New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25
A NEW SCHOOL BILL.
CONFERENCE OF LEGISLATORS DECIDES
TO AMALGAMATE SEVERAL
PENDING MEASURES.

Several conferences over pending legislation at
Albany were held by Republican leaders and legis-
Iators at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday after
noon Senator Plat, Who had come over from
Washington and had spent some hours n his Office
at No. 40 Broadway in the forenoon, talked with
some of the members Of the Legislature and with
Chairman Odell OF the Republican State Committee
who saw him IN Room q. TIE Twenty-third-st-
side Of the hotel Newspaper men az the hotel
could not get from Senator Plat any informal ton
as to the nature OF the conferences with him. and
Chairman OdeI who suffering with an ul-
cerated tooth, more inclined than usual 10 be
uncomrnuuicative.
State Senators and Assemblymen who talked with
Senator Platt and Mr.. Oden appeared TO be under
promise not to talk too freely TO the newspaper
representa- ves Better ask Mr.. Odelr' was the
response given by several to inquiries. There was
4 report that Senator Platt and Mr.. Odell had in
sisted that no legislation should be passed at Al
bany at the present session OF the Legislature
which could possibly place the Republican srgan-
izaton in the State the defensive IN the coming
Presidential campaign. 1t was the report that
pending tax legislation should not be pressed
against the opposition OF the banks and trust COM
panies. There was a report that legislation
offensive to important corporations should be
passed An early adjournment it was reported,
should be striven for by the Republican members
Of the Legislature.
The most important conference of the afternoon
was over the various school bills which have been
introduced in the Legislature. State Senators
Davis and Marshall, members OF the Senate Com
nttee on Affairs of Cities State Senators Ford and
Elsberg, who have introduced school bills As
semblyman Gherardi Davis member Of the As
sembly Cities Committee; Assemblyman Faows,
whose school bill has been passed by the Assembly.
and Assemblynan Weekes who represents New
York district in the headquarters OF the State
Committee and talked over the bills with Mr. Odell.
The conference lasted until late in the afternoon.
It was decided that the Fallows bill should be
dropped and that a new bill embracing the best
features Of several bills should be substituted in
the committees on cities.
The new school bill Will take in most OF the pro-
visions of Senator Ford's bill which deals with the
method OF raising and distributing the school funds
in this city. separate tax Of four mills VIII pro-
general fund for teachers salaraies among the sew
eral bOroughs of the city $500 Will be allowed for
each teacher and the remainder Will be appOruoned
according the daily attendance of the pupils in
the schools. IN the selection OF salary schedules
for the bill IL decided 10 adopt the Sched-
ule for teachers in high schools as contained in
Senator Elsbergs bill and make up the remain
ing schedules mainly contained in AsSemblyman
FallOws's bill The bill viii be retroactive to janu
!, 1900. the schedules. In order that
there may be trouble about raising and paying
the salaries according to the schedules, the Board
of Estimate and ApportiOnment will be empowered
and directed transfer uneXpended balances from
apprOpria tons for other departments to the gen.
Il said by some Of the legislators after the
conference that the bill would be acceptable 10
everybody interested in legislation for the schools
and would 90 through the Legislature without op-
had been made necessary by differences over sew
erGl Of the bills already introduced