History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . y review. In the Legislature of 1920 Walters continued asPresident pro tern, of the Senate and Sweet was electedSpeaker for his seventh consecutive term. No soonerwas the Assembly in session than the question of dealingwith the ultra-radical political groups was precipitatedon the State by a resolution to investigate the fitness ofthe five Socialist members to sit in the house and tosuspend them pending inquiry by the judiciary com-mittee. These assemblymen were August Claessensand Louis Waldman of New York, Charles Solomonof King
History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . y review. In the Legislature of 1920 Walters continued asPresident pro tern, of the Senate and Sweet was electedSpeaker for his seventh consecutive term. No soonerwas the Assembly in session than the question of dealingwith the ultra-radical political groups was precipitatedon the State by a resolution to investigate the fitness ofthe five Socialist members to sit in the house and tosuspend them pending inquiry by the judiciary com-mittee. These assemblymen were August Claessensand Louis Waldman of New York, Charles Solomonof Kings, and Samuel A. DeWitt and Samuel Orr ofBronx, The charges against them were that they weredisloyal, belonged to an organization that sought tosubvert fundamental American institutions even by theuse of force, and that they were not free agents, asthe rules of their party bound them to obedience toits mandates in the performance of their official dutiesand required them to place their resignations in thehands of the party authorities to use if they were dis-. Alfred Emanuel Smith Alfred Emanuel Smith, 45th governor; (1919-1920); bornin New York City, December 30, 1873; clerk in the office of thecommis-ioners of jurors, New York City, 1895-1903; memberof the state assembly, 1904-1915; speaker of the assembly, 1915;delegate to the constitutional convention, 1915; sheriff of NewYork county, 1915-1917; president of the board of aldermenNew York City, 1917-1919; governor 1919-1920; defeated forre-election by Nathan L. Miller, November 2, 1920.
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