The sun., 1894-12-29
THE powrR OF REMOVAL BILL.
T..t or the Measure Reported 20 the Cows
uiittee OF severty.

The Mayors Power OF Removal bill prepared
by the subcommittee on legislation OF tho
Committed OF Seventy, as well as the proposed
bill for pu blic hearings on all acts affecting cities
of the first class under the revised Constitution,
were made public after meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee OF the Committee OF Seventy
held in the rooms OF the Chamber OF Commerce
yesterday afternoon. The Power OF Removal
bill Is AZ follows!
An act to authorize the Mayor of tho city OF
New York TO make removals from public
office in certain cases. a., .--,., Il,
The s%c isSt aSa % re .,s%Ss SSfs tSac sS a:
Section l. At any time within four iponShs nns
the Mayor OF the city Of New YORK may at
pleasure remove from office any public oitcer
from from u the Mayor Of snid city, except Judicial
officers for whose removal other provision Is
made by the Constitution; but this act shall not
apply To any Mayor of the said city elected to
I'LL a vacancy. ,,, ,,
OF four months any such public officer may be
removed from Office ir the manner heretofore
SrC' g. All acts and parts Of acts inconsistent
with this act are hereby repealed
SIC !. This act shall tako effect Immediately.
This bill is very like that introduced in the
last Assembly by Assemblyman Sheffield. ex-
cept that 1t makes no provision for the removal
OF elective officers, as did the Sheffield BILL and
includes tho City Chamberlain and City Mar
the Sheffield bill. -
IL will I've seen that Mayor Strong would have
under the provisions OF the bill at least Tour
months after the beginning of his term OF ONCE
in which to make changes provided for. IL was
suggested yesterday that this provision was
inserted because OF fear that the bill might
not go through the Legislature with the celerity
which Is hoped for. 1T,
noted Is tha, which would prevent Presdent
Jeraloman X the Board OF Alderman. should
Mayor Strong die from removing all Mr..
Strong's appointees and would also act as an
elfectual bar to any curtailment OF the Terms OF
Office Of Mayor StronR's nppointees should a
Tammany Hall Mayor be elected to I'LL u va
cancy in case OF Mayor Strong's death during
his term. -, , ,,
The bill to provide for public hearing on all
acts of the Legislature affecting the city SAYS
that the Mayor shall advertise the hearing for
two successive days in two daily newspapers
designated by him. After the hearing and
within fifteen days after the transmission u
him of q certified copy Of the bill; the Mayor
shall return Il to the House from which IL was
sent or, IL the session OF the Legislature at
which such bill was passed has terminated, To
the Governor, with the Mayors certificate
thereon stating whether the city has or has not
accepted the same.
The bill for the abolition of the Police Justices
and police courts was not presented at yesfer-
days meeting. Some OF Its proviSions are oeinR
recast for the purpose OF simplirylng then IN
its essential features IL II not changed from the
outline given in THE Sun week or more ago.
1t replaces the fifteen Police Justices with nine
city MAGISTRATES, and creates five Justices OF the
Court of Special Sessions. Both magistrates and
Justices must he lawyers. The magistrates are
to receive $4,000 year salary and the justices