Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-15
To NAME ALLEN.
0VER.WH|TNEY
Move Against Runyon Candi-
dacy Seen in Action by
Seator Mackay

TRENTON, Dec. 15-After hav-
ing served as the watch dog of the
state treasury for the last three
years. Senator Arthur ~. Whitney,
Of Norris. is to be supplanted at
the coming session of the legislature
as head of the joint appropriations
committee by Senator Collins B.
Allen, of Salem. The appointment
will be made at the opening of the
new session next January. when
William b. Mackay, of Bergen,
mounts the rostrum as senate presi-
dent and by virtue of his Office as
signs the senators to the various
committees in hat body.
According to the talk here with
respect to this switch, the fight for
the Republican nomination for gov
ernor, which is now looming on
the political horizon has a bearing
in plans o the next Craftsmanship
OF the appropriations committee
the most important with the excep-
ton of the judiciary committee
Craftsmanship in the legislature. In
fact the former is more powerful
+. inasmuch as the appropriations
committee chairman from the
senate side ranks over the House
chairman of the committee and usu
ally has the last word in saying
what the different state depart
/ ,nents, state institutions and other
agencies r to receive.
With Senator Mackay out for
governor he will appoint Allen, ac-
cording to the sorry here. in order
to keep the influence of the Will
liam N. Runyon booms out of the
appropriations. Allen is one of the
Edge-Mackay crowd in the senate,
while Senator Whitney is an ad.
nnirer and supporter of Senator
Runyon. With Whitney in the
chairman's chair passing upon APP
preparations for the state depart
ments filled with politicians of high
and low degree, the Mackay forces
are said to feel that this would
be too much of an impetus for the
Runyon candidacy. Hence the pro-
gram too place Senator Allen at the
head of this powerful committee.
1t is understood Senator Whit
ney already knows of the plans of
his opponents and is not taking
kindly to the suggestion that he step
out for Allen. Whitney has been
chairman in the last three sessions,
having %een selected by Mr. Runyon
when the Union man was senate
president in 1919. Last year he was
renamed for the 1921 session BY
Senate President Allen. who Is now
slated to get the place from Mac
kay. Whitney was formerly in the
brokerage business in New York and
his financial knowledge gained for
him the appropriations committee
craftsmanship.
1t is understood that Assembly
man Arthur n. Pierson, of Union. is
to head the assembly side of the
joint committee. He is a Runyon
man, coming from the same county
as the former acting governor. There
will be five members on the House
side OF the committee and three on
the senate side. Indications point
to the selection of two Mackay Re-
publicans for the majority of the
senate committee, and the third man
will, of course, be a Democratic
senator. In the House there will be
four Republicans and a Democrat
named by Speaker Rowland.
Rowland being a Baird man from
! Camden and MI. Baird being against
the Edge interests and for Runyon.
it is likely that he will choose four
Runyon Republicans for the House
membership. Thus on a vote in the
joint committee the possibility OF
the four Runyon House members
outvoting the two Mackay senate
Republicans is presented. The two
Democrats on the joint committee.
N from each House, should they
deadlock the committee.