Jotham P. Allds

After the death of President pro tem John Raines near the end of the previous year, it became necessary for the Republican majority to elect a successor.

Seven state senators, allied with reform governor Charles Evans Hughes and objecting to Allds, met separately at the Ten Eyck Hotel in Albany, New York.

At this meeting, State Senator Benn Conger told his fellow senators that he had paid Allds a bribe of $1000 in 1901, when both had been assemblymen and Allds was the Majority Leader of the State Assembly, to kill a bill objected to by bridge construction companies in which Conger was interested.

On January 5, Allds was chosen President pro tempore and Majority Leader of the State Senate.

On February 23, Allds resigned the Presidency pro tempore, and on March 11 George H. Cobb was chosen to succeed.