New-York tribune., 1922-03-13
Important Bills
Doomed i'm Last
Week at Albany
Measures Affecting New
York City Which Are TO
Pass Will Be Decided at
Leaders, Meeting Tonight
Fight ON Full Grew Law
Blue Sky Bills Shelvcd,
Along With Regulation
of Dances and Baseball
From q Stn1 Corrcspondcnt

ALBANY, March 12-To-morrow the
Legislature will commence it's last
week, and outside of administration
measures and the amendments to the
existing rent laws, including a bill ex-
tending their provisions for another
two years, all the important pieces OF
legislation are scheduled for hard sled
ding. if not actual defeat.
The measures affecting New York
City which are to pass will be decided
at conference Of leaders tomorrow
night. AS announced by Governor
Miller on Saturday, the Legislature
Will not adopt any proposed amend
ment to the constitution giving the
cities home rule. The Governors in
tention is to create commission to
study the needs of the cities and draft
an appropriate amendment.
A bill carrying out the Governors
idea is now being prepared The most
important Of Governor Miler's bills
still pending carries out the adminis-
tratlon's water power bill and the
amendments to the Transit Commission
act, giving tho commission greater
power.
The Straus bills which aim at the
elimination of tubercular cattle and
provide a $5,000,000 appropriation for
the prompt indemnifcation of owners
of diseased animals, the establishment
of milk arbitration board and the
creation of state owned markets, ware
houses and cold storage plants are
scheduled for defeat
Fight for Full Crew Law
determined fight will be made in
the closing hours to pass the Wswall-
Mastick bill repeating the full crew
law. While Governor Miller has not
taken any stand on this measure, the
repre- esentatives of the railroads, who
kave rallied the farmers to their sup
port, are making a vigorous attempt to
overcome the powerful opposition to
the measure.
Tomorrow night the chairman of the
fiscal committee in the two Houses will
introduce the annual supplementary ap-
preparation bill. 1t will total 81 ,224,
600. Among the more important of the
controversial measures marked for
death are the so-caled nti-Saloon
League triplets, which would enable
localities to draft their own enforce
ment ordinances. A vigorous fight for
1t has been made by the leaders Of the
league.
Blue Sky Bills SheIved
Other bills which will not see the
light of day are the Duke bill, carrying
out Canon William Sheaf Chase's ideas
of how the new steps should be danced
the numerous bills repeating screen cen
sorshlp, Sunday motion pictures and
Sunday baseball, the Davenport bill, i'm
posing a per cent tax on unincorpo-
rated businesses; the Wiswall bill, re-
pealing the rest of the direct primary
law, and the CauIdeld bill, restoring
that section repealed in 1921.
All the blue sky bills have beer
shelved. The leaders, in condemnine
them. took the position that the Martin
act of last year, empowering the At
torney General to prosecute sellers OF
fraudulent stocks, was sufficient to meet
the situation. Attorney General New
ton has not made any prosecution under
this law, pleading that he had no appro-
prlatlon. He asked for $4,000 this
year. 1t is said that he may be given
$4,000.