The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-02
Broadway & Nineteenth Street

that II the Wainwright bill reaches the
Senate before final adjournment it will
pass that House.
Senator Cobb's bill, compelling couples
wishing TO marry tG secure q license, passed
the Senate by q vote Of q TO 10. Senator
insisted that the only way to prevent un-
~scrupulous ministers from marrying chill
| dren was to have such q law as this.
Senator Cobb says the bill will do much
toward lessening the divorce evil in this
State.
The bill does not interfere with the exist
ing law as to the persons who may perform
marriage ceremonies or as TO the form OF
the ceremony, but requires that no clergy
man or Magistrate shall perform q mar
riage ceremony unless the contracting
parties present to him a license issued by
the clerk, of the county in which the bride
resides sho wing that they are capable of
entering into the contract.
The duty IL imposed upon the County
Clerk Of examining all applicants for u
marriage license as to their nativity, age,
previous marriage or divorces, and certain
other facts fully set forth in the statute.
In the case Of girls under Is years Of age
he Is prohibited from issuing q license unless
the parents Of the girl appear before him
personally and consent In writing to the
Issuing Of 1t. The act also makes 1t q mis-
demeanor for any minister or Magistrate
to perform O marriage ceremony unless
such license IL produced
The act also provides that persons who
make false statements upon an app.ica-
ton for marriage license, concerning any.
material fact. will be deemed guilty of
perjury and punished accordingly.
The Senate passed Assemblyman Agnew's
bill amending the New York Charter by
providing for the maintenance OF open
piers; Assemblynan Shanahan's, provid,
ing for the establishment Of a botanical
garden in Brooklyn; Assemblyman De
Groot's permitting local boards OF health
to remove causes Of the accumulation OF
mosquitoes. and Senator Hawkins's provid-
ing that the Pennsylvania Railroad, which
owns the charter for constructing the
New York connecting railroad and bridge
over the East River, at He'll Gate, may
use the bridge for other than railroad pur-
poses. and providing that the bridge may
extend over Bronx Kills, as well as the
East River.
At first the Senate defeated Senator
Grady's bill making it easier for railroad
corporations to condemn real property
the owner. Afterward Senator Grady sue
ceeded In getting enough votes for the bill,
and II was passed.
The deadlock In the Senate over the
mortgage tax bill continued to-day, with
indications hat neither side would yield.
BY a vote Of 20 to 90, the Senate passed
Senator Rsines's bill permitting women
taxpayers in cities Of the third class to
vote on taxation questions.
The Senate passed the Senate bill APP
propriating $3.50 900 for a site for a separate
State educational and library building in
Albany, which eventually IL to cost 81 ,000,-
600 or thereabouts.
Assemblyman Merritt's bill, abolishing
the Board of Canal Appraisers which Is to
appraise land to be taken in connection
with the SOL ,000, 600 canal improvement,
was beaten by a vote Of "a noes to ~ ayes.
The bill devolved the powers Of the APP
praisers upon the State Court Of Claims.
It was alleged that the bill was intended to
help people to get higher prices for their
lands.
Teachers in New York city are much
duced by the, Senate Committee on
Cities hut which really II fathered by
Senator Elsberg. II gives the New York
City Board Of Estimate and Apportionment
complete power to fix the salaries Of city
employees. The teachers insist that the
passage of the bill would wipe out the law
passed some years g grading their salaries,
over the passage of which there was such
a bitter fight at the time.
The Senate to-day passed Assembly
man Merritt's bill increasing the terms and
Of Claims. The bill contemplates that
the Judges shall do the work now performed
by the State Board Of Barge Canal Land
Appraisers, which board was TO be es-
tablished, but the Assembly to-day de-
feated the bill abolishing the board, al
though 1t was recommended by Gov.
Higgins
Senator Stevens tonight succeeded in
defeating senator Averill's bill, which
prohibits the docking Of horses tails.
This bill has been beaten for several years
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