The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-23
COSTLY STATE INQUIRIES.
$50, oes. 7e SPENT IN so-CALLED IN
YESIIGATIONS LAST YEAR.

No Junketine Commissions to he Sent Out
This Year what some OF the Inyesti-
aattons that Amounted 60 Nothing Have
Cost-PnId Trustee bridge Legislation.
ALBANY, April 22.-The reason the Repub-
lican leaders IN both Houses OF the Legislature
set their faces resolutely against the appoint
ment of special junket investigating commit
tees ia apparent when the books OF the Comp
troller are examined and the cost up to Sept. 80.
1895, to the State of the numerous committees
OF Senate and Assembly that we're sent out last
spring, summer, and fall is computed. The eH-
penses OF the Assembly mmit on Priv
ileges and Elections while investigating the
contests for seats amounted to s3.25s.s3 in ad-
dition to the $2O.55O paid out by the state to the
sitting members or tho contestants.
The joint committee of the Senate and As
sembly which Investigated the Democratic
state Departments and failed ANONYMOUSLY to
find anything wrong or worthy of condemna-
ton, piled up expenses Of SO, OOs.8s
The Senate comn,lttee which went to Troy
for a few nights to investigate election frauds
and make campaign literature for the Repub-
Leans. pnid its counsel $4,000 and sl3l.43 for
other expenses.
Another Senate committee appointed TO In
vestigate election methods cost the state
So. l10.3O.
The Senate committee TO investigate fish and
game laws, which summered on the st. Law
renee, charged up expenses OF 81. 042. 30.
1t cost S7T7.00 for the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee's little investigation of the Court Of
General Sessions in New York city, which did
not amount to n row Of pins.
The expenses of the Senate which
went through the farce Of Investigating SEN
ators John Raines and Henry j. Coggeshall on
the charge Of bribery made against them over
b. N,,, N,rl Ifrn a,Nn - ,,a,t .n1nn 49, KIN all
which called Lou payn AS II witness. but never
so much rs made u report, were 81 .0l2.2T. They
set II few times in New York and the rest of the
time in Albany.
The senate committee that investigated tho
Onondaga salt springs charged up expenses OF
Assemblyman Fridays Brooklyn Strike In
vestigatiun Committee, which was not going to
cost ANYTHING, mulcted the state to the tune of
S4,U l6. 66 for counsel fees and 81. 1904 for eX-
pen-es OF the committee. q total of 81 .lO3.lO.
The Rheinhardt Assembly committee, that in
vestigated the employment OF women and their
wages in New York city cost the State 81, 02T.+5,
with more to be heard from probably in the
The Nixon which investigated
railroads all over the state, had up to Sept. 30.
1898. put in a bill of 1900, but that will not
cover their expenses.
The Asscmbiymen who spent the summer in
the Adirondacks investigating the stealing of
timber were moderate, and have only charged
up $500 so far.
The Assembly committee to investigate cities
generally, spent $4,000.
The little echo OF n New York Police Depart
ment investigation last summer is only credited
with u cost Of S342.G5.
fhe special Assembly committee to investi-
gate syracuse managed to get rid OF S",s76.l3
OF the states money.
The Assembly Judiciary Committee charged
the State Sl,213.SS for investigating Justice
Appel Of Mount Vernon: and an item of n
thousand or two more will be found in the sup
Elemental supply bill this year.
Higbie's Good roads Committee travelled all
over the state and went to New Jersey, costing
S2.lO6. 30, while the annual two days junket of
the Assembly committee which visits the Sol
diers' Home at Bath cost $500.
the joint Senate and Assembly committee
which escorted the Morton boom to the Atlanta
Exposition cost the state So, 600.
To this must be added an item of $4,000 or
over for the expenses OF the Assembly Cities
ommitt which investigated Brooklyn and
the Brooklyn Bridge. which will probably APP
pear in the supply bill Of 1890.
This will give an idea of how much money Is
spent by the Legislature in a single direction.
The grand total OF the above expenses amounts
to S55. g22.72.