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Assemblyman Bauer Wins An
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TRENTON. March 19, 1S96,-Mr. Bauer
achieved another victory yesterday after
noon and secured the passage of his bill
requiring trolley companies to provide
convenient transfer stations. In support-
ing the bill Mr.. Bauer said that in the
days OF horse-car transportation the
headway was much shorter on the North
Hudson than it was now. and he wished
to do away with the evil of the trolley
companies of running through thickly
populated districts at ten Ind fifteen
minutes Roadway, and dumping passan-
gers out in the street without shelter to
wait that length Of time for a connecting
car. The best streets had been given up
to the trolleys. and they gave the public
nothing in return. The companies, he
claimed. should not object to the cost
which that bill would entail. as they had
received sucn valuable franchises from
the public without its costing them any
thing.
No great enterprise was successful in q
day, he said. The Pennsylvania Railroad
thirty or forty years ago was q struggling
concern, and had ito be fostered by the
State. Today it was the worlds great
est railroad. and a gold mine to its own-
ers, and SO, he claimed. it would be with
the trolley companies.
he referred to the practice of the troll
icy lines Of dumping people out in the
snow ana sleet to the danger of health
which his bill would abolish.
MI. Gledhill asked if under the bill the
companies eod would have to purchase land
that the companies could rent a store or
building and use vt for that purpose.
The bill. Mr.. Hoos declared, was in the
system as it existed in Hudson county to-
day was unjust and outrageous. He
called attention to the recent presentment
Grams & md 5 H9Ss0 and i0u uaiS t traile sse p BY te of
the county were a unit on TIE subject.
Mr.. Queen said it was not the Intention
OF the bill to force the companies to place
structures. He referred to the custom in
many places which the companies had
Ct hiring stores at transfer points and
Mr.. Skinner. of Newark, made a strong
speech IN favor of. the bill. He related
an experience which he had in Essex
county once when he was put out in the
snow ana cold at a transfer point. He
urged that the municipality should be
given the power to force the trolley COM
panies to provide adequate waiting rooms
Mr.. Reed favored the bill, and after some
further. discussion the bill passed by a
vote of IS to 10.
The House set as a Committee of the
whole this afternoon to consider the yari-
Gus items of the deficiency bill. The only
item that was seriously discussed was
the one which gives $14, 800 for the clerical
help in the Chancery Office from the
time that 1t goes into the care of the new
Chancery Clerk, under the salary sys-
tenn.
Assemblyman Walling, a Democrat from
Monmouth. thought the amount entirely
too high and not consistent with the
statements made by Allan l.. McDer-
Committee as to THE clerical expenses Of
the office. He stated thai the expense
was 1880 a year, but under the item in
the deficiency bill it looked as If the State
was going to make a new basis at about
$4,000.
Secretary Tice, for the Joint Committee
on Appropriations, explained that the
the basis was made upon information re-
ceived both from the Comptroller and the
Chancery office.
There was a number Of inquiries made
as to whether there was ito be an in
crease of clerical help under the salaried
system. but Mr.. Tice informed them Shat
SO far as the calculations Of the committee
were concerned, there was not to be.
Assemblyman Walling, who Offered a
resolution that the amount be cut down
from 81, 900 to s11, 900, insisted that the
calculations were entirely too high, but
his amendment was not accepted.
An attempt was made to strike out the
item of Sc, 1000 for the Washington Monu-
ment. but the Speaker left the chair and
made a patriotic appeal for the item, and
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