Evening journal., 1896-01-09
NEW YORK LAWMAKERS
The Committees Named In the
Senate and Assembly.
SENATOR RA1NEs' EXCISE BILL

10 Provides For Higher Rates Of License
Boards Of Excise to BE Abolished After
April s0-The Legislature Gets Ready
Tor Active Work.
ALBANY, Jan. 9.--In the senate BishoI
Doane of Albany opened the session with
prayer, and President Pro Tenn Saxtor
announced his committees. The follow
ing are the principal chairmanships:
Finance, Mullin; Judiciary, Lexow
taxation and retrenchment, Higgins.
codes, Malby railways, Raines; cities
Stranahan; commerce and navigation,
Parsons; canals, Lamy; insurance, Burns
rules, Ellsworth; miscellaneous corpora
tions, White; banks, Humphrey; state
prisons, Wilcox agriculture, Sheppard
public printing, Davis, and public health,
Bush
Senator Raines offered a resolution max.
ing the president pro tenn a chairman ex.
ofllcio Of the committees on finance, judi.
ciary and cities.
Senator Cantor opposed the resolution
and stated that he thought the chnirmen
Of these committees We're capable Of look.
ing after the affairs of their own commit.
tees. Senator Raines' resolution was
adopted.
The Excise Bill.
Senator Raincs introduced his excise
bill, which, after brief debate, was referred
20 the committee on taxation and retrench.
ment. Tho following are its provisions:
All boards Of excise are abolished after
April 80 next. Excise officials are required
to make reports Of the condition Of THEN
departments to the comptroller OF the city
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ties In which they operate by April 10.
The tax system, which, under the bill,
is to take the place of the present license
system, is graded. The first grade relates
TO the sale Of liquor consumed on the prem
ises when sold and takes the place of IL
ccnsed saloons, hotels and grocery stores
Tho tax for New York is $500; Brooklyn,
$3.50; other cities of moro than 90, ,00Opo
ulation, $500; cities Of less than 30, 600
and more than 5000, $3.50; incorporated
villages, 5000; other places, $780,
The second grade is for the taxation of
druggists, who may sell by measure liquor
not TO be drunk ON the premises. The
New York city tax is $500; Brooklyn,
$500; other cities, villages and places,
$500, 5000, 500 and $40 respectively.
The third grade is the pharmacist tax
In New York IL will be 5000; Brooklyn,
$3.50, and in other places SO, $50 and $50,
as in the other grades.
Tho fourth grade regulates the sale of
liquor on cars and steamboats,. This tax
viii be 5000 for all localities.
Curtains Must BE Raised ON Sunday.
The present law relative to the CLOSING
Of saloons ON Sunday and from to . a.
m. on week days is not changed, and the
bill provides that tho curtains shall be
raised during those hours and the interior
Of the place exposed TO public view.
Local option is allowable in such towns
as now enjoy the privilege by statute.
Violations of the law Is declared a mis-
demeanor.
Compensation for collecting excise mon
ey is divided as follows In cities OF the
first class, ! per cent; second class, pei
cent; third class, 3 per cent; all other
places per cent The law goes into effect
on April 3D.
In the house the announcement of the
committees by Speaker Fish created little
or no excitement, as in most instances
they were as heretofore predicted. The
only objection 20 the assignments seemed
70 be on the part of some of the Tammany
Democrats, who did not like Mr. Butts
being mado third man, but this qoickly
cooled OFF when it was learned that the
Democratic assignments had been made
by Mr.. Stanchlleld.
The following are the principal chair
manships:
Ways and means, OGrady; judiciary,
Robbins; general laws, Horton; codes,
Armstrong; canals Eldridge; cities, Aus
tin; railways, Nixon; commerce and navi-
cation, Goodsell insurance, Hustled;
banks, Kelley; electricity, gas and water,
Lounsberry; internal affairs, Cutler; la
Dor and industries, Adler; excise, Adds
of Chenango; public lands, Sears; milf
tarv. Snnopr and puhlic hcnlth Hunsin0cr