New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-02
SCHOOL BILL HELD UP.
GRADY'S STRONG OPPOSITION TO THE
FORD MEASURE-OTHER BILLS.


Albany, Feb. CspeciaD.-senator Ford at
tempted push forward to-day his bill providing
for the payment Of the salaries now long due the
teachers Of the boroughs Of Queens and Rich
mond. but failed owing to the resistance of Sen
ator Grady and al the Democrats TO his motions
Two Republican Senators happened to be absent
and therefore, Senator Ford failed to advance his
bill.
After Senator Grady had objected to advanc-
ing the bin to third reading. Senator Ford said
that Senator Grady objected because the Grady
Coles bill was not reported. He characterized
Senator Grady's bill a masked measure, fair
on the exterior, but rotten in its interior. The
Grady bill. he added. made fundamental change
OF the charter. and it twas Brooklyn which OBJ
3ected because the people said that Manhattan and
The Bronx would have too much power, and that
the boroughs of Queens, Richmond and Kings
would be under the domination Of these boroughs
II Section ] 90 We're repealed
Senator Ford further said the bill warranted the
most drastic kind of legislation. THAT organiza-
ton will do short of nothing" (meaning Tam
MANY he said. The Republican Legislature
clipped the Tigers claws in 1885, and we Will do II
again this year"
senator McCarren thought that Senator Ford
should not precipitate a discussion OF the whole
school difficulty to-day. Few Senators outside Of
the city Of New-York could be familiar with the
situation. and, after listening to Senator Ford he
was convinced that he did understand the situ-
alton. His bill simply proposed 10 inject more
crudty the defective charter. The bill should
be carefully considered in the Committee of the
Whole He declared that the condition in BrooK-
Ign was worse than that in the horoughs or Rlch-
mond and Queens, and provision should be incluueu
relieve the situation.
Senator Grady asserted that he did not care
whether the bill 10 be passed should be in his name
or that of any other Senator but Senator Fora
must not stand up on this floor and claim that ne
was the representative Of the teachers or New
Of of
boroughs for he stood alone IN the Legislature as
the only man who had insulted a school teacher.
He did not want offend Senator Ford's exalted
opinion of himself by telling him how little Tam
many thought of him. He promised that When the
proper time arrived he would aid by every means
TO secure its passage.
Senator Flsberg said Senator Grady among
the first to introduce measure for school legisla-
ton that he came up 10 Albany with bill IN ms
rocket which he introduced. later substituting the
Coler bill THE trouble with the objection OF
Senator Grady to Senator Fords bill. IS that he
continued, he doesn't want 1t passed.
Senator Grady replied that his objection to this
b;u was that it did not allow the Controller 10
apply the unexpended balances
senator Stranahan said Senator FOrd's bill, as
construed f,v the Senate Committee, would result
in relieving the teachers by authorizing the i'm
mediate payment Of the arrearages of salaries OF
the teachers CT Queens and Richmond.
Senator Marshall said he could see how the
massage of Senator Fords bill would affect future
legislation in school auarS. lie liouSH' II q"
proper measure 10 advance.
Senator Ellsworth said that the majority of the
committee had the bill. recommending It's
passage, he thought the bin should be advanced
He made a call for a majority vote whlch was
necessary failing to get the number, and adjourn
rnent was taken until Tomorrow at 10 o'clock
These bills were reported favoTably by the Senate
judiciary Committee this morning:
Senator GTsdys Proposing s S93St5 of f69I
cd
Senator McCarren's. Providing for confidential
Division in the Id Department, at a salary Oh
Senator Wager providing that any president tor or
Executive head Of a street surface railroad cor
poraton who shan compel ms enIIoS 5ty of a
more than ten hours day SEaa De SUM- nf UI
than 500. by Imprisonment for not less than
ten 6 aags e taP Pr SR that in the puba
ton of the session laws new InaI1er u, ni6
Is to be Omitted from the old law to be printed
in brackets.
These bills were to-day introduced in the Senate;
By Senator ws-To compel the equipment gIgsr Of
Bv Senator ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS $Zlyyu Tor
seta VINO en al as Voiuneers in 16e United
States service for the with Spain during the
BY senator Wiicox-Providng specia! bottle to
BY Senator Armstrong-Ex emptng public IL
By Senator Mitchell-Amending the section Of
the Insurance law regaTqng the aisLri9G,do h 81
whenever The surplus OF a life Insurance company
over and above the total amount of the policy re-
served on all outstanding policies as computed by
the Ney-York State Insurance Department, shall
exceed per cent of the amount Of insurance out
standing such excess over the per cent snail be
distributed the first Monday in January OF each
year among the policy holders
BY Misunderstanding the charter or
Greater NeH-York TO provide for the re-
Inoval Of dead animals, ofal and refuse matter as
often as the Board OF Health may deem necessary.
This bill requires practically that dead animals
shall be removed within twentyfour hours it being
alleged that they sometimes kept for days be-
fore being buried
pended BY the Prison Ship Martyrs Assoclaton or
The United States under the direction OF the Gov
ernor and Secretary Of War, for the erection of a
monument IN the Borough OF Brooklyn in memory
of the martyrs who persisted in the prison ships in
New-York Harbor in the War of the Revolution
II IS provided, however. that no moneys shall be
Maid by the State until the further sum OF $4,000
shall have been secured from the United States or
other sources