The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-16
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revealed he expected to be at the White House "about the first or the week." stopping there enroute to Warm Springs, Ga., where he will meet with democratic congress sional leaders.
 "Will the debts conference be of more than one days duration?" he was asked.
 The governor smiled and did not answer. His friends, however, are convinced 1t will be brief, pointing aut that previous arrangements call for him to be in Warm Springs a week from today.
 The next president of the United States appeared in excellent health dspite the flu attack.
 During the rest of the week he was scheduled to work on the state budget for 1883, task ne set for himself when he returned from New York city last week, but which was interrupted when his cold developed. my New England trip" he added. we went through plenty of rain and I got a good soaking"
 The governor will see only few callers between now and Saturday, he indicated, and these will De mainly state officials with busi : ness with budget matters.
 Te1egrams and letters poured in- to the mansion last pight and to- day, congratulating Roosevelt on his decision to confer with the president on the war debt situa- tion.
 T haven't had time to read any of them yet" he asserted.
 The foot of his big double bed was piled high with correspondence he had been working upon when newspapermen called.
 Alongside of him, at a precarl- ous angle on the blanket was . half-filled cigarette tray, while on table at the side of the bed stood a glass of milk.
 During the interview secret service man detailed to guard Roosevelt poked about the room. He seemed much interested in the rare prints of old clipper ships that adorned the walls of the bed- room.
 s"I had a fev,.. with it." Roose- welt explained, "but feel gerat | now"
 With this remark he shot his arm out in prizefighter fashion and aimed at an imaginary foe. | "Great," he remarked again. In his large, high-ceilinged room on the second floor of the execu-- tive mansion the governor wadeo through stacks of correspondence that have accumulated since his election a week ago.
 Garbed in a blue silk dressing gown, with white sweater and pajamas beneath, he dictated re- plies to them, and gave orders to a corps of secretaries who went Tn and out of the room almost con tinually.
 "Well, we'll, here you are." was his greeting to the newspapermen
 You have arrived just in time l to see me sign the papers thai | commute the death sentence o1 one prisoner to life in Sing Sing, and granting another condemned man a reprieve of three weeks, he said in a ringing voice tha, carried to all corners of the DIE room.
 Luke O'Neill, a New York wal veteran, was the slayer whose sen. tence was commuted. Josepl Bauman obtained the reprieve. He also is from New York city. | The governor declared he Woulc be up and about from now on, anc that he would leave for his Hyde Park home Saturday morning From Hyde Park he will motor tt New York city and there board his special car for the south.
 During the questioning the gov ernor was asked concerning th' possibility of 9 special session ol the legislature to be called imme' diately for the purpose of straight ening out the tangled financial af' fairs of New York city.
 He declared to comment. From authoritative sources, however. ! was learned he opposed a specia session at this time. feeling tha whatever legislation is necessar. it could be passed in the early par of the regular session which open January 1.