The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-05
VETOED!
Governor Albeit Saves
the State from the
Coal Trust.
GRAND POLITICAL COUP.
Now, Gentlemen, Bring On
Your Next SANDER
GUS Attack.
The Democracy Will Give Prae-
teal Answers
to All.
SOLID FOR M'DERM0TT
How the Campaign BOOms-Splendid
Meetings Last Night-0n
to Victory.
REPUBLICAN RUFFIANISM.
REPUBLICAN RUFFIANISM.
The Defeated Party Takes to Bully
ing and Browbeating News" Re
pOrterS.
Special to the Jersey Cltv Ne,us.

NpcSsNs " GtSVe StSV A'ctoS'
TRENTON, April 8, 1899. Governor
Albeit this morning vetoed the Read
ing coal combine bill. The Governor
will file his reasons for the veto this
afternoon. Doubts of the constitu-
tionality of the measure are the prin-
cipal reasons alleged by Governor
Albeit for the refusal to approve the
bill
In his memorandum he says that
there is no question of his right to
veto bills in his hands at any time
within thirty days after the adjourn
ment of the Legislature. According
to the State law the Governor
has not the power to technically
veto bill after the Legislature has
adjourned. If he does not approve it,
he can file it with the State Librarian
within thirty days after adjournment,
accompanied by a memorandum stat
ing that his signature is withheld.
The bill is then classed as legislative
failure. The effects of such course
is to all intents and purposes the same
as that of veto. The bill is dead,
and can only be removed by a subse-
quent Legislature.
The object of the bill was to con-
firm the lease of the Central Railroad
of New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley
Railroad to the Port Reading Railroad,
a branch of the Philadelphia 81 Read
ing Railroad.
AS the New Jersey Legislature has
adjourned, this stops action on the
bill until it meets again.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
Shortly after Governor Abbett's ar
rival at the State House this morning
he handed out document to the cor
respondents which was headed mem
orandum on 449." The document be-
gins with statement about the in
PRODUCTION and passage of the bill and
then says
Under the constitution of the
State this bill cannot become law
without my approval expressed by
signature.
''It is the opinion of the Attorney
General in which concur, that there
is no question as to my right to ap-
prove the bill within thirty days after
the adjournment of the Legislature.
.The only question is whether the
act of March 12, 1880, is lawful liIni-
tion of the constitutional power of the
Governor. This is the practical ques-
tion, because every Governor since
1880 has acquiesced in this legislative
limitation.
SIN view of the misapprehension
and in some instances nisrepresenta-
ton of the objects and scope of this
bill, | deem it proper to present my
views. The act is intended to place
in the hands of foreign corporation
the control of railroads in the State.
The Governor then quoted the first
and second section of the act which
leealizes the combine. Section three
he says contains the provisions for
condemning the rights OF dissenting
stockholders. The Governor says the
amendments are important and after
disposing of the provision of the bill
he quotes them.
Amendment to Section 9 reads,
That nothing in this act contained, or
anything done under or in pursuance
of this act shall constitute q contract