The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-05
DAILY BLOCKS THE WAY.
He rfas the Telegraph Race Bill Laid
Over-Routine Work In Both Houses

Over-Routine Work la Both Houses
Special to the Jersey City Nears.
TRENTON, April 5, lS94-The Senate held
short session yesterday morning and
passed number cf bills to third reading.
Senator DAILY succeeded in having Assembly
man Dewsnap's bill, prohibiting telegraph
companies from transmitting race track or
lottery news, laid over. He is not OPP
posed to the bill. Oh, mol He is anxious to
have it passed, but he does not think it is
strong enough. When the bills came up,
Senator Winton explained that it was the
outcome of the agitation against the pool
rooms in Fort Lee, and added that the busi-
ness could not have been carried on II it had
not been for the news of the races furnis he'd
by the Western Union Company.
Mr. DAILY wanted to know what the PEN
atty was He was told $1,000 fine. That he
declared was not enough. He believed in
pli, ing corporations that violated the law
on the same footing with other criminals
and he wanted term of Imprisonment in
serted in the bill.
"But you can't imprison corporation"
remarked Senator VOORHEES,.
s.You can the members of it, though re-
piled Mr. DAILY and at his request the bill
was laid over until next week.
At the afternoon session of the House the
ported the following concurrent resolution
which was agreed to-
Resolved, The Senate concurring, that the
Legislature of this State endorse the provls-
ions of the bill known as II. r. No 1924,
now pending in the House of Representatives
of the United States, said bill being entitled
ga bill to regulate the mode of removal of
| letter carriers and introduced January IS,
1894, by Mr. Mcclure, and we do request
the Senators and Congressman from this
State to support the same. q
House No. 1856, Dewsnap's anti-hazihg bill,
came up on third reading and was vigor-
ously opposed by Mr.. Storrs, who claimed
that innocent hazing should not be made
misdemeanor, but should be regulated by
the faculty of the several colleges. Hazing,
ne said, is merely playing, and should not be
made criminal offense. Mr.. Salinger IA
vored the bill, and said the law should step
in and prevent the brutal sports of the col
legians. The bill was lost by a vote of 20 to
81.
Among the bills passed were these
House 300 authorizes Common Councils to
increase the salaries of City Comptrollers to
So, 600; House 279, permits fishing with set
lines and fish weirs above tidewater, in
streams; House 28, transfers all moneys re-
ceived from the sale of riparian lands and
leases to the school fund; House 1913, pro-
vides that all Coroners' iIries shall here
after consist OF six men, who shall each re-
ceive 81 fee.
There was reaction in the matter of the
introduction of bills yesterday, and very
small number only was introduced. There
were only two in the Senate:-
No. 99-Mr. Adrain. Repeats act relative to
the publication OF the expenditures of m ,neys
by governing boards in second class cities, APP
proved Marcn 2S. 1893
No. 10o-Mr Stokes (for4 the President).
Amends act relative to the pit ctice OF medicine
by providing that the act shaiI not apply to any
mon resident physician from practlcing tsm-
porarily by request in writing of q ply sician
competent to practice in the State.
In the House there were four which, with
the exception of Mayor Fagan's police bill
for Hoboken, related to townships.