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ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE.

IN CONVENTION.

Albany, September 28, 1894.

The Delegates of the People, in Convention assembled to revise and amend the Constitution of the State, present to the people a revised and amended Constitution of fifteen articles.

In this instrument we have retained the general frame-work and substance of the existing Constitution and have sought only to make such modifications as experience has shown to be desirable, without venturing upon undue experiments.

Out of more than four hundred amendments proposed and considered we have adopted thirty-three, besides striking out obsolete matter.

The main features which we propose are as follows:

1. We renew the recommendation of the Convention of 1867, providing for progress in agriculture by requiring general laws giving the right of drainage across adjoining lands.

2. We seek to separate in the larger cities municipal elections from State and national elections, to the end that the business affairs of our great municipal corporations may be managed upon their own merits, uncontrolled by national and State politics and to the end that the great issues of national and State politics may be determined upon their merits free from the disturbing and often demoralizing effect of local contests. For this purpose it has been necessary by a series of amendments to rearrange the terms of office and times of elections of the Governor, State officers, Senators and municipal officers so that the elections for State officers will occur on the even-numbered years, and the elections for municipal officers on the odd-numbered years.

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