The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-26

WORDS, WORDS, WORDS!
Another Batch Of Hearings
Consumes a Day at
Trenton.
Mr.. PoLAND's SCHOOL LAW
Schools and Pound Nets Discussed
With Owl Like I'M
profitableness.
1870 Jerss.cayAcsvc.

ATPE-
noon SO many of them were going on in
all parts of the Legislative part of the
State House that it was difficult to keep
track of them. Mr.. Poland made a strong
defence of the new school law before the
House Committee on Education. He came
before the committee to oppose Mr..
Fighters repeal of the elaw. He submit
ted a large bundle of letters which had
been received in answer to a circular let
ter sent by the Board of Education to
the trustees Of the various townships
asking how the new law worked with
them. Two-thirds of the he said,
spoke in eulogistic terms of the law.
He read several of the letters. One of
them was from Hibernia in Mr.. Fighters
district. The writer spoke enthusiastic-
ally of the benefit the law had been to
his district, and said that he had heard
that Mr.. Fighter proposed to introduce
a general repeater of the law, and il he
did he would not represent his constitu-
ents. This raised a laugh at Mr.. Fighters
expense. He attempted to make an ex-
PLANTATION, but as Mr. Poland had the floor
he was called to order.
Several gentlemen arose in all parts of
the House and wanted Mr.. Poland to read
the replies from townships which opposed
the law. Mr.. Wildes5 wanted the reply
from Delavan township. Mr.. Poland said
that he did not have them. DR.. Abraham
ConTow. president of the School Board
of that township. said that he could re-
member what was written. To the first
question, Has the character of the Board
increased? the answer was.-aNo, our
wives used to be members; now we are"
Several spoke in favor of the repeater
and many against.
The bills introduced in the Senate by
Senator Parry by request of the Fish and
Game Commission were subjects of Sc
we're attack at a hearing given in the
Senate chamber by the Committee on
Game and Fisheries, of which Senator
Ward is chairman. The first bill taken
UP was No. 12s, which requires pound
net fishermen to pay a license of not less
than 500 to cast their nets at least LOCO
feet off shore at low tide. to have meshes
not less than four inches. pockets with
not less than two-inch mesh and to raise
their nets at Saturday noon and not
drop them again until Monday noon. The
bill has raised a storm of protest from
the pound net fishermen along the coast,
and they almost filled the cnambar
= @hANS IzQllluuu
Wilson. of Red Bank, as the chief spokes-
man for the delegation. Mr.. Wilson de-
livered an eloquent n carefully pre-
pared speech against the bill. 1e said that
the measure If passed would drive out of
business the hundreds of pound fisher
These men he said. make their liv-
ing out of pound net fishing. 1t is their
only business, and was the business of
their fathers. This bill would sweep them
out of existence. force them into finan-
cfal ruin and bring want and misery to
their families"
bill to prove its character. The idea of
forcing the fishermen to raise their nets
fer forty-eight hours each week was abb
surd, he said. It takes twelve hours alone
to raise and lower the nets. The fisher
men must depend largely on chance for
a successful catch The best catch Of the
hours during which the net would. have
to be raised, and by the operation Of this
law the opportunity of the year would be
lost. Then. again. the provis on for a
ture of $50 900 TO the fishermen, for they
all use now a three and one-lalf inch
to order, and no new net can be procured
within six months. Hence the bill would
prevent the fishermen continuing in bu-
siness over at least six months. Mr.. Will
sen said the bill was demanded only by
q few rod and reel sportsmen. The line
fishermen oppose st as well as the pound
fishermen He said that no State has es-
tablished an impediment to pound fishing
and that New Jersey ought not to heed
the request CT a few men who, for the
sake of sport. wanted to destroy an es-
Captain Potter, of Long Branch, de-
clared hat ne came sm te. plead for his live
lihood; b, for - re e b. Il i Passed aassssfd wo s,l1 z de.
smpracticabla. unjust and outrageous. He
fought for his country, he said. and he
never thought that he would have to ap-
continuance Of his right to earn his liv-
Assemblyman Lower spoke against bill
No. 22. which prohibits the use of nets
for catching Dish in inland waters between
May Is and September 1 of each year.
This BIZ; he said would take away from
over 5000 people along the shores of Bar
negat and .Tuckerton bays their means
s IS an Iniapitous measure saia Mr..
William Maddox, of Ashury Park. who
a Fsher~aann. spoke against No.
1 G;S III Re , claiTed that m;t, pound sna net fishing
that blueffsh were never caught in the
nets, and that the bill would destroy the
means Of livelihood Of hundreds Of men
Hso know how e 90 nothing else but
The delegation also spoke against the
hIa prohInitins menhaden fishing within
1t is probable that all the bills opposed
by the delegation Will be killed. Senator
Ward called for remarks from persons
in favor Of the bills, but no response was
made.
Rusinsss gave q he q yesterday on
The btu fixes ten hours work as a law
full days labor in any -four mill. bakery
or confectionery establishment. Employees
shall not he discharged for making any
ard ali buildings are 70 BE properly
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