New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Steinbergg Asks
State Welcome
Without Hearst
Assemblynan Offers Resolu-
ton for Commission To
Be Headed by Governor
Is Requested by Soldiers
Publisher Pro-Cerman as
Long as He Dared" Says
Author Of Proposed Act

ALBANY, Feb. 3.-To take the well
coming home of returned soldiers out
of the hands Of William Randolph
Hearst and Mayor John +. Hylan is
the purpose of resolution introduced
tonight BY Assemblyman Joseph Stein
berg, OF Manhattan. The resolution
reads:
"Owing to dissensons and acrimcny
existing in the City Of New York with
reference to the composition OF the
committee 10 receive the returning SOL
d.els and sailors, ana
"Whereas, The soldiers and sailors
come from the different states OF the
Union ard il is eminently fitting that
they should be welcomed on their ar
rival by committee or commission
representing the state, therefore, be it
"Resolved, That the Governor, Lieu
tenant Governor, the President Pro
Tenn. of the Senate and the Speaker Of
the Assembly be constituted such com
mission, with power to add to their
numbers such representative citizens
of the state as to them may seem de-
sirable."
"The purpose OF the resolution is to
have a committee of loyal citizens, men
not Of the Hearst stripe, appointed to
welcome home the returning soldiers y
said Mr.. Steinberg. "To welcome home
our returning heroes there should be
none but 100 per cent real Americans.
At Request of Soldiers
81 introduced the resolution at the
request Of privates and officers who
have just returned from oves there.
Some hail from my district and others
come from other parts of the state.
One Of the best known men in the
state, a man who distinguished him
sell as legislator while here, helped
to draft the resolution.
at is shame that Mayor Hylan
should have appointed man of
Hearst's calibre, man who was pro
to be so, and who by devious methods
tried to create dissension between the
United States and our allies since we
entered the war
"It is an insult not only to our re-
turning soldiers and sailors but to
American patriotism to have man
who has been boon companion to
Count Won Bernstorff, the head Of the
Teutonic propaganda in this country,
and the host of the traitor, Bolo
Pacha, placed on committee which is
charged with the duty of receiving
American heroes who fought the Hum
whom Hearst so lavishly praised"
When the Anti Hearst Hylan resolu-
ton was offered, Minority Leader
Charles D. Donohue, of Tammany Hall,
objected TO its immediate cons ca-
ton, and under the rules it was put
over for q week.
Pro-Ally Speaker Wanted
Another resolution. offered by Mr..
Steinberg, requests the New York Rep
resentatives in Congress Democratic
and Republican alike, not to vote for
any member Of the House of Represen-
tatives for Speaker who has not been
pro- Ally "since the Kaiser and his
Huns turned Europe into an armed
camp"
The second resolution, Mr.. Steinberg
explained, is aimed at Champ Clark,
Claude S. Kitchin and James II. Mann.
1t reads:
Resolved, That the New York State
congressman be requested to vote for
10 one for Speaker of the House who
at any time since the inception Of the
v orld War in 1914 was not altogether
pro Ally in his actions. or, in other
words, 100 per cent American"
Majority Leader Simon L. Adler
asked that the second resolution also
go over to next Monday night.