The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-17
NEW YORK RATIFIES
WOMAN SUFFRAGE


had and all that they we're in order that
the thing which We are about to do
might come to pasa Nothing can stop
ratification Of the Federal suffrage
amendment"
The measures designed TO remedy the
housing situation included an amend
ment to the tenement house law per-
hitting alteration OF four story and
basement houses into apartments to ac-
commodate no more than four families
an amendment to the banking law per-
hitting savings banks 10 loan go per
cent. OF the value Of lands and build
ings in the course of construction,
amounting virtually to building loans
bill requiring landlords to give ten
ants twenty days dispossess notices
an amendment TO the municipal court
act permitting Justices to stay the is
suance OF eviction warrants up to twenty
days. provided the tenant deposits the
amount of rent for such period in court
or pays the same to the landlord.
Amendments Are Agreed To.
These amendments had been agreed
to by the Governor and Senator Lock.
wood, chairman of the Legislative Hous-
Ing Probe Committee; Nathan Hirsch,
chairman Of Mayor Hy1an's rent prof.
teering committee; Abram I. Elkus,
chairman OF Gov. Smiths Reconstruction
Commission; Frank Mann, Tenement
House Commissioner, and John ]. Muir
ply, secretary Of the tenement house
committe Of the Charity Organization
Society.
Agreements also had been reached for
the adoption Of resolutions asking Con-
gress to expedite the passage of legisla-
ton providing for Federal building
loans; and also asking the exemption
from Federal taxation of the ~ per
GENT. bonds Of the New York State Land
Bank. in order to put them on the same
basis as other bonds so savings banks
can invest in them.
In hts message to the Legislature on
housing the Governor wrote: IT am in
receipt OF communication signed
jointly by the legislative committee on
housing, the Mayors committee of the
city OF New York on rent profteering
and the New York State reconstruction
commission. In which they set forth,
among other recommendations, four spe-
cihc proposals looking to an amendment
to the law to relieve the situation we
ind ourselves in because OF a lack OF
proper housing facilities throughout the
State. / do not think 1t is necessary
for me to add anything by way of ex-
PLANTATION as to the necessity for reme-
dial legislation.
The Tenement House Commissioner
Of the city of New York joins in the re-
quest, as doea former Commissioner
John ]. Murphy, now secretary OF the
Tenement House Committee OF the Char
ity Organisation Society.
IT would respectfully ask your hon
orable bodies to give these matters your
immediate and earnest attention
Letter of the Committees.
The letter to the Governor reads as
follows: The Joint Legislative Com
mittee on Housing and the Mayors COM
mittee of the city OF New York on rent
profiteering ana the New York State
Reconstruction Committee. on the invita-
ton Of the Governor. having met to
consider what concrete propositions may
be presented to the special session of
the Legislature to relieve the housing
situation in the city OF New York, after
discussing the subject, recommend the
passage OF the proposed statutes hereto
annexed amending the tenement house
law. the banking law. the municipal
court act and the code Of civil proce-
dure.
at is the opinion Of the three bodies
above named that the amendment TO
the tenement house law will permit the
changing OF four story and basement
private houses In the city OF New York
| so that they may be occupied by not
| more than four families and that safety
| Of life and proper sanitary conditions
may still be preserved, This amend
ment to the tenement house law does
not permit any dark rooms and also
provides that stair halls be properly
nreproofed and safeguarded against fire.
This proposed amendment TO the tene-
ment house law has been submitted to
the Tenement House Commissioner of
the city OF New York and the same
meets with his approval 1t has also
been submitted to the secretary OF the
New York city tenement house commit
tee OF the Charity Organization Society,
and that committee has no objection
thereto"