Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1902 — NEW YORK LEGISLATION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW YORK LEGISLATION.

Governor Odell Makes Recommendations in His Message. The New York General Assembly is convened in annual session at Albany. S. Fred Nixon was re-elected Speaker of the House. . Gov. Odell’s message is devoted largely to the discussion of affairs in Greater New York. “In looking over the salary list of the city of New York,” the Governor says, “it will be found that there are several officials who receive a larger salary than the Governor of the State, or the cabinet officers of the United States,

and it cannot be claimed with tmy degree of truth that the services rendered are always commensurate with the compensation given.” * The excessive cost of receiverships of public or semi-public institutions is illustrated by the fact that the total expenses involved in the liquidation of the affairs of seventy corporations during the past ten years have been $1,606,223.54. The Governor recommends that the divorce laws be amended so that a decree shall not be absolute until six months after it is granted.

GOVERNOR ODELL.