SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE

...New York State is looking ahead to an amazing political campaign this fall.—p...

...The consideration of the railroad bill affords a conspicuous example...

...No longer is it necessary for a member to go the Speaker's room and humbly ask for recognition to make a motion on the floor.—From staff correspondence of the Chicago Tribune, June 19...

...Had it not been for them there would be much less cause for satisfaction with the railroad rate law, the postal bank system, the conservation and the statehood bills...

...The Speaker has been deprived of the power to smother legislation in the committees...

...The Republican bosses who commanded in this fight against the Republican party are Speaker Wadsworth of the Assembly, Woodruff of Brooklyn, Barnes of Albany, Hendricks and Smith of Syracuse, Aldridge of Rochester, Merritt of St...

...They will fight all men as buccaneers fight, and they will probably go down with the ship as buccaneers...

...If the "Hughes followers control the State convention and nominate a ticket, the Machine, yclept "the buccaneers," is expected by the Democrats to bolt...

...The Speaker has been eliminated from the rules committee and that committee has been made elective by the House instead of appointive by the Speaker...

...Lawrence county, Phillips of Alleghaney county, and Abraham Gruber of a small part of New York county...

...The defeat of the Cobb direct nominations bill in the late special session of the Legislature by a handful of bosses in opposition to the nearly unanimous sentiment of the Republican Party of the State was the most dumbfounding exhibition of boss power in all the political history of New York...

...Instead of being put thrcugh under a rule limiting debate, the bill was discussed and amended with the utmost freedom...

...This list of names now stands for the Republican machine of the State...

...In contrast stands the Payne tariff bils put through under a rule which left a large section of the i-arty dissatisfied...

...r. d. * * * Progressives Improve Legislation THE LITTLE band of seven or eight progressives in the Senate and some forty in the House have left impress upon the legislation of the session...

...They are but a handful—a "brave handful" they call themselves—because they have defied Theodore Roosevelt, President Taft, Governor Hughes and a million or more Republicans of New York State...

...In the Senate, twelve Republicans combined with the solid strength of the Democrats and defeated the bill by one vote...

...Almost the entire press of the State has declared that these leaders deserve capital punishment, in the political sense, and the movement to destroy them has already begun...

...If the Machine nominates the ticket, a large part of the Hughes following is certain to bolt...

...The insurgents changed the rules of the House in important particulars and the changes worked well—for the people, if not for the vested interests...

...It is true that the Democrats hope to get help from some Republican faction...

...THE Republican Machine of New York State, at last, after sailing for years under a lawful and respectable emblem, has hoisted the black flag...

...The vote against the bill, in the Assembly, was furnished by 40 Republicans and 40 Democrats...

...Scores of amendments representing the progressive tendencies were written into all of these carcmn: pieces of legislation by the Republican Insurgents...

...The Democrats voted against direct nominations, yet the Democratic leaders hope to win the election this fall because the direct nominations bill was defeated...

...Henceforth, for the brief time of political life that remains to the little gang of so-called leaders, they will be classed as buccaneers...

...Forty-nine Republicans voted for it and were aided by twelve Democrats and one Independent—a total of 63 votes...