The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-16
ODELL'S DOCK BILLS, HALTED.

VUkLL b VVUA DllINI nhLlnD'
TEE ATTEMPT TO JAM THEN
! THROUGH DEFEATED IN SENATE.
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They WIN he Reported To-day. However.
and Pushed to . vote-AssemD'y
Rules Committee Decides 70 Report
Coroner BIN for Passage To-day
-salsry-Increase Biis Receive Favor.
ALBANY, April is-Gov. odell's jam
] ming process met with Q severe jolt In
the STATE Senate this afternoon. Assem-
1 blyman Conkling's dock bills. which were
! introduced shortly after Gov Odells visit
to Dock Commissioners Hawkes. OF New
York city last month. were received In
the Senate for concurrence at noon to-day
and referred to the Cities Committee. Just
before the Senate adjourned. Senator Davis.
the acting chairman Of the Cities Com
| mittee, submitted . favorable report on
the bills. Two Of them are designed TO
secure . monopoly for Gov. Odells Central
Hudson Steamboat Company. especially
In regard to the use Of loo bridges. elevators
and hoists.
The Governors company secured
twenty six year lease Of the pier after the
Governor had journeyed all the way from
Albany to New York for the sole purpose OF
seeing Dock Commissioners Hawkes. about
IL. When Senator Grady learned what
bills were being reported. the announce
ment he made startled the Senate, a. every
ono know In whose interest the bills were
introduced. Senator Grady declared that
the bills were irregularly reported and In
sisted that they be withdrawn. 1t de-
veloped that tho Cities Committee had held
no meeting since the bills were received
In the Senate.
Senator Davis made the remarkable
statement that the Cities Committee. pre-
vious to the bills being received BY the
Senate. had instructed the clerk to prepare
q favorable report upon them without
waiting for a meeting Of the committee.
The announcement Of this unheard-of
proceeding produced a startling effect. and
the bills were hastily withdrawn, but cor
tain members Of the Cities Committee have
received their instructions from Gov Odell
to rush the bills through, and no sooner
had the bills been Withdrawn than Senator
Davis announced that there would be q
meeting OF the Cities Committee at 1880
tomorrow to consider these dock bills.
The consideration which these bills will
get In the committee u apparent, for the
committee will be In session leas than half
an hour, a. the Senate session opens at
II o'clock.
The Assembly Committee on Rules to-
night decided to report for passage In the
Assembly tomorrow Senator ElsberG's
bill abolishins the Office OF Coroner in New
York city and substituting medical exam
iners to perform the work Of that office.
The fate OF the bill In the Assembly Ii some
what problematical. It's defeat Ia ex-
pected. although Senator Elsberg In fruit
full In resources and political manipulation.
For this reason his friends believe the bill
will get through the Assembly.
1t looks a. though Gov. Odell's Demo-
cratic friends In Clinton county are to BE-
rewarded for their treachery to their party
last fall, when Gov. Odell carried the county
by an unprecedented majority.
The Senate Finance Committee to-day
reported favorably Senator Primes bill
appropriating $4,000 for the puroha -
BY the State, through . commission TO be
appointed by the Cove rnor, Of Ausable
Chasm, which u about sevente en- miles
from PlattshuxE. the hone Of Smith u.
Weed. Several personal fr1ends OF Mr..
Weed have been here for several weeks
In the interest Of this bill. which originally
called for an appropriation Of e300, 900.
But the promoters Of this graft were fear
full that they could not get away with this
amount and the appropriation was cut
to $780, 900, which u Q good deal more than
twice what II II worth. But political debts
must be paid. for Clinton county may Be
needed again. a. some Governors run for
4 third tArm,
Assemblyman Bedell's New York Cen
trail Forty -second street new terminal bills
were ordered to q third reading IN the
s 1sss.s se soEmorro1 fSe Bill: are favored
BY the Low administration.
With neatness and despatch the Senate
to-day killed, by vote OF IS to 8. Senator
Brackett's amendment 70 the Donneliy Anti.
| law q combination Of fire insurance COM
panies to maintain premium rates may
| Be proceeded against. II any other than
| Senator Bracket had introduced this bill
OF more than twice the number Of Senators
| who supported him to-day.
The bill was discussed for quite . while
| In the committee Of the whole and finally
ordered TO q third reading. Senator
clear sailing. But when the bill was 10
| ported from the committee Of the whole.
| benator Grady, quick a. . fash, moved
| that its enacting clause DO stricken out,
which was done promptly and decisivey.
After the Senate adjourned Senator
| Brackett appeared before the Insurance
| COMMITTEES and asked for action upon his
other bill aimed against the Fire Insurance
\ Trust The bill viii not be reported.
The Assembly Rules Committee has re-
ported for passage In the Assembly to-
| morrow the bill creating q position for
James B, Reynslds. the former Secretary
| Of Mayor Low.
It creates a bureau Of licenses under the
Mayor by consolidating the Lioense and
! Weights and Measure bureaus The COM
| missioner Of the consolidated bureau b
! TO get a salary Of 1900.
| In the Senate the bill increasing the salary
| of the Presidents Of Manhattan. Brooklyn
| and The Bronx boroughs from u 500 to si0.-
, 90, and Of the Presidents Of Queens and
| Richmond boroughs from 5000 to 81, 500
has been reported favorably. A similar bill
! has been reported for passage In the As
+, sembly tomorrow by the Committee on
Rules.
A new libel bill also has been reported
! by the Committee on Rules for passage
Tomorrow. 1t adds a new seoion to the
/ Code Of Civil Procedure, which reads:
| In the civil action for libel. char ging pub:
! liSation OF an erroneous statement alleged
! 10 he libellous, the defendant may give proof
| ~ IptAntion and the plaintif shall not be