Show BENN ALSO illS SEA SEAT T TI I Man Who Brought Bl ought Bribery Charges I Against Aga Senator Allds Follows the tIle Latter into int Private Life L fe Albany N Y April 4 Rising to tOR a question of personal privilege in inthe inI inthe I the senate tonight t Senator Benn Conger after reading a statement stat ment in which he declared he fully Realized that as a result of the Allds bri bribery bribery bribe bery be charges his usefulness as a legislator was at an end handed his I resignation to Lieutenant Governor White a duplicate of which wl ch he later laterI I filed with the secretary of state I With ashen face f ce and trembling hands handshe he read while his fellow senators listened with Intense interest and when he had finished he sent his resignation to the desk and quickly left the chamber Ir Conger read how at a private con conference conference conference ference where the qualifications of ex cx Senator Allds for the position of Republican RepublIcan Republican lican leader of the senate were being con considered eldered ho lie h was asked to declare his bis post position position tion anti I replied that I would not and could not vote for him Conger then related Bow ow later inter ator Allds on the floor r the senate de do denied denied nied flied the truth of s statements and demanded an investigation So he added the tho alternative was presented to me of becoming a liar and thereby remaining a member of this body in good standing or of ot speaking the truth and thereby materially Injuring myself financially politically and socially and bringing upon my family undesirable no notoriety notoriety i and sorrow I 1 determined the only thing I 1 could do and retain my own self sel respect was Vas to speak s ak the tile truth whatever the tho cost That I 1 have done and forty of I your number by your votes have havo certified certified fied fled thereto I did not seek seck to excuse nor 1101 do I 1 ask you or others to excuse the part which I 1 took in the transaction of 1901 which you OU have under Investigation The one ohe great and sorrowful regret of ot my brother was that he ho had submitted to the demand dem nd of the th worst gang of If plunderers that ever Infested this or any other capital My wrong and for it I 1 have always been baen ashamed and sincerely sorry was In standing by and permitting the Ing to tobe tobe tobe be done do e instead i tead of or then and AnCl there de it itI itI I I am Informed some of your members i profess to feel they cannot remain in the j senate if I am here I I have no desire to remain a n member of ot this great legislative body If It I my pres pros presence presence I ence once Is to give offense to any of ot its mem members bets bers I realize real e and from the beginning i have fully realized that with feeling tee ling here as It is 18 my usefulness to my district as a member of or this legislature Is at an end endI I cannot afford the expense of a further hearing and another r trial and I feel I ought not to Impose the expense thereof on the state Needed legislation ought not notto notto notto to be longer delayed and so O I 1 am going voluntarily to surrender my office Senator Cobbs resolution providing for tor forthe forthe the appointment of a to pre pro prepare prepare pare charges against Conger Is vitiated by his resignation |