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LXVII 22,103. MADE A $12.1000 HAIL. XOT AX AXTIQUE GAME. Detectives Looking for Man Accused by Jercclry Dealers. An alleged swindle by which several of the dealers in precious stones in the Maiden Lane district were defrauded out of jewels amounting in value to over has come to light through an Indictment obtained on Tuesday against J.

Edward Boeck. According to a man prominent in the Jewelry trade, Boeck first became known about a year ago, when he engaged offices at No. 170 Broadway and announced that be was the New York representative of the firm of Boeck Suttlle. dealers in antiques, the main office, he said, being in Hong China. Boeck soon made many friends in the jewelry business.

He seemed to be on good terms with wealthy art collectors, and on several occasions acted as agent for these men in purchasing works of art and precious Ftones. About six months ago Boeck began to take jewels on approval from several of the largest stores in the city, paying that he had a buyer for them. There was no suspicion as to good faith. When, on May 15. he disappeared it caused consternation in Maiden Lane.

a search was made for him. but he wrs nowhere to be found, and as a last resort the Jewellers' Protective Union, of which the victims are membera. called in the Pinkertons. When an investigation was made it was found that Boeck was debtor to these firms for between $100000 and 1150.G00. The Pinkertons could find no trace of Boeck.

and it was thought at first that he had been a of foul play. Several days ago a letter was received by one of the firms from Boeck. postmarked Philadelphia, containing pawn tickets for over $50,000 of the Jewelry. The tickets were turned in and tho property redeemed, but the recovery of the rest of the plunder is in doubt. Ludwjg, Kissen of No.

IS2 Broadway, was one of those approached by Boeck. but as the members did not know him they refused to allow him to take on approval. A dealer in. Fifth avenue, near 39th street, who was known to the firm, then came and obtained goods amounting to over and gave He then turned the good 6 over to Boeck and that is the la.pt that the dealer has seen of them. Ludwig, Nissen Co.

will lose nothing by the transaction, as they are protected by the dealer's guarantee. The other firms affected are Alfred H. Smith of No. 2 Maiden Lane, aad llarsellus, Pitt of the same address. It was learned that in addition to the firms mentioned several women were victims of Boeck.

His manners and appearance made him a favorite with the women, and two of them have come forward with the story that the miss- Ing men obtained diamonds to the value of from them on the pretext that he had a market for their sale. Boeck, it was said yesterday, is a native of Pennsylvania, and was in trouble there some ago on a similar charge. He has been in China, but it is not known in what capacity. At the office of torneys for the Jewellers, it was said last night that they did not care to discuss the case. One of the jewellers said that the Pinkertons are close or.

trail of Boeck. and that his arrest should follow In a few days. One of hla closest friends was prominent bookmaker, nnd it is E2.13 that all of the money that Boeck made was placed at the racetrack en "sure things." SCHWAB-COREY DEAL? Report That Steel Trust Head Will Join Bethlehem Company. Tfclf praph Th Tribune. 1 May There is a report current here to-night that Charles M.

Schwab, ex-presi- Rent of the United States Steel Corporation, and William Ellis Corey, the present head of the Steel Trust, will Join forces in Bethlehem Eteel Company, of which Mr. Schwab Is now one Cf the principal owners. When In Pittsburg a few days ago Mr. Hchwab told several friends that be had done better for himself in the Bethlehem company than he was with the Steel Corporation and that he would like to have Mr. Corey with him.

Dinkey, president of the Carnegie Steel Company and the logical successor of. Mr Corey, when ass about the report to-night, Eaid: "Should Mr. Corey decide to leave the United Etates Btoel Corporation there is no doubt that he would easily find a position to his liking." The report is generally believed here among thf- Industrial and financial m--n. VICTORY FOR "CO-EDS." Cornell Juniors Kill Move to Deprive Women of Votes. Ithaca, N.

May rr.eii Junior class aefeated to-day a proposed constitutional amendment which deprived the women nts of a vote in class politics. The meeting was the largfst in the history of the class. This "The Cornell Daily Sun" argued editorially for amendment, and Thomas Lowe of Mount Lowe, Ohio, also supported the amendment. Leroy Rosengren Goodrtch, of Buffalo, president of the debate council, spoke against the amendment. He was followed by Ethel Sedden Hamilton, of Ben Avon.

second rlee-presldent of the class. Her ppeech, while not eloquent, made the most profound impression. The proposers of the amendrncnt to it offering a motion lo baje voted on by ballot a special election. coated nn 1 the ndl v. at Cornell.

rHKIDEHT CAREFUL OF DEMOCRATS. Wemed Crowd "a Good One" Be Killed When His Train Backed. Richmond. May Manassa, to-day the President's train made a brlef or on way from Pine Knot to Washington, and Revolt came lo the ar platform of his car In response to a from several men who were fit the station Major Jumes It 0 himself, and then the remainder of the party the President While they rr talking the train began to back, and Mr. Boosevelt calkd to the crowd to get out of the way.

saying itfunHt. Ot takG CarG a Den 11 of Princ-- William circuit ar there ar no De Su pifcf.VJriH replisd that the last ltd that way." To-dny. cloudy and irarmrr, To-morrow. south minds. NEW YORK CONNECTING RAILROAD BRIDGE OVER THE EAST RIVER AT HELL GATE.

GIRL BRUTALLY SLAIN. Was Cutting Flonrrs in Lonely Spot Murdered fro Beh i ml. One of the most horrible crimps in the history of Queens occurred in a lonely section of Klmhurst yesterday, when Mips Amelia Stnffeldt, fifteen years old. after being choked mid as- Faulted, was murdered. The place where the girl was found is known as Shell Road, and is only a short distance from the home of Justice Garretson.

of the Supreme Court. Staffeldt was a daughter of Mr. and William Staffeldt, and the youngest of eleven The child, who was energetic and wanted to earn enough to bay a bicyclo, used to go to Shell Road every day. There she would cut dandelions and have her father soil them for her. She had left her home early yesterday afternoon and was seen cutting dande- Uona by Joseph Engle, a friend of the family.

Kngle was on his way to deliver a wagonload of manure. When ha returned he saw a man running. Engle cried to the man to stop, but the stranger increased his speed. Engle. afraid that something might be wrong, hurried to the Epoi where lie had seen the girl, lie found that she hud been attacked from behind and lay in a crouching- position.

It was evident that she struggled hard to free herself from her assailant. Engle then rushed back to the home of the girl's parents. Accompanied by at least two hundred persons, they went to where the body lay. It was found that Phe had been killed with the knife that she used in cutting dandelions. The whole village turned out to find the murderer, and all the available patrolmen were set to work.

THE CANNON PLATFORM. Senator Hopkins Thinks Speaker Will Run on Tariff Bevimon. Telegraph tn The Tribune Chicago, May United States Senator A. J. Hopkins in an Interview here to-day predicted that one of the most important planks In the Rt-puMlean platform at the forthcoming national campaign would be in favor of tariff revision at a special sesnion of Congress In "Speaker Joseph G.

Cannon," paid the Senator, "probably will make his campaign for Presidential nomination on tariff revision." He continued: There is every reason to believe thnt a special session, sanely conducted for the purpose making changes in the not theoretical and haphazard, but wise and safe will result in prolonging this era of prosperity. It Is my belief that Cannon will take up the issue. WHERE IS THE PLOT? Seems To Be in Mount J'ernon Xoxr, but City Wants Taxes, Too. About six years ago a policeman bought a plot of six lots nenr Strang ami Ely avenues, in 1 EJcnwald tra- t. When he purchased the property the deed to it paid the plot whs part of greater New York, and the official maps of the city apparently confirmed the survey of the parcel as wt forth In The north lino of the city, extending through the Edenwald tract, however, Is as taut and as fixed a Bronx clothes line.

The line frequently wabbles, especially if then? are strong political lephyrs. One year the plot was legally said to be in the city Mount Vernon; another year it had Fild into New York, because maps of "the latest survey." as filed at various county clerks' offices, showed no two north lines of the city through the Edenwald tract A good, tight grip on this slack north line was taken by the city about two years ago. and since then ihe latest surveys havo accurately hit this ai bit rary line. Tin- policeman's plot was placed in Mt. Just when- he does not want it.

That is, the late official maps of the city show the plot lying pnugly nicely within the borders Mt. Vernon. AS regards the rax departments of the two cities, the plot is both in Mt. Vernon and in New York. L.

Napoleon Levyi of No. 27 Pine Street, sold the property to the policeman and he has offered to buy back the property at Its present market vnlue or to give in exchange for it a plot of the same size which is unquestionably in the city. The policeman wants to keep the plot and desires to have it slide into New York again. "Though the line is nnt ro shaky as it used to be Rt ill it is taxed as being part of both Mt. Vernon and New York." said Mr.

Levy "I wish its direction was legally fixed to the satisfaction of the officials of both cities. Maybe some day I'll go to Edenwald and find It pone If It is not legally down for all time. PRINCE FOR PRIXCETOX? Kaisers Third Son May Go There- German Baron Investigating. mnceton, N. May 8.ir0n Krieutijenbien, an attache of -the German Court.

In in Princeton, and for the last week has been view- Ing rooms and having long conferences with members of the university faculty. It is said that he is looking over Princeton to sco if It would be a satisfactory place to send Kaiser WilhHm's third son, who may enter an American university this fall. Members of the faculty, when seen this morning would neither deny r.or affirm the rumor. Th- baron would not explain the object of his Visit here, but did say that he was a member th- German Court and that he did not any son of his own to enter Princeton university. For some time dispatches from Berlin have that the Kaiser might send one of his sons to an American university this fall As Princeton Is thought lo be one of tho most democratic of all the American colleges, and as there are a great many foreigners here.

it is thought possible that it may selected NEW-YORK, THURSDAY. MAY 23. 1907. -FOURTEEN 3Sr A PRICE THREE rEXTS. CITY PAYS PROFITS POSSIBLY 1,000 PER CENT.

But Contractor Tells Ahearn Investigators He Has No Record. Herninn Harwitz. calling an electrical contractor, gave some weird testimony yesterday concerning: his business methods at the investigation of Borough President Ahearn'a office by the Commissioners of Accounts. Harwitz received orders for thousands of dollars' worth of work from William H. Walker, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Offices.

He said that he had known Borough President Ahearn for about four years and that he was a member of the Ahearn district organization. He first met Mr. Ahearn on East Broadway, he eaid. nnd at that time Mr. Ahearn asked him if he was in the electrical business.

Boon after this lie began to receive orders from the city. He said that in the case of mantels the charge was the same whether or not they were put up. Mr. Harwitz admitted that the price of mantels on the mar' et varied from four cents to forty cents each. He usually charged forty cents to city for nil mantels.

"Do you charge tho city forty cents for a mantel that only costs you four cents?" asked Mr. Mitchell. "My price forty cents." answered the witness. "No matter what it costs you?" "My price is forty cents." you usually charge ten times what the mantels cost you to the city?" "I don't keen record." "Then you charge the city as little as six times what an nrtlde costs you?" "I don't keep a record." Thu witness could not tell whether any of hid bills were ever made out in William H. Walker's office.

He paid bis wife nnd his brother made out all his bills. He only regarded the totals of bills and not the details. He could not remember what prli he paid for mantels or where ho bought them, but know that he always charged 'he city 40 cents for all mantels, whether were his own or ones he liought. Harwltr Bald he knew Charles Jacobs, inspector in the Flnaneo' met flrnt at tho Jefferson Club, In 7th street. "Did Jacobs check up your Mils?" "I do not know," paid Harwltz.

"How does your wife know how to make out a bill calling for a certain mantel?" "Well, the order calls for it." "Oh, that is the way she knows." Harwitz declined to tell who made his mantles fin the ground that It was hln own private business. He said hi' had made an asslKmnent of orders from the city to the (ienerul Gas Company. "Was It for goods bought?" he was asked. "I don't remember," was the reply. Here Commissioner Mltchel read from various Mils drawn by the witness the which he charged the city.

He tried to Harwitz to tell his "ll the articles. The witness, however, paid he could not remember the prices he puld for the articles. Although ho hud previously testified that he always charged 4O cents to the city for mantles Commissioner Mltchel showed Mm bill of hin of in which the price was 30 cents Asked to account for the chance of price, Harv.itz again he could not remember. CAPTAIN SPAIN AGAIN WEDDED. Married Miss Murray, of New York, on a 4 Former Wife Still Here.

1 Fly T) Tribune. 1 Ottawa, May 22. A Toronto dispatch to-night says that Caotaln O. Q. V.

H. commodore of the Canadian Fisheries Protection Service and wreck commissioner for the Dominion, was married In New York on May 4 Bertha Murray, daughter of the late W. A. Murray, at one time a prominent merchant of this city. Tho Canadian Senate few months ago granted Captain Spain a divorce from Mary Beatrice Spain, then resident of New City.

It Is understood his former wife is still there. The marital troubles of Captain Spain have kept the Government House society in Canada in a state of unrest since June, All Involved tn the case are, or were, prominently identified with government circles. In Jun.e. 1905. a young Englishman was a prisoner in the Tombs, the charge against him being Impersonating Captain Spnln and maintaining marital relations with the real Mrs.

Spain In this city. On examination it was discovered that the prisoner was Captain Reginald Salmon, ex- Wreck Commissioner of the. Dominion of Canada, couMn Admiral Salmon, retired, a nephew of Sir Arthur Denys. In nddttion to the first charge agatnst 'aptnln Salmon, another wns Bled. The real Mrs.

Spain was living In poverty at No 151 Second avenue. For years she had been a lender Government House society In Ottawai and wan a personal friend of and Lady MintO. Captain Salmon made a utatement In which he ofiUl that he Mrs Spain were the victims of Canadian political conspiracy. He said lie lmd resigned as Wreck Commissioner of Canada of the Dominion government ause Raymond at that time Canadian Minister of Marine, to Influence decision In a collision ease involving a amount of money and responsibility Minister Prefontaine, who has since died, made a vigorous dental In a Parliamentary investigation which followed. This charge against the minister was by Captain Salmon he left Canada, and lie nnld that his arrest and the charges against him were part of ft plot to crush or discredit l.lm engineered by political allies.

Captain Spnln brotiKht suit for dlvop-e In May. It was him on the ground that there was collusion between husband and wife. Catitnln Sj.M'.n obtained his divorce in the early part of this your. PROMISES EXPRESS DISCLOSURES. By to Tribune.

I Pittsburg. May Charles W. Rush, cashier of the United States Express Company, arrested here yesterday for alleged embezzlement, declared in the county jail to-day that when he comes to trial he will give sensational disclosures and "show who got the money." Senator Platt, of New York, president of the express company. It is said came to Plttsburg some clays ago to start the investigation resulting in the arrest of Rush, who handled some yearly and. received a aaiary of $90 a nioiU'v 0 HAKRIMAN DELAY.

TO ACT ON INVESTIGATION Commission Will Not Wait for Dceision on Refusals to Ansxver. Washington. May The Interstate Commerce Commission does not intend to await the result of the proceedings to be Instituted against K. 11. Harrlman to compel him to answer certain inquiries that were put to him in the New York Investigation before taking action on the general subject of the investigation.

The members of the commission believe it may be a year or even more before a final decision can be reached regarding the efforts to compel Mr. Harrlman to answer its questions. The proceedings to that end will be instituted in the courts of the Southern District of New York the latter part of this month or the first of next month. They will be for the purpose of obtaining an order from the, court to compel Mr. Harrlman to respond to the inquiries.

It Is expected that if the court should issue such an order. Mr. Harrlman would carry the ca3e to higher courts, and eventually to the Supreme Court. Should the lower court's decision be adverse to the commission it Is probable that it will carry the matter to the highest tribunal, as the question involves a right of the commission which It believes it ought to exercise In an untrammelled way. The case would have been brought in the New York courts earlier than this, but the attorneys of the commission have been engaged on other important work.

arguments in the Standard Oil cases which are to take place In St. Paul, probably next week, will occupy Messrs. Kellogg and Severapce for several days, and They will not bo able to take up the Harriman matter until after that time. Without reference, however, to the determination of that question, the commission will consider the merits of the general inquiry into the Hiirriman lines and reach its conclusion on tho facts presented. It is likely that the report Of the commission on the Harriman case will be made up and for it is the intention of the to it long a of the proceedings to compel Mr.

Harriman to answer the mooted quest ia reached. What the report of the commission may be cannot foretold, because the commission, as a body, has not considered the subject in Its general phases. A pressure of other work has compelled the commission to postpone definite actlon on the Harrlman inquiry. The indications are. however, that a determination of the case will be reached in a few weeks.

A GAMBLER'S CHANCES. Methods of Professionals Exposed in Game Exhibit. What little chance there is to beat a profes- gambler at his own Kame is the subject of demonstration now being carried on in Room No. Bible House, by John P. Qulnn, a reformed gambler.

Mr. Qulnn. when seen yesterday, said that he gave up gambling nineteen years and since then had spent his time in exposing crooked gambling. He Is now at work organizing an anti-gambling; league, and has in this project the Indorsement of of the prominent clergymen of 'he city. Mr.

Qulnn has gambling Instruments of all kinds, and not with one of them, he says, has the player a chance to win agalnnt tho gnme. All of his machines have won thousands of dollars for their former owners and were purchased by Mr. Qulnn for his demonstrations. At cards and dice Mr. Qulnn can easily win, and at the former can tell in a moment what is held by the othef man.

At the Kunie of rouge et nolr. the favorite at most of the European gambling houses, he shows how public Is fleeced by being able to turn up each time the color opposite to the one bet on. A roulette wheel, worked with nn electric device, Is one of the interesting exhibits. Mr. Qulnn says that this wheel won over 169,000 for its owner before it came into his possession.

As soon as lw baa formed the league Mr. Qulnn will try to have a law passed in this state making gambling a felony and punishable by imprisonment. He would also have the law SQCB that a person who lost money in a gambling house could sue owner. Mr. Quinn is conducting lectures in different parts of the city nightly for bis cause.

HOLDS IP "DIAMOXD JIM Bradji Has to Go to Station House to Hail Out Chauffeur. No amount of influence could save "Diamond Jim" Brady from going to the police station in Williamsburg with his chauffeur yesterday Patrolman Miller, of the bicycle squad, who made the arrest, said that Mr. Brady's automobile passed him at Heywood street and Lee avenu" going twenty miles an hour He blew his whistle and called to the chauffeur to ttfop. he said, but the five men the car laughed at him. and the chauffeur Increased speed.

Miller chased the machine for five blocks, he paid, and when be finally overtook it and tho arrest Mr. Rrady told him that he didn't know whose chauffeur he was arresting, that he was in a hurry to catch a train and would make it all right with him the next time he came through Wllllamsburg The policeman, it is said, told him he care who he was nnl that he would have to go to the stati.n house with the inachine and the chauffeur anyway There, when asked if he could give bail for his chauffeur. Mr Brady Is said to have declared he would give $1,000,000 ball if they wanted him to. He finally gave hts house at No 7 West SSth street as surety for his chauffeur and was allowed to go. AFTER ALL, USHER'S THE Oiit hlithball Advt.

WORLD RECORD BRIDGE Will Link Ntn England and South Across East River. Plans for the huge East River bridge of the New York Connecting Railroad were filed yesterday with the Municipal Art Commission for its approval, in accordance with the of the charter granted to the company. Only a part of a great steel viaduct, the new bridge will surpass all ever built or planned to cross the East River, and will be the longest and heaviest steel bridge in the world. First of all the bridges to meet the eye of the passenger from the Soiind three years from now, it will sweep in a graceful curve over Hell Gate. Ward's Island, Little Hell Gate.

Randall's Island and the Bronx Kills. When It is completed and the last spike drivn In the four railroad tracks to cross it, for the first time there will be an all rail route through New York, between New England and the South. I'ntil the completion of the missing transit link, tho trains, as heretofore, will have to be carried down the East River and across the harbor. Although these ferries, with the tide in their favor, easily beat an elevated train from 120 th street to the Battery, the all rail connection will save fully an hour and a half or more, and much trouble. Besides designing a bridge to bo of more than needful strength, the company has sought to build one the appearance of which will be in accord with the increasing demand for artistically Impressive structures.

It has been designed by Gustav Lindenthal. with whom was associated I Henry Hornbostel as consulting architect. Huge arches will be erected on the Islands over which the bridge passes, and the work of construction will proceed from these foci in the same manner as tha work on the Blackwell's Island cantilever. There will be a steel arch span of more than a thousand feet across the turbulent Hell between abutments. The abutments will be monumental stone towers, dividing the bridge proper from the steel viaduct which forms the approaches.

They will be of granite at tha base and moulded concrete above, reaching up some two hundred feet. They will contain va- rious 6ma.1l rooms needed for the operation of the railroad. The tracks themselves will be 140 feet above high water. 5 feet higher than on the other East River bridges. They will pass through steel arches, which will rise l.V> feet higher Some of the steel members of these arches will be 0 feet in diameter and weigh 100 tons each, pjighty thousand tons of steel will be used in the construction of the bridge The carrying capacity of the new bridge will be about twenty times greater than that of the i old Brooklyn Bridge, or equal to four lines of the heaviest freight locomotives.

Of the four tracks, two will be for passenger and two for freight service. The passenger tracks, by way of a cut-off in Queens County. will connect with the. Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels central station at 33d street and Seventh avenue. Manhattan, and Long Island Railroad and its seashore resorts and city Stations, and all of these linos with New York.

New Haven ft Hartford and other New England lines. Tha freight tracks will, run Queens and, with the Long Island will form a big loop around Brooklyn. Through freight from New England for the South and West will be carried over this route and across New York Bay from Bay Rtdge to Greenville. N. J.

Thus there will be two distinct routes the two classes of traffic, and neither will interfere with the other. The Williamsburg Bridge has a total length of more than 7.200 feet. 1,200 feet longer than tho Brooklyn Bridge. It has a total width of US feet, as against the 85 fe.et of the older bridge. Its river span, however.

Is only five i feet longer than that of the Brooklyn Bridge, i being 1.600 feet. The approaches to the Will- lamsburg Bridge measure 1.800 feet each, while the Manhattan approach to the old bridge Is only 1.082 f'-et and the Brooklyn approach only feet. The Williamsburg Bridge was begun In Octo- ber. and opened formally, although still Incompleje, on December 19. It cost about 511.00n.000 and thirty lives The Brooklyn Bridge was opened to the public on May 24, IMS, after fourteen years of work and the ex- i penditure of HARD FIGHT FOR PORT.

Little Steamer Tcmed Mattery Liner. After fighting her way from Bermuda for seven days through a westerly gale that might have wrecked a craft of twice her tonnage, the little M-lbOt steamboat Taniwha. with only three buckets of coal left aboard, was towed into port yesterday by the Mallory liner Sabine. When towed Into the East River yesterday the little craft drew only three feet of water in the bow. She has considerable freeboard, and her escape from tho rough seas and the gale she encountered was the marvel of the warerfront Tho Tanlwhu Bermuda on May 15.

where she Is owned by She had bail weather soon aftf-r leaving, and nearly all her coal was consumed tn keeping her head to the wind. Phe drifted to a point eighty-live miles southeast of Winterquarter Shoal, where she was picked up on Tuesday by the Mallory llnt-c Sabine, from Brunswick, and towed to port. There was plenty of food aboard, but the water supply became exhausted. The second officer was forced to share a bottle of beer the only thing drinkable aboard with the captain. The Taniwha carried a crew of nine men.

tihe was built at Braintree, and was formerly the City of Qulncy. i QUITS CHURCH TO BE FARMHAND. By Tflftfraph The Tribune. 1 Buffalo, May Because his congregation split into factions, the Rev C. W.

Parke, pastor of the First Baptist Church, at F.a.-' Aurora, has resigned and will become, a farmhand. He says he gives up hla fashionable tonite that he may enjoy quiet and rest. He baa found work with a farmer near town. HEAPPOIiTIOiXMEJST UP. THE CHIEF PROBLEM SOW Contest Maif Be as Bitter That Over Kclsey.

By graph tn The Albany, May 22. Now that the public utilities bill has been disposed of. there remains only one big problem before the Legislature reapportionment. On this depends the date of adjournment. Over it there may be as bitter a contest between the wishes of Governor and the inclination of the Senate as there was over the Kelsey case, for the Governor has taken his stand for a thorough reapportionment.

believing that only a complete redistricting of tha entire state would stand the test of the coti: while the upstate Senators almost as one man are unwilling- to disturb the existing districts. It Is probable that a caucus will be called early next week, immediately after the Introduction of the reapportionment bill, to up tht3 sub- Ject. What will be done then depends entirely on nature of the bill presented. The singular harmony which prevailed within the caucus on the utilities bill hardly would be duplicated on this vexing question. Hughes men who talked over the probability of a caucus to-night said that the Governor would have a majority of the Republican r.ators if it came to a line-up within the caucus, which would indicate victory ultimately on the reapportionment question.

Governor Hughes's victory In the passage of the utilities bill has been signal and complete. Yet in the reapportionment affair he Is confronted with much the same combination of rr. tives behind the opposition to his wishes which actuated the Senators who voted to retain Otto Kelsey against the Governor's recommendation for hjs removal. There is the influence of political tradition, there is the active work of political leaders, far reaching in it 3 influence, and there is the personal Interest of the upstate Senators themselves who desire to retain the districts which they have mapped out to serve i their own political and personal fortunes. ORGANIZATION WITH GOVERNOR As to the utilities bill, the Governor had the "organization" with him; and many persons here considered Senator Raines's glorification ot "King Caucus" as significant.

On the reapportionment question, despite the indorsement of the Governor's views by the Republican State Committee, many sections of organization seem to be arrayed against the Governor's ideas 'of a state redlstrictins- The Senate itself ia I wavering, not in respect to what It wants to do, but as to what it dares to do. Among Hughes supporters question now is whether the Republicans after their complete accord with the Governor on the utilities bill I dare to break with him on tho apportion- ment, and. as they conceive the situation, a break with the Governor over the Senate districts would not be a difference of opinion on. the part of a few Republicans, as the Keisey vote showed. but a breaking away of most of the sub-committee of the reapportionment committee will meet again to-morrow to consider maps and plans.

Its members are as much a loss on the subject as are most oC.th.e.ottu-« I ers here. In the two or three there has been evident a keen desire, even amonsr members of the reapportionment committee. to adopt a sort of plan, which, while it would not the complete redlstrictir.g which the Governor has favored, would disturb as few upstate districts as waj consistent with Joining Richmond and Rockland counties, yet would show an effort to meet tha I Governor's wishes. NOT A MAN FOR COMPROMISES. Hughes men have little idea that the Governor would approve, such a plan if it passed the Legislature.

As they Judge Governor, he Is not a man for especially on. any subject where he believes vital principles ar-: at stake. On the other hand. Sanatcr Raines 6till seems to think that If Richmond were Joined to i Nassau and Suffolk counties, a constituti. apportionment would result, and all the ups i territory would be unchanged.

One member of reapportionment committee said to-nisht that he believed firmly the committee flnally would adopt this scheme. Various objections, I political and otherwise, have been urged against It. It would make a district of great size, far i above the ratio. Again, it would endanger the eolid Republicanism of the present Ist District by adding Democratic Richmond to Republi I Nassau and Suffolk. It -will be recalled that when Congressman Cocks and United States Attorney William J.

Youngs were here recently 1 they expressed strong objections to this course, and their views were taken to reflect those of the President. Probably the reapportionment bill will not be Introduced before Monday night, although a great deal of hard work, or on a sudden resolution to take the Ralnea views, the could present the bill on Friday. Presentation of a bill changing Richmond to 1 Nassau and Suffolk, or making only a few shifts upstate, most of the Hughes men believe, would be equivalent to serving notice on tha Governor that the Senate had decided to disregard completely his message on the subject and his known views. Such a bill, they feel sure, would be vetoed, and if the Senate had adjourned meanwhile a special session on reapportionment and other subjects misht be called. The Moreland bill, giving the Governor power to investigate state departments, which passed the Assembly yesterday, came to the Senate today.

It was advanced to third reading by unanimous consent, and referred to the Finance Committee, The expectation Is that It will be reported early next week and passed. PROSPECT FOR RECOUNT NOT ROSY. On recount, though, the prospect la less rosy. The biU still is in general orders, and. while business sessions the Senate will be called to-day and to-morrow, there now seems no chance for Us passage this week, and many here consider the bill about dead.

The most optimistic say it will be passed just before adjournment, and as tha consensus of opinion seems to make It a "city bill." it then could be vetoed by Mayor Me- Clel'lan after adjournment of the Legislature. Nothing has been heard on the subject ofl ballot reform since the Governor's speech in Brooklyn immediately after the meeting of the state committee. Legislators smile when it is mentioned, though a few direct primary bills have been reported from committee recently. The much needed amendments to the corrupt practices act. too are dead, while the bills limiting campaign expenses of candidates are not those favored by the Association to Prevent Corrupt Practices at Elections.

To-night there is much talk of adjournment at the end of next wadfc This would allow tha MMSji of an apportionment act. the Moreland bill and the recount bill. Adjournment then. unless the Senate yielded to the wishes on reapportionment. easily might mean the calling of a special session.

Another version is that a two weeks' recess will be takan. This would remove the necessity for any special sesslon though rniijtht Drolons tha.