The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-08

passed through tbt oeSohu
| placed on third reading.
Bills forbidding the use of buildings or
rooms for gambling purposes, and repeal
ing the Police Tenure OF Office act, were
ordered to the third reading. The Austria
Ian Election bill, owing to the absence OF
the introducer, was laid over.
The Werts liquor bill was reported in
the Senate this afternoon, the Democratic
caucus having, by a vote of q to 10. ac-
cepted the amendments Of Senator Baker,
making the bill more pleasing to the tenn
perance people. Soon after being reported
the bill was taken up on second reading,
and Senator Baker tlen offered the amend
ments referred to. They were all adopted
without dissent. Senator Gardiner, Rep,
then presented an amendment exempting
from license fee the wine producers OF
South Jersey who sell in quantities of from
one quart to five gallons. This amend
mcnt W as defeated. The bill was then or
dered to third reading.
The Werts bill as it now stands, after
to-day's amendments, may be summarized
as follows: 1t repeals local option aud es-
tablishes license fees, as follows:
For towns, townships, containing not
more thar 5000 people, the fee to be not
less thar 800; for towns, etc, containing
| betwee 5000 and 10, 600, not less than $50,
and for cities of over 10, 900 people, not less
| than $3.50. Full license fees, as above, are
required not only from regular saloon men,
but from jug shops and groggeries
where liquor is sold by the quart and not
drunk on the premises. A license must be
revoked after two convictions for Sunday
selling or otherwise breaking the law.
Retail sale Of liquor at groceries is posi-
lively prohibited. Druggists may still sell
for medicinal purposes. Under Senator
Bakers amendments, towns, townships,
etc., can hold an election to fix the fee as
high as they like if a petition signed by
one fifth of the legal voters is presented to
the county court. These elections shal be
held not oftener than three years, and the
fees voted ON must always be higher than
the minimum above prescribed.
Bills were introduced in the Senate Civ
ing lay Judges in counties of the third and
fourth class an annual salary of $500, and
providing thai the act for the prevention Of
cruelty to animals shall not apply to pigeon
killing from a trap, providing the pigeons
are not tortured in handling them; making
it unlawful for employers to accept
| Hlolnoc from anarfnyaZ To withdraw from
any labor organization.
In the Senate to-day, besides the Werts
Liquor bill, an interesting feature was the
discussion brought out by Senator Roe's
measure for a law judge in Gloucester
county. l. appears from the Senator's
statement that he introduced the bill mere
ly at the request OF a constituent, and with
out giving it much thought. The more
the Democrats saw of the measure the
higher became their regard for it, and APP
p~arently Senator Roe's feeling has been
running just in an opposite direction. Last
night he tried to have it referred to the At
torney General for an opinion asst itsconsti-
tntionality, but the Democrats tabled his
resolution. To-day the bill came mp on final
passage. Senator Roe wanted it postponed.
His chef opposition arose from the fact
that, while three or four residents Of Glou-
eester want the bill, all the rest Of the
county seems against it, as apt to saddle
on the public an unnecessary expense.
Senator Gardner insisted that, as a matter
of courtesy and fair dealing, the bill ought
not to be pushed upon Gloucester county
against the protest of the county's repre-
sentative in the Senate. Senator Pfeiffer
then, taking the floor, said he would ex-
pose the s'milk in the cocoanut.n Senator
Roe and his Republican colleagues feared
that the Governor might appoint a Demo-
cratic Judge, and, as they had some hope
of electing a Republican Governor next
fall, they wanted the bill postponed until
next winter, when a Republican Judge
would be more likely. Senator Roe's
motion to postpone was lost, and the bill
passed by a party vote.
WEDNESDAYS SESSION.
A vigorous blow was struck in the
House to-day at the 'Gretna Green bus
mess at Camden by the passage of John
Parnell Feeny's bill requiring matrimo-
nially inclined couples to first secure a
license from the County Clerk Of the coun-
ty IN which the ceremony is to take place.
After a vigorous opposition the bill finally
passed, 50 to 30. 1t requires a fee of $3.50
to be paid to the County Clerk. The bill
has yet to pass the Senate.
The expectation that the Werts Liquor
bill would come up on final passage in the
Senate to-day was not realized. This
morning Senator Adrian was absent, and
this afternoon Senators Pfeiifer and Smith
were away. The Democrats need their
full strength on the bill and President
Werts was in an unpleasant mood this af-
ternoon over the absences. He is eager to
have the liquor question disposed Of, and
thinks the members might make it convc-
nient to attend for that purpose. Senator
Edwards may be away tomorrow, and,
in that case, the liquor bill will go over for
another week.
The Republicans tried to involve the
Democrats in trouble in the Assembly this
morning by a resolution, which Mr.. Voor-
bees offered, providing that any liquor bill
received from the Senate shall first be re-
J ferred to an appropriate committee, and
+ after a public hearing be reported back to
the lIouse within not less than three days
from the date of reference. Mr.. McDer-
mitt moved to refer to the Committee On
judiciary. Mr.. IIeppenheimer thought