The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-28
SENATORS VOTE FOR PASSES.
23 OF THEN JOLT BRACKETS
RESTRICTION MEASURE.
Grady and Raines to the Rescue After a
Temporary V~ictory-Bil Providing
Additional Jurors Killed Measure
Aimed at Tax Dodgers Is Advanced.

Aimed at Tax Dodgers Is Advanced.
ALBANY, March 27.-Twenty-three of the
forty-two Senators in the Senate chamber
when the Bracket anti-pass bill was con-
| sidered to-day expressed a desire to be able
to ride on passes. None admitted ever
| having ridden on such things before, but all
| Of them went on record as being in favor
| Of such a principle, despite the fact that
the State Constitution prohibits such a
thing.
This has been a hard winter on the menu
bers OF the Legislature, and they are sur
prised to find that the railroad companies
really meant it when they said they would
not issue p asses this winter. To date none
has been in evidence and the members still
pay their fares. This year to date there
hasn't been much of a chance for any re-
ciprocal relations between the members OF
the Legislature and the railroad corpora
tons.
Senator Bracket, however, is n who
believes that passes should not be issued
to any save members of the State Railroad
Commission, their employees, employees
Of railroads and to shippers in charge Of
live stock in transit. The Senate Railroad
COHIIllUp6, WIltu ~ ICPOllSA hS JIM
amended it to include the issuing Of passes
by the Secretary of State to elective State
officers, members of the Legislature, and
also permitted railroads to interchange
pas ses for employees.
When the bill was reported in that form
Senator Bracket was disgusted and said
he hated to nave his name connected with
such a brat Of bill" He insisted that the
provision permitting railroad companies
to interchange employees passes opened
the door for wholesale evasions of his pro-
posed law.
To-day in the committee Of the whole OF
the Senate Senator Bracket gained a
temporary victory. He had the COM
mittee amendments stricken from the bill
and the bill advanced to a third reading
in the form he wanted it by a vote of IS
to Is. But his JOY was short lived. Those
sterling servants of the people, Senators
Grady and Raines, didn't propose to let
things 20 that way. Senator Grady, when
the bill was reported to the Senate, at once
took steps to have the action of the commit
tee of the whole set aside: He asked that
the amendments be Incorporated in
the bill. ,
Senator Bracket vigorously opposed
such action and said it was an insult to
him. But Senator Grady said the bill
was the property Of the Senate and it could
do as it saw fit with the bill,
Then Senator Raines implored the Sena-
tors to think OF how nice it would be to
ride on passes. He pointedly said that
he didn't think the people would object
to the members of the Legislature riding
on passes on railroads which receive their
on the part of Senator Raines had the de-
sired effect and the Grady motion was passed
as follows:
Ayes-Senators Aids, Brown, Burr, Cobb,
Cordts, Fechter. Gardner, Goodsell, Page,
and Cullen, Fitzgerald, Frawley, Grady,
Hasenfug. keenan,, Kehoe, Martin, McCar-
rem and Riordan (Dems0-2S.
Noes-Senators Bracket, Barnes, Car
penter, Cassidy, Coggeshall, Cooper. Davis,
L'Hommesdieu, Malby, MoEwan,, Prime,
Warwick and White (Reps). and Marks
Deml-l9.
Senator Raines's speech is taken to in
dictate the bill is to pass.
The Senate is opposed to Senator Marks's
proposed amendment to the Constitution
permitting additional jurors TO sit and
listen to the evidence. especially in i'm
portant criminal cases, and to take the
place Of any of the regular twelve jurors
for voting purposes in case one OF the jurors
may become i'll during the trial, so as to
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but eleven Senators voted for the bill, while
twenty-one voted against it, thus killing it..
Senator Saxe's bill taxing the personal
property of non-residents located in this
State has been reported favorably in the
Senate. The bill was amended so as to
overcome the objections cited by Gov.
Higgins in his veto message on the original
bill.
The Senate has advanced to q third read
ing Senator L'Hommedieu's bill imposing
a tax of 81 on every 100 pounds of an auto
mobile in excess Of 500 pounds. The money
is to be devoted to repairing roads. This
is about the only form Of automobile
legislation that will be passed this year.
~Assemblyman Foelker's bill limiting the
amount Of water that power companies
can divert from Niagara River for power
purposes TO the quantity they are using
now was advanced to a third reading in the
Assembly.
The Assembly advanced to a third reading
Assemblyman Charles F. Murphy's bill
which makes it a misdemeanor for any
theatre to exclude from admission any one
without lust cause or excuse. The bill is in
the interests of James S. Metcalfc, the critic
Of Life.