Another meeting will bs
, held to-day after the conference |,
officially authorized. l don't thini
, we'll have any trouble getting to-
. gether."
= REPUBLICAN VIEW OF THE
I LEGISLATURES WORK.
a Reviewing the work Of this sessio,
y OF the Legislature. Harold ]. Hinmar
= Republican floor leader In the A
u sembly. to-day issued u formal state
y meni commanding iha lower Haua