September 29. The revised Constitution was submitted for ratification at the New York state election, 1894, in three parts: the new legislative apportionment; the proposed canal improvements; and 31 miscellaneous amendments to the Constitution; which were all adopted by the voters. Among the delegates were: Joseph H. Choate, President; Thomas G. Alvord, First Vice President; William H. Steele, Second Vice President; Elihu Root; Edward Lauterbach; Jesse Johnson; Frederick William Holls; Michael H. Hirschberg; John T. McDonough; John M. Francis; Commodore P. Vedder; John I. Gilbert; Augustus Frank; Daniel H. McMillan; Frederic Storm; John G. Schumaker; John B. Meyenborg; Almet F. Jenks; Charles B. Morton; William D. Veeder; John Cooney; Thomas W. Fitzgerald; Wright Holcomb, De Lancey Nicoll; John Bigelow; Frank T. Fitzgerald; Leonard A. Giegerich; Joseph Koch; Gideon J. Tucker; M. Warley Platzek; Jacob Marks; Andrew H. Green; Joseph I. Green; Stephen S. Blake; William Church Osborn; Willard H. Mase; Roswell A. Parmenter; A. Bleecker Banks; Chester B. McLaughlin; Elon R. Brown; Henry J. Cookinham; John C. Davies; Louis Marshall; Milo M. Acker; Merton E. Lewis; I. Sam Johnson; Henry W. Hill; George Allen Davis; and Charles J. Kurth. Major changes: The term of the governor and lieutenant governor was shortened from three to two years. The election of state officers (Secretary of State, Comptroller, Attorney General; Treasurer; State Engineer) and state senators was moved from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years, henceforth coinciding with the gubernatorial election. The number of state senators was increased from 32 to 50; and the number of assemblymen from 128 to 150. Legislative voting districts were allocated among counties based on citizen population, not total population, so as to exclude the flow of immigrants through Ellis Island. A complex allocation formula was used to ensure that upstate areas would receive senate and assembly districts far in excess of their share of the overall population. Before the Supreme Court's influential one person, one vote decisions of the 1960s, the Republican Party would control the state assembly for sixty-six years and the state senate for fifty-seven. The State Forest Preserve was given perpetual protection as wild land. The State-owned Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation was allowed to be sold. Convict labor in penal institutions was abolished. The use of voting machines was allowed. The first meeting of the annual legislative session was moved from the first Tuesday to the first Wednesday in January. 1915 Convention Under the 1894