New-York tribune., 1905-04-10
SESSION NEAR ITS END.
Investigations Delay Legislative Id
journment.LiSt of Bills.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIsG:'E.l J

<AIpdny, April BY the paSSdSe ot StS W.
tax measures last week the legislature accom-
plished the main purpose Of the present ses-
sion. 1t can now spend the remaining two or
three weeks in dispOsing of the few important
and the host Of minor bills. including ralr
share Of grabs that are now on its calendars
Adjournment would be on April -, as the AS
sembly resolution of last week provides, were II
not for two. outstanding committees conducting
the Hooker and gas Investigations, whose re-
ports will hardly in for ten days to two
weeks more and whose findings Will require
at least week of consideration and action
Thus the last week in April or the first in May
will be reached before this session. generally
conceded to have been the dreariest in years
finally edjourns.
In the intervening time there will doubtless
be some tinkering with the revenue measures
passed last week, particularly with the mort
gage tax bill. There is reason to believe that
the bill may be held without signature by the
Governor until the legislature passes another
more perfect in form. and exempting buildi2g
and loan associations from, it's provisions. In
this way the amendments can be secured With
out any danger of losing the bill that has al
ready passed. although this action must be
taken inside the ten day limit which the Gov
ernor has for signing bills. The proposition to
reduce the stock tax from 50 to 81 hundred
shares is less generally forecast than week
ago. but it is still discussed The trouble is
that for the present year at least all revenue
measures will hardly produce a combined re-
turn adequate to meet the existing situation.
The Hooker investigation committee has terrni-
mated the prosecution Of the charges. Its at
torney, Henry B. Conan, has rested his sum-
moning of witnesses, and next Wednesday coun-
sci for Justice Hooker will if they choose present
witnesses, but it is understood that they have
%J,aV ca
Mr.. Conan will then begin to sum up The
committee must report to the Assembly on the
18th. There is a growing belief that should the
inquiry result unfavorably to Justice Hooker
Impeachment proceedings will be resorted to.
This would mean a special session of the Senate.
which sits with the Court of Appeals in such an
instance.
The end of the gas investigation committees
work is also beginning to be anticipated. Doubt
less it will also report by the 18th, leaving a
week for the legislature to consider the report
and enact any legislation that may seem wise
in view of it's findings. either by a new bill or by
modification adoption of any one Of the score
of gas bills now on the calendars. That some
legislative enactment is practically certain, now
that the committee has succeeded In unravelling
so many astounding facts and secrets of the gas
monopoly, seems practically assured
1t remains merely to catalogue the imposing
array of bills of varying Importance on the
calendars of the two houses. The Assembly has
two thousand alone, the Senate has many more,
but the majority of these are. of course, IN
| significant. Below is list Of the three notable
divisions into which pending bills may be d.
vided.
| The important measures likely. for various
reasons to fail. in part follows:
| Elsberg rapid transit bill
| ElSberg bill abOliShing the COrOnerS IN New
! York
TuIIy bill creating seven headed railroad com.
| Merchants Associations local railroad com
| mission measure.
Prentice Committee of Nine police bills
! Bracket resolution for legislative investiga'
| tion of Equitable Life Assurance Society.
! Fitzgerald patent pavement bill.
| La Fetra street sanding and sprinkling bill.
| Laws delay commission bill.
! Carpenter Wainwright Port Chester "holdup'
Hill child labor bills.
Gardners Brooklyn autonomy bill.
+ SAKE automobile regulation measure.
Frawley boxing bill
The following is a list of the more important
measures that seem likely to pass
Page bill repeating tax on savings banks
surplus.
! Agnew bill creating State water commission.
! Mayor McClellan's water bill.
! Elsberg-stanley bill depriving aldermen o.
franchise power.
/
Raines bill amending Raines law TO wipe out
| hotels.
saxe's Merchants observation-disclosures credit
| fraud regulation.
! Stevens bill standardizing savings bank in
vestnent with stultifying amendments.
New-York Connecting Railroad extension OF
/ time. Raines bill.
Among the grab bills still in position to be
passed the following are the most. conspicuous
and dangerous:
Yale civil pension bill, 'old age pensions fol-
| young men,
Leggett's Niagara power bills Ctwo).
Cassidy's ElTnira power grab.
/ Waddells power grab.
Elsberg,s N Y, Westchester and Boston
! Charter validation.
Goodsells Steinway tunnel bill
! GoodselPs Bronx trolley abandonment bill.
/ Goodsell's railroad power grab.
/ Fitzgerald's child labor law amendment
! Perry tenement house amendment.
Elsherg bill permitting body executions for
! sums under 500.
! To TRY To STOP PTTT