The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1920, Page 3

MHL TO CHEK RENT GOUCERSIN DESPITE SWEET Speaker in Stormy Scene With Lockwood Threatens Whole | Programme. HE WANTED ALL CREDIT., Real Estate Men Oppose All but Two of the Nine Measures, (pectet From » Sart Correspondent of The Fre wing World.) ! ALBANY, March 18.—A large at- tendance is looked for on next Tues-' day afternoon when the hearing is held on the rent bills presented yes- | terday to both Houses by the Lock-| wood Committee on Housing, and it is expected that there will be protests , against the proposed changes in the | renting laws, some of which are rad- | toa, i “But,” said one of the committee to-day, “we had to be radical because of the strenuous situation that con- | fronts us. The committee believes it has adequately covered the situation. | Not less than seventy-one bills were hefore us for consideration and out of this mass we prepared the measures we have submitted. | “The bills now before the Legisia- Tature must be considered as one} Measure, for what may be lacking in, one will be found taken care of in another. | “Rellef for the tenant lies to a great | extent in his own hands. The trouble hag been that tenants have overbid one another for apartments, stores and offices. We found in our investigaton that persons desiring apartments | would go to janitors and offer all| kinds of bonuses in addition to a fat imerease in the rent. A combine of tenants, all acting in good faith, would certainly help to solve this problem." Edward P. Doyle, Chairman of the Budget Committee of the Real Estate Board of New York, takes issue with good in only two of the bills. Mr. Doyle favors the passage of laws pre- | venting savings banks and life insur- ance companies from depositing their moneys in national or State banks which loan money on calJ or Stock Exchange securities. “Institutions which should loan on real estate to the limit,” he says, “are | now placing funds with institutions! which specialize in call loans in Wall} Street.” Another remedy which Mr. | Doyle sv. ‘sts is the pasvas of an! industrial commission bill based on the Kansts law, making lockouts and strikes impossible. | “The bills submitted by the Housing | Committee,” said Mr. Doyle to-day, will afford’ no adequate solution of | the unsatisfactory situation in New York. Only two have merit. One is that which makes a monthly tenant a statuto lessee for a year. The other isthe plan to exempt mortgages up to $40,000 from the income tax. “New York City alone needs 160,000 | new apartments. With bricklayers on a strike, with the Allied Trades Coun- cil insisting that steel frames erected by non-union labor be torn down, and with the stevedores’ strike keeping all building materials out of New York City, building new apartments is im- possible. If such conditions continue will men invest money in building? “Help building, and put the least possible difficulties in the way of| ownership, and the law of supply ana} demand will soon settie the whole question.” Senator Barney Downing is stroag for the clause in the consolidated | Sineasure which repeals the Ottinger | act eliminating verbal leases. 'T law, according to the Senator, was re- sponsible, more than any other agen- cy, for the regime of rent profiteer- ing, for it allowed the landlord to kick out a month-to-month tenant any time he refused to pay more rent Now a month-to-month tenant will enjoy the privileges of one with a year's lease. SWEET THREATENS TO KILL| ANTI-RENT GOUGING BILLS. | Real estate interésta opposed to the | ~anti-rent gouging bills are cheered by a threat said to have been made} by Speaker Sweet to kill’ the whole} nti-rent gouging programme because | Re wanted all the credit for such Aeasures and “some one had stolen | from him,” Ants to run for Governor this fall on | the Republican ticket, and it is sug- | gested that he figured on getting the! support of the up-Siate “drys” by his opposition to beer, and then offset the enmity of city “wets” by claiming | credit for saving them from rent | profiteers. | Anyway, he summoned Senator | Charles C. Lockwood, Republican, of Brooklyn, to his room yesterday and | undertook to censure him for having “gtolen” his anti-rent profiteering | bil weet," said Senator Lockwood, | following his interview with the! Speaker, “was indignant because he had not been given credit for the preparation of the Housing Commit- tee’e bills and threatened to kill them. They are not my ls, ag I pointed out to him. Lf told him they were the flousing Committee's bills mG net introduced to promote any . é ae dasa - Ellen Terry, the Famed Actress, Photographed on 72d Birthday Cae PSs ed OPorawoon Ave Unceaweon eS TWO OF SHEVLIN'S the Lockwood committee and sees| Accused of Extorting. Money |o¢ the agents. From Saloon Mc- — —la | which was already acute: What pre- cautions are taki authority of the ito detectives assign in Nai stead Act with other saloon kee ally communi Werbe arrested two men who de-|* | scribed themselves us William A. Smith, No. 91 Greenpoint Avenue, | Brooklyn, and John Sill, No, 439 Ever- green Avenue, Ridgewood. They James S$ Shevlin, Supervising Pro-|were locked up at the Long Island hibition Enforcement Agent for this district, found two more of his sub- ordinates in trouble this morning. City Police Station on charges of extortion, and Shevlin sent Depu'y Enforcement Agent Allen to Brouk- lyn to investigate. United States District Attorney This time the charge is grafting. In| Ross induced the police to hand the ..|men over to the Feder the earlier case, that of Stewart Mc-| foxy ‘said that if they Mullin, murder is the charge. | prisoners of the State it would be his | The growing number of complaints | gives new impetus to the question| them and would. person's political fortunes, but rather | to solve a very serious situation. “Sweet's idea of solving the great housing problem is to inerea the legal rate of int t on mortgage | loans from 6 per cent. to 9 per cent. | Such a rate, if enacted into our law, would be nothing short of legalized usury, and I for one would not stand for it. And I don't think a corporal’s guard could be mustered behind such an absurd proposition.” He said that when he entered Sweet's office the Speaker demanded to know why he had stolen the} Speaker's ideas. Lockwood said Sweet contended he had the Legislative Bill Dratting Committee working for the last two weeks on. the bills “stolen” by the Housing Committee. Then, according to Lockwood, this colloquy ensued: Lockwood—Why, the Housing Com~ mittee has had the bill draughting committee working on these ‘bills for | months. The Speaker— 1 made public my kK ago. The Senat ny Walker (Dem- ader) and Henry n Senate Leader) Walters (Republic can’t ignore me Lockwood—No one has alighted you. No one has jgnored you. We invited you to attend the conferences on four different occasions. I myself invited you twice and you did not come, The Speaker summoned to his room ater all Assemblymen who introduced pills intended to lower rents. Follow- ing this Assemblyman. Franklin 8S. Judson, Chairman of the Committee ‘on Taxation, introduced four of the eight biils to curb the rapacity of landlords. These bills, when pre- ented in the Senate, were marked s having been introduced by the Housing Committee. Judson intro- duced them in thé Lower House over his own sig Cl package of 2 ‘nue, Long Island City, w io WORE TCANETTES duty to defend them, but that as Fed- eral prisoners he could prosecute Ross said the prisoners were iden- tified by three saloon keepers, Petor Sweet, No. 120 Montgomery Avenue, Laurel Hill, who said he paid $10; Tony Petrasrka, No. 82 Flushing Ave- he paid $20, and Leonard Ha Clifton and Borden Avenues Island City, who said he paid $5. The complaint by Sweet,-Mr. Ross said, is strengthened by the testimony of Mrs. weet, who said she saw the money change hands. McMullin, the ex-convict and pro- hibition agent who killed Harry ¢ ton a week ago in a whiskey shooting him in the back of the was armigned before Judge Malone in the Court of General Sessions to- day on an indictment charging first degree murder. At MoMullin’s arraignment Assis- tant United tes District Attorney james S, Johnson told Judge Malone that United States Attorney F. G Caffey had “sent him to look out for the interests of the prisoner.” ‘Then I understand that the cused is represented by Mr, Caffey.” M Johnson, entered on liye attorney frey's the record as MoN ection for Capt, Baynes, vening World on March a report that Supre Justice Finch had granted a divor: concerned vorce action has been brought by either of the parties above against the other, although Mrs has brought an ‘action, for sep pHa ynes, whic stil! is also plaintiff in a suit 1 son Lockwood fo her husband's a granted by J) ai March 1 Finch on 1 was in an ac- gon brought by Ruth M. Bayne against H. Rayne, It was an inter- ment confirming the repo: Pure for 25 day, company’s collapse. Ne pany nor the lessor would consent systems and lines could be dispensed with Comptroller Craig intimated the city has in mind the operation of municipal bus system along through lines now used by the north the} and south bound lines of the eral Government | York 1 to prohibition] would ted | vated s and sent|trafMfc from the surface line; Detective Werbve to get on the trail] creased use of streets, decrease of whereas the total appraised is $28,- speed adding to the cost, use of au- 920,37 SEVENTH ABUSE RUNY CITYHINT ~ATCAR MUIR New York Railway Co. Col- | ‘lapse Laid to High Rentals for Its Leased Lines. 'T. Wood Déudon, Deputy Commis- sioner of Accounts, told the Board of | Estimate at the traction inquiry to- that the New York Railways Company paid $15,863,000 in rentals for its leased lines from Jan. 1, 1912 to ‘Dec. $1, 1919, and that this financial | burden was the principal cause of the her the com- {to @ decrease in the rentals, Mr, Lou- {don said | Comptroller Craig requested | data be distributed to show traffic on |the New York Railways lines In the event the city contemplated universal | operation of all subway, elevated and surface, at.a uniform fare. | proaching snoh a condition the Comp- | troller explained it would be necessary \to have available statistics to Indi- cate how the traffic is diverted. poration Counsel Burr said this in- formation would be forthcoming. ‘Testimony indicated that only the crosstown lines of the New York} Railways are essential transportation 8 that the longitudinal | eration Railways Company. In ap- include the Broadway duty? Seventh Avenue line now said to be | value of the four car lines owned out- | Several Long Island City saloon] operated at @ financial loss and even| right by the Now York I lkeepers called up Police Capt. Mc-| With an 8-cent fare would not be | Company, according to Stone & Web- om Nally there yesterday and told him profitable. Conditions responsible for the pres-| standing bond obligations amount to ja pair of ‘Federal agents had been f |demanding money as the price of im-|ent plight of the company were laid | $9,850,000, showing that the appraised }munity from arrest under the Vol-|by the witness to subways and*ele- | value is only 60 per cent. af the out- | MoNé edhe vd systems which are diverting | standing obligations. 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