New-York tribune., 1921-04-18
Measure Giving Alder
manic and Assembly
Districts Same Limits
Passed by Legislature
Mayor Is Target
For Lawmakers
% of Is Bills Urged by
Governor Miller Are
Put on Statute Books
Eron, a stca CORRESPONDENT

ALBANY, April 17.-Although the
legislature officially adjourned at noon
yesterday, it was exactly $40 O'Clock
ibis morning when pages in both houses
mounted ladders and started the big
clocks going again. The timepieces had
Seen stopped at 1850 o'clock the day
before, and for seventeen hours there
sfter to legislators, in their lawmak-
Ing capacity, it was not yet noon.
This fact was made part of the legis-
is.ive record at o'clock this morning
when the two houses passed the alder
manic reapportionment bill over Mayor
Hylan's veto.
The minority leader, Assemblyman
Charles D. Donohue, declared that the
Mayor had returned the bill within the
hfteen-day period, and that the stamp
on it showed that it was delivered to
the Executive Chamber at p. m. Sat
urday, April 16.
Assemblymen Get a Laugh
u want to call the attention of the
Assembly to the fact that the receiving
stamp on the bill now before us shows
that it was not delivered here until five
hours after the Legislature had Of
fcially adjourned" said the minority
leader.
Speaker Machold ruled that the ques-
ton raised by the minority leader had
been passed on by the courts and that
II was not yet noon, which gave the
tired and sleepy legislators a hearty
laugh.
The bill, which makes the lines of
the aldermanic districts co-terminous
sithth Assembly District boundaries
vssthen passed and rushed over to the
Senate, where it was also acted on
isTorably.
he Democrats were against the bill
Because they feared that the new ar
rangement might lead to a Republican
control of the Board of Aldermen.
Their fears are based on last falls
returns, when thirty-two o. the sixty
two Assembly districts in the greater
city elected Republicans.
All the bills aimed at reorganizing
the state educational system were
abandoned at an eleventh. hour confer
ence Of leaders, it being decided that
revolutionary changes such as were
contemplated should not be enacted
into law without full consideration.
Hylan Target
Mayor Hylah from the very outset
Of the session became a target for
legislation which showed clearly that
the majority members had no particu-
lar respect for his administration. A
concrete demonstration of this attitude
Is the passage of the resolution which
creates legislative committee to in
svestlgate the government of greater
New York. The Citizens Union, in it's
annual review of the Legislature, COM
menting on this, said:
Next to Governor Miller, Hylan
probably influenced more legislation
than any other man in the state. He
,,afuenced it, however, not by shaping
either personally, or through his as
ssislsnts, but by providing a target of
algn visibility at which much of the
legislation was aimed
measures clearly chargeable to the
iact That he has been the chief malad-
m,inlstrator of New York City for the
as, sly three years fall into two classes:
.. flrst-Those having directly, or in
a'Iec1ly political color and designed |
s'ner To demonstrate anew his unfit
neSs 1or office or to force him to act
~ sucn a way as to ALLEVIATE certain
ssaements in the electorate, and, second
~. ~, .hose based on a conviction that |
u'uer MS direction the municipal ma
.nlnery had worn itself out and dem
S.' sa'ss9ased its failure to function prop
sssy. Under this latter category is |
ioano the excuse for the unusual num-
s Ss1 OF measures intended to deprive
s.l sM Oh authority, the only excuse for
~acn Is found not in the merit of the
Iaisasures Measures but in the demerits Of the |
Miller Got All He Asked For
s;..e sne legislature gave Governor Miller
tba ttbm'aaiiy everything he asked for. Of
1--WE. re twenty-five measures, carrying out
eeryrronlmendations eyran made by the Gov I
froS. f"uf' either in his annual message or !
twsn.' aM .'Ine M to time during the session,
TSssn'y-three TN passed the Legislature.
niss; iaevlsion of the Public Service Com
t''s'Vns ~ law, which led to the creation
New York City transit commits
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