CHARGE OF BRIBERY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 80, 6 April 1910, Page 7

CHARGE OF BRIBERY.

AN AMERICAN SCANDAL. A RESIGNATION. NEW YORK SENATORS ALLDS AND CONGER. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright* (Received 6th April, 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, sth April. Senator Conger has resigned, his s-«at in tho New York Senate, thus forestalling an enquiry into his conduct in connection with the charge of bribery brought against Senator Jotham P. Allde, who ako recently resigned his Senatorsbip. Last month, the Senate of New York, by 40 votes to 9, foundi that Senator Allds, who not long ago was elected Leader of the Republican Party in the Senate, had accepted a bribe of 1000 dollars (£200) to suppecas legislation. Then Senator Cobb introduced a resolution demanding a formal charge against Senator Conger of bribing A'llds. Senator Conger is a prominent business man in Tompkins County, also a Republican Senator ; and a party andi oiganisation associate of the man he accuses. Senator Conger declares that when ho and Allds were both Assemblymen, some few years ago, Allds took, money in consideration of his aid in preventing the passage of a Bill amending the highway law, which Conger and his associates knew would severely injure the bridge businessi in which they were engaged, an opinion in which they were not mistaken, as has appeared since the Bill became a law. It was a "hold up" Bill, Conger asserts, intended to injure a legitimate business, and he and his associates "gave way" like many other able business men to protect themselves, their employees, and their interests. For some years this worked; then in 1905 the Bill passed and became law. At the time of the alleged corruption Allds was floor leader of the Assembly and chakman of its Ways aod Means Committee.