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Show Plea For New I Constitution I Albany, N. V., Sept. 10. -The H Now York Constitutional conventloa H tonight adjourned flnnlly. It opened D April C, and has cost about $500,000. jK Formal adoption of tho revised con- H Btltutlon tho method by which It Is to H bo submitted to tho pcoplo nn No- Mm vomber 2 for ratification and an ap- H peal to voters to support It wcro In- B eluded in tho day's work. Th0 gen- H oral appeal was supplemented by a H personal plea to electors for accept- B nnco of tho document by President jH Ellhu Root. H William Barnes voted against the B general appeal, ills action wns tak- H en, ho said, becauso of tho refusal ot B tho convention to permit tho separ- H nto submission of proposals Intended B to prohibit tenement houso manufac- B turlng and to bring occupational dls- B eases under tho workmen's compen- B satlon law. Ho also announced his B Intontion of voting against rntlflca- H tlon at tho polls. B Mr. Root In a personal appeal to Ug electors, especially emphasized two H points' that this convention has ris- U en abovo partisan politics nnd has B resorted to no caucus or party con- H fcrenco to bind tho Judgment or H salvo tho consclenco ot tho delegates H and that all ot tho moro Important H measures had been passed by ma- H Jorltlcs of both tho parties represent- H I For the first tlmo slnco tho conven- BB tlon sessions began women wero al S lowed on tho convention floor. -mJ |