Viewing page 97 of 128

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 4, 1970 L+ 37

Albany Allows C.P.A.’s To Keep Silent on Clients
By FRANCIS X. CLINES
Special to The New York Times

ALBANY, March 3——Final legislative approval was voted today on a bill to assure that communications between certified public accountants and their clients would not be divulged.

The measure, which was sent to Governor Rockefeller, was approved 29 to 22 in the Senate amid complaints by opponents that it would foil investigations into organized crime.

Under the bill, accountants and their clients could not be compelled at trials or hearings to disclose confidential communications. This is the same privilege granted to lawyers and their clients.

Senator John D. Caemmerer, Republican of Nassau County, who supported the measure, argued that the bill was required by complexities of modern business life, in which an accountant was often as much a confidante as a lawyer. There is "absolutely no intent to assist organized crime", Mr. Caemmerer declared.

However, Senator Abraham Bernstein, Democrat of the

been one of the leaders against changing the abortion law and a spokesman emphasized today that this was still the case. The point of the bill, the spokesman added, was to evolve a measure meeting certain reservations of the Senator, such as a definition of when a fetus should be inviolable, so that he might permit it to reach the Senate floor.

In all probability, the spokesman added, the majority leader would still vote against reform.

The Senate judiciary subcommittee on the Family Court issue a report today describing "feelings of remoteness and lack of support" between Family Court judges and probation personnel.

The report, which was released by Senator Bernard G. Gordon, Republican of Peekskill, recommended that permanent, "authoritative" units be set up in the Appellate Division to take over day-to-day administration of the Family Court, described as the "stepchild" of the judiciary.

California System Praised

A statewide study of the probation system was proposed, along with a study of California's system, which Senator Gordon described as promising. That system, he said, provides subsidies for counties to expand their probation facilities and retain local control, rather than launching state construction programs for new facilities.

The Assembly put off a heavy slate of business until tomorrow, adjourning after a round of praise for visiting officers from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

A resolution proclaiming March 16 "West Point Day" was approved unanimously by both houses and sent to Governor Rockefeller for signature. 
The date will be the 168th anniversary of the establishment of the military academy.

The ceremonies today in both houses of the Legislature were attended by Maj. Gen. Samuel W. Koster, superintendent of West Point, several members of his staff, and the brigade commander of the Corps of Cadets, First Capt. John R. Connors of Floral Park, L. I.

Twenty-nine Republicans in the Assembly announced a resolution that called on the State University Center at Albany to 

In a hurry to get to Scandinavia?
[[image]]
SAS is at your service

Monday

Transcription Notes:
[[image: picture of SAS flight attendant in front of SAS plane tail]] ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-09-06 18:51:12 .