The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-23
THE LEGISLATURE.

which Boards of Freeholders in second
class counties may raise under the act of
March Io, 1889, for the improvement of
public roads.
| Senator Voorhees, introduced three bills
which apply to criminals sent to the state
prison. The texts of the bills are that the
courts in sending criminals to the state
prison may fix an indeterminate sentence.
The court shall inform the Advisory Board
of Parole as to the history of the convict,
register of facts bearing on the case, such
as the convict's parentage, education, So
cial influences, etc. A record of his con-
duct in prison shall also be preserved.
The prisoner may be released by the board
on parole, subject to reimprisonment for
violation of any of the rules which the
board shall prescribe. After six months
of parole he may be finally discharged.
Probation officers are to be appointed
| by the county courts to investigate the
history of prisoners, and, when the facts
justify it, the prisoners may be placed I'M
der the care of such officer on probation.
In first and second-class counties from
one to three probation officers may be APP
pointed, one of them a woman and in
the other counties one such official may
be named. Compensation to be fixed by
the court.
An Advisory Board is also to be APP
pointed to examine into the propriety of
discharging prisoners on parole, the board
to consist of five members, including the
prison keeper and the two moral instruct
ors of the prison. This board shall be
provided by the sentencing court with full
information regarding prisoners, and they
may recommend cases for clemency to
! the State Court of Pardons.
Senator Daily wants all public works
and improvements in the state done by
days labor, eight hours to constitute
days work.
In the House the bill requiring town
ship committees to open all roads laid out
by surveyors of the highways, was ad-
versely reported, and the report was con-
Cured in.
Mr.. Minch introduced a bill providing
for the appointment of clerk to grand
ljuries in counties of the third class at a
salary of $2oo per year.
Mr.. Borton presented bill providing
an alderman at-large in Burlington city.
In order that tax payers may be spurred
up to their work, Mr.. Atherton introduced
a bill which fixes penalty of $50 upon
any assessor who wilfully assesses proper
ty at less than its full and actual value.
On Tuesday in the Senate, Senator Bar
Der offered bill on the liquor question,
making it a misdemeanor punishable by
fine of $50 or 60 days Imprisonment, for
minor to represent himself as of age to
deceive liquor sellers; the same penalty
for any person so representing any minor
No penalty to be visited on any saloon
keeper who sells to minors under misrep-
resentation, provided he have copy of
the act posted in his place.
No. 100, by Mr.. Voorhees,. Appropriates
$1,000 for a representation of the national
guard of New Jersey at the presidential
inauguration, the governor to select those
who are to go.
At noon, the committee on education
from each branch of the Legislature, with
members of the State Board of Education,
paid visit to the school for deaf mutes
and the Normal school,
In the House several petitions, numer
ously signed, were presented by Mr..
Wildes, favoring the passage of Lloyd's
Marriage License bill and Wildes' Reduc-
ton of Salary bill.
The bills introduced and passed were of
no special interest to this county.
The House held an evening session,
when Assemblyman Lloyd's marriage Ii
cense bill was reported with amendment
by the Committee on Judiciary. The
amendment provides that justices of the
peace may take af6davits from parties de-
string to be married and obtain for them a
license from the county clerk. This is to
obviate the necessity of journeying to the
county seat for license.
The Senate got to work promptly at 10
O'Clock on Wednesday morning.
Mr.. Stokes, of the Appropriation Com
mittee, reported Senate 100, providing for
the transportation of Jersey troops to rep
resent the state at the Inauguration, with
an amendment increasing the appropria-
ton to 81, 500.
The bill was taken up on final passage
when Senator Parry declared that, al
though he might be alone, he felt it his
duty to enter protest against this bill
1t marked new departure in the state,
and he regarded it as both unwise and un-
necessary, especially at this time of gen
eral depression. 1t was unwise because
to his knowledge there was strong oppo-
sition to such an expenditure of money
just now, and it was unnecessary because
the people of Washington were making
the most liberal arrangements in every
way for a proper celebration in connec-
ton with the induction of the new Presi-
dent and Vice President to Office. There
was no need of calling on an already
overburdened state to send its National
Guard, and, if the Legislature insisted on
doing so, the Republican party would
have to answer to the great body of peo-
pie.
Senator Voorhees, replied with much
spirit that he could n OF believe Senator
Parry was correct in his opinion that the
people of New Jersey were so lacking in
state pride as to grudge an appropriation
of the beggarly sum of $500 for a credi-
table representation at an occasion which
marked the elevation of Jerseyman to
the Vice Presidency. He did not believe
the Senator correctly represented public
sentiment even in Burlington county,
that lawyers can be found as thick as
huckleberries, willing to serve the state
as Chancellor or Supreme Court Justices
for the miserable salary of 81, 500 year.
was patriotism which would rise to the
level of this occasion. He ridiculed the
fuss made over the pending appropriation
"a beggarly $500 from state that has
an income of over million dollars. If
the Senator from Burlington desired to
effect economies in state government, why
not abolish the tuberculosis Commission.
the expenditures for meteorological in
vestigations, and what is being spent for
public roads. He reminded Senator Par