Show HUGHES FIRST MESSAGE Recount of the Votes Cast In Mayor Mayoralty Mayoralty alty Contest Albany N Y Tan Jan Charles E Hughes in his first message to the thc legislature made the following r recommendations commenda A recount or of the votes east cast for foi mayor maor in the New York City election of 1905 when on the face of the returns W R fl Hearst was defeated by George B Mc Clellan that the courts be empowered to order a recount summarily In the future and that the power to bring an action to try a title to office be taken from the attorney general and con conferred conferred upon the supreme court The adoption or of a new ballot banot where whereon on the name of a candidate will ap appear appear pear but once That the amount of money which a t candidate may expend to procure his election be limited That the courts be empowered to re review review view the aCts of state and state commIttees in delegates and members That an any general committee of a party may adopt rules for direct nom norn nomInations ot of candidates at primaries That the tate state board of railroad corn com commissioners missioners and the commission on gas and electricity be abolished and a t new board be con constituted with rower Jower to n force its orders through the cO Law Needs Amending On the Hearst recount matter the governor said It Is n a matter or of the gravest eon con concern cern that the view should be though erroneously held that one who has been elected to office has lIas been deprived or of his seat through Invalid returns return The failure to obtain a summary re recount recount count through a defect in the law has aggravated the sense of injustice Referring to the lack of any limita limitation tion upon the authority of political state conventions and state committees arbitrarily to exclude honestly elected delegates and members and the tho fact that the fraudulent or corrupt action of such a c or committee can cannot cannot not be revIewed or corrected by any court the governor declared that ml mi minorities should not be permitted to tomake tomake make themselves majorities by the ar arbitrary arbitrary seizure of political organizations organizations nor through corruption or dishon dishonest dishonest est methods and the courts should be vested with ample power to review ina In a summary manner aU all such abuses and to restore to defrauded persons the po political political rights to which they are justly entitled Railroad Matters The present scheme or of railroad opera operations operation tion in this state the governor said is Inadequate because the board of rail railroad railroad road commissioners has no authority to compel compliance with its decisions The expenses of the commission the governor asserted should not be borne by the corporations which it regulates Enactment of laws to secure Impartial treatment to shippers and Insure more regard for public and sate ty is recommended AU All the existing transportation lines In Greater New York the said are overburdened The people of Brooklyn who are arc in businesS in Man Manhattan hattan are sUbjected to such maltreat maltreatment ment and indignities incident to their disgraceful herding that relief should I be afforded at the earliest possible mo moment mente ment Reckless Overcapitalization and the thc improvident Improvident dent creation of guaranties and fixed charges to suit the exigencies of sue suc successive combinations entered into for forthe forthe the purpose or of monopolizing the traffic tic fic have produced their final results he declared An anomalous condition exists In New York City said Raid the governor where the state board of railroad corn com divide their authority and where the same corporations control elevated surface and subway lines This should shoud be met by the abolition of the present city board and the creation of a 3 new board having all its powers and In addition the power Jower to control and r regulate lighting corporations |