New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Governor Vetoes
ToWner's German
Insurance Bill
Included in Omnibus Meas
ure Rejection; Wagner
Act Is Indorsed

ALBANY, May 13-At the Executive
Chamber tonight it was announced
that the Towner German insurance
bill would be included in the omnibus
veto, and that the Governor had signed
the Wagner bill permitting New York
City to issue $15,0OO,00O in corporate
stock or serial bonds each year dur
ing the war ane one year after.
New York City salary and pension
bills were conspicuous among the
measures signed by Governor Whit
man to-day, the last of the thirty day
period following ending of the Legis-
lature of 1918. Other city bills ap-
proved include Senator Downing's, per-
mitting regular clerks designated by
the City Clerk to solemnize marriages;
Senator Dunnigan's, providing that
civil service employees of the building
bureaus cannot be removed without op-
portunitv of explanation; Senator
Cromwell's. transferring the jurisdic-
tion over ferries from the Department
of Docks and Ferries to that of Plants
and Structures, and Senator Sage's.
providing that the money from the sale
of the state arsenal at Seventh Avenue
and Thirty-ffth Street, New York City,
be used in constructing an arsenal in
Albany.
Among the salary and pension bills
signed are the following:
Senator Bowling, providing salary
of $4,000 for one Assistant District
Attorney of New York County and
$500 for each of thirteen others.
Senator Lawson, providing that the
Kings County Court judges may retire
on pensions employees after twenty-five
years service, and after twenty years
in case of mental or physical inca
pacity.
Senator Nicoll, providing a deputy
transfer tax assistant in New York
County at $3,50O year.
Senator Nicoll, providing for 10
per cent increase in the salaries of the
employees Of the administrative force of
the District Attorneys Office of New
York County.
Senator Walker, providing for the re-
tirement on pension after twenty-five
years service of officers and employees
OF the Court of General Sessions, and
that the judges may retire them after
twenty years for mental OF physical
incapacity.
Assemblyman Farrel, increasing
from $1,000 to $500 the salary Of
=. .As?smblyman H;s1r1 Farrell, increasing
salaries of the attendants of the Court
County from $500 to s2,1oo year.
Assemblyman Mclaughlin, making
the appointment of assistants and
other employees of the Bronx District
Attorneys Office optional instead of
mandatory and authorizing the Dis
trict Attorney to fix the compensation
within certain limitations.
Senator Murphy, providing that the
New York City Aldermen, on the rec
ommendation Of the Board of Esti-
mate, may increase the salaries or the
number of employees of the Kings
County Registers Office and making
the city instead of the Register lia-
Bile for damages resulting. from er;
searches made by his office.
Another bill signed by the Governor
is that of Assemblyman Donohue, pro-
viding that unlicensed physicians may
be paid for work in hospitals.
The Governor vetoed the bill of SEN
ator knight to include in taxable prop
erty stock Of domestic corporations in
New York State held by nonresident
decedent. The Governor said that he
felt the bill would be unconstitutional
and discriminatory.
The Governor also vetoed the bill of
Senator Murphy, which would have per-
misted the head of any department in
Nav York City to cancel or modify
contracts with the unanimous approval
Of the Board Of Estimate.
The Governor signed the bill which
would prevent burials near reservoirs
and ponds used for Brooslyn's water
He also signed the bill which will
give George B. Hawthorne, former
bookkeeper in the New York City Po-
lice Department, an opportunity to
have the charges upon. which he was
dismissed rcheard by the Police Com