New-York tribune., 1922-03-21

true that there was not timo o. n4,
them' why was the date OF ad;onrnas 10y
iheht not postponed for a few dara 10.
5olnt resolution, as / suggested n s ~
le''er OF Thursday last, and as COLA
readily have been done Was the u;o hus;I
ness sss not Of sufficient Importance
BUT 1t Is not true. It is a Aimsv
pretext which can be disproved by M
macho.d himself. if he will answer the
Following questions: WV
Wore not the bills before tho bo,s
Just as long as-and some of them a
icw days longer than--thcy were he.
fore the Senate. How does Il hannor
that the Senate had found time ~
study and pass the bills that Mr.
Maehold killed in his committee?
Two of the three important bills
k,uea were insurance bills. Why did
Mr: Machoio refuse to permit the bills
wn'oh mad passed the Senate limiting
the investments of fire insurance com,
panies to those that arc now permitted
10 iife insurance companies and savings
oanKs TO come TO vote and why did he
permit 1t to be killed in committee?
Curious About Directorship
is or is not Mr.. Machold diroctor
and stockhoder of the Agricultural Fire
insurance Company of Watcrtown. and
~ ne Is does he consider that he had
tne right to take a leading part-in
TACT, the controlling part-in killing
these bulls that were intended to rc
ilcve the public of extortion and des
potsm that has been practiced by these
companies upon the public?
my should fire insurance dircc-
tor be permitted, or dare to mold or
defeat legislation in which he has
direct personal interest? Is there not
something wrong about system of
government where the power of the
speaker over the legislation is so
omnipotent that such things are pos
sible? And is not this scandalous sit
uation in itself sufficient to demand
that the bills be forthwith considered
by the Legislature!
Did Machold, or did he not assure
the Superintendent of Insurance on
Thursday chat he would support the
form IN which he and l had agreed
upon it. after the jokers had been
eliminated@
Did not Mr.. Machold, after taking
the bin from my hands on THURSDAY
noon ard again studying it, assure
Ny. Cumming, the head Of the Bill
Drafting Committee, whom | asked TO
see Mr.. Machold for that purpose
that the bill was then satisfactory to
MN? Did he not after thus commit
ing himself insist upon it being fur
Tier changed, at the request, on the
night of the adjournment, of State
chairman Glynn, who has been-next
to Mr.. Machold, the most potent factor
behind the scenes in killing these bills;
and did he not in my absence in New
ork finally fool Senator Lockwood
who was at the time busy in the Senate
arguing the Trade Commission bill
INTO giving his assent to the changes
by refusing to pass the bill until the
Jokers,' which had been eliminated. had
been restored?
Reminds Him of Conference
Had not Mr.. Machold previously at
tended long conference with me and
with the representatives of the 1nsur-
ance Department and others with the
Governor, in which the insurance reg
ulation bill was discussed at length
and the 'jokers' were eliminated that
were put back into the bill on his in
sstence on the night of the adjourn
ment, and after | had left for New
| York?
DID he not assure me on Monday
preceding the adjournment. and on two
occasions thereafter, that he had care
/ fully studied the report and all the
bills from beginning to end, over and
over again, and that he was very ia
miliar with them, as in fact his con-
versation showed him to be?
wv hen, after spending hours with
Mr. Machold al different times, ex-
planning and arguing about the bills.
asked him whether | could be of fur
ther use, did he not repeatedly assure
me of his intimate understanding of
the bills, and particularly of the Trade
Commission bill which he aftcrward
killed and on which ne refused to per-
mt the Assembly to vote, because, as
he now pretends, there was not time to
study it? Did he ever suggest to me
that lack of time had anything to do
with the question?
why did Mr. Machold when As
semblyman Jesse. member of our
committee, notified him on the night
of adjournment that he intended to
move to discharge the Rules Committee
from the consideration of the Trade
Commission bill, so as to bring it to
hearing on the floor, tell Mr.. Jesse
that he would not recognize him or
permit him to make the motion?
Last, but not least: Were not the
crucial and complicated amendments to
the important water power bill, which
and which were jammed through in the
closing hours of the session, introduced
only two days before the close of the
session, whereas the Lockwood liils
had then been for ten days in print and
on the desks of the Legislators? What
/ influences accomplished that feat?
con the same day the blue sky bill
was killed on the ground that having
been amended since it came from the
committee, it should be recommitted.
The elaborate amendments to the water
| ~
mittee action largely through the in
fuence Of Speaker Machold Why did
not the same argument apply to both -