New-York tribune., 1920-02-02
Move TO Reseat
Socialists Is To
Be Deferred
Colonel Roosevelt Decides
Any Such Motion Would
Be Out of Order Until
the Prosecution Is Closed
Staff Correspondence

otuU correspondence
ALBANY, Feb. 1.--Unless there is a
change in plans, the move to reseat
the five Socialists will not be made by
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt until the
prosecution rests.
This was determined after several
conferences among the forward king
Republicans and Democrats in the AS
semby
While there was talk of making this
move tomorrow night, it was decided
that such a motion could be ruled out
of order and properly so until after the
judiciary Committee, which is trying
the Socialists, has completed its in
quiry.
1t is expected that the prosecution
will rest its case on Wednesday, or
Thursday at the latest. Then mo-
tion to discharge the committee from
further consideration OF the resolution
embracing the charges against the FIVE
Socialists would be in order.
Colonel Roosevelt and his associates
have agreed to make such a motion
unless the committee is ready when the
prosecution rests to report that the
Socialists should be reseated.
All sorts Of political Propaganda is
being used by the Sweet Barnes Gle
ment in the Assembly to force the
committee to report that all five
Socialists should be expelled.
legislators that all local bills will be
held up pending the final vote on the
Socialist custer.
These local measures provide for the
dredging of creeks and the repairing
Of bridges and roads at state expense.
In the rural communities many a
legislator has been retired by his con-
stituency following his failure to have
this local legislation enacted.
Another form of pressure being used
on the legislators to hold them in the
vertising. This advertising, which
consists of publishing the sessions
laws, means $4,000 a year to one Re-
publican and to one Democratic news
paper in each county.
Shortly after the Socialist custer
Assemblyman Charles Belts, of Lyons,
introduced bill abolishing this ad-
vertising.
Now the word is being passed along
the line that the Belts bill will be
passed if the Assemblymen do not
stand by Sweet and Barnes, and in this
way it is hoped to line up the small
newspapers upstate behind Sweet and
Barnes.
Another bit of propaganda being
spread by the Sweet-Barnes "whis-
"wets" from voting to discharge the
judiciary Committee and from reseat-
ing the Socialists, in that to do so
would be to establish precedent which
would be invoked by William II. Ander-
son, superintendent of the Anti-Sa-
loon League, in the leagues "dry" en-
forcement bill.
The present intention of Speaker
Sweet is not to let this bill get out of
committee in the Assembly, even
though the Senate should pass it. If
the "wets' should desert him in this So
cialist crisis they can expect that he
will not help them in killing the Anti
Saloon Leagues dry enforcement
measure.
ALBANY, Feb. Assemblyman
Amos announced tonight that he would
call up in the Assembly tomorrow his
resolution, which provides for the seat
ing of the special committee of the
New York City Bar Association, head ed
by Charles E. Hughes, at a hearing be-
fore the judiciary committee "to pro-
tect the public interests"
Assembly leaders tonight were said
to be going over the minutes Of yes
terday's convention in this city of 400
representatives of civic, social and labor
organizations of the state, at which the
reseating of the five ousted Socialists
was demanded in resolutions which also
called for the defeat at the polls of
"every member of the Assembly in any
way responsible for the un-American
unconstitutional and indefensible GUST
ing of these duly elected representa-
tives."
Whether the minutes would be in
troduced as evidence in the investiga-
ton could not be learned, although ii
was indicated such q procedure was
not az all uulikalv