The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-06
the JERSEY CITY NEWS,
No. Isl Washington ST.,
Jersey city.

died young was that requiring all stone
broken by convicts to be used on county
| roads, while his next, amending the banking
act, went the same way Then followed q
series of five bills, numbered 459 to 463 in
elusive, none of which passed. The practice
act was amended by 459, and AGO provided
that corporations should not consolidate
without the consent of the Legislature No.
401 amended the mortgage act; 462 did the
| same with the issuing of stock or scrip divi-
! dends by corporations. No. 4Sl, introduced
by Mr.. Salinger, deserved richly the death
it died. It provided for the appointment by
| the Governor of a board of three commits
sioners to nave charge of all electrical con-
| struction and Illuminating gas matters. He
also had bad luck with his last bill, which
| provides that municipalities may provide
| ambulances to remove and care for sick and
injured animals.
WHAT MIR. M'EWAN DID.
Mr.. McEwan is second on the list with
| twenty. nine bills. He started in IN the first
day with a measure to repeal the race track
laws, which was tho third II in. 1t be-
cane O law. His next was No. 6S, repeating
the act giving the Secretary of tho State
Prison Inspectors $500 a year salary. That
also became q low. His next repealed the
act creating Superintendent of the Police
and Fire Departments, and as every one In
Jersey City knows this also became a law.
Mr.. McEwan was not SO successful with
his next bill, the two-cent ferriage bill.
which failed to become a law, although hfs
next one, which added the duties Of mine
inspector to those of factory inspector, is
now the aw of the State. The bill provid-
ing for a survey Of the wild landso OF the
State to determine which will be suitable Tor
a State forest reserve, was another OF Mr.
McIGwan's measures that became law. No.
1911, which he introduced, provided for a
State Water Board. and failed to see tho
light of day after the Committee on Cor
porations got possession Of it. The bill Civ
Ing the Fire Department full control Of its
houses and apparatus, which became a law,
was another OF his measures. The next two
bills he introduced were those which dis
missed Jailer Bob Davis ind gave the care
of the prisoners to Sheriff Toffey.
No. 242, which repealed the act OF last
pay claims without the Mayors approval
passed both Houses; but No. 2a3, which re-
pealed the act permitting the Jersey City
Fire Commissioners to expend $4,000 tor APP
paratus, failed to pass.
Two excellent measures of Mr.. McEwan's,
which became laws, require promotions in
the Police and Fire DEPARTMENTS to be made
from members having the best records for
intelligence, efficiency. sobriety and brav-
No. 312, his next measure, provided that
official ballots need not be used at the next
election for Freeholders. This was meant to
meet the emergency created by the hitch In
the passage Of the bilt for new Freeholders in
Hudson and Essex, but as the Freeholders'
bill failed, No. 312 went down with it.
Mr.. McEwan had a bill in, creating a
board of examining engineers, bur it was
lost. His bill adding one member from each
Congressional district TO the Managers OF the
Geological Survey became a law; but his
measure for equal taxation was killed BY the
Railroads and CauaJ His bill