The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-26


 white lag of surrender was flying over the Speakers desk in the Assembly Hast night. The Thompson committee ssfnvestigation will continue. The com s4nittee will get the extension ofstine to 4Adarch 1t has demanded an addi- ttional appropriation of s3O.o00.
 With a bipartisan combination in Sboth branches of the legislature oper- 7ating almost in plain sight, it has been determined to sque1chs Assembly, man R. Hunter McQuistion, who last might introduced a resolution provid- Fing for omnibus investigation of all bills of legislative investigating comnnittees past and present, includ- ling the Whitman junket to the Pan- Earna-Pacifc Exposition.
 The Ways and Means committee, after hearing "both sides" at a secret Emeeting yesterday afternoon, deter sAsrlined to let the McQuistion resolu7 s%-tion die in committee. It will call on ssthe State Controller tofprepare bill to provide for a system Of audit by the Controller of expenses in cured Hi5y committees
 Happy Family Tn Albany Now.
 There never has been such unan- s Unity between Senate and Assembly Between the Democrats and RepubH- cans and between the legislative and the executive branch of the state governnent since the present admin istration took hold as there is tonight over the sagacity displayed by the Ways and Means committee Every 4 bodyss face has been saved. The danger of any too deep deTving into tined pings of the many committees af1d Commissions which in the last 10 wears haveu sed up about S1,50os0OO of the states money has been averted- es The Assembly will adopt the two Thompson concurrent resolutions to- day. The Ways and Means Commit tee has voted to report both resolu- lions favorably.
 Senator George F. Thompson of Niagara was much elated Hast even ing His friends crowded about him, and congratuIated him on having won a complete victory in the face of Joint. opposition from the Assembly and the governor Senator Thomp- son said he would return to New York city and that his committee would resume work Ar once.
 We have quite some Work to do in connection with the Public Service sComrnfssfon for the First District, safdsthe Senator We will complete that work first Then we will come up to Albany, and look the upstate tFubl1c Service Commission over again T sElave not been a party to any com promise. T have refused right along to make any dicker, and when start for New York. today 1t will be With lJa committee in it's future work
 Brown ..sApproached'' Thompson
 when, senator Thompson talked last night about having been "ap- proached'' with an offer of favorable Assembly action provided he would consent to seau off the hearings and stop taking stestimony. he refused to +e1i who had approached him. To- day it came out that it was Senate Leader Elon R. Brown.
 If is a matter of surprise that Sem ator Thompson mentioned his conver- ssation with me- said Senator Brown sarFFfs proposal that the Assembly pass the resolution for the Thompson com fnfftees on. the understanding that the committee would occupy the adit1onal time given in preparing and present. ing a report, came from me It had also the approval of the comimttee's counsel The time and connection in which Senator Thompson's interview appeared might raise a false inference as to the source of the suggestion-s He seems to have regarded it from a wrong. angle, and that itlewouid place him in a. false position. I therefore let the matter drop. Senator Thompson intended no wrong, I am sure, but could not be content to let any one else suffer under the suspicion of hay ing. prOposed deaIss when, in fact, there was no basis for it except my own inapt though well intentioned suggestion"
 Talk of smith, Quigg and Dady.
 sherfn Alfred E. smith of New York, former speaker and also former Dem ocratfc leader of the Assembly, was here last night. He said his visit had nothing whatever to do with the Thompson comnittee row and the threatened investigation of the Pan- ama-Paciffc Exposition Commission and other committees. He came up for the meeting of the Democratic State Committee, he said.
 Those who believe Lemuel Ely Quigg has had a hand in squeIching the row that was threatened do not believe that the Thompson investiga- tion in the future is likely to prove as Interesting as in the past, despite all that Senator Thompson has had to say oh the subject It was said here