New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-10

OTHER MEASURES SIGNED.
They Include Good Roads, Lunacy
and Statutory Consolidation Bills.
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Albany. May Ex-Governor OdeIl tonight
signed the Jerome-DowIing Witness bill. drawn
to remedy the condition created by the Lewisohn
decision and intended TO compel Reginald C.
Vanderbilt TO testify regarding his alleged
Penses while in Canhelds West Forty-fourth-st.
gambling house. The Governor also signed the
Good Roads buI appropriatng S1.5OoO0o for
the Improvement of highways: the Lunacy biH.
appropristing 81 .2O3.OOO for the care Of the
state insane; the Statutory Consolidation bill.
appropriating $4,000. and creating a commits
sion consisting OF A. J. Rodenbeck. Charles An
drews. J. S. Langdon William 3. HornbIower
and John c. Milburn; the Newcomb Anti-Trad-
ing Stamp bill. the Troy Improvement Commits
sion bill. which adds the Mayor and Corpora
ton Counse! OF Troy TO the local Improvement
commission. and thus gives Mayor Hogan con-
troll of the commission; three Armory bills and
the Cornell Agricultural College bill
The Governors action was taken after an
all day conference with Senators MaIby and
Raines and Speaker s. Fred Nixon and As
semblyman James T. Rogers. the majority lead
er. At the conference a tentative programme
was arranged by which the aggregate State ap-
preparations and appropriations were reduced
approximately $2,O00OO0 The figure fixed by
the legislature for all appropriations was about
$2S SOooOO1 and the reduction will bring it down
to S26O0OOO0
The Jerome Garfield bill. signed tonight, fur
nished the most exciting Incidents of the present
session of the legislature. The measure was
introduced in the Senate by Victor ]. Bowling
and in the Assembly by J. NJ. Wainwright
Three separate hearings were given. at each of
which District Attorney jerome was present
and while the measure was pending much COM
ment was aroused by the printed comments
on the legislature given out by Mr.. Jerome
Y he tba
tor John Raires advocated the measure and
Senator Bracket attacked it. The bill was
finally passed by Republican votes in close di-
vision. In the Assembly the bill held up
in committee for some time. and finally passed
by almost strictly party vote. the Repubh-
cans voting for the measure.
The bill is drawn on the lines laid down by
the Interstate Commerce law as upheld by the
Supreme Court of the United States. and amends
the law regarding the exemption from testi-
mOny of witnesses In gambling cases by pro-
viding that they shall be allowed to plead privi-
lege and decline TO give testimony only when
their evidence would tend 10 convict them OF a
crime subject them to a penalty instead of
when it would tend to incriminate or degrade
In the existing statute the bill was avowedIy
drawn to obviate the difficulty In securing evi-
dence against gamblers created by the decision
OF the COur. OF Appeals in the case Of Jesse
Lewisohn. who refused 10 testify against Rich
ard A. Canfield Under its provisions District
Attorney Jerome before the Codes COMMITTEES
OF the Senate pledged his certificate OF office
that he could convict Garfield and put all the
noted gamblers OF New-YOrk City including
'Shang' Draper. Frank Farrell Lou Betts
and Honest john Kelly out of business.
At the hearing before the Assembly Codes
Committee District Attorney Jerome reviving
words used by Senator Raines In his attack on
Senator Brackett in the Senate, spoke OF the
suicide OF "Cale" Mitchell, the Saratoga gam
bier who committed suicide on the doorstep Of
Senator Brackett. and pictured Senator Brackett
rs securing the passage in the Senate of a law
designed for the benefit of Garfield at the mo-
nent Gale" MitchelTs blood was staining his
doorstep.
The bin was opposed in the Senate by Senator
Elsberg of New-YOrk. as being retroactive and
therefore unconstitutional but 1t was submitted
20 Attorney General Cuneen by the Governor
md by him pronounced constitutional In the
asst public hearing il opposed by George
Gordon Battle for clients unknown, and by
Alfred Lauterbach, counsel for Jesse Lewisohn
Under it's provisions it is generally conceded.
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