The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-07
GREATER NEW YORK
Constitutional Amendments
Probably Carried by the
Popular Vote.
ApPORTIoNMENT VERY CLOSE.
Rapid Transit and Other Features
of the New Constitution
Yoke for Dcmocracy's Neck.

NEW YORK, Nov. Z. 1Sst.-Returns
for the vote in this city and BROOKLYN
on the Greater New York" scheme IN
dicate that a majority of the votes have
been cast in favor of consolidation.
A tabulation of the returns al Police
Headquarters this morning shows tnat
the vote in this city on the consolidation
issue is, in round figures. uS,0oO for ana
5000 against.
In Brooklyn the latest returns snoW d
total vote of 54,695 for and 52,921 against
the proposition, which makes it evident
that the people of the two cities nave
given approval to the plan OF consol-
dating the two municipalities by a gooo
majority.
In Long Island City twenty out OF
twenty-five districts give a majority OF
L,s4S for consolidation.
CITIES TO BE CONSOLIDATED.
The cities to be consolidated include
New York, Brooklyn and Long Island
City; then Richmond County and the
towns of Westchester, Flushing, New
town and jamaica; and there Is aiso
covered under the provisions OF the Dill
those portions of the towns OF EAST
chester and Pelham which lie southerly
of a straight line drawn from the point
where the northerly line of the CITY OF
New York meets the centre lint OF the
Bronx River to the middle of the channel
between Glen Island and Hunters Island
in Long Island Sound, together with
that part of the Town of Hampstead
which is westerly of a straight line
drawn from the southeasterly point OF
the Town of Flushing, through the mid
die of the channel between Roekaway
Beach and Shelter Island to the Atlantic
Ocean.
RAPID TRANSIT CARRIED.
According to returns received at Police
Headquarters and tabulated this morn
ing, it is evident that the Rapid Transit
question has been decided by the voters
in favor of the city building an under
ground railroad.
That the people insist upon municipal
construction of an underground railway
in this city, which means fifteen minutes
to Harlem, was further emphasized at
IL o'clock today, when $50 election dis
tricts gave 1854 votes for and l,Sf7
against the measure.
The result of the vote is final, and
binding. 1t positively determines the
subject, and the city now builds the
road.
A count made this morning of the
vote cast for and against the proposed
amendments to the Constitution indicates
thai all the propositions are carried
in this city.
The question Of apportionment. so far
as figures at IL o'clock today, when 40
districts had been heard from, shows a
small margin in favor of the measure,
the vote being, in those districts, 20,530
for and 1902 against
BY the adoption of the constitutional
amendments, the Legislature has now
the power to abolish the Office OF Coro-
ner; bills must be printed three days be-
fore passage; more than 5000 damages
may now be obtained in case of death;
the Speaker of the Assembly has power
to fill vacancy as Governor after Lieu
tenant-G Governor; the President of the
Senate may act as observation-disclosures;
inmates of private charitable institutions
do not acquire or lose a residence for the
purpose of voting; the Onondaga salt
springs may be sold; machines to regis
ter a vote may be used instead of the
ballot; the Code Commission is no more;
riders are not permitted on appropria-
llOu Ul1lS, d HEdI Illus Oc d liz
for ninety days before he can vote; the
Legislature meets on the first Wednes-
day in January; railway, telegraph and
telephone companies must not give
passes to public officials; prison labor
must not conflict with free labor; election
boards must be bipartisan; public money
cannot be used to aid sectarian schools;
the Superior Court is consolidated with
the Supreme Court; timber must not be
of the State; registry of voters forms
part of the Constitutions; State n mu-
nicipal elections wiz be changed; there
may be separate municipal elections; the
Hamburg Canal, in Buffalo, may be
sold; the Legislature must not pass
mandatory laws compelling the payment
of public money to private institutions;
limitation will be placed upon city and
county debts; Civil Service reform is
part of the Constitution: agricultural
lands may be drained by the State; pool
selling, book-making and other forms of
gambling are prohibited; there will be
a naval State force of not less than 10000
men; there will be next year fifty State
Senators and $50 A~ssemblymen, but no
county can have more than one-third
the Senators, nor any two adjoining
counties have more than one-half; the
Legislature may improve the canals if it
can do SO without borrowing money for
the purpose.
The new Constitution goes into effect
January l next.