New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
AInti-R -RentP rofteeringand
Teachers Pay Measures
Alone Survived Bar
age of Sweet Combine
Many Meritorious
Laws Sidetracked
Raids on New York Citv
Treasury and Pork Pro.
visions Rushed Through
From a Staff Correspondent

from q Ot0U correspondent
ALBANY, April 25.-Leaving behind
it record unparalleled, the 149d an
nual session Of the Legislature Of the
State of New York is winding up It's
deliberations early this morning. Only
two items of constructive nature are
to its credit-the anti-rent profteering
laws and the Lockwood -Donohue teach
ers' salary increase bill.
Clocks in both houses were stopped
few minutes before noon yesterday,
the official hour Of adjournment SEN
ate and House were still in session at
a. m. to-day, with adjournment sine
die momentarily expected.
This years session was begun by
Thaddeus G. Sweet, Speaker of the AS
sembly, with the ousting Of the entire
Socialist delegation. And Sweet, by
threats and promises, forced his vest
pocket majority to kill some of the
most important measures presented to
the Legislature. Among the measures
killed by Sweet, some of which passed
the Senate despiteS the activities of ].
Henry Walters, majority leader, who
lives here with Sweet, were:
The. .eight-hour day and minimum
wage bills for women.
The bill giving cities and counties a
full measure of home rule.
The Governors milk commission bill,
which aimed at fixing prices.
Budget Plan Sidetracked
The Governors reconstruction pro-
gram, which. provided for consolidating
the 179 existing departments and bu-
reaus into nineteen, the lengthening
of the terms of the Governor and
Lieutenant Governor to four years and
the creation of an executive budget.
AS compromise Senator Henry W.
Sage offered substitute reconstruction
measures, which the, Democrats agreed
to at the last moment, so that an ex-
ira session now is unlikely.
The Sage program in its present
form offers selective system of re-
construction proposals which will be
considered by the 1924 Legislature and
submitted to the voters the following
fall.
The amendments provide for the
short ballot and cut out elective officers
excepting the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Attorney General and State
treasurer on one proposal, and an
other proposal contains the same pro-
visions with the exception of the State
Hreasurer, who will be appointive.
> The other proposals suggest rear
rangements of the state service through
consolidation Of departments. The chief
point of dispute in this particular in
stance is the plan that would weld the
state hospital, charities and prison de-
partments. A
Repression Bills Pushed Through
Among the measures which Sweet
forced through were the so-called Lusk-
Daly-Sweet measures for repression.
These bills, while ostensibly aimed at
the Socialist party, would disenfran-
chlse any citizen or group of citizens
whose economic, political, social or re-
llglous views differed from those of
majority of the judges of the Ap-
pellate Division of the Albany district.
who are made the arbiters under the
proposed law. To carry out the policy
of repression two bills creating a social
service department in the Attorney
Generals office were jammed through.
1T is believed that these last will be
vetoed by the Governor, who at all
times has condemned what has been
characterized by Republicans of ma
tlonal prominence as Sweets attacks
on representative government.
Yesterday afternoon two other bills
were passed by both houses. One estab-
fishes schools for foreign born and an
other establishes courses for teachers
in Anne mercanization. The latter carries
an appropriation of $4,000. For the
first 100000 is provided. Some of the
things that the Legislature started to
do, but did not finish were:
Investigate the Anti-Saloon League to
determine if it violated the corrupt prac-
tices act, with a view to sending its
directors to Jail.
Hale William H. Anderson, superin-
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League, be-
who favored it was Lieutenant
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
Assemblyman ]. J. Mclaughlin, a
fCantlnued IN NINA fheeaA