The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-07

ReportCd. a. the Lobby Has become
ActlNe-The Niagara Power Company
Grab Bm the First to Come out.
ALBANY. April although the As
sembly adopted a resolution fixing the
date for final adjournment for saturday
April o. that by no means IA the day on
which adjournment will he had The
resolution was sent 10 the Senate and re-
fcrred 10 the Finance Committee, and II Is
believed that 1t will be amended to provide
for adjournment on April q. One reason
expressed for introducing It to-day was
TO hurry the fellows up" This means that
the leaders want the members to get their
le gislation out Of committees, and the hrst
indication Of the hurrying up process came
when the Assembly Committee on Eec-
tricity. Gas and Water Supply to-day re-
ported Assemhlyman Leggett's Niagara
Power Company grab Till.
The closing days Of the session are bound
10 witness a lively hustle TO get out the gals
and 10 get into the good gTaces Of those
who have such measures in charge All OF
these matters have been held up pending
the disposition Of the Odell-Higgins indirect
tax bills. for it was understood the me m
bers could get nothing in the way Of per-
sonal le gisation until these bills we're out q
the way Grab bills that have been slum-
bering in tie committee until the tax bills
were passed can now be expected to make
their appearance in great numbers, Tor the
lobby has become active and the Bla ok Horse
Cavalry is prepared to DO it, annual business
Majority Leader Rogers says that az
far as the actual business TO he disposed
Of Ia concerned, the Legislature could
adjourn on April p without any trouble.
He says the Hooker inquiry may have an
effect upon the date. The A7se mbly Ju-
6iciary Committee has until April 10 in
which 10 make It's report. 1t ia not believed
it can have it ready before that time.
Tho committee which Is investigating
the New York city lighting affairs will
undoubtedly be ready to make It's report
In another week.
Had not the Legislature to-day passed
the bill reappro priating $4,000. 900 as the
fret installment for the Sl0l 900 900 barge
canal impro vement, IL would have lapeed.
i was discovered that the Appropriation
would lapse unless the Governor signed
the bill tomorrow. Consequently, when
the bill was reported in the Assembly this
morning Majority Leader Rogers asked
unanimous consent that it be advanced to
a third reading and passed Assembly
man Tompkins rTsm) objected, but re-
considered, and the bill passed the lower
House. 1t was then hurried over to the
Senate and passed that body. The Gov
ernor viii sign the bill at once.
Although there are many bills in the
Legislature providing for Increases in
the Assembly to-day advanced TO third
reading Asse mblyman La tetra's bil which
makes Imperative any of these bills. IL
gives the New York city Board Of Estimate
and portionment absolute power TO
classify and fix salaries Of all employees
and officials.
The project Of Henry Phipps, the Pitts
burg millionaire, to give the working people
sanitary homes u to be Incorporated into
a society known a. The Phipps Houses"
Assemblyman Prentice last Friday intro
duced q bill authorizing the incorporation
of the society, and to-day II passed the
Assembly. The incoTporators are: Henry
Phippa John W. Arbuckle Charles =. Brown,
Robert W. de Forest, George Z. Gordon.
Egin X. l.. Gould, William :. Hawk, Mayor
George b. Mcclellan Charles 4, Moore,
John S. Phipps, Charles $. Smith, lsidor
Straus Alfred T. White and Myles rierney.
It Is TO have power to take and hold by
gift bequest, devise, purchase or lease
any real or personal property, to apply
the net income to its corporate purposes,
and 20 distribute any part OF its income
among benevolent and charitable corpora
tons In this State None Of the inCorpora-
tors Is 20 receive any compensation for
his services -
The Senate advanced to a third read
ing Senator Good sell's bill authorizing the
New York Central railroad to stTaighten
its tracks at Spuyten Duyvl. His bills In
the interests OF the Belmont syndicate
were also advanced 10 a third reading.
One authorizes the abandonment Of I'M
profitable routes in The Bronx, and the
other will provide a connection Of Mr.,
Belmont roads in Queens county with tun-
mel under the East River, TO be constructed
under the old Steinway franchise to Forty
second street instead Of Ihirty-fourth
street.
Senator Coopcr's New York City Teachers
Retirement Fund bill passed the Senate,
as also did Asscmbyman Stanlev's giving
the American Museum Of Natural History
In New York an additional $4,000 year.
The three Corrupt Practices bills, designed
90 bring about more wholesome elections
and make the use Of money a dangerous
practice at elections, and which were pro
pared by Judge D-Cady Hcrrick, we're
advanced 10 a third reading in the Senate
to-day The understanding l. that they
will be discussed when called up for final
In the Senate to-day Assemblyman j. T.
Smiths bill standardizing the municipal
and railroad bonds in which savings banks
may invest was reported tavoraby. The
senate Banks OOmulttee amended the
till 80 as 10 permit "a wings banks TO invest
IN the bonds OF the Chicago and Eastern
II inois Railway Company, which IL said 20
be a constituent part OF the Rock Island
system.
Assemblyman Fitzsimmons introduced
a bill making IL a felony for any one TO sell
or TO give away any compound OF prepare
ton composed in whole or in part Of any
unwholesomc, deleteTious or poisonous
substitute for pure and wholesome liquor
The punishment for n violation il 10 be a
fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment
Of not more than ten years, or both fine
and imprisonment.
The Assembly Ways and Means Com
mittee reported an appropriation Of $3.50, 600
from the State Treasury TO establish an
insane reception hospital in New York
city. This hospital u TO cost $500 900, and
the balarlc Of the money II TO be appro-
priated next year.
II is 20 be used as a sort OF detention
hospital for people thought 10 be insane.
and they are TO undergo a course Of ex-
pert supervision and examination before
being admitted to a regular State hos