New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-17
GOVERNOR FLOWER ON CONSISTENCY
HE REFLECTS UPON THE QUALITY AS DISPLAYED
BY THE LEGISLATURE. AND SETS

LIE DIFF rC-rs Upon THE Atty AS DISPLAYED
sy THE LEGISLATURE AND SETS
NOTABLE EXAMPLE HIMSELF.
Albany. May l6 (SpeciaD. Governor FIower mas
one policy one day and another upon the ioiIo"."s
dav Within two days he has acted upon similar
measures in a contradictory manner. 1t was ohy
Yesterday that he signed bill with the following
requirement: .,
ON and after the first day OF January 1855. II shall
be unlawful for any person persons or
without hrst obtaining from the Controller OF the
State license to sell any co1yle' goo'''
The other provisions Of the bill that the
license fee shall be $500 and that the person OF
corporation hiring the agent who sells the goous
shall make an annual report 10 the secretary Vi
State Of the prisons or other institutions i'"'"
which the goods came.
This law would TO be In violation oI Nhe
provision OF the Constitution Of the United states
which permits commerce between the States. Gov
ernor Flower nevertheless. signed 1t; and yet TO-
day he vetoed Assemblyman Hoysradts bill. which
required all 'ltinerant vendors to pay license
fee OF $50 10 do business In this state IL "ou'u
seem that the agents Of the firms who are sellhs
convict-rnade goods in this State come under me
designation OF '1tlnerant vendors. Mr. Hoysraut
In his bill thus defined the term:
The words "itinerant vendors" when used In tnls
act include all persons. both principal and agents
IN this State either In one locality or In travelling
from place TO place within this State, selling goods
wares and merchandse and who for the purpose
Of carving on such business. hire. lease or occupy
any building or structure for the exniblloh anu
sale OF such goods, wares and merchanuise
But Governor Flower vetoed this act. Liberty OF
trade must be permitted-to-day Yesterday he dia
not believe in It. He wrote an elaborate veto upon
Mr. Hoysradts bill. In the course OF whica' ne
II think it will be admitted that the whole com,
munty Is. after ALL not nearly so much interested
In such legislation as are the regular merchants
a hands
impulse for the legislation is mainly class I'm.
sa aH o Sa Sraced by ncran
vendors is true it would be rather a broad exer-
regu Ia sns such aeSed mposit6ns on the public
II the State should take that step 1t might take
b business" O''"' 0''' '"' '''''''
Governor Flower signed to-day Assembyman
whttet's bill creating a new State institution, TO
b known as THE Collins Farm Homeopathic
State Hospital for the Insane" This VIII be es~
tablIshed in Erie County upon land recently pur-
chased by the State from that county at an ex-
Governor Flower to-day vetoed Assembyman
Bakers bill authorizing the pensioning OF school
fully as worthy Of a pension as policemen. Mr..
Bakers act not mandatory but permssiye
the benefit Of New-York City teachers which the
Governor signed several weeks ago. He vetoed me
SsSsr 1 on the ground ha6 IVA WaS nensons pa
Governor Flower is sometimes highly amusing,
and never more so than when he sashes away with
nls yeto-knife at some bill sneaked through the
republican Legislature by a Democratic member
he thus vetoed Senator Cantor's bill creating
nautical school. and then found great fault with
me Republican Legislature for passing 1t. To-day
PC continued this policy by killing bill introduced
~ Assemblyman Mittnacht. OF New-fork, one OF
NE Tammany Hall members. increasing the number
New-York deputy from twelve 10 fifteen
ar, ar Davidson managed to pass this bill secretly
through the Republican Legislature in the rush or
rs last hours. and now the Governor poses as the
,ygiant Executive. rebuking the Republican Legs
azure which passed the Sherins Salary bill for the
alleged inconsistency
Inc Governor catches Assembyman Davidson, an
other Tammany member upon another sneak bill.
namely an act in the interest of Tim" isullvan's
pneumatic tube company which wishes to put such
@bes In elevators and modlfes the building laws for
The purpose
he has also vetoed Assemblymun O'Gtady's bill
@prohbit the manufacture OF horse-coa}s in State
Prisons -