Albany Votes $350,000 for Panel Investigating City

ALBANY, March 8—The Republican‐controlled Legislature tonight approved a $350,000 appropriation for the state commission investigating New York's City's governmental operations after a debate centering on the feud between Governor Rockefeller and Mayor Lindsay.

The appropriation for the commission headed by Stuart N. Scott was approved, as part of a $27‐million deficiency budget submitted by the Governor to cover unanticipated expenditures in the current state budget.

The measure also included $5‐million for repairs to the Attica Correctional Facility and for the investigation of the rebellion at Attica last September. Also approved was $12million for park and recreation facilities to be developed near the site of a pollution‐control project in northern Manhattan on the Hudson River.

The vote for the appropriations was 35 to 17 in the Senate and 93‐54 in the Assembly.

The Assembly rejected move to kill the appropriation fort the so‐called Scott Commission, which had already been reduced by $100,000, by the Governor. All but a handful of the 71 Assembly Democrats voted to strike the commission funds out of the budget bill.

Earlier, the Senate minority leader, Joseph Zaretzki of Manhattan, said his party's leaders and the Governor's office were still discussing the possibility of placing on the Scott Commission persons acceptable to the Democrats, The panel, which was created by the, Legislature last June, was appointed by the Governor

In the debate on the Scott Commission, Democrats generally attacked the appropriation while Republicans defended it.

“Nobody believes what it's doing,” Mr. Zaretzki said of the commission, which is scheduled to receive $950,000 more in the budget the Governor proposed for the fiscal year beginning April 1. The deficiency appropriation is to cover the panel's expenses through March 31.

Senator Manfred Ohrenstein, a Manhattan Democrat, seemed to summarize the feelings of many of the lawmakers on the political feud between the Governor when he said: “This is an idiotic fight involving the pet peeves of two fighting cocks.”

Senate Majority Leader Earl W. Brydges, Niagara Falls Republican, drew chuckles from his colleagues when he said that the Governor “harbors no ill whatsoever” toward the Mayor.

In a mmorandum to the legislators urging defeat of the appropriation, Richard A. Brown, the city's legislative representative in Albany, noted that no city administrator or commissioner had been requested to begin discusion with the Scott Commission, which he maintained were “essential to any serious examination into the structure of city government.”

The Governor's office countered by stating that Mr. Brown's words were “probably the only public memorandum in legislative history to literally and explicity oppose a major effort by the state, to improve the quality of life for each of the eight million people of New York City.”

In the Assembly, the Democrats who opposed the commission appropriation sought to disassociate themselves from the Lindsay‐Rockefeller dispute. But one of them, Leonard P. Stavisky of Queens, recalled and deplored the Governor's State of the State message of Jan. 18. In the message, the Governor suggested that New York City could be run better by an old‐line political machine than by Mayor Lindsay.

Assemblyman Guy R. Brewer, a Queens Democrat, drew laughs and applause from both sides of the aisle when he said “I will vote for an appropriation for an. investigation of the Scott Commission.

James L. Emery, Republican of Geneseo, said the commission was needed because “there is more corruption in that city than in any other city in the country.”

Counsel Is Named

Maurice Nadjari, the chief assistant district attorney of Suffolk County, has been appointed general counsel to the Scott Commission to replace John R. Bartels Jr., who resigned from the post last month.

Mr. Nadjari, who is 47 Years old, said he would take a leave of absence from his Suffolk position to work for the commission, at a salary he placed “in excess of $40,000.”