New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-16
PROGRESS|VES PLAN TO
ENACT PARTY PLEDGES
Will Push Platform Promises
Through Legislative
Committees.
CHANCE IN PENNSYLVANIA
Programme of Drastic Reform
in That State To Be Fol-
lowed Here After Joint
Conference.


William II. Hotchkiss, the Progressive
state chairman, announced yesterday the
personnel OF the legislative committee Of
the Progressive party which will have
in charge this winter the drafting and in
| PRODUCTION into the Legislature of that
brand Of legislation for which the party
stands similar committee has been
appointed in Pennsylvania
80 far as we know" said he. the APP
pointment of permanent Legislative COM
mittees in Pennsylvania and New York
is the first effort made by recognized
parties to frame bills in advance repre-
senting platform promises in political con-
ventions.''
Oscar S. Straus, permanent chairman
of the state convention. designated he
following nine persons as members of the
New York committee: Carlos {. Alden.
dean of the Buffalo Law School; Frederick
NJ. Davenport. OF Clinton. lately Progress
sive candidate for Lieutenant Governor;
ex-Assemblyman James J. Fitzgerald, OF
New York; State Chairman HotchKss'
Professor Samuel McCune Lindsay, of Co
lumbia: William L. Ransom, Of New YORK:
Miss Lillian D. Wald, head Of the Henry
Street Settlement; Horace S. Wilkinson,
of Syracuse. president OF the Great Lakes
Steamship Company, and Horace +. Cook,
OF Canton, dean OF the School OF Agri-
culture at st. Lawrence University
Plan Sweeping Reform Bill.
The resolution adopted at the Syracuse
convention empowering the permanent
chairman TO appoint this committee pro
yided that the committee itself nave inc
authority to appoint six more memoerS'
This IL expects to do when IL meets heNt
Tuesday In conjunction with the meeuhs
of the Progressive State Committee cdieu
for that day. II also provided tha' '"o
committee hold Office until the cohNcni"e
Of the next state convention of the party.
II Is understood that the committee Oh
fifteen will bring to its assistance seVeraI
adjunct committees on draft TO prepare
bills to be introduced into the Legislature
on such subjects as the direct prliha'S'
including the direct election OF senators
ard the Presidential preference primary
rorrrIrt practices at elections REFORM III
legislative procedure corporation control
hours ~ labor. minimum wage WORK
mems compensation, state budget anu
state printing, and for the imneai''e
calling Of the constitutional convention
10 take I'D the short ballot, woman SUI
frage initiative. referendum and recall;
and other proposed measures OF reioi"'
advocated by ProgressiSes.
The Republican Progressiye) Conveh-
ton Of Pennsylvania which met IN mar
risburg on May last, before the orsah'z-
alton Of the Progressive party adopted
similar resolutions. and the work OF us
executive and legislative committee uhuer
the leadership OF Dean William Draper
Lewis Of the University Of Pennsylvania
chairman OF the committee on resoIu-
lions Of the Progressive National Con-
yention. is now we'll along.
Tentative drafts OF bills TO be intro
duced in the 1918 Legislature oil Penn
sylyania have already been prepared on
primary elections. expenditure OF money
i'm elections and employment OF minors.
The PENNSYLVANIA committee II now AT
work on hill for the regulation or hours
of employment for women, one to prevent
the sale OF stocks In fraudulent corpora
tIons. another to create department or
charities and others to bring about an
effective public utilities law and TO es-
tablish workmcn's compensation.
Joint Conference Probable.
II is not unlikely that the Pennsyl-
yauia and New York committees Will
meet shortly in conference relative to the
proposed legislation. Reports received
from Pennsylvania indicate that the bills
drafted and to be drafted by the com
mittcc I'm that state have a good chance
Of enactment by the Legislature OF 1913
Mr. Hotchkiss, with the latest returns
Of the popular vote in this state before
him, did some figuring yesterday. lie
found on a basis OF percentages Of the
total vote cast for the Presidential can
didates. that these counties were. in the
order given, the Progressive stronghoids;
Nassau, Chautauqua, Erie, Kings New
York. Monroe. Suffolk, Wyoming. Ale
gheny. queens. Westchester. Lonph,ns;
Rockland and Oswego. AS compared
with Their strength In 1905, the Republi-
cans suffered a loss OF 10 $40 per cent IN
Nassau, he said, while the Democrats
gained 3 per cent there This was
the largest Republican loss. In Albany
County, on the other hand, where the
Republicans polled the largest percentage
OF the total vote, the Progressiyes made
their worst showing, or rather next to
their worst showing, the weakest Pro-
gressIve county being Schoharie.
The heaviest Democratic loss, accord
ing TO the chairmans figures. occurred
I'm Oneida County. and amounted 20
per cent For the whole state, however.
the Democrats gained y OF ! per cent
of the total vote, as compared with the
Presidential vote cast In 1903. while the
Republicans lost &c $40 Ter cent.
Colonel Roosevelt has been Invited to
attend the state committee meeting on
Tuesday
MO0SE WANT HALF JERSEY