New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-07
NETWORK CITY BILLS.

! NEW-fORk CITY BILLS.
! A special Election Department is to be estab-
| lished for the city of New-York as provided by
| a bill of Assemblyman Brennan. According to
| its provisions the Mayor is to appoint a BIZ
| partisan commission of four no two members
| of which are to be from the same county of
those constituting the greater city of New-York.
The offices of Clerk Register and Sheriff in the
! county of Kings have been put upon salary
| basis by measures introduced by Senator Mar
| shall After January l. 1902. the Clerk and
| Register are each to receive $1,000 a year and
| the Sheriff $4,000.
! The bill of Senator Wagner. which has been
| passed over the Mayors veto. compels the aban-
| Comment of the works for the reduction of the
| citys garbage, and stops the rendering of offal
| on Barren Island. In his veto memorandum the
| Mayor said that the provisions of such a meas
| ure would involve expense to the city of from
| $3,000.000 to $13,O0OO00.
| The Drug Clerk bill of Assemblyman Henry
| finally passed both houses, after a most siren
uous fight had been made against it, It's pro-
visions follows
| No pharmacist drug clerk employed in any
pharmacy drug store shall be required or per-
mitted to work more than seventy hours week.
Nothing in this section shall prohibit the work
ing six hours overtime during any week. for the
purpose of making a shorter succeeding week,
provided, however. that the aggregate number
of hours in any such two weeks shall not exceed
consecutive, allowing one hour for each meal.
The hours shall be so arranged that an en-
ploye shall be entitled to and shall receive at
least one full day off in two consecutive weeks.
A bill of Senator McCarren has been passed
assuring the continuance OF the night schools in
the Borough of Brooklyn It's provisions stipu-
late that there shall be appropriation of
$4,000 out of the city's funds to be used for
these schools.
A bill of Senator Ford's has been passed over
the Mayors veto providing for further expend
lures upon Silver Lake Park. in the Borough of
Richmond. Both houses also passed over the
veto of Mayor Van Wyck the bill of Assembly
man Remsen calling for city appropriation of
100000 to be spent upon additions to the Hall
of Records, in the Borough of Brooklyn.
Senator Sullivan was successful in passing
bill providing for the erection of a city prison.
county Jail and buildings for court purposes
for the lid District in New-York City. The
appropriation named for the carrying out of its
provisions is S6O0.OOO.
The Department of City Magistrates in the
city of New-York has been revolutioniZed by
Dill or Assembiyman Brennan. lnasmuch as there
are to be two distinct methods of choosing these
officers in different parts of the city. Accord
ingly the Brennan bill provides that in the
Ist Judicial District, comprising the county
of New-York, they are to be appointed as now,
but in the Hid District constituted by all the
other counties they are to be elected In the
latter they need not be lawyers. whereas in the
former they are required to have been admitted
to the bar
neers' monopoly in NewYork City was intro
duced by Assemblyman Bedell, of Orange Coun-
visions to the effect that locomotive or ma
rine engineers to receive licenses sta
tionary engineers.
The bill of Assembiyman Wilson. establishing
pier head line in the Borough of Brooklyn
between Fort Hamilton and BROOKLYN Bridge,
was passed 1he Mayors veto by close
party vote in both houses.
bill introduced in the Senate by Senator
Grady and in the Assembly by Assemblyman
Fitzgerald has been sent TO the Governor by
the Legislature which prohibits all heavy
wagons and automobiles going upon the Speed
way in New-York City
NeW-York University Is to be exempt from
assessment and water rates, provided by a
bill of Senator Grady.
GENERAL BILLS
The Legislature has amended the Civil Service
law according to a bill introduced by Senator
Elsberg. The provisions of this measure stipu-
late that any vacancy among the local Com
missioners of city is to be filled not by the
Mayor as hitherto but by the State Commission
Persons thus appointed to hold office until
the expiration Of the Mayors term of office.
Real property which is exempt from taxation
is hereafter TO be classified and its character
published. according to bill of AssembIyman
Lewis, which has passed both houses Copies
of the published list to be sent the State
Controller. who is to have them printed for the |
use of the Legislature.
The bill of Assemblyman Apgar, licensing au-
tomoblles. has awakened great interest among
the owners of these vehicles. The bill is ia
tended to prevent the reckless mana cement of
AUTOMOBILES and provides that no shall run
one unless a license is procured from a special
examining board The of 81 is to be
charged for the examination and an additional
~ for the license. which is to be revoked upon
satisfactory proof of drunkenness or incompe-
teney on the part of the licensee
the bill of Senator Wagner which abolishes |
slot machines in which immoral pictures are /
exhibited. is considered one of the most COM
mendable measures passed by the Legislature
At the hearings upon this bill it was found that |
the ln1quitous effect of these machines upon the
youth or the country had become alarming
The act makes 1t a misdemeanor for one to ex- |
hibit such machine for public use
The Legislature has made kidnapping crime !
.he second degree, l. e, imprisonment for life |
A Dill with such provisions was introduced in |
the Assembly by Mr.. Apgar of Westchester
County, and passed.
The passage of the Flsberg hill aIlov-ino tho !
Acknowledgement to appoint directly perma- !
nent officer to prosecute violations of the cleo
ton laws In New-York City is considered nv |
the majority of members as q good move 20 OF |
honest ballot. - $50
The Legislature passed a bill abolishtn. trad
ing stamps. This bill introduced in the |
Assembly by Mr. OConnell. of New-York and |
was vigorously fought in both houses
The bill Of Assemblyman Burnett amends tho |
Executive law by providing that no proposals /
Tor public printing shall be considered without
satisfactory evidence that the person bidding
Is an employing printer with a plant sufficient
10 execute the contract.
FINANCIAL.
The annual Appropriation bill as il PASSED the |
Senate amounted to $16441, 751 81. This does |
not include a reappropriation Of $3.50 252 II |
The chief items of the bill are:
Executive Department SOL 900; Court of An
peais, Sl9S, 100; Supreme Court Sti51 900; mis- !
celianeous court reporter, $4,000: Attorney-Cien |
eral, a6S,2oO: Court of Claims $40 700. Score
tary of State S3S 400; State ControIIer s19t |
4lo (canal fund.- State Treasurer So5 $50. STATE
Depdrtmeht or Public instruction and Public |