New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-04-28
ONLYTEN MORE DAYS LEFT.
A CROWD OF BILLS AWAITING THE ACTION
OF THE LEGISLATURE.
IMPORTANT MEASURES IN THE AssEMBLY-THB
FAsSETT RAPID.TRANsIT BILL AND THE
sAxToN BALLOT REFORM BILL TO
COME UP FOR ACTION THIS WEEK.

SAAION BALLOl DILL ~
COME UP FOR ACTION THIS WEEK.
FRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRrBUSEa
Albany. April 27.-Only ten days more remain
of tie session of the Legislature. and in view
of the large amount of work to be done both
Senators and Assmblymcn look forward with
dread 10 tie days of intense labor before them.
II should be stated that ten working days are
meant; if the Legislature should foreso its
usual Saturday holiday it would have one more
day to pass laws.
IL is in the Assembly however. that the pressure
of work will be greatest. Despite Speaker
Husteds admirable rules. which have greatly
expedited business. the Assembly has heaped up
before It's eyes a small mountain of bills on the
order Of second and third reading, many of them
of much importance. Sessions will be held every
niehH this legislative week except Friday. To-
morrow night will be wasted uuless Speaker
Hustled for once is ungallant The bill granting
women the right to vote at municipal elections
is special order for consideration. The AS
sembly has not given this bill the slightest
consideration, and does not intend to act seriously
upon it, If the bill is debated it will be made
the medium OF stupid Jokes. and then. as the
AssmbIymcn feel frolicsome not. they will
pass or reject it. Speaker Hustled ought to bring
the bill to n vote without debate. and save the
Assembly an evenings valuable time. This is
especially essential since the whole of Wednes-
day night promises to be taken up in the debate
on the proposed impeachment of Judge Book
stavcr.
Among the great measures which will be acted
upon this week undoubtedly will be the Fassett
Rapid Transit bill and the SaXton Ballot-Reform
bill Since the SaXton Balot-Refom bill
passed the Senate by unanimous vote, tald
Assemblyman AclScr on Friday, u do not see
how we can do otherwise than to act upon 1T IN
the same way here" There ought to be passed
at the same time Senator Linsons bill extending
the personal registration law of New-lork and
Brooklyn over other cities of the State. Nothing
will do more TO check and diminish the present
repeating at the polls on Election Day in Albany.
Troy, Rochester Elmra Buffalo and other cities
than the Linson bill. There are many thousands
Of illegal votes yearly cast at the elections In
those cities and the other minor cities OF the
State. The bill is necessary supplement to the
Saxton BalIot-Reform bill. With that bill, the
Personal Registration bill and the amended Cor
rupt Practices bill on tie statute books, the State
of Ncw-Yorll would have series OF laws which
would enormously check corruption at the polls
and he pride to the State.
The Aqueduct contractors are trying to throw
they have no thought now OF passing their bill
for the creation of special boards Of arbitration
10 pass upon their 81 100000 of claims against
New-York City. In fact they are hard at work
aboring 10 obtain pledges Of votes for their BILL
They have the bill in such shape that they can
pass il in five minutes if they receive enough
pledges of support from the Assembymen. Tins
Assembly has shown in the case of the Cable
Railway steal that it has a large corruptlble
element. The newspaper criticisms of the Aque-
duct contractors frightened away a GOOD many
OF the bills former supporters. Inc Alueduct
contractors therefore deemed II good polcy not
10 press the bill now but 10 wait "A week and
then seek for votes for it. Tie bill is a sleeping
tiger. and not dead one. When the Iisht
and let him loose upon the taxpayers OF New
York. -,
The cable railroad gang" will attempt to
resuscitate on Monday night the Cable Railroad
BILL which il supposed was Killed IN the
Senate on Friday. They assert that senator
Fassett did not accomplish his honorable
aim of killing this bill because Lleutenant-6ov'
ernor Jones did not put the motion for q recon
sieeration of the vote on the bill. ny which IL
was killed. Senator Coggeshalls motion that the
vote by which the bill was killed be reconsidered
and that that motion do lie upon the table was
defeated, but the first part Of the motion vas
not put and it is claimed that II was dlvislole:
Senator Fasset. of course. Will resist the attempt
to bring the bill 10 life. ~
The Hendricks High License bill is also on
the order of second reading in the Assembly. MT.
Tompxins of Rocl<land County. who was ab-
sent from the Assembly Chamber when the bill
was brought up week ago. states that he lnteads
TO vote for if. This increases the hummer OF
IFS supnnrtcrs 70 g. hut this is three votes short
of the number required to pass It,