The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-04-27
TEE SSEHNNA7H'S INNFFhhMT.
Assembly Measures Which
the Upper Chamber
Refuses to Pass.
SEVENTY BILLS IN COMMITTEE.
The Gardner Circus Said to be
About to Stop Its Per-
formances.
SEVENTY BILLS IN COMMITTEE.
Special to tie s,i,.dav Morning Mems.

acb upon Assembly bills for the purpose
OF forcing the House to pass some of their
grossly partisan measures is meeting
with the condemnation throughout the
State which it deserves. Measures which
are of vital Importance to certain local
tiles and institutions in different parts Of
the State are hung up in the Senate and
will hang there until the House bows to
the will of the autocratic Gardner
There are about seventy House bills
locked up in the various committees Of
the Senate, many Of which have been
there since early in the session. The Com
mittee upon the Revision of Laws alone
has thirty of these bills. Members of the
House VINO are interested in the measures
have repeatedly gone to Senator Gardner
and asked him to have some of the bills
reported, but ne always refuses. He
charges that the measures are strikes. =
Eyeyything. by the way, which does not
suitGardner and the people he serves are
Strikes
THE DELAYED MEASURES
Among the bills held by this committee,
and the date when sent over, are:-Nos.
10. amends the practice In replevin suits,
haldsince February 10; Harris bill re-
lating to juries viewing the execution of
habeas corpus proceedings, February
10; 76,judgment in certiorari TO carry costs
to winning side, February IL; 50, BIZ
weekly payment bill, April 7; 90. punish
nent Of drunken engineers, February 10;
no, legitimizes children born out Of we'd
lock, If parents afterward marry, Feb
ruary IL; 118, non-residents not to be
appointed police officers, February IL;
1885, repeats act of examination of attor-
neys for admission to Supreme Court,
March II; 100, married woman to take
separate acknowledgment from her hus-
band In any conveyance, February 26;
152 six commissioners of deeds IN
townships having more than one
election district. February 10; pa,
fixes penalty for turnpike companies re-
fusing TO repair, March 10; US, gives
Chief Justice, Chancellor, Vice Chaneel-
lors, Justices of Supreme Court power TO
solemnize marriages, March IL; BIZ, reia-
tive TO Investment of trust funds In
county, city or township funds, March 10,
years. service, March II; S22 limits time
for advertising for proposals for any
county contract work. April Z; 1926, in
reference to deeds after q lapse of twenty
years. March 49, 326, Saturday Half Holt
day bill, March 10; 341, amends Orphans
Court practice relative TO administrators,
March IL; 361, requires foreign co-opera-
tive loan and building associations to
report TO the Secretary of State,
April z; 406, authorizes not less than seven
persons TO form a water company, March
20; 410, justices to send up bill of costs
in criminal cases, April l; All, copy law
and equity report be sent to each City
District Court Judge, April 2; AS, copies
OF all laws be sent to the various State
departments and the county clerks at
once, April 1; 436, amendment to act rela-
tive TO proceedings in criminal cases,
April Z; 479, gives District Courts in cities
jurisdiction In replevin suits, April Z.
IN THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
The Judiciary Committee, or which
Senator Gardner is also chairman, with
Senators Cranmer and Werts as associ-
ates, has fifteen House bills in its care.
These bills with the days that they were
taken over to the Senate are as fOllows:-
Nos. 4, Ticket of-Leave" bill, March 10;
s, repeater of an act relative to sheriffs,
clerks of City District Courts, March 8;
20, District Court bill, Feb. 10; 49, amends
Practice act, Feb. u; 1853, fixes salaries of
assistant prosecutors, March 10; 1872. can
ceiling of forfeited recognizances, March
26; 230, changes time of filing pieadings in
Court of Chancery, March %; 231 amends
redistricting act of last year relative to
Essex County, March 25; 1872, relative to
Orphans Court, March 10; 443, amends
Orphans Court act relative to the sale of
the land of decedent, April 9; 496, the
amendment to the Newark police increase
of payment bill SO that it Will not apply
to Trenton. April 10.
tries. of which Senator Miller is chair
man, has number of bills locked up, for
which the laboring people are clamoring
They are:-Nos. 70, gives employees two
hours on election days, after the opening
of the polls, that they cannot be kept at
bill, March TO- 4l6, increases salaries of
Deputy Labor Inspectors, April z.
The Committee on Corporations, OF
which Senator Thompson is chairman,
has Nos. SO, provides that no corporation
shall have It's charter forfeited because of
any defect i'll its corporation or organiza-
ton, February II; 1Sf, gives to members
of disbanded fire companies exempt GER
tificates, February 10; 243, provides that
owners Of lands along turnpikes may re-
pair snch turnpikes and receive costs
from the companies if the companies
neglect to do so, March -; 1858, allows
corporations to dissolve upon filing a GER
tificate, April H.
THE ELECTRIC BILLS HUNG UP.
In the desk of the chairman of Munich
pal Corporations are the following bills
Nos III, provides for the Insulating of
electric, telegraph and telephone wires
and placing them under ground after
year, March 0; le1, amends The law gov
erning tax assessments March 20, 200,
gives voters of townships power 10 vote
money for an assessors map. April 2.
Other bills held are the following:-96.
requires railroad and canal companies to
pay their employees twice week, in the
hands Of the Committee on Railroads and
Canals since March IL; los, Essex Lunatic
Asylum bill, held since April 2; 143, pro-
vides for the marking of weight OF baled
hay and straw upon the bales, Agricul-
tural Committee since March II; 35S.
gives defendants IN suits tor violating
oleomargarine law right to trial by jury,
same committee since March %;
176, Hudson river fish bill, Game
anu Fisheries since March 20; IN, similar
bill, same status; 1888, incorporation
of boroughs of less than 5000 inhabitants
and four mills in area, Boroughs and
Borough Governments; 1855, requires the
assent of Senator or AssemDlynlan of any
district where it is desired To start bank,
Banks and Insurance April 10.
THE DREDGING MACHINE.
The air is full OF rumors concerning the
Gardner dredging nlachlne. The latest
is thai Senator Gardner and good DIR.
Roe have become alarmed at the prospect
Of the House Committee going a cunning
on their preserves and that they intend to
put away their machine, so that they can
devote their entire time to watching the
House Committee when it comes their
way. Should there be any truth in the
ruInor there will be one of the l1yeliest
times the Senate chamber has ever wit
messed