Reel five is devoted entirely to the year 1901 and concerns the following topics: personal business correspondence; dispute on the selection of a site for the proposed state tuberculosis hospital, letters protesting the selection of the Ray Brooke site; requests for patronage and state offices; attacks on the proposed Bell and Wagner medical bills; requests from citizens in the Conewango Swamp area that the state of New York assume the cost of draining the swamp; attacks on the proposed engineers bill #207 requiring competency tests for railway engineers; extensive correspondence concerning the canal improvement bill; and a petition from the Chautauqua County Pomona Grange supporting woman suffrage., 1901

File — microfilm reel: 5

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

From the Collection:

Includes correspondence from fellow political figures, constituents, special interest groups, and office-seekers concerning legislation under consideration in Albany; local and state politics, patronage, and other matters. Also, personal business correspondence; scrapbooks (4 volumes, 1895-1958) of clippings, cartoons, and broadsides, dealing chiefly with poitical events and issues during Nixon's public life; memorial resolutions, biographical sketches, and obituaries.