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of the Federal Constitution. She was prose- 

 cuted for illegal voting, and Judge Hunt de- 

 cided that she possessed no such rislit and 

 fined her $50. 



A commission, appointed by the Legislature 

 and headed by ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, 

 to inquire into the expediency of setting apart 

 the district known as the Adirondack region as 

 a State Park, has reported favorably on the 

 subject, but the matter has not yet been con- 



sidered by the Legislature. This district in- 

 cludes some 834,480 acres in Lewis, Essex 

 Clinton, Franklin, St. Lawrence, Herkimer, 

 and Hamilton Counties, and is a favorite resort 

 of hunters, fishermen, and seekers after invig- 

 orating out- door adventure. 



A convention in the interests of cheap trans- 

 portation was held in New York City on the 

 7th of May, at which delegates were present 

 from all parts of the country. Its purposes 



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were fully set forth in the following resolu- 

 tions which were adopted after considerable 

 discussion : 



Whereat, The productive industries of the United 

 States plantation and farm, mine and factory, com- 

 mercial and mercantile are not only the sources of 

 all our national and individual wealth, but also the 

 elements on which our very national and individual 

 existence depends ; and 



Whereat, All material products are the frui f s of 

 labor and capital, and as neither labor nor capital 

 will continue actively employed without an equiva- 

 lent ineasurably just ; and 



Whereat, Great national industries are only sus- 

 tained and prospered by the interchange of the prod- 

 nets of one section of country for those of another : 

 and 



Whereat, The existing rates of transportation for 

 the varied products of the Onion, from one part of the 

 country to another, and to foreigii countries, as well 

 as the transit cost of the commodities required in ex- 

 change, are in many instances injurious, and to cer- 

 tain interests absolutely destructive, arising, in part, 

 at least, from an insufficiency of avenues ; and 



Whereat, The great material want of the nation to- 

 day is relief from the present rates of transit on 

 American products : therefore 



Retained, That the duty of the hour, and the mis- 

 sion of this association is to obtain from Congress 

 and the several State Legislatures guch legislation as 

 may he necessary to control and limit by law. within 

 proper constitutional and legitimate limits, the rates 

 and charges of existing lines of transportation ; to in- 

 crease, where practicable, the capacity of our present 

 water-ways, and to add such new avenues, both water 



and rail, as our immensely-increased internal com- 

 merce demands ; so that the producer may be fairly 

 rewarded for his honest toil, the consumer have cheap 

 products, and onr almost limitless supplies find for- 

 eign markets, at rates to compete with the world. 



Setolved, That the cheap transportation, both of 

 persons and property, being most conducive to the 

 free movement of the people, and the widest inter- 

 change and consumption of the products of the dif- 

 ferent parts of the Union, is essential to the welfare 

 and prosperity of the country. 



Itetofaed, That the constant and frequent associa- 

 tion of the inhabitants of remote parts of the United 

 States is not only desirable but necessary for the 

 maintenance of a homogeneous and harmoniouspopu- 

 lation within the vast area of our territory. 



Betolved, That the best interests of the different 

 parts of the country also demand the freest possible 

 interchange of the industrial products of the varied 

 climates aud industries of the United States, so that 

 breadstuff's, textile fabrics, coal, lumber, iron, sugar, 

 and various products, local in their production, out 

 general in their consumption, may all reach the con- 

 sumer at the least practicable cost of transportation ; 

 and that an arbitrary and unnecessary tax, levied by 

 the transporter over and above a fair remuneration 

 for the investment, is a burden upon the producer 

 and consumer that it is the part of wise statesmanship 

 to remove. 



Jtesolved, That certain leading railway corporations 

 of the country, although chartered to subserve the 

 public welfare, and endowed with the right of emi- 

 nent domain, solely for that reason, have proved 

 themselves practically monopolies, and become the 

 tools of avaricious and unscrupulous capitalists, to 

 be used to plunder the public, enrich themselves, 





