The sun., 1895-05-16
GREATER NEW YORK BILL.
.yr B.IPIN MEASURE GETS OYER
TO THE SENATE.

IT, hut Speaker Fish, In an Attempt to
p,udoze senator Reynolds, Has Made
Its Passage Doubtui-Lexow Gets tho
Ten. Police Reorganization Bill Out OF
Committee, but It Falls on Final Passage
The Syracuse Charter Amendments,
which Practically Legalize tho Frauds
4, that CITY, Passed In the Sennte-The
Assembly to Inquire Whether Any
rupd Was Raised by the New York
Police TO Influence Police I.eEihlation
The Anti.Spnrring Bill IL Killed.
AInASY, May 15.-Another day remains of
the session of 1906, and verdicts upon this Leg
i,lsturc are now in order. One has been pro-
nounced to-day, that is both epigrammatic and
comprehensive in these words:
"All that tho Legislature Of 1898 needs Is
wash for the tainted Senate and bail for
the indicted Assembly,"
Another equally epgrammatic judgment was
passcd in these words:
"The legislation Of 1905 will result in . tax
ra,e of 3.2O. Last year 1t was 2.1S."
The day was one Of hurrying and scurrying In
legislative work. but, was expected. the inter-
est and excitement proved TO have their culmi-
mating point yesterday. No amount Of pulling
and hauling, no degree of pushing and pressure,
could make up for the sensation caused twenty
four hours earlier by the revelations of Grand
Jury action against corrupt legislators and tho
knowledge that the Police Reorganization bill
had met its fate
Yet the day did not wholly lack interest. The
Greater Now York bill furnished it. The situa-
ton was peculiar. Chairman Lauterbach Of the
New York County Committee was almost omni-
present. He fitted about the chamber and the
ente.rooms an embodiment of restless energy,
and all in favor of the bill the representative
of Mr. Platt Gov. Morton worked just as hard.
but he sent for tho Senators whom he wanted
to influence, instead Of chasing them like
Lauterbach. The opposing interest was at
q disadvantage. Mr.. Cleveland. tho repre-
sentative Of the Brooklyn Loyal League. was
doing all he could, but no did not have the
privilege of tho floor, as Lauterbach had, or anv
executive power to summon Senators within
reach of his broadsides Of argument. Tho
end may be imagined. 1t soon an
nounced that there were votes enough at
the command of the friends Of the bill TO pass
it. All that was necessary, said they. was the
opportunity to cali It up, and that opportunity
was buried under pile of bills that had to be
acted on first
The Halpin Greater Now York bill did not
come over from the Assembly until P. NJ. Sem
ator Lexow wanted it referred to tho Committee
of the Whole but ON Senator Cantors motion 1t
Among the other things that took up time
to be Known Q, as
senator. who has confded to condoling friends
late iamentsd Police Reorganization bill. in
dulged in some monkey shines with the Com
s
consideration, He went about this piece Of
s.ss sa. ~s.
Cantor and Bradley showed what ridiculous
who had never tried to move the bill in the com
mitlee or even allowed the committee to consider
o c tsS sns
shf &. b; 81 s ths
ADJ sdmson that he he had only nm made the MOTION
because he knew that change had come over
the Of the dream A. Of hs dd @
charging the committee was 10 to 10, The ab,
Senator who was S. to
that Senator LeGow made the motion before his
arrival is additional evidence that it. it was vas not
Cogreshali made q rather tartly sarcastic ref
erence to Senator Lexow's ostensible effort to
drag the bill out of his own morgue.
LEGALIzING CORRUPTION IN SYRACUSE.
The well-marked distinction between a Re-
publican legislative Investigation OF Rspub,
e sndence sran n oonnseon @ witty the yra
ouse Charter Amendment bill. which came up
h aSy on s Ia sRa
had grown from modest measure 81 one page
and ten line. az an 9 of fSrE
bethought OF by the officials had been put in as
riders; Many of them were good, but not cs-
city. cllnch contracts at exorbitant prices. and
put putt perhaps 100000 on tho city that the city
Senator Cantor took the stapleton speech as a
lican majority's !inSvestlsation' SiS tactics He
hoped that the Senate would not ally itself
there e 1as Sa city a IN the State
shat Una was suffering from the gross incompetehhce
1 s
Df s put he hsSs WSk naa See
t acs Of oeSs 30 cUrrnp wH and so Criminal
70 cast into the shade anything OF the KIND In
people Il sns ses@ed pHead' that wi" the I
rsQrmer who was something OF Q leader OF the
te telt with municipal rottenness when it existed
Thus It e. st P this Rs
fore the people, that Of sitting an investiEation
the fraud itself. He called upon tho majority
toset n, Justly on the bill, even though Its own
AVote OF 10 too. ~
ANOTHER INVESTIGATION.
another phase of the investigation question
hsiaa a feature of the Assemly session; It was
enss e1s.r bis may be looked into This by infer;
confidence sG. IN the whtewash artists on the other
Ahsworth and reads as follows:
d,T,,oi,,d That special committee Of fve be ap-
n,ta ~ the Speaker for the purpose of invesgat-
hsse s'e
a""htys FOR the purpose OF effectng or preventing
,phiaton during tho year 1898. with power to hold
pSSsr SSS hearings; that said committee shall have
ymiaef or authority to investigate all and sin:
haF huaF t'r aforesaid matters and charges and
cnia tsirh committee have full power to prose
ts v tuiis W. inquiries In any and every direction In
p,I, ,I,uusme, necessary and properto obtain and re.
tbat, ~ information acquired by this resolution;
win sSti committee report to the Assembly or 1919,
emeds legislation as in lis Judgment public in.
send rPnres Said commit lee Is given authority 10
one 30, im hnuk,, persons and papers. and 10 employ
me ,n.nsn"sranher one counsel, one clerk and one
paot' as 1t may deem proper.
an tpraking to tho resolution. Mr. Malby
49, the csis slature q very qualified certificate
" uharacter when he said that he believed that
s legislature was largely composed of men of
IrSStlef and honor. He referred to the
ti tir"ulh and comprehsnsiveness of the resou-
i,, ana said that the impression that the reso-
the thSa gave power to inquire into the action of
sn no senate MAS well founded, and. as though in
eIOlOgy for this aa nerhpns imnertinenf he