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New York Constitutional Convention

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
April
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Tlio Albany Argus, latcly the ölate Democrntic organ, puts forth the following as prominent objects to be attained bv that Convention: 1. The reduclton of tho Execulivo patronage. 2. The clection of the Stato oflicers by tho people. 8. The re-organization of the btato Departments, with a reduction of the powcra and a reaojuslment of the duties of the State oflicer. 4. TaUing froni the State oflicors tho the power to borrow money, or to croato State debts to carry on the operntions of Government, unless aulhorized to do so by nnnual nppropriation bilis, 'ö. Givingto the people of each country tlio power of making local appointments, and of legishiting on purely local subjects. ü. Prohibiting the legislaturo from creating any State debt, except in ense of waror invasión, and providing for the comj)lction of unfiniahed Canals, from the revenuos of the public works. 7. Prohibiting all loana of tho Credit of the State. 8. Prohibiting all special acts oreating Corporutions. 0. Itecognizing the Judiciary. 10. Dividing tho State into single Sonate Districts."Tho BtifFalo Pilot roprcsents that thore aro indications of an eaily rcsumption of r.avigation. lt thus explains tho contingcncies on which this dependa : "Thooponing of lak o navigntion does not, ns is so very generally supposcd, depend upon tho quanthy of ico, but upon ihe direction of the winds, aftcr the ice has been broken in pieces. After that operation, which nlway takes placo ns eurly as the ice has become sulliciently wcakencd, in the spring, tho wholo is rendered moveable, by cvery brec.e.-- Thus broken, tho frngments aro all assombled at this end of the lake, by tho action of the current, if thero is no wind: and if tho wind, as it sometimos does, remains long and slondiiy at S. W., this not only holds the ico here, but so crowds it as to prevent its freo escapo down tho river. Uut, if In this state of the ce, wc hnve a N. E. wind, ot any considerable durntion, then navigation opens, at onco, and that witliout reference to the qunntitv of ice. Wo have scen the ice, by noriherly wlnds, drive back, sometimes upon one shore of the lake, and sometimos upon the other, so as to blockade the side porfs, for a timo while navigntion wnscontinuotisly freo belween Duffalo and Detroit."