The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-26
NO PRISON ON LONG ISLAND
SENATOR HURRS mas MER-
RITTS BTLL RECOMMITrEO.
Rni AbsIlshIns the 0ad Aaardsrt Gem
mission Passed m the senate I'm"
psrtAnt Amencment 20 Insurance
IA~ lntrsau~ea ~ SenAssg ssPataaa.

nui AbSlishang the ssed Aqnrdnee Gem
nlssisa Passed m the senate I'm.
psrtant Amendmeat 60 Insurance
Law lntrsaueed ~ SenaeSg RFataaa.
ALnASY April IS senator Orlando
Hubt~ % Long Island cast the decidinG
vot. IN the Republican canc,is which
named senator Cobb - majority leader.
since then Long Island has bsen able
Ia get anything It wanted in the line ~
legislation
First senator Hubs got through IN"
Legislature a till granting a genero.S
appropriation for a state agricultural
onIlege on Long Island. Tonight he had
recommi'ted Majority I."asler MerTitt's
Assembly It'll permitting a new Sing Sing
PRISON. a. be established On Long Island.
! Despite the fact that Leader Merritt
- very influential in the State senate
senator Hubt@. when the Merritt bill
Cs.me up FOR final passage tonight. threw
the ball back into the Committee on Penal
Institutions Tor further consideration
and Majority I.sadsr Cobb helped him
do q
/ The commission which selected a pris.n
site az BsAr Mountain - trying TAI get pef-
mission Ia select another site either ga
the hudson River ar GA Long Island.
should stay on the Hudson River senator
Travis q Rrooklyn objects 10 its going
On Long Island. After heated discus-
SION VA the senate tonight senator
Hubt- -,Icces-is't in having the hall re-
committed.
The Senate passed AssemblymAn
Gr,>en'z ball abolishing the New York
Beard Of Aqueduct Commissioners.
senator Harte introduced the hall which
Chairman Parker of the Assembly Rail
I road fnfn Fnts "a rfufaICSsd laGe SrrRE
permitting a new corporation TO take over
the Belmont Manhattan-I> Long island City
tunnel property and operate u.
senator Harts called attention to the
fact that for some reason not known the
It'll had hs-cn handed to Chairman Parker
and that none of the Qlleens representa-
tlvez had tIsen consulted. He EAid he was
going "a Introduce ~ IN the senate and
that u he found out later that n was not
IN the interest of the psopte Of QSsens
he would abandon ths b,ll.
senator 0rattan introduced a hall
amending the Insurance law by making
more stringent the provisions IN relation
to reinsurance IN companies not au-
thori1@d 20 do business IA this State
| Among other things such reinsurance ~
1 prohibited on the ground that a lower
rate can 10 oltain~,t than from domestic
cJmponis.s Reinsurance fok this reason
- permitted under tn. present law. The
I hill prohibits agents " Insurance. brokers
\ To make contracts 81 insurance wherein
| they tare insurers The hill inserts a
| definition 81 broker AZ one who acts for
! the insured The ball al-o provides for
the licensing VI brokers 10 procure ma
/ rine insurance frUsa nou-authorlned cons-
| panIe-.
A---mbIymAn Andrew y Murray of
1 New York Will make another effort Ia
Pavs the Assembly pAss hts Concurr-nt
I revolution to commit the Legislature 20
I the Taft Federal income tax proposition
an the Assembly On "Wednesday Mr.
Murray -aid ts-night that he wO'1ld make
I a re,JlIest to-mOrrOW 70 have the --rgeant
at arms - the Assembly directed a. have
. a full hou-s pr~~ent on "Wednesday when
he would call zap he concurrent resolution
I from the t3ble
As--tnblyman Toomh- q New York
lacked seven 10 the necessary - votes
a. PASS another II HerbeTt Parsons cleo
tion reform bills. which -trayed away
from Arisma- Wari " IN the Assembly
tonight There were 20 votes Tor the bill
and - against 70 Mr. IOombs got the
usual motion adopted which will p..rmit
him t. call up the hall again
The STATE Civil Service Commission .
Wa CRITICISED 10y A-.-mblyman Bate~ of .
New York. who suffered . di~Appoint- I
ment over tall "a tnrrea-e the salary - /
the president ~ the commission from
o. GsO 10 s. tss, and cut down the salaries ,
u the two other Commissioners from /
81 O8 Ia s. SD. The Till mAke- the pre-l- 4
dent of the commission remain IN Albany .
and attend To the executive duties Of the
,i-t,artrn~nt Mr. BATE made an argu-
msnt IA favor ~ the hill and sn-l-te ~ that
the president of IN. commission ought -
-tay IN Albany And 10 properly com
p..n-at-d for lookIng after the affair 10 .
the department. A. they ought "a 10 4
handled
~. said th. other t~o Commissioners /
merely came up TO Albany once or twIc.. I
a month Ia attend mssetIngr Of the State /
Board and that they could have no fair !
protest against having their salaries /
cut 20 tus--t the increase given the Prest- !
dent who would have To do all the work /
A--emL lyman Al smith had an agree
m.-nt Nth Majority Leader Merritt 10 \
give the. MEASURE another hearing and \
for thiz TeasOn Mr. smiths motion 10 .
r.commit the tall 20 the Ways and Means
COMMITTEE prevailsi bv a vote Of u To ~
Assemblymau Csarf-in- It'll e. create a
commission - consist of hive Assembly
men thr,-- SENATORS and two citizens Ia
to named by the GOv~rnoT to investigate
the cost ~ living va thus state, was ad
vsncs-d ." a third reading without com
m-nt 10y the Assembly. The bill carries
with " an appropriation % siO.GD. The
Assembly Also advanced Ma JorIty leader
Merritt It'll 20 give th. examiners 81
MUNICIPAL accounts IN th~ ONCE 81 state
Comptroll-r Clark " tlliaIns from % Ia
SIS "A dav- instead 81 = fat rate 81 o.
day a. u was under Iomptrollers Blynn
and Ga'IS. 4
Tn. Assembly also advance! To third
reading Assembly man Noine ptu Great
ing a commission % one Senator. two
A-sembIymen and not mHr~ than TIVE lVS
other citizens OF the state. 10 meet within
a -ear a. ~ " alter cong ress- m New FORK
city 80 discsi-s the ~ alter question. with
I,artlc.IIar reference 10 the pollution %
streams The nal, carries With II an Appro-
priation Of SO 90
The Assembly passed senator Hill's
hill approaching moneys for the cOnstruc-
ton .! buildings for the New York state
Training school for Boys