Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-01-21


press business, not owned by railroad
company and so taxed, to pay an annual
tax of 2 per centsof its gross receipts; pro-
viding for election on the same day and
same ticket where a village and township
have coextensiye territory providing that
no water contract shall run more than FIVE
years; providing for commission to buy
additional ground for the Soldiers home
at Kearney; making extreme cruelty a
ground for divorce; forbidding the dis
charge for political reasons and without a
full hearing of any old soldier or sailor;
requiring that all health inspectors in
cities shall be physicians; fixing the time
of hunting quails, rabbits, pheasants, etc.,
from Nov. to Dec. 10, and providing that
boards of registration in first class cities
shall sit from s a. M. to 8 p. m. on-Tues-
days four weeks, Wednesdays three weeks
and Fridays and Saturdays two weeks pre-
ceding the fall elections.
Bills Passed, Etc.
Two bills passed the senate this week
One empowers the supreme court justice to
preside without the law judge at murder
trials in any county, the argument being
that the regular business of the court is
impeded when the law judge Is sitting in
the murder case. The other bill provides
for one weeks public notice after Jan.
when local or private legislation is sought.
Resolutions of sympathy with Cuba and
asking the federal government to recognize
it as a belligerent nation were referred to
the committee on federal relations.
Representatives of "a New Jersey bor-
oughs met here this week to receive. the re-
port of special legislative committee APP
pointed by them to draft general law
which will remedy defects in the various
existing borough statutes. The committee
decided that each borough shall be separate
in matters of local government and each
shall constitute a separate taxing district.
The draft of the bill is not complete yet,
and the committee was continued for two
weeks. The boroughs represented were
Glensyood, Brigantine, South Atlantic,
Pleasantville, Rutherford, Caldwell, James
burg, Hasbrouck, East Rutherford, Point
Pleasant, Bay Head, North Arlington, Ell
mer, Somers Point, Penns Grove, Mount
Arlington, North Arlington, Glen Ridge,
Wilbur, Ocean City, Belmar, Chiselhurst,
Helmetta and Princeton.
Delegations for and against E.. Amber
Armstrong of Camden for law Judge of
that county waited on the governor Mon
day night.
The following committees we're an
nounced by Speaker MACPHERSON:
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Agriculture and Agricultural College,
Hutchinson, jackson, Crispen, Rude and Reid.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Hutchinson Roll,
Fairchilds, Litterst Banks and Insurance.
King, Minch, Nelson Rau Van Doren. Bill
Revision.-Jackson. Ullman, Steddig, Leonard,
Watkins. Boroughs and Borough Commits
sions.-Borton, Klink, Hand, Brown, Lawshe.
Claims and Revolutionary Pensions Clark,
Fighter, Evans, Harrison, Bowers Corpora
tions.-Derousse, jackson, Urquhart. Watkins,
Martens. Education.-Th Jones, Rude,
Whitfield, Wildman. Elections. -Coddington,
Evans. Wildes Powers, Lloyd. Engrossed
Bills.-Hogan, Bridge, Van Wickle, Clark,
Flummerfelt. Game and Fisheries. -Scovell,
Holdrum, Cri2pen. Baumann, Wildman. Incl
dental Expenses ildes, Atherton, Hunt,
Ebie, Fountain. Judiciary Lloyd, Codding-
ton, Borton, Porter Goldenhorn. Labor and
Industries. Simpson. Whitfield, bod, Hunt,
Van DOfen.- M11tla.-f1OpK1nSs InOfnt Leon
ard, Van Wiclzle Lawshe. Miscellaneous BUSH
ness.-Ullman Porter, Gledhill, Armbruster,
Urquhart. Municipal Corporations.-Minch
King, Powers, Macarthur, Derousse. Railroads
and Canals.-Roll, Hopkins Fairchi,ds, De-
rousse bod. Revision of Laws.-Gledhili,
Scovell, Hutchinson, Demarest Holdrum.
Riparian Enthusiastically Simpson, Ather-
ton, Ebie, Martens Stationery. Brown,
Thorn, Hogans Demarest, Fountain. Towns
and Neutrality-suspicious., Litterst, Armbruster,
Reid, Bowers. Unfinished Business. -Clauss,
Harrison, Klink, Bridge, Flummerfelt. Ways
and Means.-Righter. Baumann, Macarthur,
Clauss Steddig. Appropriatons.-Derou
Hutchinson, Roll. Fairchild, Litterst.
JOINT COMMITTEES.
Commerce and Navigation.-Rau Roll, DEM
srest, Lloyd, Martens. Federal Relations
Klink, Gledhill, Litterst, Fairchilds, Borton.
Industrial School For Girls.-Van Doren,
Demarest, Ebie, Fighter, Flummerfelt. Pass
ed Bills.-Thorn, Klink, Simpson, Hunt Bow
ers. Public Grounds and Buildings.-Wildes,
Macarthur, Rau, Whitfield. Bridge. Printing.
Minch, Holdrum, Wildman, Armbruster,
Lawshe Reform School For Boys.-Fountain,
Urquhart, Baumann, Hand, Ullman. School
For Deaf Mutes.-Hutchinson Jones, Reid,
King, Clauss. Sinking Fund.-Powers, Jack
son, Scoyell. Van Wickle. Crispen Soldiers
Reconsideration. Clark, Hopkins, Rude, Nell
son. State Hospitals. Nelson, Steddig, bod,
Brown, Derousse. State Library. -Goldenhorn,
Porter, Coddington, Fountain, Watkins. State
Prison. Anterior, Leonard, Porter, Wildes,
Flummerfelt. Treasurers' Accounts.-Hogan,
Brown, Evans, Gledhill, Lawshe.