very nearly double that amount for railroads, bridges and tunnels to facilitate the movement of her citizens within her own limits. It is surely worth while, when this is the case, to consider the propriety of a much smaller expenditure, upon the success of which may depend the fact whether there will be enough passengers to make these enterprises successful. I call your special attention to that portion of the Committee's report in which they set forth that the efficiency of the canals depends upon their management quite as much as upon their physical size, and that there should be no further money spent upon them unless accompanied by measures which will secure their management upon an absolutely business basis. These measures are: First. To remove all restrictions as to the amount of capital of companies engaged in transportation, so as to encourage instead of hampering the development of those modern business methods which are largely the foundation of our present prosperity. Second. To provide for mechanical means for traction and the use of mechanical power in the place of hand power in the locks. This I consider a recWe must make it posinto the work on the Third. The organization of the force on a permanent basis so as to afford a guarantee that the entry into the service of applicants, their tenure of office and promotion will depend solely on their fitness. ommendation of vital importance. sible for young engineers to enter canals as they would into any other career, and the ordinary laborers and the like should be employed only when they show themselves presumably fit for the work, and should be kept so long and only so long as they render efficient service, being promoted, reduced or dismissed strictly in accordance with the capacity, industry and good conduct of which they give proof. There must be legislation to secure the permanence of any such system. Fourth. A revision of the laws in regard to the letting of public contracts and of advertising, so as to prevent a repetition of the matters animadverted upon in the portion of my annual message on the subject of the canals, recently laid before your body. I again earnestly ask your attention to this subject than which no other can be more vital to the welfare of the State. THEODORE ROOSEVELT CERTIFICATION OF THE NECESSITY OF THE PASSAGE OF ASSEMBLY BILL INT. NO. 472, RELATING TO RAPID TRANSIT IN NEW YORK CITY 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 Assembly bill, Introductory number 472, entitled "An act to amend chapter 378 of the laws of 1897 entitled 'An act to unite into one municipality under the corporate name of The City of New York the various communities lying in and about New York Harbor, including the city and county of New York, the city of Brooklyn and the county of Kings, the county of Richmond and part of the county of Queens, and to provide for the government thereof ', relative to rapid transit.” GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Seal of the [L S] By the Governor: WM. J. YOUNGS THEODORE ROOSEVELT Secretary to the Governor DESIGNATION OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE IN CERTAIN ELECTION PROSECUTIONS IN NEW YORK CITY STATE OF NEW YORK Executive Chamber Albany, February 3, 1900 To the Honorable JOHN C. DAVIES, Attorney-General of the State of New York: In pursuance of Article V of the Executive Law of the State of New York, you are hereby required to attend in person or by one of your deputies, a Trial Term of the Supreme Court of said State to be held in the Criminal Court Building in the Borough of Manhattan, in the City of New York, in and for the County of New York, commencing on the fifth day of February, 1900, and to appear before the grand jury thereof for the purpose of managing and conducting in such court and before such grand jury at such term, in behalf of the People, criminal actions and proceedings for the discovery, indictment, prosecution, conviction and punishment of any and all persons guilty of having, within said county, violated any of the provisions of sections 435 or 168, or of Chapter 8 of Title IX of the Penal Code. THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE PUBLIC HEALTH-ORDER DIRECTING THE GREENBUSH WATER WORKS COMPANY TO SHOW CAUSE STATE OF NEW YORK Executive Chamber In the Matter of the Alleged Nuisance affecting the security of life and health in the city of Rensselaer by the pollution and contamination of the water supply thereof Notice and summons TO THE GREENUSH WATER WORKS COMPANY: The State Board of Health having on the fourteenth day of February 1900, reported to the Governor among 66 other things that it recommends that an order be entered declaring the water now being furnished by the Greenbush Water Works Company to constitute a nuisance injurious to the public health of the inhabitants of said city and directing and requiring the said Greenbush Water Works Company to cease furnishing water of the character and quality now furnished to the said city of Rensselaer and the inhabitants thereof, within six months from the date hereof, unless before that date said Greenbush Water Works Company shall obtain water from a different supply and of a purer character, or filter the water taken from the river in a manner to be approved by the State Board of Health"; which said report was filed with the Governor on the fourteenth day of February 1900; You are therefore required to show cause before the Governor, at the Executive Chamber in the city of Albany on Monday the fifth day of March 1900 at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of that day, why the order recommended by the State Board of Health should not be made by the Governor in accordance with the recommendations made in said order. GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State at the Capitol in the city of Albany this twenty-sixth day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred. [L S] By the Governor: THEODORE ROOSEVELT WM. J. YOUNGS Secretary to the Governor |