West-Jersey pioneer., 1882-03-30
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.

and House last week were very excitable.
The Governors veto of the act known
as Senate bill No. 1877, brought on a
lengthy discussion in the Senate. Sen
ators Applegate, Gardner, TAYLOR and
Vail made able argument in favor of
passing the bill over the Governors
veto, while Senators Paxton and Young
blood upheld the Governor in his action.
The ablest speech made on the subject
was that of Senator Applegate. He
said:-
1.-The simple object of the bill was to
protect the riparian rights of the State
of New Jersey-and that the State was
bound to do. 1t is conceded that the
State has the right to all the lands under
water, and this bill is only intended to
confirm that right. fthe Hoboken case
is the law, then the State cannot make
a good title to the lands which are ac-
knowledged to be hers. What are all
these grants involving millions of dollars
worth if that be the law9 Absolutely
nothing, the whole thing from which
the State has been receiving millions OF
dollars will vanish He then reviewed
at some length the Governors veto
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merely local character. He admits
that the bill is general, but in his objec-
tions to it he confines himself entirely to
local considerations, affecting Jersey
CITY and Hoboken. He says that the
bill proposes to abrogate all rights to
lands below the ancient lines. 1t does
not propose to do anything of the kind
Wherever public easement exists this
bill does not interfere. 1t protects all
grants In regard to the law which is
claimed to govern this case, it is not
competent for the Legislature to deprive
the public of vested rights except by
eminent domain. This bill does propose,
| wherever easements are claimed to lands
already leased by the State-that are
only paper titles-it does propose to dis
turb all such claims, and this is right.
If the State has made grant. and Its
title is clouded by these claims the State
must make them clear, and the State
proposes to do so by this BILL 1t was
manifestly wrong where the State has
improved these lands, or has granted to
individuals riparian rights, for any mu-
nicipality to come in and say we will run
our streets through your lands, and at
Hoboken and Jersey City they are doing
this thing"
The vote was then taken as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Applegate, Beatty, Bosen-
bury, Deacon, Doughty. Gardner, Hires,
Hobart, Lawrence, Martin, Merritt,
Nichols, Taylor, Vail, Wortendyke-15.
Nays-Ferrell, Havens, Paxton, Stainsby,
Youngblood-5. Absent Miller.
| The Local Option bill giving cities and
townships throughout the State the
right to vote on the question of License,
or no License" has passed the Senate by
the following vote:-
Yeas-Messrs. Applegate, Bosenbury,
FerreIl, Havens, Hires, Hobart, Martin,
Merritt, Nichols, Vail, Wortendyke and
Youngblood-12.
Nays-Messrs Beatty, Doughty, Dea-
con, Gardner, Lawrence, Paxton, Stains
by, Taylor-S.
There is ample time to pass it in the
House of Assembly previous to the final
adjournment, but for all that it will
probably never see daylight after its ref
erence to committee.
Senator Merritt's bill concerning the
Gloucester Ferry is declared by well-ln
| formed gentlemen to be all right, not
withstanding the clamor which has been
made about it. Still to make matters
sure, a new bill on the subject was intro
duced recently, and will be promptly
passed.
In executive session the following
| nominations were received and con
firmed: James J. Bergen, Prosecutor OF
Pleas, Somerset, reappointed; Patrick
H. Gilhooley, Judge District Court Of
Elizabeth, vice Joseph Award; Edmund
| Jones, Judge of the Inferior Court o1
Common Pleas, Gloucester, vice Benja
min F. Carter; Commissioners to select
site for the Morristown Asylum, Garret
Ackerson, Jr., J. Meeker, and A. w
Cutler. w. II. Morrow, for Law Judge
of Warren, was laid over again.
| The Senate has confirmed the no1ni-
nation of Charles T. Reed, of Camden,
as Law Judge, in place of Judge Pan
coast, and this in the face of the protest
of the Camden Bar Association, and the
best people of that city. Reed is alto
gether unfit for the Office, it being gen
erallv admitted that he has neither the
character nor necessary ability. 1t is
one of the worst appointments made by
Governor Ludlow during his term OF Of
fee. Senators Havens and Nichols voted
against Mr. Reeds confirmation, but he
was sustained by majority vote. Sew
eral Senators who voted favorably to
Reed said that they believed it to be
bad nomination, but the odium was
with the Governor in selecting such q
man, and they proposed to continue il
there.
The exercises at the presentation Of
| the Yorktown vase were, as we stated
last week, quite interesting. The Com
mittee on Militia of the two Houses
headed the procession to the Assembly
Chamber, followed by the Governor and
the officers of the New Jersey Battalion,
they in turn being followed by the Leg
islature Arriving in the Chamber, As
semblyman Pennington, of Newark, in
| troduced Gen. E. Burd Grubb to the
audience, who presented to the State the
handsome vase in neat speech. Speaker
Dunn received it in few very pleasant
remarks, and Governor Ludlow spoke
briefly but eloquently, of the trophy and
the honors it showered upon the citizen
soldiery of our State. The scene in the
Assembly during the presentation was
very brilliant, the officers of the Battalion
adding much to it by their brilliant uni
forms and trappings. The vase is solid
silver, and cost $500.
Assemblyman Fielder, of Newark, the
man who wants to wipe out the Sunday
laws, met with another stinging re
buke recently. His bill to allow liquors
sold in Newark and Jersey City before
8 q. m, and after 1. p. M, on Sundays
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