Gov Hughes Vetoes Two-Cent Fare Bill
Albany June 11 Gov Hughes vetoed Assembly bill No 2269 proposing a maximum two cent per mile fare on railroads over 150 miles long. He urged investigation and framed the Public Service Commissions as the proper body to study and fix just rates, warning against arbitrary state actions harmful to industry and investors. Local pressure centers on Baldwin’s push to table the veto amid calls for fair treatment of railroads and public needs.
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New York Times
Albany
Hughes Toon
Assembly
Public Service Commissions
Baldwin
Gov. Hughes
Ivestors
Hughes Opposes Bill on Quons and Utilities Rates
Charles E. Hughes explains delaying investigation risks impatience with inquiry and warns the bill could provoke costly protracted litigation and service changes. He argues New York’s machinery should guide quons disputes and urges staying with established processes.
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Butt
State of
New York
Charles E. Hughes
Railroads seek to block two-cent passenger rate law
In Kansas City a petition filed by Frank Hagerman on behalf of eighteen Missouri railroads asks the U S District Court to extend an injunction preventing enforcement of the two-cent passenger rate law. The judge may rule before it goes into effect next Friday.
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Kansas City
United States District Court
Frank Hagerman
Missouri
Illinois railroads withdraw two cent fare special rates
Illinois passenger agents met in Chicago and voted to withdraw all special rates for convention delegates clergy and charity agents. Executives instructed the roads to contest two cent fares in Illinois and neighboring states Missouri Iowa Minnesota Nebraska and Arkansas. Kansas and Wisconsin laws are acceptable to the lines.
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Chicago
Illinois
Missouri
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Arkansas
Kansas
Wisconsin
Bey Peter Anated
New York Central
Pennsylvania
New Life for Old Schemes in Wem ple Railroad Bill
The Assembly passed the Wem ple Railroad Securities bill by 79 to 22 after a Senate fight. It would allow revival of expiring charters if the railroad directors had debt, extending charters to 1920, with debate over applying it to the Northern Adirondack Railroad of 1866.
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New York Times
Albany
Assembly
Wemple
Senate
Friends of the Bill
Merritt
St. Frence
Adirondack
Harrynder
Cuvillier
Winters Vagrancy Bill Passes in Assembly
Albany June 11 The Assembly unanimously approved the Winters Vagrancy Bill at the request of New York City inferior court judges. The measure lets police arrest known crooks and detain them as authorities see fit, with orders to leave the city after a court appearance. Tammany resistance faded as supporters argued it would curb criminal influence.
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New York Times
Albany
New York City
New York
Tammany
Albany Senate Passes Trading Stamps Guarantee Bill
The Albany Senate voted 29 to 10 to require merchants offering trading stamps to guarantee redemption in goods or money if the stamp company fails. It also approved Merritt’s pure food law revision 29 to 12 and other bills. Prentice measures set penalties for destruction of weapons and raised blackmail penalties from five to ten.
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Albany
Senate
C. F. Foley
Assemblyman
Merritt
Prentice
Recount Bill Moves Through Senate Amid Mayor Veto Fight
Albany June 11 The original Page Prentice Recount bill clears Assembly and goes to Governor after Senate vote 86 to 0. A supplementary measure by Senator Page passes 85 to 7. McCarren seeks to consolidate bills to allow a mayoral veto, while opponents push to avoid that outcome.
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New York Times
Albany
Page Prentice
Senate
Assembly
McGowan
Senator Page
Page-Prentice
McCarren
McClellan
cCarren
Boyce
Cassidy
Cullen
Harte
Hasenflug
C- Call
Owens
Judiciary Committee
Itd
Assidy
Behal
McCall
Mayor McClellan Attacks Supplementary Recount Bill
Mayor McClellan charged that Albany senate’s supplementary recount bill is worse than the original. He warned it would discard ballots in districts with unpreserved boxes and that one miscount could disfranchise voters. He said the bill shifts costs to him while shielding Hearst from most expenses.
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McClellan
Senate
Albany
Mr. Hearst
Newspaper Bill Signed By Gov Hughes In Albany
Gov Hughes signs Assemblyman Duell’s law requiring every newspaper and periodical in New York to print on each issue’s outer cover the full name and address of owners or proprietors. If a corporation, the principal business address and the names and addresses of the President Secretary and Treasurer must also be published.
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Albany
Gov. Hughes
Foundry Workers Get New Wash Room and Clothing Provisions
Albany June 11 Gov Hughes signed Assemblyman Filley’s bill amending the labor law to require brass and iron foundries to provide wash rooms for employee use and to supply working clothes.
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Albany
Gov. Hughes
Assemblyman Filley
Roe
Primary Bill Amended To Weaken Direct Nomination Plan
Albany June 11 The Assembly amended Gov Hughes favored Primary bill to make direct nominations mandatory in counties over one million, but the measure is designed to be unwieldy and essentially hinder the machine. Woodruff allies in Brooklyn pushed the change as Majority Leader Moreland led opposition. The 65 to 28 vote reflected heated debate and jockeying for gubernatorial aims by Woodruff Parsons and opponents in New York and Kings counties.
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New York Times
Albany
Assembly
Gov. Hughes
Brooklyn
Woodruff
Senate
Gilchrist
Herbert Parsons
Travis
New York
Kings
Army officers reassigned to coast and field artillery
The President announced changes in permanent assignments. First Lieutenants Wheeler Hanna McKenney Carpenter Petergon and Donahue move to coast artillery. Browne Glassford Danford Kean Dodds Hammond shift to field artillery. Deltrick detailed for National Match Quartermaster duty at Camp Perry. Clark reports to Department of the East.
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Washington
Coast Artillery
Field Artillery
O. V. Kean
W. H. Dodds, Jr
J. 8. Hammond
L. L Deltrick
Thirteenth Cavalry
Camp Te Ohio
C. B. Clark
Fourteenth Infantry
Department of the East
L. M. Brett
First Cavalry
Camp Perry
Ohio
Cc. G. Dwyer
Army
Navy personnel changes in railway and shipboard assignments
Navy officers receive detachments and new assignments. H Rodman is Inspector in charge of the Sixth Light House District in Charleston. M B Reed moves from Chicago to Charleston as senior engineer officer. T W Kinkal and H T Winston detach to ships and Princeton and Charleston respectively. R Stona moves to Albany as executive officer, F Morrison to Princeton, A B Reed to Charleston, and Dickinson heads Naval Retiring Board in Washington.
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Navy
H. Rodman
Sixth Light House
Charleston
D. C
M. B. Reed
Chicago
T. W. Kinkal
R. Stona
United States Naval Academy
Albany
W. Norris
Ohio
Kentucky
H. T. Winston
Princeton
F. Morrison
A. B. Reed
D.ckingson
Naval Retiring Board
Mills Building
Washington
F. H. Whitney
Navy Yard
New York
L. A. McClure
Moran Brothers Company
Beattie
Nebraska
O. J. McCorkle
Puget Sound
Warant
J. Dexter
New Jersey
Unable to Agree on Apportionment Plans in Albany
Albany June 11 conflict committee ends talks without agreement on how to redraw districts. Three plans discussed including the Westchester two-district option, Tully plan, and Wadsworth variant. Gov Hughes conditioning upstate districts on Westchester parity complicates division of Western New York.
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Senate
Wadsworth
Westchester County
Westchester
Tully
New York
Woodruff
Ucus
Tully plan stirs senate and assembly clash over district map
Democrats in the Senate pledged support for Senator Tully while Speaker Wadsworth pressed to block the Tully plan. Wadsworth sought Governor’s stance, saying no commitment to any plan beyond constitutional fairness. The governor claimed no fixed commitment as political prospects shaped the Capitol fight.
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Tully
Chemung County
Wadsworth
J. Sloat Fasset
Mr. Wadsworth
Laav
Water Power Bill Passes for State Resource Study
Albany June 11 The Assembly approved the Fuller bill creating a Water Supply Commission to investigate state water resources and draft a bill to use water for industrial and public purposes under state control. The measure, once defeated in the Senate, passed after the Governor’s intervention and now heads to the Governor, thwarting private Adirondack water power grabs.
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Albany
Assembly
Water Supply Commission
Senate
Adirondack
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