The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-03
STATE
AND O BALLOT WIN
Tanner Plan Gets 124 Votes to 30-Home Rule on Sink
ing Fund Bonds and Tenement Factory
Regulation Passed.

SNPNs
10 80. the Constitutional Convention
adopted tonight the short ballot and
State government reorganization scheme
Fourteen Democrats united with Rus
sell Virgins of Middletown and r. b.
! Smith Of Syracuse. the leaders Of the
opposition. with fourteen other Republi-
cans in voting against the article. While
there was no debate upon the plan In
the convention tonight. the roll call
consumed more than An hour because
30 many members explained their votes.
Among those who voted against It
were Edgar T. Bracket. Charles II.
Belts, Thomas A. Kirby, Thomas NJ
Mulry. Lemuel Ely Quigg and Judge
Merrick Stowell of Oswego.
Arthur J. Baldwin OF New York was
the FIRST to explain his negative vote.
declaring that the stockholders OF the
New York. New Haven and Hartford
and the Rock Island have enjoyed the
short ballot for some time and he did
not favor such rule.
william Barnes said he wished to ex-
plain his vote because he agreed en-
tirely with MIR. Baldwin in his premise
but disagreed entirely I'm his conclusion.
Praise From Barncs.
Although this proposal may be ap-
parently clothed In aristocratic gar
ments." he said. at is a proper classi-
~ication Of the departments OF the State.
and with possibly one exception a
prope provision for the election OF State
officers.
Seth Low said
II have lived all my life in the United
States. where the President has enjoyed
always the powers that we now propose
to give at last to our Governor. Most
OF my life I have lived In cities where
the Mayor has had this same power. |
have seen the government Of the great
city where | now live greatly improved
under his system. and the people secure
control OF their government which they
never had before. II is my hope and
expectation that this same Improvement
will be found In the State under this
proposal"
The convention also passed tonight
the bill designed to give cities home
rule In the matter OF issuing serial or
sinking fund bonds the committee on
nance bill providing that no money
shall be appropriated for the construc-
ton or improvement Of n building.
bridge, highway. dixie. canal or feeder
until the Superintendent OF Public
Works repares plans and certifies Its
cost to the Secretary Of State the bill
reported from the committee on future
amendments, which provides for the
consideration OF constitutional amend
ments In Joint session by the Legislature.
the submission OF the question OF hold
ing a constitutional convention twenty
years after the previous submission and
providing that II the women's suffrage
amendment passed by the Legislature is
adopted by the people II shall become
a part of the revised Constitution pro-
yiding home rule for counties by permit
ting the Legislature to establish diner
ent forms of county government n
prohibiting local or special county laws
except upon the request Of the govern
ing body OF the county the amendments
proposed by the committee on legisla-
tive powers, providing for printing daily
the journal and debates in the Senate
and Assembly and prohibiting the Legis-
lature from passing private claim bills
against the State or any civil division.
Tenement Regulations.
Manufacturing in tenements may be
regulated or prohibited by the Legis-
lature under Herbert Parsons's amend
ment, advanced to the order OF hnal
passage to-day by the convention.
The aim OF the amendment. 1t was
stated, was to prevent the spread OF
contagious diseases through articles
made in teneIsents and to regulate the
employment OF women and children at
such work on the plea that the man
OF the family In some instances spends
his time in the corner saloon while his
wife and children slave for him night
and day.
The opposition declared IT wa an at
tempt to shut out work in the tene-
ments to help the rental of loft build
ings
This is an abridGement of the fun
d~arental individual right of man to
earn his own living in his own way"
said Mr.. Barnes.
Judge Clearwater said that under
wear manufactured in Il New York
city tenement under rdlnary condi-
tons caused an epidemic of typhoid
fever in his county in which 1877 per-
sons were stricken and eleven died.
The large majority OF the dw-llcrs
in tenement houses" said Louis Mar