New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-10

shau reop,e serbs OF systematic annual reports be
fed by each municipality with proper State oncer
setting with sufficient funess and detah e classes
OF administrative and financial facts which we recr, 10
her after IN order that the Legislature and the people
NAV be enatled TO advise themselves fully and at all
times with regard 70 the general condition OF the gov
eminent Of cities far as the same can be maze ap
parsnt by means accurate and systematic publica
ton OF reports showing Indebtedness taxation and
expenditure Of such cites
"fourth the subordinaton Of city business to the
exieencBes Of safe and National politics"
We of the Senate Investigating Committee followed up
this s,ateuent by recommending passage OF the follow
Ing amendment to the Constitution:
.eThe Legislature shall general law for the
government OF all cities in this State and no munepa
corporation shall hereafter created by special act nor
sha the Legislature pass any relative TO the govern
mon: OF any city this State except by amendment to
such general law
la not that the essence of home rulei But We went
eyen further Commenting upon that proposed amendment
to the Constitution, we said:
The proposed constitutional amendment is suggested
for the purpose OF making IL the Imperative duy OF e
Legislature pass general la" even In the absence Of
a constitutions! amendment IL Is regaidcd by US as
a first and most practical stey toward the establishment
Of Intelligent conditions for the conduct oil municipal
business" There reason for tAe enactment oil
general for the government oil villages such rs no"
exists statute books which does not apply Win
,oua and even greater force the Of cities
Senator Fassett next took up Governor llius
remarks upon the excise question, and disclosed
.he Governors hypocrisy in dealing with 1t. MIR.
Fassett minated very broadly that the Governors
only anxiety betrayed by his speech was lest the
entire liquor interest be, by Republican success
and Republican legislation removed from the pos
sibilites of political blackmail. Mr.. Fassett then
continued:
also misstates the history OF the Repub-
ucsn taxation laws He states that Senator Forster IN
toduced the Corporation Tax law. II he will examine
the journals the Assembly and Senate in 1880 he wi
find that introduced IN that year by Assembly
man steele Republican, OF oswego County and by Sen.
stor Winslow, q Republican Of Jefferson. 1t Mr.
ssoele's bill which passed the Legislature and
Corporation Tax law Senator Forster. who Isepub.
Lean merely introduced amendment 10 the law In 1881
THE GOVERNORS OTHEk MEASUREMENTS.
The Governor Will also discern that he has been mis-.
Informed about Collateral Inheritance Tax law. 1t
was introduced I'm by Assembynan Steele OF oswego
County; by Assembymsn Benedict, D'mocrat In 1882
and finally by Yedder Republican. fo- years
later when it became law. Senator Vedde' Intro.
duesd the bill which is known the corporation
Organization and the Tax upoa Direct Inheritance
law This last law Controller wenple good Denscrst.
saws viii put 81 600 900 INTO our State Treasury the
IAN So see the entire series I" taNshhn