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THE FINAL ADJOURNMENT.
TIE IO9TH LEGISLATURE FINISHES
ITS LABORS.
The House LoIters for Half an Hour
for the Hour OF NOOn-The Com
stitutIOnal Convention BfIl-Notes.

The House LOIters for Half an Hour
for the Hour OF NoOn-The Com
stitutional Convention BfIl-Notes.
TRENTON, April 4.-The one hundred and
ninth Legislature, it can be said, did one
thing up in an eminently respectable mau-
ner. That was the adjournment. The
House had little to do last night, and took
two recesses, one at ten o'clock, for fifteen
minutes, but which lasted half an hour.
and another at eleven o'clock for half an
hour. 1t was midnight, however, before
the boys came together again after the
second recess, and half hour later an
adjournment was taken till this morning
There was very little disorder iu thu cham
Der, and except for the fact that few bills
were scattered around the aoor, there was
very little to characterize the last night of
the Session. TIE usual midnight scenes
OF the last night were wanting In MANY
respects and this is the one consoling
satisfaction. and one tiny 'sdrop" of good
IN the bucket CT svil tobe scored up to the
meanest Legislature convened in New Jer-
seq for two decades. The Senate was very
busy last night, and zealously stuck to the
S~~N-A~An%A Il
floor of the chamber was crowded. particu-
larly during the recess of the House. when
President Schenck announced that there
was altogether too much confusion in the
Chamber for the transaction of business.
and requested the members of the House
to resort to the committee rooms. The
business was then proceeded with, and by
midnight the calendar was about cleared.
Mhen the two houses met this morning
there was scarcely anything for them to do.
Inc last four bills vetoed by the Governor
were taken up and passed, notwithstand-
ing the objections. One of these was the
Pilot Commissioners bill. Senator Heck
iah II. Smith, of Burlington County. voted
with the Republicans because he is indip-
nant at the Governors refusal to appoint
his candidate for prosecutor of pleas in
Burlington County. All of the Governors
appointments sent in yesterday were con-
hrmed IN Executive Session this morning.
except that of Charles H. Munson for Lay
Judge OF Morris County, and, of course,
the Eliot Commissioners. The only one
that was not unanimously confirmed was
that of Msjor-General John w. Plume in
place of Gen. Gershom Mott, deceased.
who rec lyed the following vote: Senators
Bnnkerhotf, Carpenter. Cochran, w. B.
Miller, Moon, Smith, Chattel, Fish, Griggs,
Schenck, Youngblood Livingston and Van
derbilt.
Governor Albeit this morning again
sent Munson's name to the Senate. and
it was again rejected in Executive Session.
Mr. Munson will be appointed for another
year. as last year the very last act of the
executive session was the rejection of the
nomination. Before adjourning The house
passed by rising vote resolutions of SYM
pathy for the family of ex Secretary Ere
hnghuysen. it being announced that the
ex Secretary was dying.
At ll:2O, Mr.. b essen, in q neat speech,
presented the Speaker with handsome
gold watch and chain on behalf of the
members. Mr.. Armstrong accepted the
gift in feeling respone. This being con.
cluded the members loitered around for
twenty minutes waiting for the hour of
noon to arrive. When, finally, it did ar
rive, the members, headed by the Speaker
and Clerk Toombs, marched to the Senate
chamber in double file and President
Schenck declared the Legislature of 1885
adjourned sine die.
An examination of the bills in Governor
Abbett's hands after the Legislature had
adjourned revealed one for the making of
Constitutional Amendments. All efforts to
call Constitutional Convention have been
resisted by the South Jersey members VINO
fear disturbance of the basis of represen-
tation IN the Senate. The bill that has
passed is the most harmless of all the
school of Constitutional Amendment bills
proposed. It provides for a Commission
to draft amendments, which are to be re-
ported to the Legislature in Special Ses-
sion to be held in October. Amendments
to the Constitution proposed by Commits
sion need the approval of two successive
Legislatures and of the people, to become
part of the State Organic Law. If the Com
mission provided for in this bill should
propose amendments unsatisfactory to the
South jersey sentiment, they can be de-
feated in the Senate.