and would be maintained in the future by Westchester county. The extension of this parkway to connect with the Bear mountain bridge is part of the State park program and as indicated before is already under way with State funds. I believe that this affords a solution of the whole Bronx parkway question which has been in controversy for some years and a solution which will be agreeable to all parties concerned. Fourth. The adoption of the conservation fund bill which sets up a fund out of receipts from hunting licenses part of which is available for the purchase of land and streams for fishing and hunting purposes. This bill passed both houses last year, but was vetoed by me by reason of a technical defect which was not discovered until after the close of the session. This defect has been corrected and the bill will again be introduced. Fifth. Passage of a bill which will be presented to you to enable the conservation commission to purchase forest preserve lands out of receipts from the sale of timber cut down in connection with river regulating districts. Sixth. The provision either in the revised highway map or else separately for the reconstruction of roads into the Allegany park, the Letchworth park, the Taconic park region at Copake falls and over Tongue mountain at Lake George. The superintendent of public works has strongly recommended these improvements as part of the county highway system. Without such roads some of the finest park areas of the State are not easily accessible. It is useless for the State to develop these parks unless proper approaches are provided with the co-operation of the counties. Seventh. Consideration of the creation of a single regional Finger Lakes park commission in place of the two present State park commissions in this section, the head of such regional commission to be represented in the State park council. At a later date I shall communicate with you on the subject of the method of financing required to complete this program. By adopting this program you will insure a unified State park system in a measure adequate for the great population of the New York of the future. (Signed) ALFRED E. SMITH. Ordered, That said message be printed and laid upon the table. IN SENATE, MONDAY, January 28, 1924. A message from the Governor, at the hands of his secretary, was received and read in the words following: STATE OF NEW YORK-EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, To the Senate: I herewith transmit to your Honorable Body the report of the Port of New York Authority for the calendar year nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and its financial statement for the fiscal year July first, nineteen hundred and twenty-two to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-three. (Signed) ALFRED E. SMITH. (See Document.) IN SENATE, January 31, 1924. A message from the Governor, at the hands of his secretary, was received and read in the words following: STATE OF NEW YORK-EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, To the Legislature: ALBANY, January 30, 1924. I have the honor to transmit herewith a statement of the pardons, commutations and reprieves granted by me during the year 1923. (Signed) ALFRED E. SMITH. Ordered, That said message be printed and laid upon the table. (See Document.) IN SENATE, February 4, 1924. A message from the Governor, at the hands of his secretary, was received and read in the words following: STATE OF NEW YORK-EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, To the Senate: February 4, 1924. I hereby nominate as a Manager of the Manhattan State Hospital Martin Cohen, M. D., of New York City, whose term of office as such Manager has expired. Mr. Downing moved that the said nomination be confirmed. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to said motion, and it was decided in the affirmative. A message from the Governor, at the hands of his secretary, was received and read in the words following: STATE OF NEW YORK-EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, To the Senate: February 4, 1924. I hereby nominate as a Manager of the Kings Park State Hospital Regina T. Sherwood of Glen Cove, whose term of office as such Manager has expired. Mr. Thompson moved that the said nomination be confirmed. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the said motion, and it was decided in the affirmative. A message from the Governor, at the hands of his secretary, was received and read in the words following: STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, To the Senate: February 4, 1924. I hereby nominate as a Manager of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital Susan Tuckerman of Tuxedo Park, whose term of office as such Manager has expired. Mr. Downing moved that the said nomination be confirmed. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the said motion, and it was decided in the affirmative. A message from the Governor, at the hands of his secretary, was received and read in the words following: STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, To the Senate: February 4, 1924. I hereby nominate as a Manager of the Willard State Hospital William T. Morris of Penn Yan, whose term of office as such Manager has expired. Mr. Downing moved that the said nomination be confirmed. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the said motion, and it was decided in the affirmative. A message from the Governor, at the hands of his secretary, was received and read in the words following: STATE OF NEW YORK-EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, To the Senate: February 4, 1924. I hereby nominate as a Manager of the Utica State Hospital William G. Mayer of Waterville, whose term of office as such Manager has expired. Mr. Davenport moved that the said nomination be confirmed. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the said motion, and it was decided in the affirmative. A message from the Governor, at the hands of his secretary, was received and read in the words following: STATE OF NEW YORK- EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, To the Senate: February 4, 1924. I hereby nominate as a Manager of the Binghamton State Hospital J. Arnot Rathbone of Elmira, whose term of office as such Manager has expired. Mr. Lowman moved that the said nomination be confirmed. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the said motion, and it was decided in the affirmative. A message from the Governor, at the hands of his secretary, was received and read in the words following: STATE OF NEW YORK- EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, To the Senate: February 4, 1924. I hereby nominate as a Manager of the Hudson River State Hospital Daniel J. Gleason of Poughkeepsie, whose term of office as such Manager has expired. Mr. Webb moved that the said nomination be confirmed. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to the said motion, and it was decided in the affirmative. A message from the Governor, at the hands of his secretary, was received and read in the words following: STATE OF NEW YORK- EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, To the Senate: February 4, 1924. I hereby nominate as Managers of the Rochester State Hospital M. Bruce Potter of Brighton to succeed Mortimer R. Miller, whose term of office has expired, and William Murray Dailey of Rochester to fill the vacancy caused by the non-attendance at meetings of Harold F. Brewster. (Signed) ALFRED E. SMITH. Said nomination was referred to the committee on finance. A message from the Governor, at the hands of his secretary, was received and read in the words following: STATE OF NEW YORK- EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, To the Senate: February 4, 1924. I hereby nominate as a Manager of the Central Islip State Hospital William W. Hoppin of New York City, whose term of office as such Manager has expired. (Signed) ALFRED E. SMITH. Mr. Thompson moved that the said nomination be confirmed. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to said motion, and it was decided in the affirmative. A message from the Governor, at the hands of his secretary, was received and read in the words following: STATE OF NEW YORK- EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, To the Legislature: ALBANY, February 4, 1924. In my annual message this year I urged that you complete, so far as possible, the consolidation of scattered state departments, which was begun last year. I pointed out to you that there was no real distinction between the consolidations which you approved and those which you did not act on favorably. I also pointed out to you the desirability of going ahead as rapidly as possible with this program, so as to pave the way for the constitutional amendment, which will be ready for final adoption next year and which will remove the present constitutional obstacles in the way of setting up a really compact and responsible State government. At the last session of the Legislature I sent you a special message on this subject with a graphic chart, indicating the present scattered agencies which should be merged and the great departments of State into which they should be merged. I am sending you with the present message a similar chart, which shows, in red, the recommendations which you acted on last year, and, in black, |