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Show SMITH ADDRESSES PRISON CONGRESS' NEW YORK, Oct. 20. Declaring the system of leaving to the governor of a j state the sole decision of "sending a man i to the death chair or commuting Ins sentence sen-tence is wrong," Governor Alfred K. Smith, speaking at the first session of the annual congress of the American Prison association tonight, recommended a "constitutional amendment to put this duty on the court of appeals." Archdeacon B. M.- Spurr of Mounds-ville, Mounds-ville, W. Va., president of the association, associa-tion, declared that prisoners should be paid for the work they do and That "there I is no reason why prisons should not bo j conducted like any business estab- j lishment." 1 |