The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-03
PASSP.RR.BILLS OYER VETO.
STATE SENATE ACTS As MAYOR
WAS TOLD 1T WOULD.
Grady Issues warning That Rapid Transit
BundinE WIN 80 Cheoked-Braekett
the Only Republican with Mcclellan
Assembly Passes other r. n. %. Bills.

Grady Issues warning That Rapid Transit
BuldinE VIII 80 Checked-flFaeket EFT
the Only Republican With Mcclellan
Assembly Passes other p. y. .. Bills
ALBANY, May a-The state Senate to-
day passed over Mayor McOellan's veto
the three bills introduced by Senator Els
berg at the instigation Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. which transfer from
the New York city Board Of Aldermen 10
the Board Of Estimate and Apportionment
power to grant public franchises In New
York city.
Senator Grady issued . warning that n
these bills were passed the Board Of Esti-
mate and Apportionment would not grant
any I. anohises, but would, under the optn-
ion Of Judge John +. Dillon, test the con-
stit1tionAlity Of these acts in the courts.
Future rapid transit construction In New
York city would be stopped, he declared,
until the principles laid down In Judge
Dillon's opinion 10 Mayor Mcclellan became
law through the decisions Of the courts.
Every one knows the power that the
Pennsylvania Railroad exerts In Pennsyl-
vania and New jersey, and now It has
reached out and grasped the New York
state I,egislature,' be said. The Penn
sylyania Railroad passed these Elsberg
bills at Albany When Mayor Mcclellan
refused 10 approve Of them he was threat
ened by Edward NJ. Shepard, the counsel
for the company, that the bills would DO
passed over his Veto and to-day the Penn
sylyaniA Railroad IA making good. You
get their campaign contribution and they
get tn 90 unconstitutional laws
Senator Elsberg said that the Board OF
Estimate and Apporionment could DO
compelled by mandamus 70 act upon q
franehise application in case II long refused
10 do go. Senator Grady pooh-poohed the
Senator BraolCett, although he voted for
the bills originally, said he could not vote
10 override Mayor McClellan's veto. He
declared the principle in the bills to be
wrong and said that the good name Of
Senator Elsberg had been used IN connec-
ton with the bills In order TO help along
bad measures. Senator Bracket depro-
Gated the efforts OF the Republican legiS-
lative leaders to put Mayor MCCLELLAN m
hole on this and other measures and de-
clared that in bis opinion Mayor Mcclellan
had come out a winner In every instance
where such efforts had been tried.
The bills we're then passed over Mayor
MoClellan's veto by party vote Of S9 TO
is, Senator Bracket being the only Re
publican TO vote with the Democrats.
Senator McCaTTen voted 70 sustain Mayor
McClellan's veto, though be voted for the
passage Of the bills originally.
After a hard fight the Assembly passed
Senator Raines's two bills In the interest
Of the Pennsyl vania Railroad. They eI-
tend for Ave years. the time a,'owed the
New York Connecting Railroad TO build
lts bridge over the East River at He'll Gate
and It's railroad on that bridge. Speaker
Nixon and Majority Leader Rogers took
charge Of the bills, and the first one was
passed BY a vote Of 50 to IS and the second
IS 10 ~.
The charge was again made that the
Pennsylvan Railroad had entered into a
deal 70 help the Republican party TO elect
It's ticket in the New York city municipal
campaign next fall. The Tammany mem
bers were solidly opposed TO the bill
Minority Leader Palmer raised the point
that a two-thirds vote was necessary TO
pass the bills. He said that when the State
gave away a franchise which Is considered
real estate, and taxed as such now, 1t was
giving away property Of the State. Speaker
Nixon held otherwise.