The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-19

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Weller. Mrs. CHARLES Haniill. Rev. a. G..
Lawson. President Of the Christian Tenn
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Mrs: VIM resa & carefully prepared
IN Camden Is a disgrace to a free people;
that 1T grants all applications without re-
gard to the character Of the applicants.
mar with deliriurn tremens The board
not the welfare Of the people. the sa-
pay they must all do business on Sundays.
sellsto minors. sell policy and harbor
be found on many applications, and saloon
Our town, She said. has been given
ard the right Of the people to locally gov
e saf themselves has been denied them IN
Then Mr.. Lyell made a strong plea for
the bill. camden's excise board was ir-
responsible, he said, and the people could
secure relief only through the Legisla-
Ex-Speaker Armstrong favored the bill.
II was not toe, radical. he claimed.
merely gave the people privileges en-
sx-Assenblgman Engard said that az
W pgara rejoice @rss ' over a the passage ASA e" Of the peb biil.
The excise board had the power to prop
erly regulate the matter. but it refuses
Ex-Assembiyman Cole said the Phiia-
delphia brewers ran things to suit them
selves in connection with Camden's liquor
Why we have two hundred saloons and
innumerable speak-easies,' he said. with
q gesture that e~loauently told of the horror
ha Ill H+NEE ~A
Yes. when a saloon license is refused
over in Philadelphia. the applicant comes
rght to Camden and gets a license, said
Other speeches were made. Then SEN
ator Ehgel caused q. slight commotion by
asking what support might be expected It
Those who advised the passage of such
bills in the past" he said, "haye not sup
the time came they threw away their
votes, and the consequence is this Legis-
lature. Although ! am a temperance
Of Temperance. I don't think the .Prohibi-
ton party gave me much support"
The COMMITTEES decided to give the OPP
1onents Of the bill a hearing next Tues
The Committee on RAILROADS, and Canals
f.ni e advance reasons Why his bill
blouse No, S6l should be favorably. re-
ported. The bill forbids any board of
ecmmittese. or other governing body. Of
any municipality. granting any franchise
or right to construct or operate any street
or electric railway in. through or along
any public highway or place, unless a
sum not less than 4.000 for each mile of
single track. nor less than $1,000 for each
mile of double track is paid by the corpor-
alton securing such franchise.
Mr.. Reed said that enormously valuable
franchises have been given away by the
Governing bodies of townships and cities
all sover the State. He claimed that COM
nunities were entitled to. receive some
-eturn for such valuable franchises. The
Companies should be Obliged to pay for
he privilege of using public highways in
the same manner as steam railroads. II
ecst steam railroads $1,000 per mile to
Grade and ballast its tracks Trolley COM
panies come and~receive a roadway com
pletely graded and ballasted for nothing.
1T is no wonder Mr.. Reed said. that
the people of Jersey City and other large
titles are beginning to say:-'What meat
Hoes this. our Caesar feed upon, that he
aath grown go great?'
Mr.. Reed said that when the trolley sys-
tem was in its infancy. people did not
realize the value of franchises they
were giving away and he believed that the
Legislature should heed what the Gov
ernor said IN his message. in passing a
law which would force municipal authori-
les to secure to the people ADEQUATE re-
anuneration forsfranchises granted.