New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-11
GOVERNOR CALLS HALT
ON THE LEGISLATURE
In Official Statement Tells 1t 1t
Must Not Pass New York
Charter Yet.
TOO LATE IN THE SESSION
This Step of Dix S Puzzles Albany
Politicians-Some See Inde-
pendence and Others Sub
serviency to Murphy
fRy Telegraph 10 The Tribune

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York City Just yet. The Governor took
the ground that II the Legislature passed
so important a bill before adjournment,
as now planned, II would have acted
! hastily. and he might not be able TO
approve the measure. He said he was
certain the Legislature wouldn't expect
! him 10 act on hasty or i'll considered
measure.
As q result OF this there will be in
! troduced before the Legislature quite q
! draft charter, the product of all the star
chamber proceedings Of the last month.
! Then on July % the Legislature will go
| home. Whether it will be an adjourn
ment or merely a recess hasn't been
! determined vet II the Legislature ad-
! iourns, II will be recalled in extra ses-
sion, perhaps in September, on the char
ter and TO carve out some Democratic
Congress strongholds in this state. II
! Congress meanwhile adopts the bill for
a Congressional eapportionment.
Statement by Governor.
| The Governors statement follows.
a charter for the City Of New York is
| too important o matter to be hurried,
! either in its preparation or in its treat
ment by the Legislature. The people of
| the city can know little Of the changes
! intended ny the charter until the docu-
nent is put before them IN its final form.
After the proposed charter amendments
| have been submitted to the Legislature
/ the citizens and taxpayers Of the municl-
| pality should be given ample time 10
| understand and digest their provisions.
/ Especially is this true when radical
| changes gro contemplated. No city
charter should be acted on in haste by
| the Legislature certainly no charter for
q city which contains one half of the
population Of the state
| After consultation with the legislative
| leaders | do not expect at the very end
| OF the session, when adequate delibera
| ton and discussion is well nigh impos-
! sible. the Legislature will send to me for
my action New York city charter
| shall consider a charter for New York
| with a view to favorable executive ac-
! ton only after the fullest opportunity
| has bee1 afforded 10 the people of the
| city 10 know what it contains.
! Various theories are aHoat among tn
! politicians to account for this step or
tho part of tne Governor. His friends
say 4 showG his complete independence
of "Eoss" Murphy, his answering dovo-
ton 10 the interests Of the public and
| his ready ear TO the complaint Of Citi-
zens &C the metropolis that there was too
much conccalment of the provisions cf
the proposed charter. SkepticaI legis-
lators who have followed the charter st
Iatrn closely guffaw when they hear
this They say fatty that Murphy IS
using Dix to double-cross Mayor Gay
nor They give color to that statement
hv SAYING that John Mason, the Gov
crnors secretary, spent the Weekend
with Murphy. and opine that the score
ta.y then got Murphy's orders for hls
Governor. Murphy and Gaynor, AS
nearly as can be learned. had come to a
deadlock over the educational section of
the charter and/various other very ir'-
portant provisions, including those re-
lating to the power Of the aldermen owe"
franchises and the Mayors board of
control
Gaynor Said To Be Having His Way.
Gavnor, the stories run, had been get
ting his way from the star chamber
charter makers by declaring that unless
his provisions were put into the docu-
ment he'd veto IT when II came to him,
and then Murphy and everybody con-
cerned could go hang Murphy, having
control OF the Legislature and being
able TO obtain about anything he wants
from Governor Dix, is represented IA
putting a spoke into Gaynors wheel in
| this fashion. The supposition is that II
| the draft charter to be introduced before
| the Legislature quits contains so many
radical Gsynor provisions as the Mayor
suggested in his original charter--whose
| parentage nc later denied-the people
| would play Murphy's game for him by
protesting against them and thus save
| him much trouble.
! Another theory is advanced here by
some legislators. That is that certain
changes In the transit situation In New
York have rendered il unnecessary 10
| have a new charter Immediately. They
contend that the fact that the INTERIOR
ough is to have another chance at the
fat subway routes has made unnecessary
the passage Of charter provisions giving
to the Mayor veto power over fran
chises or putting franchise granting
power IN the Board OF Aldermen. of lug
Cling otherwise with the situation. as
powerful financial political interests
might have wanted to do unless the In
terborough grabbed a chunk of the pic.
| Certainly the Governors move has
made mess of things here, Of much
more than the charter It's entirely
likely that when the fight is ended there
may be no new charter for New York
| this year. There's strong possibility,
also, that the Legislature already has
completed all its important work in the
massage Of the Democratic partisan pa
tronage bills. With adjournment or a
recess coming and another session in
prospect it will be extra hard TO hold
tho members In the sitting Capitol
Theoretically the Legislature is bound
| m mass some kind Of a direct nomins-
tions bill and the income tax amend
ment. Actually, the prospect for the
massage of any direct nominations legis-
lat,on is very bad, and that for the
| ad,ntion ~ the income tax resolution
,sn't much better. Murphy isn't great
! Is interested in either.