New-York tribune., 1908-01-28
WORK OF LEGISLATURE.
Minority Leader Wants Banking
Department Investigated.
IBv telegram 20 The Tribune

Albany Jan. 27.-Resolutons calling for an in
vestigation of the State Banking Department
and the banking laws were introduced tonight
by Assenbyman Palmer, the minority leader.
He declared that they were identical with those
OF Assemblyman Wainwright, adopted unani-
mousIy by the Assembly in 1906, and that the
need for such investigation now as acute as
at that time. Governor Hughes in his campaign,
he said, promised investigation of the de-
partment and its doings, but none was made
and the whole personnel of the department was
the same in 1906 save that it had had three
experimental superintendents by way of top fac
ing or window dressing
We asked TO make revision of the
bank laws" said he, but what is the use of re-
vising that any other code Of laws without
first revising the bureaucrats but for whose in
competency, negligence or lack Of initiative and
force the old code might have worked satisfac-
toriIy?"
AssemblvInan Sheridan, Of New York present
ed resolutions for Legislative investigation of
the water supply situation In New York City
including the necessity for spending 1851 600 0O0
the adequacy of the present supply if waste were
stopped, and the doings of the Board of Water
Supply. His resolution asked for the appoint
ment of a committee of three Senators and five
Assemblymen to report recommendations by
April. 1908
Assemblyman Stern had resolutions asking
the Public Service Commission to inquire into
the validity of franchises held by public service
corporations under its jurisdction-a work
being done by the commission in the metropoI-
itan district.
drastic bill designed to remedy the evils
attendant on East Side dance halls was intro
duced by Assemblyman Graubard, from Christy
Sullivan's district. 1t provides that all dancing
places save those of settlement or other socie-
ties duly incorporated shall be licensed. and that
licenses may be issued only on certificate of two
persons who have known the manager for more
than five years and vouch for his moral char
acter No girl under sixteen years old may be
by parents legal guardian No immoral
dsorderIy persons or drunkards may be ad-
mitted at any time. All dance halls must close
by IL p. M Violations made misdemeanors
punishable by fine or Imprisonment; and the
Mayor may revoke the license of any place
where immoral acts permitted or the Ii
censee is shown to be Of immoral character
Senator McCarren, Democratic leader of
Brooklyn and erstwhile object of charges of all
kinds of political jobbery, came to the relief OF
Oscar Hammerstein. Heinrich Conried. Walter
Damrosch and the other music purveyors who
give Sunday performances by introducing bill
amending the Penal Code by providing that it
shall be lawful to give vocal concerts. instru-
mental concerts and vocal and instrumental
concerts on Sunday between the hours of and
IL $3.50 D. m. The McCarren bill also permits
A few other kinds of entertainments.
He proposes to attach to the Penal Code pro-
visions which now prohibit Sunday perform
ances the following paragraph:
Provided however, that nothing herein shall be
deemed TO prohibit performances for educational or
cha ritabe purposes private club entertainments.
vocal concerts instrumental concerts. vocal and
rnstrlIfnental concerts lectures addresses, be
tween the hours of in the afternoon and midnight
A bill introduced tonight by Senator Mccall
provides that the property located between s0th
and 9Ist streets and First avenue and the East
River. and acquired by the city Of New York IN