The New York herald., 1922-02-08

SMOOTH WAY AHEAD
OF PORT AUTHORITY
Senate and House Committee
Will Report FavOrably
To-day.
KAPLAN KEEPS HIS SEAT
Declared to Have Been Elected
in Brooklyn Senatorial
District
KAPLAN KEEPS HIS SEAT
Special Dispatch TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Albany. Feb 4

Special Dispatch TO THE NEW YORK Herald
New York Herald Bureau.
Albany. Feb. Z.
The Port Authority plan for the COM
prehensive development of transporta-
be reported favorably to both houses to-
morrow by the Senate Finance and the
Assembly Ways and Means committees.
At the meeting of the Senate commit
tee this afternoon only two Democrats,
SerEors Walker and Boylan, voted
againsa the Meyer-Masticll bill. which
carries out the plan. The result was the
same at the meeting of the Ways and
Means Committee, where Assemblymen
Peter J. Hammil and Thomas J. McDon-
aid, New York Democrats, were the only
opponents.
IRE Democrats declared that New
Yor!: city would not be represented
properly and moved to have the bill
amended so as to provide that two ap-
pointeas of the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment would be on the port de-
velopment commissions. The motion was
beaten by party vote.
Senator Abram I. Kaplan, Republican,
was declared to-day to be the rightful
representative of the Eleventh Senate
rial District of Brooklyn. The Commit
tee on Privileges and Elections. which
heard the contest of former Senator
Daniel J. Carroll, decided that kapian
was elected by vote of 1s5.559 TO 1885,,
219. The committee accepted the figures
OF the election officials. The Democrats
on the committee submitted a minority
report recommending the seating of Car
roll They claimed his election by a
plurality of 152. Both reports charged
fraud and that there had been tamper
ing with the ballots.
The Republicans declare this was done
after the ballot boxes had been taken to
police station for safe keeping and
that they had put the information UP to
the District Attorney, who failed to find
who was responsible. The Republican
report added that the tampering with the
ballots prcNed the need of voting ma
chimes.
The soldier legislators are expected
next week to take action indorsing the
Brundage bill, providing that the money
for soldier bonus be raised by direct
tax. Their steering committee. which
is headed by Senator Swift of Buffalo.
decided alta meeting to-day to postpone
discussion of bonus legislation until
next week.
The committee indorsed four meas
ureS for eX-service men. One empowers
the commissioners of fire and police in
New York to rehear charges against
AMI reinsta.e world war veterans.
Others included the picksten BILL pro-
viding that applications for peddlers
licenses made by service mon must be
accompanied by photographs of the ap-
plicants: the Walsh bill. GXcmpting
from taxation real property owned by
organizations of former service men
and used exclusively by them. and the
Campbell bill, prohibiting draft dodgers
from holding public office
The Assembly passed the bill author
izinG the Attorney General to represent
the people of the State before the Public
Service Commission in telephone cases.
The measure, which was recommended
by GOV. Miller, appropriates $4,000.