The Monitor-register., 1897-04-02
JERSEY LEGISLATURE.
TRENTON. Mar. 81, 1897

The corridors of the State House were
thronged with politicians on Monday
| night and those interested in various bills
before the Legislature. all anxious to get
in their work before final adjournment.
Quite a number of bills were introduced
In the Senate, as if the session had several
days OF life ahead of it, and some
wondered if the grave Senators had a
little April joke on hand.
The Senate had quite a lengthy dis
cussion over Senator Parry's bill dividing
ttbSfSTA2tfgy Th6Ge pre- PRESENT Board Of Managers
of State Hospitals. Senator Vreeland
opposed the bill, but it finally passed by
a vote of II to 6, with Senators DAILY.
Gould, Ketcham Ross. Vreelaud and
Williams in the negative. The bill also
passed the House.
The bill providing for county commits.
sions to be elected at large instead of
the present Boards of Freeholders was
killed by amendments. Last week it was
defeated and reconsidered. On Monday
night Senator Skirm moved to amend by
providing that it should not apply to any
county with more than 80, 900 inhabitants.
That was adopted, and 80 was another BY
Senator Ross providing that it should not
apply to fourth class counties. These
amendments cover every county in the
State, and render the bill imperative.
The session in the House on Monday
night was uneventful, a large number of
bills being passed.
The general borough act, of which you
have given a full account, passed the
Senate on Tuesday, and the House to-day j..
The Senate also passed the Lloyd Mar
rage License bill, which was amended
so as to apply only to non residents of
the State, and followed this with tn
Gledhill Bicycle Baggage bill. The pro.
visions of the bill are that all railroads
i'll the State shall accept and carry BIZ
cycles free of charge il lieu of other bag
gage. There are provisions In the bill
that the wheelmen may be required to
remove from their wheels any lamp and
that the railroads are not compelled to
take the bicycle on the same train as that
on which the owner takes passage except
in those eases where the particular ira in
has baggage accommodation.
The biennial sessions amendment to
the Constitution was killed, Senator
VOORHEES, opposing it, for the reason that
he alleged the political bosses wanted it,
and he thought that annual sessions
would keep the legislators nearer the
people.
The nine votes in favor of the biennial
sessions amendment were as follows:
Senators Francis. Gould, Herbert, H. W.
johnson, W. M. johnson, Miller, Parry,
Ross and Stanger.
The ten votes which defeated it we're
those of Senators Barber, Daily, Ketcham,
Kuhl, Reed, Skirm, Voorhees,, Vreeland
and President Williams.
These measures were also passed by
the House to day.
At the session of the House on Tues
day evening the Voorhees, Judiciary
Amendments to the Constitution and the
johnson substitute were considered, and
| finally the voorhees, amendments were
rejected by a vote of "a to 16. and the
majority report of the committee in favor
| of the johnson substitute was accepted,
and it was placed on the calendar.
Il A OanktOn ~ rannno;lo- kLa -oka L.
| which the Voorhees, amendments were de-
feated was offered, but was lost. This,
under the rules of the House, fioally dis
poses of the matter.
The House passed the Constitutional
amendment against race track gambling.
The anti gambling amendment having
passed the W Houses of the Legislature,
both this year and last, will have to be
submitted to TIE people next summer, so
that the adoption Of the johnson judi
ciary amendments are out of the question.
If they could be passed by both Houses
this year it would be of no avail, as they
were not passed last year, and an amend
ment to be submitted to the people must
be adopted by two successive Legislatures.
The House also adopted the amend.
ments allowing women to vote at school
elections, and prohibiting from appoint
ing ad interim any person whose nominal
ton the Senate has previously rejected.
Final adjournment val reached to-
night at go instead of Q O'Clock as ex-
pected. A number of bills we're rushed
through, as is usually the case.
Some of the more important bills that
have failed during the session were the
Railroad Commission bill, the Parry
County Commission bill, the Antitrust,