The New York herald., 1922-04-04
GOV. MILLER SIGNS
THE MATERNITY BILL
Also Approves Measure Plac-
ing Theater Building Under
State Labor Department.
HYLAN FOR ONE OF 10
Mayor Favors Bill for Twenty
Assistant District Attorneys
at. $500 to $4,000.
HYLAN FOR ONE OF 10
Special Dispatch to THE Nnw York HERALD.
New York Herald bureau.

Special Dispatch to Tup NEW York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Albany, April 3.
Gov. Miller added thirty-six laws to-
day TO the statute books of the State.
Two Of the new laws create division Of
maternity, infancy and child hygiene
under the State Department or Health
and give to the State Labor Department
supervision over the constr action of all
heaters and places fer pubic assem-
bias
The purposes cf the maternity bil
introduced by Senator Davenport and
appropriating $4,000, are "the safe
guarding of motherhood. the saving of
infant life and the prevention of the
diseases and defects of childhood" The
bill carries out a recommendation of
Gov. Miller and was introduced after it
was decided to reject the plan of par
ticipation in the Sheppard-Tow Fed
eral maternity act, which Gov Miller
declared encroached on the States
powers.
Under the theater bill the industrial
board of the State Labor Department is
to make rules for the construction of all
theater buildings and places of public
assembly. The bill, sponsored by the
Governor, resulted from the collapse last
winter Of motion picture theater in
Washington.
A series of income tax amendments
introduced by the Davenport Joint
Legislative Committee. were also signed.
One defines a resident subject to the tax
as any person who maintains a perma-
nent place of abode within the State
and spends more than seven months OF
the taxable year in the State Persons
moving in or out of the State must file
two returns of earnings covering each
period. A trust fund created by en-
ployers as part of stock bonus or profit
sharing plans is not taxable. but the
earnings of such fund distributed to
employees are subject to taxation
Another income tax bin signed pro-
vides that where property is exchanged
II shall be. treated as the equivalent of
cash at its fair market value in deter
mining gain or loss
Other bills signed by the Governor
appropriate s1,500,000 for improvements
to the Harlem River, $4,000 for the
Gowanus Bay canal grain terminal and
$4,000 for survey for a proposed pipe
line boulevard In Brooklyn Another bill
provides for the purchase or a site on
Long Island for State Agricultural ex-
perimental station.
Gov. Miller received to-day the report
OF Mayor Hylan on. the nineteen bills
affecting counties within the city Of New
York. He sought the Mayors opinion IN
order to live up to the principle of home
rule, although being county bills the
Mayor was not required to sign them.
Mayor Hylan favored only one-the bin
providing for twenty Assistant District
Attorneys for New York county at sala-
ries ranging from $500 to $4,000. but
declared that the city had no objection to
bills that increase the salary of The
Bronx county District Attorney from
$4,000 to $4,000, and provide additional
compensation for Surrogates OF Kings.
Bronx, Queens and Richmond counties
for services in drawing juries. s.
Mayor Hylan disapproyed the bills al
lowing District Attorney Banton to fix
the number Of his assistants and their
salaries. He also opposed fourteen other
salary raising bills.
Several New York rabbis urged Gov
Miller to sign the Downing -Dickstein
bill. making it penal offense to sell or
dinary meat as kosher meat Rabbi
Bernard Drachman declared thousands
of poor Jewish families are being
victimzed by unscrupulous butchers
The only opponent was Joseph N.
Schultz, representing the provision man.
ufacturers and the retail delicatessen
dealers associations.