New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-28
State Senators
In Wild Rush Put
Pet Bills Through
Thirty-six Measures Are
Passed at Rate of Less
than a Minute Each

from StaI Correspondent OF The T1bunel
Albany, April 27.-The Senate in
dulged to-day in a scramble toward
final adjournment. Just before ending
the days session Senator Elon R.
Brown, Republican leader, announced
that every Senator would have chance
to call up out OF order one bill on the
third reading calendar. In the general
confusion that followed the Senators
crowded around the desk in wild rush,
and 100000 was appropriated and thir-
ty-six bills passed in an average of less
than a minute each.
SO confused were the proceedings
that Senator Theodore Douglas Robin
sons bill to double the salaries of leg
islators almost slipped by with the
others. Few bills that were called up
were objected to at all, and some OF
the Senators, like Slater, of Westches-
ter, got more than one chance at the
calendar. Garry Farrell, Senator
Browns secretary, was breathless when
the carnival ended from dsshing about
the chamber suppressing incipient OBJ
jectors.
Some of the Bills Passed
The result OF the picnic in bills
passed was as follows:
By Senator Robinson -Supplementing the
military census law by authorizing the Gov
ernor to appoint directors of the census and
providing a penalty for refusal to answer
questions put by the census directors.
By Assemblyman Adler - Appropriating
$50 900 for commission 20 act jointly with
a similar commission from New Jersey and
the Federal government for the Improvement
and protection OF the Port of New York. This
was recommended by the Governor.
BY Senator Ottinger-Empowering the
Board OF Estimate. upon determination by
the Public Service Commission that the oper-
ton of trolley cars on Central Park West Il
a menace TO life, TO order the relocation OF
the tracks, and II deemed necessary to take
fifteen feet OF the sidewalk on the western side
of Central Park to widen Central Park West
By Senator Ottinger EXempting from the
labor law prohibition Of women working be
tween 10 p. m. and a. m, women employed
in the composing rooms of newspaper offices,
printing offices and publishing houses.
By Senator Thompson Appropriating si0.-
600 to pay the unpaid bills of the Thompson
committee that Investigated public service
corporations for two years.
BY Senator Marshall-Appropriatin SiO.-
900 for an addition TO the State Armory az
Malone
Primary Date To Be Changed
By Senator Walters Designating Wednes-
day, September 10. "a the day for the fall
primary this year instead of the seventh
Tuesday before election. as provided in the
election law.
BY Assemblyman Caulfeld- Voiding sigma
lures 70 primary designating petitions that
are secured earlier than eleven weeks before
the official primary day.
By Senator Slater Permitting aldermen
in cities OF 100000 and less TO solemnize
marriages and legalzing such marriages per
formed since May /, 1916.
By Senator Sage Appropriating $4,000
for former Attorney General Egburt 4.
Woodbury. for the salary he would have re-
ceived II he had Allied out his term.
BY Senator Sage-Appropriating $4,000
for the expenses incurred by Judges Hylsr
and Roy in defending their title to office
under appointment by Governor Glynn.
BY Senator Burlingame Appropriating
IS 900 for the widow OF former Supreme
Court Justice Maddox for the salary he would
have received for his full term and author
ling the Board Of Estimate 20 appropriate
Sc 600 more for the same purpose.
BY Senator Whitney Requiring applicants
for marriage licenses TO state whether they
have had certain diseases within five years oil
their contemplated marriage and II they have
been cured.
The balance of the appropriations.
making the days total OF 1857 900, was
made up by $4,000 for the State Con-
troller and $4,000 for the State Tax
Commission TO administer the new
Mills tax on mercantile and manufact-
urinR corporations