The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-24

present competent and efficient Superinten<
dent are equally potent
House bill 148, designating THE Industrial
Training School at Bordentown as the school
provided by Congress and appointing q
board of trustees, is objected to for reasons
given by the Attorney General to the Cover
nor as to its validity.
The Governor objects to Mr.. Glaspelrs bill
extending the provisions Of the act provide
ing for the erection Of tombstones over tho
graves of soldiers and sailors dying in thi4
State after February 13, 1884, SO that it apt
plies to all soldiers and sailors who died
within or without the State. This tho
Governor thinks unnecessary as the Feders
al Government has already made provision
for this.
THE SALARIES NOT EXCESSIVE.
The bill reducing the salaries of the Depuz
ty Collector of Jersey City and the ChieA
Clerk of the Collector Is objected to because
the Governor thinks their present salarie4
are not excessive.
The Governor can find no motion for tho
bill legislating out of Office the Board of AS
sessment of Newark except desire for politi-
cal plunder The board would change po-
litical complexion in few months by the
expiration of the term of one member. Thd
Governor also finds serious defect in en<
crossing so that the law provides for four
members to be appointed for two-year terms
and thereafter four are to be appointed each
succeeding year.
The Governor cannot sanction the bill
making it a misdemeanor to sell coal by
'short weight because it would fail OF
beneficial results and might lead to extOr-
ton.
The first class city board of excise bill Is
vetoed because it allows the Mayor to usd
his discretion whether che boards be made
partisan or not. The Governor says -
'sThus so-called non-partisan legislation is
made the cloak for partisan purposes and
the perpetuation Of partisan rule" The bill,
as originally introduced, he says, was not
Objectionable.
P. H. o'NEILL AN EFFICIENT OFFICER.
The Governor objects to the bill removing
City Collector P. q. O'NeiU of Jersey City,
because he considers Mr. O'Neill an efficient
officer and the removal is only for partisan
effect. He refutss to approve the bill legis-
lating out of Office the City Marshal Of Jer-
sey City for similar reasons.
The joint resolution providing for the ex-
penditure of s2,0e0 to continue the Lippiu-
cott-Ihompson election investigation is ve-
toed because the necessity and propriety OF
the expenditure is no. vested in majority
of the committee.
House bill 429, authorizing townships 10
be divided into street lighting districts, the
Governor thinks unwise and creates corpora
tions of q dangerous character.
House bill 366, amending the village ach
in relation to the publication of ordinances
is objected to because it is defectively drawn
The objections to the bill fixing the fees of
collectors and assessors in townships at ten
cents per name are that the increase is un-
warranted.
The Governor objects to House bill 2Ss,
amending the stone road act requiring GER
tain matters provided therein to have the
approval of the State Commissioner of
Roads on the ground that such legislation
would probably be imperative and 1t was
unwise at any rate to devolve the duties re-
quired in the single instance contemplated
by this bill on any other purpose than the
one already designated under existing laws.
Senate 225, takes from the governing
boards of second class cities the power to
appoint the Boards of Excise, and rests the
appointive power in the Mayors OF said
cities 1t makes the new boards TO consist
of three. two of which shall be of the same
political party The Governor says the only
effect of this bill is to legislate certain Off
cials of one party out of places, and instate
others of the party temporarily dominant IN
their stead. For these reasons and because
the boards are not constituted upon a nom
partisan basis he would withhold his ap-
proval
CONGRESSIONAL REDIsTRIcTING BILL.
Senate 234, is known as the Congressional
redistricting bill The Governor says the
present Congressional districts in order to
secure presumed or actual partisan ad !.
vantage in future elections for members of
Congress. The bill was in violation of the
spirit and the letter of the Federal Con-
stitution, and the laws passed pursuant
thereto, providing that representations
shall be apportioned among the several
States, according TO their respec-
tive numbers The Governor says that the
plain intent of the constitutional provision is
that representatives shall be appointed once
in ten years and the districts arranged upon
such apportionment to remain unchanged
until another apportionment is provided for
by Congress. Since the formation of the
present districts, there has been no further
Federal legislation, and he thinks the pro-
posed law unauthorized.
OF Mr. Ginder's second class freeholder
scheme, the Governor says.
'The bill is part and parcel of the scheme
conceived by partisan ingenuity. and now
being consummated by legislative aid.t seize
for partisan purposes, wherever possible,
the various Boards of Freeholders through
out the State. I cannot regard such legisla-
ton as wise or salutary. and hence return
the bill without approval