The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-13
NEW HOUR BILL REPORTED.
TT AFFECTS MEN EMPLOYED ON
PTBLIC WORKS ONLY.
Senate Passes Bill Permitting h City to
Purchase and Operate Ferries Not
Owned by the R~ailroads-The Trust
Company Reserve Bill Also Passed.

Company Reserve Bill Also Passed.
L,s.Ny. April 12.-The Assembly Labor
o,1 Industries Committee to-day reported
In an amended form the bill providing for
a ~nracrlcal reenactment Of the eight hour
labor law which was declared unconsti-
,r,i,r,, by the Court Of Appeals, and which
decision made it necessary for the adop-
rim If a constitutional amendment author
iziDE the Legislature to enact such a law.
The amended bill is regarded as certain
IN pass this session and is in much different
form than the one introduced. 1t provides
tba, no State, municipal, county, town
~ villa ge employee can be compelled to
work more than eight hours in one day.
Tba nenaItv provision is also changed.
Under the original bill a violation Of the
eirbt hour law provided for the annulment
n a contract. Under the amended bill &
violation Is to be punished By q penalty Of
mt more than $3.50. Policemen and fire.
men are exempted from the provisions Of
the proposed law.
The Senate passed Senator Cooper's
bill oermltting New York city TO purchase
and operate ferry lines not owned or con-
troled by railroad corporations, Sen
ator Keenan, pointed out this left out the
1kTtY-IClTI0 slTttJ lSIIy, OuG Vi JIG llOot
nr,ftab.e In New York, while it enabled
the city to purchase improbable lines OF
the Brooklyn City Ferry Company. He
offered an amendment permitting the pur-
ch.se Of he Thirty-fourth street ferry.
Senator Grady advocated the bill, urging
IA, II was to be utilized in the city's opera
ton Of certain ferry lines to relieve the
crush At The Brooklyn Bridge erminal in
New York
The Senate bv a vote Of 80 to IL passed
Senator LEommedieu's bill taxing automo-
n!es annually at the rate OF 81 for each 500
ROUNDS over the first 800. Senator Arm
strong opposed the imposition Of any tax
a. al. declaring that the bill was class legis;
lat.an, and that automobiles were road
makers and not road breakers.
Without opposition the Senate passed As
senb.grnan Wainwright's trust company
reserve bill. The bill will have to 60 back
70 the Assembly for concurrence IN the SEN
may be invested in the bonds Of first and
ss,onl class cities. 1t is said that a lot Of
New York civ bonds purchased at 30 are
held hv spectators behind the amendment,
and that if the amendment goes on the
statute books it will send the price OF the
By a yote Of 80 to 10 the Senate passed
Senator Humans bill recognizing the prac-
tcs q! OSte0rathv as a pro. eSSlOn.
The Assembly Codes Committee reported
favorahly to-day Assemblyman Wades two
bills. which are believed to be in the interest
o. Albert T Patrick. They provide means
q going TO the Court Of Appeals on the
ground o! new evidence.
A step toward removing Chinese laun-
dries rom competition with native labor
was taken in the Assembly to-day when the
Assembly discharged the Labor and Indus
tres Committee from further consideration
" ----Ll.-... Da;n,,'- l;ll ,rh;oh oApnral
Cinnamon TO write their laundry checks in
plan English, and not in the Chinese Ian
gIage. The bill provides that no one can
engage N the laundry business who issues
a laundry check written in a foreign Ian
guage.
The advocates Of Senator Carpenters
bill making two districts of the present
second judicial district succeeded in getting
il reported favorahly in the Assembly to-
day without an amendment.
In the Senate there were reported favor
ably To-day and ordered to a third reading
the Senate bills increasing the number
OF Supreme Court Justices in the third,
fourth and sixth judicial districts by one,
and in the eighth district by three. The
bill increasing the number of Justices in
the first and second districts is awaiting
the passage of the bill dividing the second
district
Assemblyman Foelker's bill limiting the
diversion of the waters flowing over Nj
agara Falls by the Electric Light and Power
Company was reported favorablv in the
Senate to-day. Nr. Foelker has another
bill! which aims to restrict ind reetly the
diversion Of the waters of the Niagara
River on the Canadian side The Canadian
companies plan TO sell much of their power
On the American side. And the Niagara,
IHckNort and Ontario Company Is 70 be
one Of its distributing agents. The new
Fce.ker bill prohibits the sending OF electric
power into this country from Canada.
The Assembly to-day passed a bill which
PROVIDES for the continuance Of the appro-
pria,lon for the department presided over
by JastTow Alexander. In the appr2pria-
Committee struck out the appropriation for
the State Inspector Of Gas Meters and left
the office without any funds TO conduct 1t.
As Mr.. Alexander managed to elect an
Assemblyman last fall, it was thought he
should be permitted TO continue TO enjoy
his sInecure.
Other bills passed by the Assembly were
hssembly7nan Stanley's authorizing the
New York city Commissions Of Water
supply. Gas and Electricity TO place meters
IN buildings free for the purpose OF ascer-
talIlng Il water is being wasted, and Assem-
b;yTnan Agnewjs making an appropriation
81 $4,000 for the Metropolitan Museum OF
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
controls the charter for the New York
Connecting Railroad Company, which has
me night to build a single span bridge over
NE Last RIVER at He'll Gate. Senator Haw-
k!as to-day introduced a bill which pro-
vqes hat the bridge need not be of a single
span, that It may be used for other than
railroad purposes and that the bridge may
also spln he Bronx Kills as we'll as the
East River
Owing 70 the fact that the proprietors OF
employment bureaus must secure their
licenses by May !, Gov, Higgins to-day sent
an emergency message to the Assembly
calling for the immediate passage Of AS
sandman Prentice bill amending the
employment bureau act of last year. This
OIL peEiccts the law in many particulars
and permits OF a closer surveillance Of the
employment agencies to protect the Gus
tomeTs n the agencies from imposition and
ron the nsa # such agencies Tor immoral
purposes
'"uh'' ludg" JaycoX Goes 10 the Supreme
Court.
ALBANY April 70 Gov. Higgins to-day