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ALLEGANY COUNTY NEWS. WHITESVILLE. N. Y. iC SECESSION TALK i OONIfENTION City Oes^erats Want Hipressnlation. More MID-AUGOST ADJOURIMENT Secretary of S t a te M ust H a v e Report B e fore Aug. 16 In Order to P r o m u l gate Results Properly—Former Gov ernor Glynn Gives Committee His V iew s on S t a te F inances— Church ^ T a x a tioi. D iscussed. [Special Correspondence.] Rising: again, as it has many times in lecent years, the question of the erec*- <ion of New York city into a separate state inserted itself into the proceed ings of the conveiLtion being held in Albany to revise the state constitution. William F. Sheehan, Morgan J. O’Bri en and Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York led a fight to get the consti tutional convention to approve the O’Brien resolution striking from the constitution the limitation imposed on New York city’s representation in the legislature. For threb and one-half hours there was a hot debate on this proposition, the Democrats threatening defeat I'o;) all proposals of the convention if the restrictions are not removed and Mr. Sheehan declaring that refusal to change the present wording of the con stitution would lead to the formation of a movement to create New York city as a state apart from New York state. R e p u b licans Uphold R e strictions. A s m o s t N e w York city Rei)ul)licans are opposed to the rem o v ing o f th e re- istrictions on New Yoriv’s representa tion in th e legislatu r e , the efforts of Mr. O’Brien and th e D e m o c r a ts are Kure to be defeated. Seth Low, the first o f th e N e w York R e p u b licans to sp e a k on th e su b ject, voiced opposition to the removal of the restriction clauses. T h e R e p u b licans take th e attitu d e that New York must be prevented from obtaining,control of the state be cause “localities must be protected from majorities.” After an all day debate the constitu tional convention, by a vote of 92 to 82, turned down a plea made on behalf of New Y'ork city for representation in the state senate in proportion to its ^ population. A clause inserted in the organic law by the constitutional con vention of 1894 hai-s the city from what the Democratic members of the present convention declare to be its rights. | The vote was the first one taken by ' roll call in the constitutional conven- j tion. The Reiiubllcans presented an ’ unbroken front in opposition to the change for which the Democratic dele gates were clamoring. One Republican delegate, Richard E. Weber of Brooklyn, voted with the Democrats on the roll call, but later asked to have his vote changed. Two Democratic delegates, Andrew McLean, Brooklyn editor, and Charles Schoou- hut of Buffalo, voted with the Repub licans. Mr. Mcl,ean made a spirited speech in which he urgetl that neither side was wholly right and that some way ought to be found to settle the ques tion at issue on a compromise basis. M ust Adjourn by Aug. 16. Persons who believed that the con vention now sitting in Albany had “all j the time in the world” to finish up its work and who thought Lemuel E li; Quigg harsh when he said the constitu- j tion makers were wasting time have received a severe shock. | Ohaii-man Elihu Root handed down a j letter he had received from Secretary j of State Francis ]M. Hugo, with in structions to the secretary of the con vention to read it. Secretary Hugo in the communication declared that in or der to promulgate properl.v the result, of the <*onstitutioual convention, as h e ' is requii'ed by law to do when sending * out the official notice for the coming election, he should have the report of the convention not later than Aug. 16, This would make it necessary for the j %onveiitiou to conclude its 'abors and j adjourn sine die on or about that date, j Such an early adjournment would i place an insurmountable obstacle in j the way of reapportioumeut of senate j districts by the convention. Any reap-! portionment made must be based on' the present state census, and Secretary ' Hugo declared that he did not expect | to have the figures iu tabulated form! much before Sept. 1, j Mr. Root and the influential men in ' the convention who follow his leader-! ship have been outspoken in their op-! position to the reapportionment scheme j on the ground that it would tend to in- j fuse partisau polities into the conven-' tion. i L iteracy T e s t For V oters. 1 An educational qualification for vot ers is being pressed for passage by ip. fiuential delegates. The committee on suffrage gave a hearing upon the prop-; ositioa. 1 A compromise amendment that is offered provides that after Jan. 1, 1918, no person shall .acquire the right to vote by attaining majority, by natural ization or otherwise unless such person is able except for physical disability to read or write the English language. Bitterness developed at the hearing before the taxation committee on the proposed amendments to tax all prop erty now exempt. This would mean am impost on all church, educational pMlanthrpplc tostitutloas. j Tu'. :\ii*hoias Murray Butler, presi dent of ( ulumbia university, said; “(’liurclies, educational and philan thropic institutions are public servants, servants of the state and doing public work and as smdi are entitled to the exemiJtion they now enjoy.” Advocates of the bill argued that peo ple who did not believe in any religion should not be compelled to bear any p.nrt of tile burden of the support of churches which were exemxit from tax- To Standardize Food Products. Pleas for an amendment to permit the legislature to establis.u a bureau for the standardization of food prod ucts were made before the iudiistrial relations committee. The Franchot proposal would permit the appomtment of inspectars when it seems necessary or desirable. “The middleman fixes the prices of food prodmds by fixing grades,” Wil liam Church Osborn sajU. “To under stand the method of gi'ading one must make a life study of them. The pro ducer is forced to ship to the middle man blindly and accept pay for what ever grade of produce the buyer de sires to grant him. The state now is powerless to establish a court 'of ap peal! between the producer and the middleman. This is the condition we wish to eradicate.” l Glynn's V iev/s on S t a te Finance. On invitation, ex-Governor Glynn ad dressed the committee on state finances of the constitutional convention, on topics of state finance. lie took issue with ex-President Taft and other au thorities and opposed the “executive budget.” IMr. Gl,ynn said he would have depart ment heads make statements under oath as to the needs of their depart ments thirty days before the legisla ture convened. He would have them divide their demands into necessities, desirable items, and contingencies. The legislature would treat the three separ ately. He would give the governor [)ower to summon before him depart ment heads and cross examine them under oath as to the purposes for whicli the funds asked for w e r e needed. The ' governor in his initial message to the , legislature would be required to dealj with thd^ demands and recommend what items should be allowed. Mr. Glynn would require every legis lator to file with the state comptrollei and the governor a copy of special bills introduced by him and carrying an ap propriation for local purposes, with full explanatoi-y data. He would require the finance committees of the two houses to refrain from reporting any special bills until after the general ap propriation bills had been reported. The ex-governor recommended a con stitutional requirement of a two-thirds vote for all special appropriation bills. He would give the governor power to reduce items in the appropriation bills and send such items back to the legis lature with a statement giving reasons for urging the reduction. The legisla ture would have power to either con cur or restore the old amount and the bill would go back to the governor to permit him to exercise his veto power. Mr. Glynn said that in his opinion the huge surplus in the sinking funds should be made available for the im mediate relief of the taxpayers of to day, who had helped to pile them up. Four Y e a r s For Governor. A four year term for the governor is a proposal that is meeting with wide support in the constitutional conven tion, Present indications are that the committee on state officers will report an amendment embodying this change, with perhaps also a recommendation that the chief executive’s salary be raised from ,$10,000 to $1,'>,000 or $20,- 000. “I have always been heartily in fa vor of making the governor’s term font years instead of two,” said George W. IVickersham. “In two j’ears about all he has time to vio is learn his job.” Prcsiaeiit 8amuel Gumpers of the Amerit-au Federatiou of Labor has submitted a long list of propositions, approved by the New York federation, to the convention. Among them is one providing that the constitution contain a [>rovision that the labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce and that the legislature shall not enact a law and the courts shall not construe a law contrary to this declaration. There are twenty-three other propo sitions on Mr. Gompers’ list. The question of Avhether the present plan of filling places on the bench by election shall give way to the appoin tive system will be submitted to the voters this fall in all probability, ei ther as a part of the revised constitu tion or as a separate referendum. This was learned after the judiciary com mittee of the constitutional convention had listened to arguments in favor ot ;m appointive judiciary made on be half of the New* York City Bar associa tion and the State Bar association. Farm Land L e a ses. Louis yiarshall led a spirited fight hi the constitutional convention against a proposal to strike from the constitu tion Section 13 of Article 1, which pro hibits any lease or gi-aiit of farm land for a iieriod exceeding twelve years H. Le Roy Austin, who represents Mon roe county in the convention, is tht sponsor for the proposal. Before anoth'T* fortnight passes a fight over the state’s forest preserve will develop in the constitutional con j veution in which charges of graft wii ! be made. Upward of twenty proposed | amendment.^ have been introduced aim | ing a f revoking the safeguards thrown around the thousands of acres of va) uable woodland. | There also are propositions before! the convention to permit the state tc I sell its holdings outside of the Adi -1 rondack tad Catskili preserves. ‘ THE VITilL PeOBLEi OF AGRIGULIUHE By Peter Radford. There is no escaping the market problem and the highest development of agriculture will not be attained Until it is solved, for a market iT as necessary for the producer as land on which to grow his crop. Governmental and educational insti tutions have spent $180,000,000 m the United States during the past ten years for improving soil production a-nd improving seeds and plants, but very little attention and less money lias been given to the marketing side of agriculture. The problem is a monumental one and one which will never be solved until it gets within the grasp of a gigantic organization where master minds can concentrate the combined experience and wisdom of the age upon it. It is a problem which the farmers, merchants, bankers, editors and statesmen must unite in solving. The Farmers’ Union stands for all there is in farming from the most i scientific methods of seed selection to j the most systematic and profitable | plans of marketing, but does not be- j lieve in promoting one to the neglect j of the other. We consider the work of farm demonstrators valuable and j we ask that governmental and com- 1 mercial agencies seeking to help us, | continue to give us their assistance . and advice, but we believe that their influence should be extended to the | marketing side of our farm problems ^ also. i We cannot hope to develop manu facturing 'by over-production of the ! factory; we cannot build up mercan tile enterprises by the merchants load ing their shelves with surplus goods and no more can we develop agricul ture by glutting the market with a surplus of products. COOL SUITS FOR SUMMER You can get a good hot-’v^^eather suit here, made of very cool goods— mohair, Palm Beach cloth, silk and wool; very light, porous worsteds, at prices that will give you the best value per dollar you ever had. lari, Scliaffiir & Hare Ciotiies are always a good investment. Get yours now while the getting’s good. SPORT SHIRTS We’ve a fine assortment of the New Sport Shirts made of soft fabrics with French turn back collars and cuffs. They’re ideal shirts ! They particularly new and good things in Men’s Haberdashery are al ways to be found at this store. Clothes Bought of iJs Will foe Pressed and Kept in Repair for One Year Free of Charge STAR CLOTHING HOUSE HorneH H o m e of H a r t, SchafTner & M a r x Clothes 134-136 Main St. HORNELL, N. Y. 4-6 Church St. J Nos. 114 to 118 MAIN SiTREET, HORNELL, N. Y. W; [oney Saving Prices Why Wait Until August For Dress Materials When You Can Get Them Now at Lower Thao “August Prices”. Learn Expert Dressmaking “ C 'asses S tarts T u e s d a y Miss Was'ilarsi the Drexfl fnsliiile, Instructor We are indeed fortunate in securing Miss Washburn to con duct dressmaking classes at this time. She is an instructor at the Drexel Institute of Philadelphia and is not only an expert in the art of teaching dressmaking blit also a designer of patterns. She teaches the individual, each one working independently, thus making it possible for the more experienced to derive as much benefit as the beginner. $2.50, the price t)f the course of Six Lessons, will be more than saved in making a smart gown for yourseK under her direction and the knowledge you gain will prove to be of inestimable value. TJse Any Pattern You Wish ENROLL AT ONCE AND MAKE A BEAUTIFUL GO WN. A Few Unusual Values in Dress Materials One lot of 24-inch Striped Messaline—new goods —o:k' grade Sale 47cferent OiU‘ lot 42-inch Brilliantine, in Tan, Green, Brown and ijivy —$1.00 grade Sale 49c Three pieces of Green, two of Bro^vu—all_^Wool Imiiorted Freiicli Voile—values $1.00 and $1.35 a yd ^ Sale 59c Line of $1.00 aud $1.15 this season’s newest Tub Silks—beautiful qualities Sale 89c Short Lengths of Wools and Silks at Remarkable Prices. Delightful in variety since there are so manv dif patterns, every one of them just i*eceiv(‘d from New York. They have sold all the season at 25c and 28c and are offered because of our buyer’s opportim e trip, a t ........................................... . - -17c The newest patterns and colorings, malcing u]> such a wide variety of such charming mat (’rials that many have exclaimed: “ The Most Bcamtiful (hjods and the Most Complete Assortment I Have E iti * Seen.’’ AU 40 inches wide aud sdling now at onlv ....................................................... . .................... 35c Thousa<ias of 7auils of Materials at Special Prices Mot Mentioned Here
