The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18
ASSEMBLY WINDING UP WORK,
CLEARS WAY FOR ADJOURNMENT
BY SUSPENDING THE RULES.
Malby Holding Up Senate Until He Learns
the Fate OF His Ripper Bills-Repeal
OF Tax on Savings Banks Surplus Killed
Way Paved for city Treasury Raid.

VI nHN Ou NIhBb hith SUI piu h'N
Way Paved for city Treasury Raid.
ALBANY, April 17.-Although the Senate
has not adopted the resolution fixing the
date Of final adjournment of the Legislature,
the Assembly tonight voted to have the
Assembly Committee on Rules take charge
of legislation in the lower house. This
was lone by voting to suspend the rules
The Rules Committee always takes charge
in the last ten days of the session. How
ever, the Assembly leaders suspect some
thing doing on the part Of the Senate.
Senator Malby is known to be holding up
the date Of final adjournment. Just as
soon as the Ogdensburg ripper bills are
received back from the Mayor of Ogdens-
burg on April 20 he is going to change front
and be ready for final adjournment. Con-
sequently the Senate will keep sending a
lot of bills over to the lower house and
prevent the Rules Committee from getting
control Of them until the date of adjourn
ment resolution is adopted in both houses.
The Senate could fix THE time for adj
journment for the day after the adoption OF
the resolution. Consequently the Assem-
bly, leaders do not propose to have Impor
tant legislat ton tied up in committees ana
the calendar loaded down with unimportant
bills.
One rea son why It is deemed necessary
for the Rules Committee to take charge liz
that the committees are getting altogether
too liberal in reporting bills. TIL Assembly
committees henceforth will not meet.
The Assembly wants to he in such shape
that It will be ready TO adjourn at any
minute the Senate sets for final adjourn
ment. The local option and ap%portionment
bills are the only mea sures that remain in
the Assembly that will occupy much con-
sideration in the closing days.
Despite the promises of Coy. higgins on
the stump and the promise of the Repub-
lican State convention Of 1901, the State
Senate to-day killed Senator Pages bill
repeating the law aNing the surplus OF
savings banks. The bill came up in COM
mittee Of the whole and Senators Malby,
Armstrong and Lewis led the attack.
The measure was defended by Senators
Page and Elsberg, and the New York city
members generally without regard 10
party rallied around them. But the ad-
vocates OF the measure were caught ma pping
as many Senators were absent, and senator
Malby and the others opposed to the bill
refused to permit a call OF the senate 10
round up the absent members.
In committee Of the whole the Senate
struck out the enacting clause OF the bill.
When the committee reported 70 the tuii
Senate a motion to disagree with the re-
port and that the bill be ordered to a third
reading was defeated by a vote OF % to 10.
Then Senator Page moved the vote by
which the last motion was lost be recon-
sidered and that that motion lie upon the
table. Senator Malby objected to tabling
the final motion and Senator Pages re-
quest for a call Of the Senate was refused.
Then his motion to reconsider was beaten
by a vote of ayes 10, noes -. Senator
Page charged his Republican colleagues
with betra wing party pledges.
Senator Foley (~Tammany, early in the
session also introduced a repeal bill similar
to the one introduced by Senator Page,
and after the Page bill was killed he tried
to get in notice that at some future day he
would move to suspend the rules so that his
bill could he taken from the Senate Taxa
ton Committee and advanced and passed
at once out of its order, The Senate re-
fused to let Senator Foley give his notice
to-day.
After a prolonged fight, the Assembly
pasaed Assemblyman Diapers bill moor
porating the Trans-NlagRra Bridge Com
pany Of Niagara Falls. To the company
is given the right to stretch cables for the
transmission of electric power across the
bridge. 1t is asserted that the bill is IN the
interests of a power company.
The Assembly passed Assemblyman
De Groot's bill, which is another raid on the
New York city treasury and may cost the
CITY about 1909 Gl. IL authorizes the
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
to nav the volunteer firenlen Of Queens
and Richmond boroughs for services rem
dered since the consolidation. Inc same
bill was passed two years ago but Mayor
Mcclellan vetoed il. declaring it TO be merely
a raid or the city treasury.
A~ssemblyman A. F.. Smith CTam.). at
tacked the bill and read a letter signed
by the volunteer fremen of Queens county,
in which a protest was made against its
passage. The letter contained the lnforma-
ton tnat n lawyer named John b. Morrill,
had secured the assignment of many claims,
and he was to get 10 per cent. of all moneys
paid to the firemen.
attacks upon Mayor McClellan's admin
i~stration to-day in bills that raised the
Murphy's bill, which takes from the Mayor
the right to designate the Official Iarers
and transfers the power to the borough
presidents, passed the Assembly.
Assemblyman O'Neirs bill: providing for
n separate commissioner Of street clean
ing in Brooklyn, also Passed the Assembly.
1ssemblyman Wade's bill. providing for
the appointment Of a State commission to
inquire into the subject Of taxation and
TO report to the next Legislature. Passed
The Senate. Five Of the commissioner are
10 be appointed by the Governor and five
shall be from the Senate and five from the
Assembly.
Senator Grady in the Senate attacked
Senator Hills bill r~eappropriating S50, 500
for the Mckinley monument in Buffalo,
asserting that the people of Buffalo had not
kept faith with the State in this matter.
However, the bill passed.
The reas son for much OF the criticism
against railroad corporations will be dis
sipated il the Legislature Masses three bills
which we're ordered to a third reading in
the Senate to-day without comment. One
bill. introduced by Senator Coggeshall,
provides for a uniform two cent passenger
fare on all the steam railroads Of the State.
Another bill, introduced by Senator Lewis,
abolishes demurrag e charges. A third
bill, which is fathered by Senator Grady.
aims to prevent discrimination in railroad
rates by prohibiting diterential rates under
which Il is claimed the railroads discrim.