New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-09
SIGNS OF ADJOURNMENT
Legislature Nay Close on May So
H Busy Day.

Albany, May S-Probabnity of adjournment of
| the Legislature about May % is of the most
comforting results from the average legislators
point of view. of the substantial agreement of the
Republican leaders the public utilities bill
From now on work will be pushed with vigor. One
of the signs Of approaching adjournment broke out
in the Senate to-day in wrangle the time of
taking up the heavily overcrowded general orders"
calendar
Senator Hits bill, which would exempt savings
banks, insurance companies and trust companies
from the state franchise tax of per cent in pro-
portion to their holdings of per cent canal i'm
provement bonds, reported in the Senate by
the Finance Committee. on the objection of Sen
Cassidy it forced to the general orders
calendar at the tail end of a list of one hundred
and fifty bills third reading and longer list
in general orders" This means that, in ordinary
course, more than three hundred bills must be dis
posed of before this one can be reached Senator
Hill asked that his bill be advanced TO third read
ing. but Senator Cassidy. who is an avowed dis
believer in the barge canal proposition and has
himself introduced a bill to stop the work atto-
gether, objected, thus preventing the unanimous
consent without which the bill must go to general
orders"s
Minority Leader Grady asked unanimous consent
that the general orders calendar he made special
order tomorrow ahead of the regular third
reading calendar, and again Senator Cassidy OBJ
jected. Senator Armstrong chairman OF the FINANCE
Committee stated that there was no desire to XIII
the bill by indrection
Senator Ackroyd CDemocraO and Minority Leader
Grady began every bin reported by any
committee and objected to every request for ad-
vancement final passage. Senator Grady de-
clared he would send all bills to general orders
until the calendar was reached and the mn PHI
thereafter reported went. temporarily at ieast. 70
the graveyard" general orders is called at this
Later in the day Senator Hill gave notice that
at some future time he would move TO suspend the
rules take his canal bond bill up out or
its order and press it to passage
The Senate Committee Public Education re-
of local school commissioner and substitute tnat OF
district superintendent of schools and generally re-
organize the rural school system; WI,
Governor Hughes conferred with senators FtalneS,
Grady Fuller, Armstrong and Hin. Speaker Wads-
worth and Assemblymen Rogers and Apgar on GER
which the two houses 10 differ 1t was stated
that an amicable agreement was reached, but no
Among the bills to be reported In the Senate TO-
morrow is the Boshart bill appropriatng $4S 4SS ~
I%T tne 5f1Se ara al The salaries OF prison en-
pIoyes
After IA long debate the Senate to-day passed by
a Vote Of 81 to the bin OF Senator Hnl. limiting
the charter of the Economic Power and COnstruc-
ton Company. which was Incorporated In 1898 by
without local authority and by condemnation pro
ceedings acquire property and string wires. me
Hlll bill makes the operations of the company SUD
servient to local authorities -,
The Assembly to-day passed MT fhlIllps pm
which would prohibit corporation IN oper orIena
special franchise taxes that II has no franchise
This pin is favored by the state boa pds OF bi TAX
seeks to prohibit n person not entitled to vote TOT
a candidate at election from signing petition for
his nomination was passed in the Assembly To-Day
1t goes 10 the Governor
On motion of Mr.. Schulz, of New York. the AS
sembly to-day adopted resolutions of coincidence
on the death of Dean Ernest W Huffcut, late legal
adviser TO Governor Hughes and adjourned out OF
respect for his memory.