New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-31
GRADY,S LOVE FOR THE FLAG.
HE WOULDN'T HAVE 1T USED AS 1T WAS
USED LAST FALL.
But THE SENATE Is IN NO HURRY TO PASS HIS
BILI<-ANTI-TRU MEASURES IN N''i
MrrrEE-rHE AUTHOR OF THE
CARTOON BILL GUYED.

MITTEE-THE AUTHOR OF THE
CARTOON BILL GuYED
Albany March 2O-In the Senate to-day MT
Grady called up hfs bill preventing the
mutila ton or improper OF the flag oil the Ohted
States or OF this State Senator Krum moved 10
amend. so that the bill should not apply "nen ue
flag Is used as the embam of political parhues anu
providing that 1t may be attached TO the picture VI
a candidate for election.
That Is Just what this bill tries 10 s'oP '
Senator Grady.
Il suppose il is" replied Senator Krum
Senator Grady then said that he did not see WHY
the American flag should be used as me auNe''iS
nent for political party and not as an auNe''''
ment for a butcher shop. There was no uiHe'
between the He commended that the nas
had never been so desecrated ~ II was during me
last campaign when IL was paraded by the Re
publican party merely 10 reach the sentiment OF
patriotic people. In New-York city there were d
thousand American flags displayed last fall to every
one that will be hung out on Washington bir'h-
The bill was laid over until to-morro" morhne'
together with The amendments ,.,a,,. - ,be
Senator Grady introduced amendments 70 .s
niiswortb he Repnblican leader had them
ferred together with the bill. to the Judiciary ON
mittec The amendments make Il mandatory TOT
the Attorney General to bring action against rurrs
his duty i'm the matter OF prosecution shall forfeit
Conviction TO witnesses who testify il stricken out
and a lne Inserted providing that no person sha..!
be excused from answering questions tndt shdli
degrade or incrimnate him. The Dill reldthE 70
reports u corporations IL amended so as 10 p0Nu'
that trust- cannot do business - all IN TINS Slale
and that any corporation dotf business III the
state must nave a office here - -,
senator Wrays bill appropriating S-V""p 10. W
purchas. and distribution OF the statutes OF tht
State to state officers and county clerks Has taktn
up and senator Brackett moved that the enactihg
clause be stricken out. Mr. Bracket said that ne
hoped bin would be killed because II was aps2
luiclv ridiculous 10 spend so much money IN such
unnecessary way. -, 49,.
Senator Guy thought the bill necessary ioi NV
proper framing OF statutes.
Does the senator mean 10 say. interrupted
Senator Ellsworth that the distribution or THESE
statutes will give the people brains
Well hardly" replied senator Guy. 'Dut 40 say
that II the Sena had had copy OF the statutes
az hand when he drew up the Antl-Cartoon plli, ne
would never have drawn up bill the form OF wllch
made II the laughing stock Of every lawyer III the
State. t, ca
How would the statutes help me. asked sena-
tor Ellsworth when there Is no similar act on me
statute books o.. .,..,
We'll II you had looked AT the statutes. replied
Senator GUY. you would not have made the pen
atty for the publishing OF portrait greater imam
the penalty for malicious libel.
The bill finally passed ~ 10
These bills were introduced.
nv Mr. Sullivan-P Providing for the erection or
building for justices court in Centre Mark'''
New York
senger elevator by the trustees OF the Brooklyn
Bridge at Gold and Roosevelt SITS. New-fork CITY