New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-13
PILING ON STATE PENSIONS.
A BIG BURDEN LIKELY IF MANY MoHT
OF THE BILLS ARE PASSED.
THE LONG LIST or THEM INTRODUCED INTO THE
PRESENT OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to
FAVOR sCHOoL-TEAcHERs ANp
CIVIL SERVANTS.

Albany March ~ (SpeciaD.-'1t looks 10 iie
:, MANY more pension bills pass" said a disth-
ouished public man here yesterday tha' "'''
bolr NJ the community will BE- supporting 'hc
other half | refer to the State pension acts n'|
TO the National one pensioning the so'u'e' "
the Civil War-which is an enormous pu'"
some one I'm itself. The state pension ac's pee''
with pensioning the policemen ana the III
have been included And now comes the sc"oo'
teachers Really, II is not surprising tha' A''e'n
b,vmar dler. OF New York. has presented Dill
to pet N every old employe OF the state oi VI
tie cities How the taxpayer Is going 10 snou'u'i
this pension load l fail to comprehehu' anu
vet no one In the Legislature or out OF 1t Seem"
to have the courage to fight such "a"s'''
innovation"
That there has been reaction IN the app"
rent popular opposition to the wholesale grant
ing Of pensions will not be gainsaid' II al III
ference may be drawn from the numerous pen
clio, measures introduced I'm the Legislature
during the present session. Besides the piis
enlarging the scope OF police pensions III many
cities there are bills giving pensions TO teach-
ora and one measure already referred TO- seeks
10 create by a single stroke a pension system io'
civil servants who have spent long periou III
the employ Of the State or cities
Senator Marshall introduced bill In January
to provide pensions for schcol-teachers In BROOK
Ign. Il provides that:
Anv male teacher who has taught not less
than thirty-fve years or any female tedclei
who has taught not less than thirty years or
which twenty years shall have been In the pun,
lie schools of the Borough Of Brooklyn, snall
be entitled 10 retire from active service proVidhg
each teacher making application FOR retirement
under this act shall have paid into the sald
fund an amount equal to ~ per Centum or ms or
her annual salary at the time or making suCn
applica ton The School Board or the Borough
OF Brooklyn. upon Application dulN ana prop
erlv made. shall retire from active service any
teacher in the public schools who has complied
with the provisions Of this act ard shall cause
to be paid out Of the fund provided for that
purpose to each teacher so retired under the
foregoing clause an allowance annually during
life equal to % per Centum Of the annual salary
received 10y such teacher at the time OF making
application for retirement. 10 be paid In quar-
tery instruments; but no teacher 80 retired shall
receive more than 81 .OWl nor less than 500 in
any year Whenever the amount in the retire
ment fund herenbefOre provided shall not be
sufficient in any year 10 pay in full the allow
made in due proportion to the amount I'm the
retirement fund applicable 10 that purpose.
Even more notable than this as an indication
Of the trend Of popular feeling Is Assembyman
Charles s Adler's bill. Mr. Adler represents
the With District Of New York County, and is
a Republican. The bill provides that any citi-
zen of the state who has held and occupied by
appon inent and not by election. q position or
office In the civil Service Of the state or Of any
city Of the first second class for twenty-five
years continuously from the date Of his first
appointment is TO be entitled to voluntary re-
tirement from the service and is TO receive ar
terward a yearly pension equal to half OF his
salary for the year next preceding his retire
ment The Governor. Controller and Attorney
General are constituted Retiring Board for the
Civil Service Of the State. and the Mayor Con-
troller or other highest financial officer and cor
poratlon counsel or legal adviser Of any city
are TO act as a Retiring Board for the city Pen
sion funds are also created by this bill. That Of
the state is to consist OF sufficient apprOpria-
lions made by the Legislature; those OF the
cities of the excise moneys not otherwise dis
nosed Of and Of tax leves to supply the de-
ncency.
Another Civil Service Pension bill introduced
early in the session applies solely 10 New-York
CITY 1t gives a pension to clerks. heads or de-