. Electric railway journal . g Committee Reports After the reading by President H. B. Weatherwax,Schenectady Railway, of his presidential address(abstracted elsewhere in this issue), the secretary- the committee looking toward the correction of thecondition thus brought about. It was decided thereforethat the effort to secure-relief should be continued. The bill known as the Carson-Martin bill was intro-duced in the 1919 Legislature, giving the Public ServiceCommissions the jurisdiction in fare cases which theCourt of Appeals in the Quinby decision had declaredto be lacking. This measure recei
. Electric railway journal . g Committee Reports After the reading by President H. B. Weatherwax,Schenectady Railway, of his presidential address(abstracted elsewhere in this issue), the secretary- the committee looking toward the correction of thecondition thus brought about. It was decided thereforethat the effort to secure-relief should be continued. The bill known as the Carson-Martin bill was intro-duced in the 1919 Legislature, giving the Public ServiceCommissions the jurisdiction in fare cases which theCourt of Appeals in the Quinby decision had declaredto be lacking. This measure received considerable sup-port and passed the Assembly but failed of passage inthe Senate. Shortly after the adjournment of theLegislature the committee requested the Governor toappoint a commission of citizens to make a study ofthe traction situation and report to him its recom-mendations for remedial measures. To this the Gov-ernor replied that the public service commissions arealready organized to make such recommendations and. MEMBERS AND GUESTS OF NEW YORK ELECTRIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION ASSEMBLED IN CONVENTION ATFORT WILLIAM HENRY HOTEL, LAKE GEORGE treasurer, William F. Stanton, New York State Rail-ways, Rochester, read the report of the executivecommittee and his own report. These showed that theactivities of the association for the past year had beendirected largely to the bettering of the financial condi-tion of the companies throughout the State. The usualquarterly meetings were omitted in the interest ofeconomy. The receipts during the year have been$6, and the expenses $5,, the surplus in-creasing the balance from $6, to $6, duringthe year. Of the assets $3,000 is invested in LibertyBonds. The committee on ways and means to produce addi-tional revenue, reported that a meeting of the associa-tion had been called on April 29, 1918, to present thethen fare situation in the State. The Court of Appealshad denied the jurisdiction of the Public Service Com
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