rical proportion as the conditions of tenement house life became worse that is, as to overcrowding are added the evils of want of air, of light, of cleanliness, of comfort, in short of all the decencies of life., These decencies are of course indispensable if good citizenship is to be made possible. The tenement house in its worst shape is a festering sore in the civilization of our great cities. We cannot be excused if we fail to cut out this ulcer; and our failure will be terribly avenged, for by its presence it inevitably poisons the whole body politic and social. At present in New York the conditions are in some respects worse, not better than they were a few years ago, because now the authorities permit the erection of huge buildings, which though less disreputable in appearance than the old tenement houses are, because of their immense mass and inferior light and air shafts, worse from a hygienic standpoint. Two classes of people are interested in perpetrating the present infamous conditions, viz.: the class that owns the tenement houses and the class that builds them. The best. owners and the best builders do not desire to perpetuate these conditions; but it is imperative to protect them from the competition of their less conscientious rivals. Against this concrete and mercenary hostility to the needed reform we can marshal only the general sentiment for decent and cleanly living and for fair play to all our citizens. Too often the sufferer himself is dumb either because he cannot express himself or because he does not know what remedy to advocate. In his interest, and in the interest of all our people, above all in the interest of the State whose standard of citizenship in the future REVOCATION OF DESIGNATION OF JUSTICE BARRETT ΙΩΙ is partly dependent upon the housing of children in the tenement house districts of the present we should see to the improvement of the conditions which now make the congested districts of our great cities a blot on our civilization. Great good was accomplished by the tenement house commission appointed under a similar bill a few years ago. This good is now in part being nullified, and a new Commission is urgently needed. THEODORE ROOSEVELT REVOCATION OF THE DESIGNATION OF JUSTICE BARRETT TO THE APPELLATE DIVISION STATE OF NEW YORK Executive Chamber WHEREAS The Honorable GEORGE C. BARRETT, a justice of the Supreme Court of the First Judicial District, having been heretofore designated to sit as an Associate Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in and for the First Judicial Department and he having filed his written request that such designation be revoked; NOW THEREFORE In accordance with the statute in such case made and provided the designation heretofore made of date the twelfth day of December 1899 of the Honorable GEORGE C. BARRETT to sit as Associate Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in and for the First Judicial Department is hereby and at his own request revoked. GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State at the Capitol in the city of Albany this third day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred. [L S] THEODORE ROOSEVELT By the Governor: WM. J. YOUNGS Secretary to the Governor CERTIFICATION OF THE NECESSITY OF THE PASSAGE OF SENATE BILL No. 1476 — THE SUPPLY BILL STATE OF NEW YORK Executive Chamber TO THE LEGISLATURE: It appearing to my satisfaction that the public interest requires it; THEREFORE In accordance with the provisions of section fifteen of article three of the Constitution and by virtue of the authority thereby conferred upon me, I do hereby certify to the necessity of the immediate passage of Senate bill number 1476, entitled "An act making appropriations for certain expenses of government and supplying deficiencies in former appropriations". GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State at the Capitol in the city of Albany this [L S] third day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred. THEODORE ROOSEVELT By the Governor: WM. J. YOUNGS Secretary to the Governor CERTIFICATION OF THE NECESSITY OF THE PASSAGE OF SENATE BILL NO. 1031, AP- STATE OF NEW YORK Executive Chamber TO THE LEGISLATURE: It appearing to my satisfaction that the public interest requires it; THEREFORE In accordance with the provisions of section fifteen of article three of the Constitution and by virtue of the authority thereby conferred upon me, I do hereby certify to the necessity of the immediate passage of Senate bill number 1031 (Introductory No. 1478), entitled “An act making appropriations for certain expenses of government and for the payment of extraordinary ex penses incurred under the provisions of the Constitution and Executive Law in the conduct of criminal proceedings and investigations in the county of New York". GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State at the Capitol in the city of Albany this [L S] third day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred. By the Governor: WM. J. YOUNGS THEODORE ROOSEVELT Secretary to the Governor CERTIFICATION OF THE NECESSITY OF THE PASSAGE OF SENATE BILL NO. 1479, MAKING APPROPRIATION FOR QUARANTINE IMPROVEMENTS STATE OF NEW YORK Executive Chamber TO THE LEGISLATURE: It appearing to my satisfaction that the public interest requires it; THEREFORE In accordance with the provisions of section fifteen of article three of the Constitution and by virtue of the authority thereby conferred upon me, I do hereby certify to the necessity of the immediate passage of Senate bill number 1479 (Introductory No. 690), entitled "An act making an appropriation for the quarantine |