Assemblyman Irwin Steingut, Democrat, of Brooklyn, was elected Speaker of the Assembly today after Assemblyman Louis A. Cuvillier of Manhattan and a group of Kings County Democrats withdrew their opposition.
Mr. Steingut received seventy-five votes. Only one Democrat, George K. Kaminsky of Brooklyn, opposed him, and he voted for himself.
Governor Lehman in his annual message to both Houses recommended legislation to provide State unemployment insurance and to revise public utilities laws in accordance with findings of legislative committees investigating rates.
Mr. Steingut is Jewish and a close friend of President Roosevelt.
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