New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-05
Is Days Left
10 Rush Bills
I'm Legislature
Hundreds of Important
Measures Will Die or
BE Crowded Through
in Slapd a s h Fashion
Custer Caused the DELAY
Rent Legislation the Only
Constructive Work So Far
Accomplished at Albany
rrom q stnf Correspondent

From Staff Correspondent
ALBANY. April All the importan
legislation introduced in the Senate ane
Assembly since January Z, and which
has been held up pending the deter
mlnation of Sweets custer of the So
cialist delegation. will either be killed
or passed in slap dash fashion between
next Wednesday and April "a, which is
the stipulated date of final adjourn
ment.
The Legislature, which will not hold
any working sessions until Wednesday
because of the Presidential primary
en- Tuesday, in fifteen days will only
be enabled to consider the more than
1000 bills pending before it in the
most perfunctory manner.
prominent Republican members Of
the Legislature are bemoaning tee
situation, bat with an Assembly tax
ing orders from Speaker Sweet and
Assemblyman Louis A. Cuvillier, of
Tammany Hall, they confess that the
best they can do is to continue to
moan.
Sweet Furnishes Donohue
Charles D. Donohue. the minority
leader of the Assembly, is also moan
]tS WIN VIC MY WIZ w III IAOl
bow the knee to the Little White
Father of the Assembly. For Dono-
hue, because of his refusal to line up
with Sweet in ousting the Socialists
has been punished by Sweet, who con-
fers constantly with Cuvillier on i'm
rortant legislation.
Another bit Of punishment inflicted
on ponohue by Sweet was the attempt
to take from him the credit for his
in, lcrji;,,er
teering bills.
The passage of the rent measures
has been the only important bit of
constructive work performed by the
Legislature. and the day they were in
trodUced Sweet few into rage be-
cause he had not been allowed to take
credit for drafting the bills. The bills
were the work OF the joint legislative
housing committee.
There is every possibility of Gov
ernor Smith injecting himself into the
situation and requesting the Legisla-
ture to sit longer than the fifteen
working days remaining before it to
give proper consideration to the meas
ures either on the calendars or before
the various committees.
Friends of the Governor declare that
if his request IS not needed he prob
ably will call a special session. This,
of course, would necessitate ordering
special elections in the five Assembly
districts now without representatives
as the result of Sweets ousting Of the
Socialist members Of Assembly.
Important Bills Pending
The more important measures which
the Legislature has yet to act upon
are:
!. Measure for outlawing the Social
isr party. to which the Caulfeld state
secret service bill is complementary
2. The eight-hour day and minimum
wage bill FOR women. and other So
called social welfare legislation.
3. Teachers salary increase bills.
4. Governor Smiths reconstruction
measures.
8. Walker.Gillet $50 beer bill; the
Thompson-Slacer Alti-Saloon League
enforcement measure.
8. The HylanE nright police bills to
reward favorites Of Hylan and Enright
IN the Police Department.
7. Salary grab bills for Hylan favor
Ives, in the city employ.
8. Bonuses Cor veterans Of the World
War. including nurses, to consist of $40
for each month of service.
9. Daylight savings repeal.
10. Resolution providing for an in
yestga-ion of the Hylan admins ra-
ton, especially the Police Department
ard the Office OF District Attorney
Swami.
Assemblvman Cuvillier, who intro
duced this last bill, has had the assur-
ance of Speaker Sweet that this resolu-
ton would receive favorable consider
ation.
But Sweet has played ball with the
Hylan administration before, and ne
may consign the Cuvillier resolution
to the morgue, as he may also deal gen.
erously with other requests Of the Hy
Ian faction.
There are other Liliputan poll
ticians who are advancing excuses for
not passing the resolution, saying the
investigation could be just as we'll
carried out next year. and that It
would be Of greater political advantage
to those who want clean government
reeatabished in New York City on the
eve Of Mayoralty campaign.
Many Oppose Delay
The belief OF those who deem an In
vestlgetion necessary is that
thorough Investigation Of the almos
countless charges of graft could no
be completed within a year. and thai
the situation, even If it could be
cleaned up in week, should be cleaned
up without delay
The third attempt on the part Of the
Assembly to repeal the daylight saw
Il
Tuesday the measure, which had beer
passed By the Senate, failed Of pass
age by one vote. Assembl yman Charles
Bets, OF Lyons. claimed tonight that
the repeal would be passed by the As
seinb'y b. majority Of at least three
votes.
Colonel Ransom II. Gillctt of Co.
lumoia County. viii move to discharge
the Assembly Rules Committee. which
taxes charge on Tuesday OF ali legisla
ton stiil in committee in the lower
house, from further consideration OF
ms @.2O beer bill. The 'drys" claim
mat Gillet, cannot get the necessary
20 votes, because Speaker Sweet, who
has the bnln Of the majority crawling
before him, does no, want any "we.;
or DRY" legislation 10 come to plague
nm when MARK DAILY, the Buffalo lo5-
bylxt. md his other rcactionary friends
push MN forward as candidate for