ALBANY — On the surface in the Capitol Building, it was just another day of campaign finance-related barbs and insults flying back and forth between the Spitzer administration and Senate Republicans.

“Hypocritical, self-serving, and devious” was how the Republican Senate majority leader, Joseph Bruno, described Governor Spitzer, who spent yesterday fund raising in California a day after he lambasted lawmakers for resisting his efforts to tighten New York’s finance laws.

The Spitzer administration returned fire. “For years, the single greatest impediment to fixing our broken campaign finance system has been Senator Joe Bruno and the Republican Senate majority,” the governor’s spokeswoman, Christine Anderson, said in a statement.

The rancor disguised the fact that high-level talks on a campaign finance bill had resumed behind closed doors. A week after Mr. Spitzer broke off negotiations with lawmakers, the counsels of the governor, Mr. Bruno, and the Democratic speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, were back at the bargaining table, reviving the governor’s push to reduce campaign contribution limits for statewide elected officials and lawmakers.

A deal would allow the governor to deliver on his campaign promise of reining in a campaign finance system that is one of the loosest in the nation. Presumably, lawmakers hope, the governor would return the favor by lifting his roadblock to legislative pay raises by agreeing to sign a bill establishing a commission to recommend periodic increases for lawmakers and other elected officials. The bill would also grant judges 20% salary increases. No one has received a pay raise since 1999.

Mr. Spitzer blamed the collapse of talks last month on Senate Republicans’ refusal to ban contributions from limited liability corporations, which can give the same amount as individuals and have been used by wealthy donors as a tool for unlimited giving, as the donors can set up as many of the entities as they choose. The governor was one of the main beneficiaries of the loophole, taking in an estimated $1.8 million in L.L.C. money last year. Sources said the counsels were trying to hammer out a compromise on L.L.C. contributions.

While talks resumed, Mr. Bruno reveled in what he described as the governor’s contradictory position, chastising Mr. Spitzer for flying to California to raise money on a legislative session day and for granting “bundlers” who gather $1 million exclusive face time at private events such as barbecues.

“I just hope they don’t open up the mansion and make the rooms available there,” Mr. Bruno said.

Mr. Bruno, who said he doesn’t support a ban on bundling and has frequently traveled outside the state to raise money, was slated to appear at fund-raising receptions for his members at the Capitol yesterday evening and at a fund-raiser for the Republican Senate campaign committee in New York City tomorrow.

Mr. Spitzer met with potential donors and conducted other private meetings in stops in San Francisco and Los Angeles. A spokesman for the governor, Darren Dopp, would not say with whom the governor met, saying Mr. Spitzer did not want to disclose the names of potential donors before they committed their support.

He said the governor, who spent millions of dollars on his inauguration and on television ads defending his health care budget, needed to replenish his empty campaign coffers. Mr. Spitzer raised $1.4 million in California for his governor’s race.

Mr. Spitzer has voluntarily imposed restrictions on himself, refusing to accept donations from individuals above $10,000, less than a fifth of the legal limit.

“It’s a bizarre situation in which the guy who is pushing for campaign finance reform is held to a higher than the guy who does not,” Mr. Dopp said in an interview.

He said contributors to the governor would not be rewarded with special influence. “Nobody is getting access to the second floor. Nobody is getting access to the mansion. If you’re successful in that effort, we’ll all get together and have a party to celebrate,” he said.