The sun., 1907-03-14
POLICE BILL HEARING TUESDAY
LIVINGSTON STREET BILL PASSED
OVER MAYORS VETO.

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u Places the Cost OF widening on the City
Bills ApprOpriatins $50. .OOO. 600 10
Improve the ChenangO and Black River
Canals amendments To Tenement Law
ALBANY. March I9-No hearing has been
requested so far on the Bingham police bill
in the Senate. Horace White. the chair
man of the Senate Cities Committee, is not
| in Albany this week, and Senator Alfred r.
Page has been working to bring the aues-
ton to a head. AS a result Senator White
to-day wired the acting chairman of the
| committee, Senator George w Davis. that
! IL a hearing was desired it could be had next
| Tuesday afternoon
Senator Page said after the announce
mont:
This is the last opportunity the people Of
New York city viii have to impress upon the
Senate the necessity for the passage of this
| bill. 1t is now or never with them"
Senator Ackroyd introduced a bill 20
increase the prosperity of the State of
New York" 1t seeks to appropriate SIS
100000 with which TO put the abandoned
Chenango Canal in navigable shape and
extend it from Utica to the New York State
line near Binghamton, where it will follow
| cite coal fields.
Senator Ackroyd also introduced another
bill appropriating SIS 900 900 to make repairs
and improvements TO the Black River Canal.
The Assembly. by vote OF % to Al. passed
over Mayor McClellan's veto this afternoon
Assemblyman Charles r. Murphys bill
placing the cost OF the improvement Of
Livingston street. Brooklyn, upon New
y
many branded the measure as a steal.
Assemblyman Welles rep, n. " said
| that New York city would never have a
Republican Mayor until the Republican
Legislature placed the full responsibility
for the administration of affairs in New
York city upon Democratic Mayor. He
voted to sustain the Mayors position.
The Assembly advanced to a third read
ing to-day Assemblyman Wainwright's bill
providing for an investigation Of the Ma
tional Guard by three Senators, three
Assemblymen and three civilians 10 he
appointed by the Governor. The bill
was made a special order on third reading
tomorrow.
BY vote Of II to 43 the Assembly recon-
mitted Assemblyman MerTitt's bill licensing
hunters.
Senator Page intI 1duced bill amend
ing the tenement house law a. TO bakeries
and fat boiling by providing that in bakeries
in which no fat is boiled and in which no
articles for fat boiling is present. a dumb
waiter Communicating between the place
where the baking is done and the store
may be maintained If entirely enclosed
in a brick shaft, with walls not less than
eight inches thick, without any opening
whatever, except one door opening into
the bake shop and the other opening into
the bakery store, but such openings shall
be provided with a fireproof door so ar
ranged that only one door is opened or
partly opened at a time.
The Assembly advanced third reading
of Assemblyman Prentices bill providing
for a fourth deputy police commissioner
for New York city. The bill also authorizes
the Board Of Estimate and Apportionment
TO increase the salaries OF the Police Com
missioner and his deputies.
Assemblyman Cuvillier introduced bills
to-day making it n felony 10 issue false
prospectuses of stock corporations, and
making telephone and telegraph COM
panies common carriers and placing them
under the jurisdiction Of the State Railroad
Commission.
Senator Davis intro duced to-day series
OF bills carrying into effeut certain Of the
recommendations Of the commission ap-
pointed by the late Gov. Higgins to inves-
tigate the operation OF the probation system.
The bills were introduced last year and
passed the Assembly, but did not reach a
vote in the Senate.
The bills provide that probation officers for
adults are TO beappointed by county judges,
except in the city Of New York, where
future appointments are to be made by an
unpaid commission appointed by the Mayor.
lists being submitted by various charitable
organizations.
For the general supervision Of the opera
tions OF the probation law an unpaid State
commission is proposed, TO consist OF four
persons appointed by the Governor, a
member OF the State Board Of Charities.
a member OF the Prison Commission and
the State Commissioner Of Education.
companion bill authorizes the Board
OF Estimate OF New York city to paw the
salaries Of persons who have been actually
serving as probation officers in Magistrates
courts but owing 10 a civil service com
plication were unable to receive salaries
although provision has been made for
their payment by the city authorities.