New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-12
LIABILITY BILL PASSED
Compulsory Rates for Dangerous
Occupations.
fBy Telegraph to The Tribune.

Albany May 1.-THE Senate to-day
passed the Wainwright Phillips workmeh
compulsory compensation bill, drafted by
the legislative Employers Liability COM
nfttee. II provides the same rates OF com
pe1sation to be paid to an employe IN case
Of accident as the permisSive bill, passed.
yesterday. but it only applies to certa"
dangerous enployments. These include the
operation of elevators and hosting ap-
paratus, work on scaffods, work about eiec-
trio currents or gunpowder, the operation
of steam and electric railroads, the con-
struction OF tunnels and subways and WORN
under compressed air.
The Senate also passed the Foley Dill
providing for the licensing Of foreign
steamship ticket agents other than the
representa- tives OF transatlantic lines.
The Senate Public Health Committee has
amended the Wilkie measure, regulating
the practice Of medicine, which was OBJ
jected to by the Christian Scientists and
spiritdalists, SO that It will only affect mai
practitioners. The amendment provides
that the requirements shall not Interfere
with the practice of any church, provided
that in SO practising the religious tenets
of his or her church no person shall make
diagnosis or administer drugs or perform
any surgical opera tons"
Chairman Wftter said that the Legisiat-
ure desired to suppress those takers who
prescribe medicine and do surgical opera
tions. BY this amendment il would not
affect the Christian Scientists, but would
prevent certain practices now carried on
by spiritualistie mediums.
After striking out its principal provision
the Senate COMMITTEES on Taxation and Re
trencbment reported the Broush commit
tee of fourteen bill, aimed al Raines law
hotels in New York City The provision
cut out of the bill would make IL neces-
sary for hotel to have twenty-five rooms
instead of ten before il can get a hotel
license. Another amendment would permit
q saloon in every 80 of population instead
of every 1000. The committee left In the
provision increasing the number OF special
agents under the Excise Department from
SO to 150.
The Senate Internal Affairs Committee
has reported the Callan automobile bill
with several amendments of minor i'm
portance which were approved by Gov
ernor Hughes. The Codes Committee re-
ported the McGrath bill permitting anna
teUr baseball on Sunday where no fees
are charged. The Cities Committee report
ed the Hoey bill regulating the New York
Transportation Company owning the Fifth
avenue and other stage lines and provid-
Ing that it must apply to the Board of EST
mate foE franchise. At present the com
pany is protected by the provision that
competing lines must secure q certificate
of convenience and necessity from the Pub
lie Service Commission. 1t also reported
the Brennan school teachers pension fund
bill, but killed the Hoey bill licensing the
atre spectators III New York City.
When the Senate Finance Committee re-
ported the resolution providing for gen
eral inyestiga ton of legislative corrupt
practices Senator Cobb explained that it
had been amended so as to include indus
trial life insurance and fire insurance ex-
changes within the field OF the inquiry
and that the committee would report on
or before January 10, instead of March ],
as originally provided. Senator Human
said he would like an opportunity of eX-
aiming the measure before its adoption.
and action accordingly was deferred until
tomorrow
The Finance Committee reported favor
ably the measure of Senator Platt empow-
ering the State Commissioner of Agricult-
ure from time to time to Investigate the
methods of production, keeping, trans
portation and sale of milk and other farm
products anu the relation which these
methods have to the quality and cost of
production. The bill carries an appropria-
ton of $4,000 =.
The Finance Committee also reported the
series of bills introduced by AsseInb1yman
Odell providing for the enlargement Of the
Interstate Park along the Palisades of the
Hudson River from New York to New
burg. Among other things the bills au-
thorize the abandonment of the new Bear
Mountain state prison site. accepting the
Hartman gift of land in Orange and
Rockland counties for the proposed park
and providing for the issuance Of s., 500 coo
bonds by the state for the new park. An
other measure reported was that of Sen
ator HID appropriating & 100000 to be used
in eXpeditng the building of stone
road from New York to Buffalo. E.