The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-11
All the Popular Bills of the
Hudson County Assem-
blymen Will Be Re-
ported Adversely.
DONE FOR RETALIATION
Equal Taxation, Erie Track Eleva-
ton and Two Cent Ferry Fares
Doomed By the Republican
House Committee.
House Committee.



TRENTON, March IL, 1S9e.zThe Senate
Committee On Miscellaneous Business re-
ported Senator Rogers bill requiring the
signatures of at least twelve freehold
ers to all applications for liquor license.
said signatures not to be attached to
more than one application. Senator Daily
asked that tA iii be referred to the
Committee on hiiciary. and in the alb
sence of enator Rogers it was SO COM
mitted. Upon Senator Rogers return,
one of the Senators informed him what
had been done. and he became nettled
over the 2sSion of the Senate, saying
that he had been used in a very dis
courteous manner Later he moved that
the motion Of Senator DAILY be recon-
sidered, but it was lost.
Senator Herbert of Middlesex intro
duced a bill amending the act of 1891 re-
lating to social clubs. The bill provides
that any social club duly Incorporated
and which two months prior to app.ica-
ton has had an adult membership of at
least fifty members, may be authorized
to sell TO its members spirituous. malt
or brewed liquors, upon obtaining an
nualiy a permit therefor from the In
ferior Court of Common Pleas of the
county. The Court will fix the annual
fee, which will not be less than $3.50.
Mr.. Allen presented a resolution to re-
lieve the Committee on Municipal Corpor-
ations of further consideration of his
antitrust bill, and that it be referred
to the Judiciary Committee. He said he
did not wish to 1mpute any unfair or
improper motives to the committee as a
whole, but it was incomprehensible to
him why a measure which, to his mind,
was needed to punish those who form a
trust should not have been reported by
the committee in some shape long before
this. The bill declared unlawful all
combinations and trusts which are made
Tor the urpoSe of increasing the price
OF the necessities of life. Mr.. Allen said
that the thousands of people in the city
were in an entirely different position from
the farmers of the agricultural districts.
cient to sustain life while it was a daily
struggle with many a soul in our crowded
cities to preserve life. If his law should
become a law Mr.. Allen said that the
beef. the leather. the sugar. the ice, the
coal and other nefarious trusts and
combinations would become things of the
Mr.. Allen, when I have seen measures
in the interests of corporations reported
by the committees and acted upon al
most Immediately by the House. know
ing all the time that my anti
Trust bill was hung up in the commit
tee | have waited trusting that I would
not be obliged to follow this course. I
kappeal to the members to prevent this
bill from being snnothered in the Sitting
air of the committee room. Let tine bill
come before the House and be discussed
on its merits"
Mr.. Skinner could not see why the
measure should be taken from one COM
mIittee and given to another; It was be-
and would in all probability be reported.
Mr.. Aliens motion was lost by a vote
of 16 to 81.
The Committee on Railroads and canals
held an executive session late yesterday
afternoon and decided to report all the
railroad bills introduced by the Hudson
county member adversely. This is UNI
d~erstood to be in retaliation for the at
tack made by the Democratic members
on the Republican majority. The bills
that have been knitted are the Equal
Taxation, Erie Track Elevation, the
three bills by Bauer, providing for watt
ing rooms. five cent fares and heated
cars; Cagney's two cent ferry fare bills,
and smart's bill preventing the over
crowding of trolley cars. The report has
not been made. but will be lone just as.
soon as the minority members make an
attempt to call down the committee.
There has been a Joint resolution in
PRODUCED in the House by ~Assemblyman
Hopkins providing for a State flag of
buff color. having in the centre the coal
of arms of New Jersey, to be the Covers
nor's flag and to be displayed when the,
Governor is in the State House and at
the State camp.