New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-30
GRAB BILL WITHDRAWN.
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tinue our work." he went on. until these bills
are killed We killed them last year and intend
4 10 do the same this time. If they come up next
! wear We viii fight them again. We have dis
tributed copies Of our reports on these bills 10
all the legislators on the various committees
and there is no possibility that they can mis-
understand the tenor Of these measures. we
have had many assurances from legislators that
they will work against these grab bills" Mr..
. Cohen continued:
MR. CCHEN'S STATEMENT
The mas. meeting It Cooper Union already has
had one eject that is sufficient TO encourage those
who have been lighting these bills ~ 'Ie ui!ie -
passage II would be mistake nc eyer i i3T me
which the committee has directed its attention are
He relocation bill. which provides. FOR the re;
teEtion Of perpetual franchises IN old streets ana
the granting Of perpetual franchises IN ne" sueets
is contrary to the pr9'slos 81 Ie J M 60
serIraj here The bin relating to tie revlving Of
corporate franchises and the making Of The com
for failure to comply win ts law is also Sob. b9d over
There IS sons dang II maj tIe u' ne pUhio
vision that many other measures ON! a uIHe
less bad may slip through. There is the Rems,en.
Marshall bill 70 restore the pay Of veterans. Ihat
VIII virtually give back al me salaLles ,,I Teu -
passed the Assembly with flying coiors' must be
The I'm 10 Increase the stat, Railroad Commits
sion from three men to Eve our Organization thinks
commission tell anything more about the evils In
this city than a commission Of threeE If that bill
were passed and we complained because we hadn't
the local Railroad Commission. the legisl1 tmre
state Commission can't handle the conditions here.
We need a local board
SOME OTHER BAD BILLS
Then there IS the De Groot bill to pay the voluu-
Merritt bin giving electric railways tho power Of
condemnation. The Niagara, Ontario and Lock
circulars 20 every city in the state. and have had
replies from the councils OF many, promising 10
Its evil provisions are so evident.
The nsss-meeting IN Cooper Union was only
one OF series OF meetings devoted to home
rule. arranged by the Peoples Institute
Charles Sprague Smith outlined yesterday the
institutes plan Of campaign, which IS briefly
TO pound away at each Objectionable feature OF
politics affecting the city as Il comes up; to
perfect a congress OF the civic organizations
which shall work for clean politics and advance
the home rule cause wherever possible. and 70
build UP a permanent constitutional home rule
committee. now under way. which shall work
FOR TIE furtherance CT the home rule consti-
tuticnal amendment sent 20 Albany yesterday
Meantime, the institute viii continue to fight
the grab" bills. Resolutions viii be introduced
at its meetings condemning these measures
and Will be sent 20 Albany. The Remsen East
River gas bill VIII be exposed at meeting 70
be held probably next week, at which Robert
Grler Monroe Will explain the gas situation.
City Magistrate " hitman. who was IN charge
81 city legislation at Albany under Mayor Low,
said that this series Of railroad bills, he under
stood, contained practically the same features
as those which had been killed while ne at
Albany. Their dangers were self-evitent, said
Mr.. Whitman, and he thought IL would be an
evil thing FOR the Republican party TO have u
said that q Republican legislature passed the
bills. or even hesitated 10 their death. let
the legislature kin them forthwith. said he.
lest Il give TO its opponents a strong argument
Tor use in the campaign ut hand.