The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-04
Six Articles Completed and
Passed by the Con-
ventiOn.
20 AMENDMENTS
FOR OLD SECTIONS
Root Names Committee to
Address the People. H.
viting Support.

ALBANY, Sept. s.-when the CoEs:l-
e,tionsl Convention adjourned tonight
! until Tomorrow. when its work will be
completed. it had passed all but two or
three of the amendments to the Con-
sutution which are to be enacted.
Six complete articles were adopted,
the Tanner plan. reorganizing the state
government and recognizing the short
ballot the executive budget, the judi
ciary article, the taxation article. the
conservation article and the home rule
for cities article. Twenty-eight bills
we're c,vored. amending threescore
sections OF the Constitution.
The convention adopted resolutions
to-day providing for the appointment by
President Root OF a committee OF seven
10 draft an address to the people. in
vitins their support at the polls for the
revised Constitution and "A committee of
I'VE TO determine upon the manner In
4 which the revised Constitution shall be
. submitted. whether as whole or IL
certain debatable amendments shall be
submitted separately so as not to endan-
ger the whole work OF the convention at
the polls.
one Of the anne ndments which will he
admitted separately is the tax article.
hsoause /, is feared the farmers will
oppose the provision which would per-
nit the STATE Tax Commission instead
OF the local assessors to value the per-
sonal property OH the farms, like the
cattle and agricultural implements.
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can neyer have more than half Of the
aftv members of the State Senate no
matter how big their population may be-
come
In view OF the fact that this limitation
ssainst New York city, which in effect
declares that the city liz to be taxed with
out representation in the Legislature on
an equality with the rest of the state.
means that the Democrats OF the State
must oppose the revised Constitution, in
the opinion of William F. Sheehan, who
declared to-day that IL the Democrats
voted for il they would condone the
crime of the 1894 constitutional conven-
ton" which put In the Constitution the
provision that New York city could never
have more than half Of the State Senate
membership.
As approved the article was prac-
tcally taken out OF the hands of Chair
man Bracketts committee, which framed
H. and amended in accordance with the
desire of the Federal crowd. Inc Leg
islsture which meets next January VIII
reapportion the senate anu Assembly,
districts along lines iaid aown III u,e
present constitution. wh'ch p'"t.l.ang
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constitution
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The afternoon and evening sessions
were largely spent in discussing the bill
OF rights article. which came from the
committee OF which Louis Marshall Is
chairman. At the outset the convention
BY a vote OF SO to so struck out a pro-
vision desired by the labor leaders pro-
Nding that where the militia Is called
out on strike riots military court shall
not exercise Jurisdiction over civilian
while the regularly constituted state
courts are open to administer justice.
The amendment was attacked by Al.
met X. Latson, De Lancey Nicoll and
Andrew f. Tuck of Rochester, VINO
pointed out that the present state mill
tary regulations accomplished the end
which the proposed constitutional
amendment sought to attain and that
therefore It was unnecessary. william
Barnes, George w. Wlckersham Herbert
Parsons, Alfred T.. Smith, Senator Wag-
ner and Morgan J. O'Bren were among
those delegates who voted to retain the
provision.
In explaining the provisions of the
bill Of rights article which permits pri-
vatc property to be taken by the State
water storage reservoirs. the cost OF the