New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-20
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End; Welfare
Bills Are Dead
Session Which Cost the State
S1,O65,OOO Adjourns;
Little Important Legis-
lation to Its Credit

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ALBANY, April 19.-With but little
important legislation to its credit, the
142d session of the Legislature ad
journed sine die at 9:14 tonight.
The session, which cost the taxpayers
Of the state s1,065,000, passed 588 OF
the 3,019 measures introduced. The
Governor to date has signed 258 bills
and vetoed 13. Among the bills that
failed to pass were the group of so.
called welfare measures, with the cx.
cepton of the Sammis elevator bill
which in the amended state ir
which it reached the Governor affects
little more than one hundred women.
Also thrown into the discard with.
out any vigorous protest by Governor
Smith were most of the measures he
recommended III his annual message
The welfare bills, such as health in.
surance, minimum wage and eight-houl
day for women, included in his nro.
G.amme, were passed by the Senate
through the aid of the insurgent Re.
publlcans, but were smothered in the
Assembly by Speaker Thaddeus C.
Sweet.
Single Commission Dropped
The Governors bills providing for the
reorganization Of the Public Service
Commission of the First District and
separating the regulatory and construc.
ton functions with a single commits
sioner plus deputies for each have
passed both houses. The Governors
similar proposal for single commits
sioncr for the Second or upstate dis
trlct was dropped
The Legislature passed part Of the
Governors programme which had bcen
also the Republican party's pro-
gramme, such as amending the work
mems compensation act so as to in
clude occupatonal diseases within the
beneficial provisions of the law, and
making appropriations for improve
ments on the Barge Canal.
The Legislature refused to give the
Governor 100000 for his reconstruc.
ton commission, holding that it was
organized chiefly to advance the Gov.
ernor's political ambitions, which arc
centred on the White House.
Appropriation bills agrregatino
more than 500, 100000 were sent to the
Governor. This is the high record
exceeding that of 1918 by $4,000 900
Most of the increase is attributed tc
construction work and the teachers
salary increase bill, which had beer
deferred the last two yeass because OF
the war.
One Per Cent Up to $4,000
/. The state personal income tax
levying | per cent on all incomes be.
tween 81, 900 and $4,000; per cent
on incomes above $4,000 and under
$4,000, and 3 per cent on all incomes
above $4,000.
2. The new business tax, making al
business corporations subject to its
provisions and increasing the impost
on net incomes of these organization
from 3 to az per cent
Real Estate Tax Limited
complementary measure introduced
at the request of New York City rea
estate men was passed in the Lcgsla
utres last hour. This bill, an amend
ment to the city's charter, limits the
tax on realty in New York City to S2.2E
per hundred dollars of assessed valu.
alton. The law will become effective
January I. 1922
All these bills will become law, a:
will the measure increasing the sal
aries of public school teachers through
out the state For this purpose the
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