The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
GOVERNOR SIGNS
At NEW MEASURES
Is Working Hard to Complete
Action on 80 Day Bills Be-
fore Next Saturday.
HAS APPROVED 627 LAWS
Approves Plan to Cede Land
Under Water for Hudson
River Vehicular Tunnel.

Special Despatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Albany, May 6.
Gov. Miller added forty-seven laws to
the States statute books to-day, maxi
ing GIT signed in all. He Is working
hard to complete action on the thirty
day bills before Saturday of next week.
New York city bills comprise large
percentage Of those approved to-day.
The Burling bill. which he signed.
creates commission of seven to be
appointed by the Westchester County
supervisors to work in cooperation with
the New York City Transit Commission
in preparing a plan for the operation
and Improvement of railway lines run
ming from Westchester county into
New York.
The Judson bill, also signed, allows
deductions from gross personal income
of income received as dividends from
corporations. paying a business cor
poration franchise tax, provided they
have not more than five stockholders,
that it's capital stock Is not a material
income producing factor and the total
sum paid to elected officers is not more
than Is per cent. of the entire net In
come
The New York city bills include
State land under water for the con-
struction Of the Hudson River vehicular
tunnel; authorizing the Rapid Transit
Commission to make payment for work
done and enforcing previous contracts;
exempting from water rents lnstltu-
tons owned by associations or honor-
ably discharged soldiers, sailors or ma
rines; protecting the rights Of the pub
Tic in the publicly owned beaches along
the Atlantic Ocean; allowing the pay
ment Of 81, 45S to Mary f. Malone, widow
OF the late Judge James L. Malone as
a balance of compensation due; per-
hitting the Police and Fire Commits
sioners to retire on pension any MEM
Der who, while In the military or naval
service of the United States. became
permanently d.sab led; authorizing the
Sinking Fund Commission to cancel
all taxes, water rents and assessments
which are now lien on the property
Of the New York Bible Society. Con-
gregation Talmud Thora Beth Ayro-
hom, Church OF st. Elizabeth of Hun
gary. st. Mary's Church OF the Bronx,
Stilluminators Armenian Apostolic
Church and the New York Protestant
Episcopal Public School.
Several bills of interest to world war
veterans were signed. One providc3
that any State employee who entered
the war without the consent of the Gov
ernor must be given the same salary
increase on returning to his position rs
those who remained home. The Swift
bill makes 1t mandatory that officers
and enlisted men of the National Guard
who were FederaliZed during the war
resume their active service in the state
militia when released from the United
States service. Under another Swift bill
Is per cent Of money for rental of
armories must be turned over to the
Adjutant-General
The Governor also signed the Tolbert
bill, requiring the Board of Estimate
and Apportionment of New York city
to restore city employees who served in
the war to the same grade they held on
enlistment.
Eight special New York city bills. al
lowing increases in pension and pro-
viding for reinstatement or retirement
in special cases in the police and fire
departments. were vetoed by Gov.
Miller on the ground that such mat
tiers should be regulated by special
rules"
My information is" said the Gov
ernor. that few If any pension funds
arc now on sound actuarial basis.
Special acts for increases in pensions
will make 1t impossible to ESTABLISH,
such funds on sound basis. Special
acts for reinstatement or retirement
are necessarily demoralizing to the SER
vice. However meritorious particular
cases may be the evils from such spe-
cial legislation are too great to justify
ar prevail"
The Governor also vetoed ties bills
giving the right of review by certerorari
of removal of certain employees of the
New York Department of Correction
and validating tNs charters of the Van
Nest Hose Companies OF the Van Nest
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