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Staple and Fancy Grocer
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Undertaker and Embalmer
57 West Herrick Road FREEPORT, N. Y.
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Lawmakers End W6rk, Make Way il For Discussioo of Coastitotioo
Session Noted For Close Fol¬ lowing of Program Laid Down by Governor Whitman. »» » » »•*
Drugs and Medicines
No greater anxiety is ever experienced than when slcknees or accident overtakes us. Our flrst cry Is for a physician and then for medicine or surgical appliances to give relief. We keep the purest—best drugs and proprietary medicines and the most expert pharmacists to dole them out. Having purchased the Thomas Johnson Driig Company's stock and busl¬ nesa, we have added new and fresh material to all our lines, especially pharmaceutical, and lay great stress on giving our patrons absolutely pure drugs. We have three experienced, licensed pharmacists In attendance, and all ordera or prescriptions sent or telephoned In wlll, be immediately pre¬ pared with the utmost care and promptly delivered to suburban patrons as well as to villagers.
Our prescription department Is in charge of thoroughly competent men who have been trained for this work and whose efforts are marked with extreme accuracy and knowledge gained ithrough years of experience, ai d this fact alone should appeal to any person wanting to be ture of their medicine.
We want you to feel that you can depend upon us and we hope to have the opportunity of serving you with all your wants so we may demon¬ strate our ability to serve you well.
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CLARENCE S. ABRAMS
Successor to Thomas Johnson
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Resume of Important Bills Passed, Including Finan¬ cial Measures of High Importance.
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ISpeclal Corredpondence.] * LBA.NY. April 26.—After havini;
^k accomiillHhed practically all
A^k the results which bad been outlined tlie legislature of lOl.'i ha.s concluded the bu.slnes.s to which It devoted nearly four months of eBfort. Tardy in their work at tbe beginning of the HesKlon, the lawmak¬ ers crowded Into the la»t two weeks of the session days and nights of at¬ tention to duty lu order to finish tbe program mapped out by the leaders before April 2<;, the date of thc recon¬ vening of the constitutional conven¬ tion.
Few who participated in the days and nights of debate wlll forget the severe strain of the past fortnight. wiiL'u the finuncial tangle was straight¬ ened out to the s.itisfaction of the ma¬ jority and the (llssatlsfaction of the minority members.
('onfcrcncps und d(>l>ates rcsultetl In thc introduction of a measure wiiich provides for a direct tax of 1.7 mills, calculated to bring In a revenue to the state of $Hl.rH)0,0(Hl, Whicli amount, when ndded to the ^n.OOO.OO) expected to be rab»e(l b.v indirect taxes, is look¬ eil upon as sufficient to solve tbe flnan¬ cial situation wliich tlio Hepublican lenders say has been thc most serious feature of the session just ended. The State's Expenses.
Based upon what Is said to lie a fair¬ ly conservative estimate, the expenses of the state for the incoming fiscal year are set at $03,000,000. Of thU gigantic amount but ^.W.OOO.OOO wlll be supplied liy the regular income.
Motor vehicle legislation and Ihiuor legislation will bring in the greater part of the Indirect tax, while a se¬ cured debt tax will provide an addi¬ tional chnnnel for revenue.
While the Republicans prepured to pass their bills so as to make lawful the additional taxes, the Democrats raised the cry that a direct tax was un¬ necessary. They argued that lustead of real economy the majority parly was enacting legislation to secure funds to provide salaries for the faith¬ ful iu their ranks. They cited as au instance the creation of a new state boxing commission, to be composed of three members, each to receive an an¬ nuul salary of $3,000, together with a secretJiry to receive an equal amount.
Loyally did the minority members rally to the support of former Governor Martin H. Glynn and back up his con¬ tention that his administration had not been extravagant, but prudent and highly efficient
Some Labor Measures.
Organized labor, while It wou a vic¬ tory or two, cannot be snld to. have been granted a free rehi as regards legislation. Arrayed against the bill which aimed to extend the hours of labor which might be performed In tbe canning establishments of the state during the rush season, which is the season of the year when protluce and fruit ripens quickly, the ojipositlon suc¬ ceeded in killing It flnally, although originally It was passed by bolh houses. When the bill reached Gover¬ nor Whitman the cry ngainst It was so great that it was recalled for amend¬ ment. When votetl upon again It was defeat«Hl. The seventy hour grocery clerks bill passed. Labor favored It.
In spite of the opposition of organ¬ ized labor, however, the bill which souglit to combine tbe state depart¬ ment of labor and the workmen's com¬ pensation commission was passed by both houses. It was not until tho last day of tbe session that the measure Was sent to Governor Whitman for his disposition.
Attempts to enact reforms In excise mattera failed utterly. Tbe local and state wide prohibition bills were re¬ leased from committee, only to be al¬ most immediately recommitted. More than oue atteinpt was made thereafter to have the coinmlttee on excise dis¬ charged from further consideration of It. All were futile.
No Sunday Ball Game*.
Legislation which would permit pro¬ fessional ball games on Sunday pro¬ gressed no further tban reference to committee. Arguments and petitions In fnvor of It did not prevail.
Likewise the attempt to provide for a referendum so that the sentiment of the people regarding the advisability of returning to the state convention system failed. The Walters bill, with this (irovislon Incorporated, had iio chance of passing. Moreover, Governor Whitman refusotl to countenance any change In the direct primary system uow being ob.served.
Quick action on tbe part of Governor Whitman followeil the passage bf the kill legislating out of offlce the meni¬ bers of the state tnx commission ap¬ pointed under the adminislration of tbe Democrats. The executive sent to the aenate the names of >tartin Saxe of New York. Ralph W. Thomas of Ham¬ ilton and Walter H. Knappi of Caiian- dalguu as the new tax commissioners. All three were confirmed. The salary of a tax commlsaloner Is $.3,000 a year and necessary expenses when out of Albany upon ofBciaHmstneas. '
Governor Whitman took tala tinw
about signing th • bill which legl^ated out of oflice the three Democratic mem¬ bers of the state con.sert'atlon com¬ mission. He had the measure before hlni two days iK'fore he created a law of It. Immediately thereafter he sent In the name of Charles D. Pratt of New York as his candidate to be the single commissioner provided for under the reorganization law.
Although W. W. Farley of Klngham- ton, state commissioner of excise, re¬ signed last Octolier. bis resignation was kept quiet uulll the duy wben bis suc¬ cessor, former Senator George E. Green of Klnghamton, was named by tbe gov¬ ernor. The senate aluiost Immediately conflrmed the nominulion. The reor¬ ganization of the excise department was not written largo upon tbe pro- .gram of reform planned by the Repub¬ licans.
Followed Whitman's Wishes.
Few legislatures have been truer to tbe wishes of a governor thau has been the lawmaking body of lOl-^. All of the promises made by Governor Whitman prior to his eleclion and ev¬ iry recomiuendation made by him in bis flrst annual message have been ful¬ fllied and followed, .\mong these rec¬ ommendations the following were tbe most Important: Abolition of tbe de¬ partment of efliciency and economy, abolition of the office of state flre mar¬ shal, reorganization of the conserva¬ tion commission, reorganization of the state departnient of liighways, legislat¬ ing out of ofilce of the members of the state board of claims by the restora¬ tion of the state court of claims, the members of which are to be lawyers; reorganizing of tbe state tax commis¬ sion. General economy was recom¬ mended by the governor also, and as a result numerous positions were elim¬ inated in the various state departments reorganized.
General Appropriations.
It is impossible to predict what the amount of the general appropriation bili wlll be after Governor Whitman has finished pruning it Many Items which were in the measure after Its adoption by both hou.ses are very like¬ ly to be cut out, as it Is weil known thnt the executive bas taken the stand that Items other than those absolutely necessary will not be allowed to re¬ main In the bill. The same stnnd has been taken by the governor as regards the annual suppl.v bill and special bills carrying appropriations. Tbe governor has declared that unless tbere Is a pub¬ lic necessity for an appropriation as provided for by a special bill he wiil veto it.
A greut volume of legislation will find Its way to the executive chamlier for the next few days, nil of whlili wlll comprise bills pnssed by both bouses during the last Iwo days of the ses¬ sion. These bills are knowu as thirty day bills, since the exei/utlve is per¬ mitted to deliberate over auy or all of them for that period of time. Failure to veto a bill of the thirty day charac¬ ter automatically makes a law of such measure.
It can safely be said that no other session of the .New York legislature ever dlsturiied so many state depart¬ ments as the one just over.
Session Not a Long One.
The session of 11(1.5 was conipurative- ly a short oue. although it wus longer by nearly a mouth than that of tbe preceding year. More bills were intro¬ duced this year thau at any other ses¬ sion In the bislory of tbe state for a corresponding period of time, yet it ia not expected that there wlil be a del¬ uge of new laws.
Aside from the Thompson joint legis¬ lative committee, appointed to probe the publlc service commissions, the special committees of Importance which were named were few. Tbe second one which performed actual work was that whlchprobed the clvUservlce conditions and submitted its report relative to salaries and competence of those iu the pay of the state, together with the conditions surrounding their appoint¬ ment.
Speaker- T. C. Sweet of tbe assem¬ bly appears to have grown In popu¬ larity since last year. In matters of policy his word was generally the last sought. Majority Leader Harold J. Hinman worked with htm In har¬ mony In spite of the early rumors tbat there was friction between tbem.
Lieutenant (iovernor Schoeneck and Majority Leader Brown y^iyre In ac¬ cord in the senate, although at the be¬ ginning of t!:e year It appeared as though this was not the ca»e. Number of Laws Passed.
Wllh 3<J0 laws on the statute books for the present year aud practically as many additional bills ready for the llgnature of the governor the legisla¬ tive session of 1915 cannot be said to ha\'« been Idle with regard to the turn¬ ing out of laws. I.,a8t year 522 bills beoame laws.
Compared with the legislation of oth¬ er years, there was comparatively lit¬ tle along tbe constructive line.
These bills reorganizing state de¬ partments are now laws:
AboUahins tbe state department ot elBcleBC7 and economy.
IAboHstaliiit tbe etate flra maratiaL Reonranlalns tha state tax commia* elon. I Reorganixliig the state blgfaway com- ^ mlnsIOD.''
Reorganizing the etate fair commit- ! sion.
Reorganizing tbe board of claima.
Reorganizing tbe conservation com¬ mission by reducing the three commis¬ sioners to one.
Some Important Maasuras.
Among the most Important of the new laws, aside from the ones which reorganized state departments, tbe fol¬ lowing are listed:
Appropriating $1)0.000 for the state reservation at Saratoga.
Appropriating $.^M)0.000 for the ex¬ penses of the constitutional convention.
Changing the lioundnry lines of the Ninth and Tenth congressional dis¬ tricts: Kings county is affected.
I'roviding that grocery clerks In cities of the first class shall not be required to work more than seventy hours In an.v one week and shall uot sleep lu grocery or provision stores.
Troviding that ga.xoline. oil and tires may be sold on Sunday, except In places where spirituous liquors are sold.
I'rohlbltiiig the sale of prison made goo<ls except to fbe state or Rtate In¬ stitutions, iirohibitlng absolutely their sale for protit and Including work¬ houses 1111(1 cotinty jails in tbe Institu¬ tions where prison made goods may lie sold.
.\utIiorlziiig the state superintendent of piil)ii<- works to provide towing fa- cilitU's on the completed sections of tbe barge canal and ai»propriatlng $30,000 therefor.
Aniendment to Bank Law.
Amendiiii; the banking luw by pro¬ viding tlial credit unions may invest monies received by them and not loan¬ ed to their niembers. In securities whicii are invested in liy savings banks.
Heappropriating $4'.>0,444.37 for the uso of tlie- I'alisiide terstatc commis¬ sion.
Amending the domeslic relations law by periultting a divorcee wbo has been jlivorcetl in another state to remarry in tills stute jifter live years.
Apiiruiirialini; .i;i.")0,(J<X) for the repair of the mccliiiniciil structures along tiii! canals of the state.
Aniendiii'.; the county law so as to IKTinit I'.-iinilicM of deceased soldiers or sailors of the luitetl States to be given county aid.
.\ppropriiitiiig $l.r>;54.277 for thc state commission of highways to maintain and repair iini'lic iiiglnvays Improved or coii!iJj,-ucled by state aid.
Appropriating .1;l'.:'.<mm)(Xi for the state commission of highways to improve public bighwiiys conslrucied by slate aid.
Appropriating $.">«>.000 for tlie purjioso of suppressing contagious diseases among cattle and suppressing Insect [lests.
Changes In Compensation Law.
Amending the conipen.s.-ition law by permitting direct paynient ^if claims for Injury to employees by the oiu- ployer.
AmeiKliiiL: the couiiiensatiou law by permitting employers to advance mon¬ ey fo iiijiin-d employees at their own risk.
.Vuieiidiii^' the comiiciisation law by abollsliinir self insurance liy employers.
.Viueiifliii;; the public liealtli law by making the \ accination of luiliilc school children in cithss of the third cla.ss and In rural districts compulsory only In the event of local eiiidemlcs.
.\ppi-opriaiiiii; .'«;i..s.so.o(H» for paying tlie share ot [lie state of the cost of repairs in lii;.'lnvays.
.Vr>iir"priaiiiig .$ I:j.'i.(IOO for the work- ineirs coniiieiisation coniinission.
.\iiieiiding the military law by per¬ mitting men over forl.v-tive yoars of age to enlist iu the national guard. Ten Millions For Roads.
.Xpiiropriatiiig .SIo.O^hi.ixio to con¬ struct and improve public liigliwaj's.
,I'roviding Ibal the Interest rale on state lionds lor Iiighway and canal purposes shall not exceed 4'/j per cent.
Uepealiiig tlie law governing bousiug conditions in cities of tlie second class.
Auiendiiig tiie civil service law by perniit ting provisional emiiloyees lo Ull vacancies In the competitive class of the civil servU'c until appropriate eligi¬ ble lists are prepared.
rroviiiiiig for the establisiiinout of local boards of welfare, wliich boards may decide whether widowed mothers with children sliall be giveu a sum eiiual to that which would be required for file niaiiitenance . her child or children at a charital'ii; institution.
Strikiii'j; out the hulf fee provision for regisici'lng motor vehicles used for Iileasure. which have already lieen reg¬ istered for four successive years.
Transfeiring to the state iiepartment of labor the powers and duties of en¬ forcing the provisions of the law rela¬ tive to tbe prevention of and tlie pro lection againsi lire, heretofore exer¬ cised by the stato flre marshal.
I'rovldiug that there sball be a re¬ serve list for noncommisshmed oflacei"s and reserve list men In the national guard.
I'roviding that it .shall be discretion¬ ary with the nianaAs of state pri.soiis to pay a"t exceeding 20 cents a day to convicts.
Making if a misdemear'.r to sell any article of meat by representing the .<ame to lie •¦kosh,'>r" unless It Is pre¬ pared under rules .'.anctloned by the ortho<lox Hebrew requirements.
Establishing new Improvements rela¬ tive fo fhe grade and sale of apples.
Providing that a peace officer or offl¬ cer or constable of a town shall have power to forbid the sale or giving away of liquor to certain persons by a notice In writing.
Reducing the number of days from fourteeu to seven the period after dla- ebility during wbicb no compensatloo tan be paid to an injured employee.
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