New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-18
THE GOVERNOR DAY
Signs So Of the Thirty Day Bus
and Fires Dates for Hearings.
ICY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBuNE.l

A,,any MAY lT-Governor Higgins to-day
signed SO of the $40 thirty day bills "hlch
awaited him on his return from his vacation
He has fixed the dates for several hearings the
most important of which, that on the Dill rehloN-
inc from, the Board of Aldermen their franchise
graft is set for next Tuesday afternoon Inc
most important of the bills signed to-day were
the Fish bill restoring the local boards OF man
ayers for state hospitals for the insane. which
fuIdls a campaign pledge made by the Gov
ernor; one of the bills for purifying the cleo
tons in New-Yorl City, based on the result OK
the work Of Superintendent Morgan last year;
the Carpenter bill. appointing a commission u
expend 100000 a Bronx valley sewer the
Beihilf bill, approved by Lawrence Nellier' 1or-
mer Deputy Tenement House Commissioner
adding to the fire escape regulations for tehe-
ment houses; the Stanley bill, placing under lhe
jurisdiction Of the Park Commissioner that part
of West End-ave. north Of IOth-st; senator
rIiIs drastic child labor BILL which places upon
the employer of a child apparently uhder inc
age of sixteen years far larger responsibility
than hitherto, and the bill of Senator Stevens
limiting the amount bank or trust company
NAV loan to any one borrower TO 40 per cent OF
its capital stock and surplus, and providing ual
where such loans exceed one-tenth Of it's capital
stock and surplus the excess must be secured
by collateral worth at least ID per cent moro
than the amount thereof,
The Fish bill restoring the local boards or
managers follows the lines laid down by Gov
ernor Higgins in interview published III
Charities before the last election 1t does not
restore the old localized financial control whlch
the Governor believes was inferior to that OF the
present system The new boards are to consist
of seven members. two to be women, to serve Tor
seven years.
The Elsberg bill contains a number of lmpor-
tant changes in the election law. 1t fixes the
days of registration the twenty-hlhth'
twenty-eighth, twenty-fourth and twenty-sec-
ond before election, that is. the Monday, Tues
day and Saturday Of the fourth week before
election and the Monday of the third week, the
effect of this being to allow larger interval
between registration and election for the IN
vestigation of the qualifications of voters ana
the detection of fraud. 1t also reduces from
$50 to 500 the maximum number of voters IN any
election district A direc. result Of the expert
ences Of last fall is found in provision that the
affidavit of the Superinte ndent of Elections Tor
the METROPOLITAN District or a deputy that IN
vestgation has secured the testimony Of the
housekeeper. landlord or other similar person
that an electOr registering from their premises
does not live there shall be presumptive evil
dence against the right of this elector, to be re-
butted only by the testimony of the elector
under oath. requirement forcing the elector 10
come out into the open. and If he attempts I'M
lawfully to qualify to perjurs himself Finally,
the measure provides new column In the regis
tration book TO indicate where the elector last
registered or voted.
John Hill Morgan the Governor to-day
and secured hearing for next Tuesday on the
Grady Foreign Insurance bill. which prohibits
any fire marine insurance company, organ
lied under the laws Of a foreign country or
another State from transacting any insurance
business in this State while any of its funds are
invested loaned on it's own stock or the stock
of any other insurance corporation carrying on
the same sort OF business, Mr.. Morgan told the
Governor that this bill would drive insurance
companies to NeW-Jersey.
Among the minor bills signed was one COM
polling Kings and Queens County street surfacs
lines to use vestibuled cars during the winter
months; one-third of the cars must be vestibule3
by December ] Of this year, two-third5 by De-
cember l. 1906 and all by December 1, 1907.
A similar bill to compel the of vestibuled
cars IN New York City defeated in theslast
hours Of the session.