some of the reasons why the proposition should be carried 

 out, and assured Governor Hughes that its practical 

 success was beyond question. 



The two requests for a hearing were not answered, and 

 therefore it was supposed that the Governor was satisfied 

 to act without further information. Favorable action 

 was confidently expected, and the officers of the Society 

 purposely refrained from troubling the Executive with 

 correspondence. 



To the members of the Bison Society, and many others, 

 Governor Hughes' veto of the item for an Adirondack 

 herd came as a profound and painful surprise, than which 

 no action could have been more unexpected. 



The Governors' reasons for the veto were recorded as 

 follows : — ■ 



"It is doubtful, to say the least, whether there 

 ever have been any Bison in the Adirondacks, and 

 the policy of attempting to maintain Bison there is 

 questionable. In view of the many demands upon 

 the Treasury of the State, and the many improve- 

 ments which it has been found necessary to curtail, 

 I should not feel justified in approving the item." 

 Although the officers of the Bison Society are 

 astounded, they are not in the least dismayed. The 

 8,000,000 people of New York State desire to have a Bison 

 herd of their own, on land which they own in the Adiron- 

 dacks, and they are both able and willing to pay the very 

 trifling sums that it will cost. They know without being 

 told in measured words that such a herd would in a short 

 time increase to such proportions that every small city in 

 this State could presently be supplied with a breeding pair 

 of Bison for its public park, to interest millions of people, 

 young and old, and to testify to the interest that the 

 Americans of to-day feel in the splendid species which 

 the Americans of thirty years ago so nearly exterminated. 

 When such a measure has passed the New York State 

 Legislature unanimously, it is a sure sign that the people 

 desire the thing for which it provides. The report of 

 Comptroller Glynn, published in December, announces 

 that the surplus in the State treasury at the close of 1907, 

 exclusive of all bills payable, was the very comfortable 



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