(No response.) The Secretary (No response.) Mr. Ward. The President-Some of the gentlemen are prevented from hearing their There is too much audible conversation. names when called. The Secretary - Mr. Wafer. Mr. Wafer - Aye. The Secretary- Mr. Wagner. Mr. C. H. Young — Aye. The Secretary- Mr. F. L. Young. Mr. F. L. Young - Aye. The Secretary - Mr. President. The President - Aye. Mr. Doughty-May I be recorded in the affirmative? The President - Mr. Rosch's name will be called. Mr. Rosch- Aye. The President Mr. Mann's name will be called. The President - - Mr. Dahm's name will be called. The President Mr. Angell's name will be called. Mr. Angell- Aye. The President - Mr. Ahearn's name will be called. -- Aye. Mr. Ahearn The President - - The Secretary will recapitulate the vote. The Secretary - Those supposed to have voted in the affirmative are: Mr. Adams, Mr. Ahearn, Mr. Aiken, Mr. F. C. Allen, Mr. Angell, Mr. Austin, Mr. Bannister, Mr. Barrett, Mr. Baumes, Mr. Bayes, Mr. Beach, Mr. Bell, Mr. Bernstein, Mr. Berri, Mr. Betts, Mr. Blauvelt, Mr. Bockes, Mr. Brackett, Mr. Brenner, Mr. Bunce, Mr. Burkan, Mr. Buxbaum, Mr. Byrne, Mr. Clinton, Mr. Cobb, Mr. Coles, Mr. Cullinan, Mr. Dahm, Mr. Daly, Mr. Dennis, Mr. Deyo, Mr. Dick, Mr. Donnelly, Mr. Donovan, Mr. Doughty, Mr. Dow, Mr. Drummond, Mr. Dunlap, Mr. Dunmore, Mr. Dykman, Mr. Eisner, Mr. Endres, Mr. Eppig, Mr. Fancher, Mr. Fobes, Mr. Fogarty, Mr. Ford, Mr. Franchot, Mr. Frank, Mr. Gladding, Mr. Green, Mr. Greff, Mr. Haffen, Mr. Hale, Mr. Heaton, Mr. Hinman, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Jones, Mr. Kirby, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Landreth, Mr. Latson, Mr. Law, Mr. Leary, Mr. Leggett, Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Linde, Mr. Lindsay, Mr. Low, Mr. McKean, Mr. McKinney, Mr. Mandeville, Mr. Mann, Mr. F. Martin, Mr. L. M. Martin, Mr. Mathewson, Mr. Meigs, Mr. Mereness, Mr. Mulry, Mr. Newburger, Mr. C. Nicoll, Mr. D. Nicoll, Mr. Nixon, Mr. Nye, Mr. M. J. O'Brien, Mr. O'Connor, Mr. Olcott, Mr. Ostrander, Mr. Owen, Mr. Parker, Mr. Parmenter, Mr. Parsons, Mr. Pelletreau, Mr. J. S. Phillips, Mr. S. K. Phillips, Mr. Potter, Mr. Quigg, Mr. Reeves, Mr. Rhees, Mr. Richards, Mr. Rosch, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Sargent, Mr. M. Saxe, Mr. Schoonhut, Mr. Schurman, Mr. Sears, Mr. Sharpe, Mr. Sheehan, Mr. Slevin, Mr. A. E. Smith, Mr. E. N. Smith, Mr. R. B. Smith, Mr. Stanchfield, Mr. Standart, Mr. Steinbrink, Mr. Stimson, Mr. Stowell, Mr. Tierney, Mr. Tuck, Mr. Unger, Mr. Vanderlyn, Mr. Van Ness, Mr. Wadsworth, Mr. Wafer, Mr. Ward, Mr. Waterman, Mr. C. A. Webber, Mr. Weed, Mr. Westwood, Mr. Wheeler, Mr. C. J. White, Mr. Wickersham, Mr. Wiggins, Mr. Williams, Mr. Winslow, Mr. Wood, Mr. C. H. Young, Mr. F. L. Young, and Mr. President. Those supposed to have voted in the negative: Mr. Marshall. Mr. Lindsay —I was unable to hear my name. I ask that I be allowed to vote in the affirmative. The President — Mr. Lindsay's name will be called. The Secretary - Mr. Lindsay. Mr. Lindsay- Aye. The President - Of those voting on the question of the adoption of this amendment, 142 votes have been cast in the affirmative, and one in the negative. The proposed amendment having received the affirmative vote of the majority of all delegates elected to the Convention, it is adopted. The Secretary will continue the call. The Secretary - No. 820, by the Committee on Education. To amend Section 1 of Article IX of the Constitution, in relation to the supervision and control by the State of the education of children. The proposed amendment is now open for debate under the Mr. Schurman - Mr. President, I move its adoption. This proposed Constitutional Amendment now before us was unanimously adopted by the Committee on Education. I explained in the Committee of the Whole dealing with the proposed Constitutional Amendment in the form in which it then was that the Committee on Education had given hearings to all interested and had carefully considered every aspect of the question. The amendment in its present form was adopted to meet the objections which were presented in the discussion on the order of third reading. It will be recalled that the suggestion was made that the language of the proposal might authorize interference with religious instruction in denominational schools. Nothing, however, could have been further from the desire and intention of the Committee on Education. They, consequently, reconsidered the language of the amendment in the light of the objections presented. And they now unanimously submit the proposal in the amended form in which it is before this Convention. It will be observed that the difference between the proposal in its present form and in its earlier form lies in the fact that in its present form the proposal speaks of education first, in the free common schools, and secondly, elsewhere than in such schools. This classification was borrowed from the Education Law, having been inserted therein for the purpose of declaring the place in which the instruction required by the State may be received. The Education Law, § 620, states that the instruction required under this article shall be: The supervision and control which the State exercises over the public schools, designated in the constitution free common schools, is practically absolute. On the other hand, the supervision and control which the State exercises over instruction elsewhere than at a public school has for its object the enforcement of equivalency with the instruction prescribed in the free common schools. |