New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-09
cROKER-PLAT>r COMBINE.
.-rnrNCEs OF COOPERATION IN THE
LEGISLATURE.


LEGISLATURE.
b1N COMBINE.
,,s,embIyman Demarests bill-Re-
a,,,r speaker Nixon's act of 1895 giving
Ramapo Water Company the rights
.,cb fl values at S2OO,OOO.OOO.
70 o-ts.embIy man FalIows's bill-Author-
- Mayor Van Wyck and Controller COler,
ting .eparateIy, and the Board of Estimate
and Apportfenment to approve or disap-
.oxe of proposed contracts with water sup
companies. such the RamapO Water
Company.
o-assembIyman Morgan and Senator
rords bill prepared by the Merchants As
Observation-Disclosures the authorities of
xw-yorIs 10 obtain water for its use by con-
s.muafion proceedings.
No Ex-senator Fords biII-Providing that
contract TO exceed 81 100000 in all shall
he made with a private water company with
mt the authority of the voters of New-YOrIx
exaressed at the polls
No n-a.sembIyman FaIIows's biII-DecInr-
,r that Controller Coier shall have the
,,gbt 20 compel the authorities of New-YorIx
en- buy the supplies for the city market
rates.
ting the payment of political assessments by
judicial candidates.
BuIs Pushed BY THE CROKER-PLATT
COMBINATION.
Nc. I-senator Stranahan's biII-Taxin
mortgages
No. 2-AssembIyman DeGrnw's bilI-Provid-
ing for = park at Coney Island.
RESOLUTION OPPOSED BY THE PLATT-
CROKER COMBINATION.
Senator Cofey's resoIution-Providing for
an investigation OF the affairs of the Third
Avenue Railway.
RESOLUTION FAVORED by THE PLATT-
CROKER COMBINATION.
Resolution Of the Committee Cities for
investigation OF the affairs
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rR1BUNEl
Albany, March S.-The above measure. and
the comments upon them give a clear indication
Of the extent Of the combination which exists
IN the Legislature between the followers Of Sem
stor Platt and Richard Croker There would
have been added TO the list two other important
measures, save for certain proceedings of the
Assembly to-day. which gave token that the
combination is beginning to fall to pieces, owing
to pressure from Governor Roosevelt
Naturally, Governor Roosevelt has not looked
with any pleasure upon & combination against
the interests Of New-York City and OF the State
CT New-York. It was combination also which
If successful. would inevitably wreck his ad-
ministration In the eyes Of the voters Of the
State The Governor. therefore. has been exert
ing himself vigorously for several days to break
the combination
Among the bills in which he was interested
which were then in the tight grasp Of the COM
bination, were two bills OF Controller Coler'-
one empowering him to resist the payment of
unlawful claims against the city of New-York
and the other giving TO him authority to compeI
the Tarmany Hall authorities of New-York to
buy the supplies Of the city at market rates.
Governor Roosevelt also interested IN
Controller Coler's behalf In defeating a bill in
troduced by Assemblyman Trainor at the re-
n
permission for the city to issue $1,000 900 worth
Of special revenue bonds TO pay the III founded
claims to which Controller Coler made obtec-
ton.
SETBACK FOR THE MACHINE
Governor Roosevelt's plans to break the COM
bination first proved successful in the Assembly
to-day. when Assemblyman Weekes moved that
Assernblyman Trainors bill for the issuing of
100000 OF special revenue bonds should be
recommitted. Mr.. Weekes is a personal friend
Of Governor Roosevelt This motion of Mr.
Weekes was sustained by Otto Kelsey the
chairman Of the Committee on Cities, which
last week, at Corporation Counsel Whalen's
suggestion, reported the bill favorably Mr.
Kelsey's swift conversion TO another view Of the
bill can be looked upon with satisfaction
The second feature Of Governor Roosevelt's
programme to smash the Platt-Croker cornbina-
ton was disclosed at the meeting Of the As
semby Committee Cities this afternoon
when, on motion Of Gherardi Davis another
friend Of Governor Roosevet's the committee
by vote Of to voted to report favorably
Controller Coler's bill in regard to judgments
against the city. This bill says regarding Cor
poration Counsel whalen:
He shall not be empowered 70 connpronnise SET
lie Or adjust any rights, claims demands or costs
81 action in favor Of or against the city Of New
fork, or 10 permit. offer, or confess Judgment
a1r Offcr 90 I,,5oy
ment in favor Of the city without the previous
@ any claim for a money judgment exceeding
$4,000 or for relief other than in the nature
OF money Judgment, the previous written ap-
proval Of the Mayor shall be also necessary
NEED OF GREATER PRESSURE.
The Assembly Committee on Cities. however
Sill holds IN its grasp the other bill of Con-
roller Coler, giving 10 him the right to compel
Inc authorities Of New-York TO buy supplies for
at the market rate Governor Roosevelt will
have 10 put more pressure upon the committee
TO eXtricate that bill.
The Assembly Committee on Cities still re-
fuses TO report Assemblyman Fallows's bin con-
Corning the Ramapo Water Company, empower
zig Mayor Van Wyck and Controller Coler to
veto any proposition to make a contract with
Inc Ramapo Water Company. This is one Of
tne oils whose passage is most desired by Con-
troler Coler. It is the plan Of the lieutenants
d Senator Platt in the Assembly at present to
refer this bill of Assemblyman Fallows to the
charter Revision Commission, which will not
make any report till the Legislature of 1900
meets In the interval, of course the men who
control the Ramapo Water Company would hope
10 make bargain with the city Of New-York
Governor Roosevelt's visit to New-York at this
has oft oi,,