The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-10
GRIGGS' FIRST VETO
What Seems to Be a Good
Bill Killed Upon Tech
meal Grounds.
NO MARTIN ACT EXTENSIONS
A Useless Liquor License Measure
Knocked on the Head-Nayal
Reserve Needs.
NO MARTIN ACT EXTENSIONS
Snecial to the Jerscp Citu Meas.

Snecial to the Jerscp CitU Nctrs.
TRENTON. March 10. 1S9s.-Governor
Griggs sent his first vetoes to the Assem-
bly, last night. There were two of them
and they vetoed House bills Nos. 70 and
129.
House 70 extends the Martin act to all
municipal assessments. The Governor, in
his veto. says the bill is not in accord
ance with the principles which aetuated
the Legislature in passing the Martin act,
and is unwise. He then recites the causes
which led to the passage of the Martin
act in 1SS6-intended to afford a means
of clearing up a long accumulation of
arrears and at the same time of doing
to the land owners by affording
them a tribunal where legal and equit-
able objections to the amount of taxes
or assessments, long before due. could be
considered and dealt with. 1t was not
intended to provide for a perpetual tri-
bunal. to sit with power to revise taxes
and assessments. That law was extraor-
binary in its nature, and provided for an
extraordinary condition of affairs. There
already exists, the Governor says, an ade-
quate tribunal for the adjustment of
valuations for ordinary taxation. That
tribunal is maintained by the State and
is doing satisfactory and efficient work.
To allow land owners to neglect the pay
ment of taxes or assessments for a year
and then afford them another tribunal
t. which they may appeal for a reduc>
a el1a Is g ana dess 4 yTem al incentive epqn df fhat
charge of his public burdens, consequent
be answered BY permitting this Bill to
become a law. On the contrary, l can see
how much harm may be caused by the
existence of a tribunal sitting perpetually
| for the purpose of scaling down taxes
and assessments.
House 129 gives masters in Chancery
and Supreme Court Commissioners power
to take recognizance of persons granted
ernor says. affords q good illustration
which | called the attention of the Legis-
lature in my inaugural address. Recog-
nizances of this kind may now be taken
or before any Judge of the Court of Com
mon Pleas. / know of no public demand
or necessity which requires. the extension
of this power to additional officers. The
granting Of licenses IS within the con,
troll of the Courts of Common Pleas, and
there. is SONS propriety in leaving the
form of the recognizance to the officers
of the Coz /. | do not see that the bill
will serve 4seful public purpose to such
upon the statute book" Both vetoes
were, under the rule. laid over.
The Governor w va Visited a ! BY Lieute sis
Adjutant Lieutenant iFarnham Yardley,
Lieutenant Macdonough Craven, GEM
mander OF the Jersey City division; Lieu
tenant John Colby, and Lieutenant F. M.
Ballard. all of the good ship Portsmouth
of the Naval Reserve. The naval gentle
meior Iere o, i=n55odqce d te Tr the Gove wbo a ~
though now in the militia, is a graduS
ate of Annapolis and was in the same
class there with Lieutenant Craven.
They explained to the Governor the
| needs of the Reserve and the use that
that arm of the service would be to the
State. The Governor listened attentively
to them and said that he had a better
idea of the Reserve than he had had be-
fore. He also said that he would like to
see some of his sailors and learn for him
self what they could do.
Commander Dahlgreen of the Battalion
of the West was present. He knew that
vision, and that the boys were at work
in their armary. He quietly left the room
and soon afterward the beat of a drum
He stepped to see what it meant and as
he appeared at the window he saw fifty
of the young tars drawn up on the State
House lawn saluting their commander
in-chief. Lieutenant F.. G. Woodward.
their commander, put them through the
cutlass and pistol drill ard deployed
them before the Governor. who, when it
was over, expressed himself highly pleas
ed with the creditable showing the sailors
made.
Superintendent Poland n Directors
Allen, Kunz and Stowe of the Jersey City
| Board of Education. came down here
with W bills. One they had considerable
/ trouble with. 1t forbids. a saloon within
200 feet of a school house. They offered it
to several members, but all shrank from
1t as though 1t was infected. Finally in
despair they took it over to the Senate
and gave it to Senator Stokes. who,
when he was not troubled so much with
the Congressional fever, was a red-hot
temperance advocate. TIL aluminium
| tongued orator from Cumberland took
the bill saying hat he would look after
il. put it away carefully in his desk.
The educational gentlemen had better
luck with their second bill and got it in
troduced. 1t provides for q Normal. School
in Jersey City to cost $4,000. to be paid
for out of the State school fund.
Herbert Potts helped the clerks of the
| House. and his energetic methods greatly
expedited business.
The House passed these bills
262. provides thai fer the passage of
any bridge bill by the Legislature FIVE
days notice must be given in all news
papers in counties affected.
244. makes it a misdemeanor to solicit
| candidates for office for money or to pur-
/ chase ball CT picnic tickets.
". authorizes Imprisonment of persons
who refuse 10 pay fine for violation of
health ordinances.
2s2, allows Jersey insurance companies
to invest surplus in Government and
nIniripa1 bondS>