New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-23
NEW-JERSEY LEGISLATURE.

PROFESSOR LAWS SUGGESTIONS ABOUT THE CATTLE
PLAGUE ATTRACTING ATTENTI0N-THE BUSINESS
NOW on HAND BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE.
[PRou TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBUNEl
TRENTON, Feb. 22.-The letter of Professor
Law OF Cornell In Sundays TRIBUNE attracts much at
ienton the few legislators who remain mere during
the recess II u acknowledged that what Professor
Law may have 10 say concerning the cattle disease Is
of value His utterances have peculiar interest be,
cause his statements before the legislative committee,
when the law creating the cattle inspection bureau was
passed had much 70 do with IT. decisions The members
Of the Legislature who chiefly instrumental In Sc
curug the passage OF the law not IN Office this year.
or perhaps the remarkable unanmiiy OF sentiment In
fayor OF abollshing the bureau would not exist
The "indlgnaiion TO which TIE TRIBUNE CORE
sponden at Trenton alluded, and which Professor Law
onoted due according to the statements Of those who
most loudly express n not 10 the simple fact mat the
ompng ont OF the disease has about ~. 900 per
month since tho establishment Of the bureau, but be-
cause It Is believed the has been spent useessy
IN considerable oxteut. While The Cattle Inspector
Colonel william H. Stirling is above any suspicion OF
recklessness IN expenditure he Is known to have been
unfamiliar with the nature OF IN duties until after the
experience he gained chief and It Is because the
legislators think that the State has been paying dearly
for hi. experience that they wish to abolish The present
system II they are wrong In their conclusions It cannot
he their fault for a resolution requesting details Of the
expenditures was passed weeks ago and still re-
mains unansw II IS proposed soon "a the ACT
abolishing present bureau goes into erect TO INTRO
duce bill authorizing the state Board Of Health 10 pro
coed to enforce the statute books, CIV
ing the Board charge the determination Of epidemc7
among beasts ~ well rs among u Is claimed that
n BOARD Of Physicians VIII be best Tor this purpose.
II may he added that the statement made In the As
semby last week that the cost OF the same work IN
Pennsylvania during 1879 was only $4,000, against
$50 600 in New jersey had powerful effect
| of bpt bI Legislature
the same doubt "a to the pursue in regard to
rho rcports OF the special commissions taxation and
municlpal government. The former was submitted to
tho LEGISLATURE last week and the latter Will make It's
aupcarance I'm the form Of two or more Dils some e
| during present week.
| Hinder ordinary circumstances the business OF the
session could he closed out within month without dl
Guilty The matters still undetermined nro tho ihVesti
gatone into the alleged illegal fees Of tho Secretary or
State the investigation INTO the management OF the Re
I ro, ~ mortgage doctors by the Committee Ways
and Means House the investigation into the con
| dIuon Of the Sinking Fund the examination OF the
corecuess the reports Of compensation received by
| Tho feed county and state officers the sunday
law and LIQUOR selling bills aud the judicial nominations
~ The In spite Of the length OF this list oach
question been so fully considered thht WIN po>sLD5
TWO exceptions To the reports ot the commissions or
ni9hr would suffice TO dispose OF all The possibility or
acting upon the involved questions and sweeping changes
proposed by these commissions without prolognS ne
session to an unparalleled length seems very small
however Among the ideas proposed Is TINS that the
rcnort. of the In the forms OF Dlls shhl Do
urntcd i'm convenient form and distributed to every
city town. village ana hamlet In the state that me
Newspapers shall publish them that there shall be as
much ulblic discussion their provisions "a possible.
and that there shall be definite understanding that
| they will he acted upon In the session OF 1851 III -
claimed that by these the Legislators would come
next year fully prepared TO act on the dis ana inc
nucsOns would practically be decided al the polls ny
Tho peoplc al large they would certainly enter into
| the political campaign M nm Important factor Inc
Jingle objection that has been raised to This plan IL that
smch course might I've considered As lodging The issue
The nomination OF eK Governor Joel Parker VIII come
before the Senate for action Monday evening or Tues