The New York herald., 1922-03-11
TO KILL 4P. G. TAX
ANDSCHOOL BILLS
Meyer Ullman Measure and
Business Levy Among Many
Marked for Slaughter.
TO PROBE STATE SCHOOLS
Albany Leaders Decide to Pass
Bill Adding 1-2 Mill to the
Direct State Tax.
70 PROBE STATE SCHOOLS


Albany. March 10.
Behind the closed doors of conference
rooms the leaders of the Legislature.
with only one more week of the session
ahead, are picking the bills marked for
slaughter and those intended for the
statute books
Important proposals, which IL was de-
.cided to-day to pass, provide for an
appropriation of s5.o0o with which the
State Board of Regents is to investigate
the school systems of all the cities of
The State. and for the addition of half
mill TO the State direct tax rate.
Measures to be discarded are the bill
recommended by the Davenport tax
committee imposing per cent on un-
incorporated business and virtually all
the school bills. including the Never
| ullman bill. giving to the State Board
or Regents control over the New York
city schools. and the Wright bill. maxi
lnS the city's Board of Education cleo
| tive.
me leaders abandoned the per cent
business tax after finding that they
could not get, enough Republican votes
70 pass 1t. The one-hslf mill additional
20 the direct tax. imposed for the state
uepl service was decided Oh in its place
it Is believed that this measure viii
raise the $7.5o0O0o estimated as the
amount that can be collected from the
business tax. Even with the addition
OF the half mill the direct tax will be
,ess thah last year, when mill and
lalI was added to the debt service rate
Tor teachers salaries, the money for
Whlch VIII be taken from the general
FUNDS this year.
GOV Miller said he felt an inyestiga-
,ion OF all the city school systems Of the
State would be made and Senator Lock-
WOOD, chairman of the Education Com
mittee will introduce the resolution next
week: II was felt that with this inquiry
pending all school legislation should be
abandoned this year.
Senator Straus Of New York intro
uuced the bills carrying out the recom-
inendauons of the minority report of
Inc committee that investigated the pro-
duction and distribution of food One
would establish a chain of public mar
kets IN the first and second class cities
They would be operated Jointly by con-
suners and producers with only suf-
hcient profit to defray expenses The
bill appropriates 100000. Senator
Straus quoted Gov. Miller as saying he
was for such proposal in his cam
paign speeches. The second bill would
appropriate 100000 "as a start this
year" for systematic war on tubercu-
losis in dairy herds.
Mr.. Straus started a lively discussion
when he said there were tubercular
| herds at the Women's Relief Corps
Home. for old ladies at Oxford. and the
| Old Soidiers Home at Bath He said
/ that members Of a legislative investi-
| eating committee, which had visited the
| homes. were warned not to consume
any of the milk or butter because of the
| diseased cattle
Senator Hewitt. chairman of the
fi'lance Committee. said he understood
there were tubercular cattle at Oxford
! but declared there were none at Bath
Senator Lusk. the majority leader. said
he did not believe 1t was true In either
/ case. and he pressed Senator Straus
/ for the source of his information. The
! New York Senator refused on confi-
Dental grounds.
More protests were received here to-
day against the knight bill. which
would authorize any police officer to
arrest any person he considered feeble
minded or any citizen to make a state
ment that a person Is a mental defec-
tive TO magistrate. who must then
issue warrant for his arrest A tele-
gram received from Chief MAGISTRATE
McAdoo repudiates a statement made
in a telegram from charity organiza-
ton that he favored the bill lie de-
clared that the bill was vicious and
dangerous, as any person with a grudge
against another could have him arrested
as mental defective
Under a bill introduced to-day BY
Senator Schuyler M. Meyer policemen
IN New York would be prohibited from
selling or soliciting funds for their field
days or police games. The Senator said
that the bill resulted from complaints
received by his committee which in
vestigat-d New York against policemen
holding up automobiists and entering
questionable places to sell tickets.