Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-03-26

be no great financial loss to the State,
| outside of the embarrassment occa-
stoned by the lack of office room for
the State officers whose apartments
were destroyed.
Governor Albeit sent a special mes
sage to the Legislature Monday even
ing, in which he called attention to the
fire, and the necessity of immediate
steps being taken for rebuilding. He
suggests that the entire front be torn
down, and a larger edifice erected in
order that sufficient and proper accom-
modations may be had for the several
State departments, many of which
have heretofore been confined to very
small quarters. His recommendations
will be adopted, and an act passed Civ
ing certain State officers power to pro-
ceed with the work.
The State Board of Education met
here a few days since, and elected As
semblyman E. O. Chapman, State Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction, in
place of Ellis A. Apgar, who has held
the Office eighteen years. Five ballots
were necessary before a choice was
reached. Speaker Armstrong, who is
a member of the board, was the first to
bear the news of the result to Mr..
Chapman in the Assembly. The
| Speaker then introduced a congratu-
latory resolution, which was adopted
by unanimous rising vote. Mr..
Chapman felt very proud of this trib-
ute from Republican House that he
has been nighting all Winter. The new
Superintendentis is forty three years old,
belongs in Jersey City, where he has
been School Superintendent, and his
occupation is the editing of trade pub
locations for the American News Com
pany.
The Rio Grande Sugar Company,
Cape May County, did thriving busi-
ness last year. Up to December last,
the State had paid for the twelve
months ending with December, $9,S76
on sugar cane grown and manufactured
into sugar, and bounties on sugar,
amounting to $3,75S.69.
A Amember from Burlington County
has introduced an act providing for the
use of a new ballot box at all State and
municipal elections, on the same prin-
ciple now in vogue in Massachusetts,.
1t has appliances for the registering of
votes as fast as they are cast, and is
designed particularly to prevent fraud.
Assemblyman Whitaker, of Salem
County, is having hard fight overhis
bill allowing Jersey masters of vessels
to do their own plotting. A remon-
STRANGE from the Board of Pilot Com
missioners was presented against it,
after which the House proceeded to
amend the life out of it. Capt. Whita-
ker was equal to the emergency, how
ever and he succeeded in having the
bill recommitted. Afterward he
brought it before the Assembly in bet
ter shape, and there is now a strong
probability of its passage.
Mr. Besson, of Hudson County, has
bill which, if it becomes law, will
make quite lively stir among the de-
linquent tax payers of Bridgeton, and
other towns Of the State. 1t provides
that it shall be the duty of all common
councils to publish in the official news
papers the names of all delinquents of
poll and personal taxes, the expense
thereof to be charged against the de-
linquents.
As the hour for sine die adjournment
draws nigh, the rules of the Senate are
more rigidly enforced, objections to
suspension being frequently heard, A
number of bad bills will be killed by
this method of treatment.
Nearly all of the bills vetoed by the
Governor have been passed over his
head BY the latter part of the week,
most of the Republican measures will
have become laws.
During the fire in the State House,
Prof. Cook, State Geologist, lost a
number of very valuable maps, which
had been deposited in the Museum in
IL.