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Show NEW CONSTITUTION FOR EMPIRE STATE Convention Completes Its Work and Adopts an Address to the People. ALBANY, N. Y.. Sept. 10. The New York state constitutional convention, which has been in session here for several sev-eral months, today completed its draft of a new constitution, which is to be submitted to the voters at the coming election. The convention adopted an address to the people explaining the provisions of the new constitution, among the more importance provisions of which are: The short bft'lot for state officers. Regulation of appropriations by means of annual budget. Reform of civil court procedure and DTOViaUMU designed to prevent delays in the administration of justice, simplify litigation aud make it loss expensive. Provisions for the benefit of wage earners hv establishing a department of labor and industry, by extending the workmen's compensation law to include occupational diseases and by empowering empower-ing the legislature to regulate or prohibit pro-hibit manufacturing in tenement houses. |