New-York tribune., 1918-01-22
Legislature Gets
Bill to Pension All
Soldiers Families
Wife or Parents Would Re-
ceive $40 Monthly, Other
Dependents IS
Staff CorresDondencc1

ALBANY, Jan. 21.-Woman srffrapo
prohibition and the welfare of men in
the service and their dependents were
the subjects of the principal measures
introduced in the Legislature tonight
senator George A. Slater, of West
chester fathered a bill providing that
the state shall pay to the wife, father
or mother of each New Yorker in +ho
service $40 monthly, and S5 additional
Tor each child, grandchld or dependent
brother or sister whom the soldier or
sailor may leave behind.
In the Assembly Frederick s Rnrr
OF Brooklyn, started a movement to
give enlisted men free Transportation
from their camps to their homes when
on furlough.
Senator Slater also introduced VOC
olutlon to amend the state constitu-
t'on SO thnt no constitutional convcn-
tlon or Legislature Shall act upon anv
amendment to the Federal Constitu-
ton proposed by Congress unless the
convention or Legislature shall have
been elected after the proposed amend
ment is submitted.
Ihe constitutions Of Florida and
tennessee contain such a provision rf
1t were IN the constitution of this state
'he present Legislature would be prohib.
TIED from acting on the proposed bone-
dry amendment to the Federal Const;-
tuition.
= IL was this situation which promnted
senator Slater to introduce the reso-
lution. He said that it was not fa;r
either to the Legislature or the neonle
OF state for Congress to pass a nro-
posed amendment to the Fedora Const,-
tution and ask a state Legislature which
mad been elected before the proposed
amendment had been discussed to no.,
upon it. '''
Suffrage Resolutions
lhree resolutions were introduced
urging the Senate to pass the women
suffrage amendment to the Federal
constitution. This makes five now hn.
Tore the Legislature, all with the same
purpose in view.
=, One introduced tonight came from
rankin Lord, legal adviser to Gov
ernor Whitman. In the Assembly Il
was introduced by Schuyler A. Never
3nd in the Senate by Courtlandt Nicoll
Doth Republicans from Manhattan.
y" hen 1T was offered in the Senate
Mr. Nlcoll asked that it be referred to
AN appropriate committee" Senator
Sage suggested his committee ri
nance.
'1t ought to be sent to the vast.
paper basket shouted Senator Bernard
no"nng, Democrat. of Manhattan
"Thats where it bclongs.'
Mr. Nicoll, not expecting any trouble,
then proposed that the resolution J.,
sent to the War Committee, saying il
was a war measure"
1T should 90 to the Judiciary Com
mlttce,' said Senator Robert + Wac
ner, "wherc all suffrage measures right.
fully go. This sort of measure should
be tratcd with respect"
Mr.. Downing would no, be sup
pressed. however. and said the Legis-
lature had no right to suggest to rep
rescntatlVcs of other states how to
vote.
On motion of tlon r. Brown. ma
lority leader Of the Senate. tho rosolu-
tlon was referred to the Judiciary Com
mittcc.
Sufragists See Governor
Mrs. Blauvelt and Miss Hill con
terred with Governor Whitman this
morning. Miss Hill is national Or
@anissr Of the party. now assigned to
work in this state She said. after the
conference, that they had urged the
Governor to bac'; the resolution. a has
been done in other suffrage states.
AIRS Blauyclt. The upstate leris-
lntive representative Of the New YORK
branch Of tho National Woman's part
said that it was asking but little of thc
Legislature to memorialize the United
states Senators to work for tho woman
suffrage amendment and the Senate to
pass II.
Assemblyran William Belknap
Democrat ef Wsstahester, also irtra.
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