The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-06
The LEGISLATURE GDJOURNS.
REMARE,tBLE CLOSING nouns
~ THE ASSEMBLY.

promptly at 2 o CLOCK to-day adjourned
rine die. Il is be longest session since
1895. Up TO the minute provided for adj
tournament both no uses kept right down TO
business. The A. tembly completed aus
work first and took " hours recess In order
20 dispose Of any leg, ElatIon that the Senate
might sent TO IT, q pe feature OF former
years was missing in lhe Assembly that Of
public presentations. which has always
characterized the cic sing day. In the
senate the only present was that OF hand
some loving cup frOIp the Democratic
senators and a diamoi I'd ring from the
Republican, 10 Lieut., 60 V. Bruce.
The closing hours in the Assembly we're
remarkable from the fact that one grab
bill was killed and not ,me was passed.,
unless it Is secIetsd in tive provisions OF
somethlng looking like an inofensive @id
harmless bill For the first time in many
years the Assembly Rules Committee did
not make UP a supplemental calendar.
The Niagara. Lockport and Onta rio
Power Company grab bin was not re-
ported. Neither we're the Goodsell bills
in the interest Of the Belmont syndica ate.
Two of Senator Raines's bills were also
killed. One was to permit, 90 il was d.
clared. the New Haven Railroad TO brdld
a connecting railroad from Mount Vernon
TO wnliamsbridge. It was discovered
however, that the bill was to revive the
charter OF railroad that had many years
aRo been sold under foreclosure. lbe
bin was on the calendar but when il was
reached a motion to recOmmit 1t to the
Rules Committee was carried by such
a vote that il was known that the temper
of the House was not for that grab. And,
although the Senate passed the Raines
bin reviving the franchise for the con-
strrction Of the SteinWay tunnel under
the East River, It was permitted to DIE
in the Assembly. The record OF the Rules
Committee to-day vas nothing short Of
m rvelous.
There is a mystery in connection with
the end of the session Of the Assembly.
Il is in regard to what became Of an eruer-
Rency message from Gov. higgins cau-
ing for the immediate passage OF Senator
Brackets corrupt practises bill. Mi
nority Leader Palmer went to the Governor
and asked him to send such a. message
70 the Assembly, and the Governor said.
be would. The Governor also said he did,
But 1t was not read in the Assembly. Neither
could it be found so that bill died.
The Assembly to-day conourTed in the
Senate amendments 20 the three Stevens
lighting investigating committee bills.
two Of which increased the price for electric
light that may be charged to the consumers
and the city in Kings county.
There was a oommotion in the Senate
when the session opened because the SEN
ators noted at the head Of the third reading
calendar the Fitzgerald 20 cent gas hill for
49, 1.a1
nightmare and wondered II they were awake.
The placing Of the bin there. however, was
tbs work Of a practical joker, but the Sen
Htors who had fought against the 80 osnt
gas bin yesterday and had beaten il didn't
stop 10 inquire about that. and wondered
n they would have to make their fight all
over again on the cheap gas proposition,
But the Fitzgerald bill wasn't mentioned or
considered during the session.
As the result Of the report Of q conference
committee on Senator Gardner's bill de-
sired by the New York City Rapid Transit
Commission, the main provision Of which
when introduced permitted the construction
of pipe galleries in connection with future
rapid transit tunnels in New York city, the.
bill was repassed in both houses to-day sA
foriginally introduced. The Assembly had
lrSliminatsd from the bill the provision PER
hitting pipe galleries. But as the result Of
the work Of the conference committee the
Assembly receded from it, amendments.
The Senate, by a vote OF IS to %, de-
feated the bill introduced by Assemblyman
FHedel establishing the three platoon svs-
tenn In the New York city police force This
? bin was introduced at the request Of VIII
liam Halptn, Jr., TO put Mayor Mcclellan
In hole by compelling him either to sigs
or veto It,
Senator Coopers Committee Of Nine
New York city Police Reorganization OIL
was defeated in the Senate by a vote Of
II ayes to % noes. Senator Grady de-
nounced the bill as having been emascu-
lated by Senator Cooper m order TO protect
certain Republican seTgeants in Brooklyn.
Assemblyman Agnews bill, which in
creases the tenn Of the Mayor, Comp
troller and Borough Presidents Ia New York
city from two TO four years, was taken
from the table in the Senate and a motion
TO reconsider the vote by which the bill
bad been passed some days ago was de-
feated by a vote Of 20 20 IS. The bin now
goes 10 the Mayor for his approval.
The Assembly passed Senator Fishery :
bill increasing the powers and patronage
of State Superintendent of Elections George
", Morgan In New York oity and Senator
Elsberg's other bill providing that the
last day Of registration shall be three weeks
before election IN order to give Mr.. Morgan
more time 10 look up suspicious registra-
The Senate refused TO pass over Mayor
McClellan'e veto, Assembyman Agnaw's
bill, limiting the time during which actions
may be taken for the removal OF encroach.
ments on streets in New York CITY.
The Senate passed Assemblyman Prem.
toes bill giving Street Cleaning Com.
missioner Woodbury. authority 20 sand anc
sprinkle New York city streets This
work u now done by a private corporation
but on the other hand Il is claimed this bill
IL In the interest Of the Skinner flushing
machine
Assemblyman McMa nus's bill authoriz
ing New York city to establish a hospita
for the treatment Of habiual dr1lnkardi
and persons addicted 20 the use OF opiates
drugs OF narcotics passed the Senate
Three physicians are 20 he appointed {,
take charge OF the hospital. On the appli
cation OF the nearest relative Of any persol
arrested for drunkenness any Magistrate
may commit prisoner to tho hospital for
lperlod not 10 exceed one year.
Polioe Commissioner MoAdoo's BILL In
lfroduoed by Assemblyman Tompkins
which gives him complete authority {,
regulate vehlcular tTaffic on the streets o
New York city, also passed the Senate.
These other bills passed the Senate:
Aasemblyman AEnew's. increasing the ia,
Of the police surgeons In New York city fror
$4,000 10 $500.
Assenblymhn CauRhlans. recurring con
manAa 70 an eWtangiOn OF etraeg rafiNon