The sun., 1897-05-26
NEW JERSEY ERROR FIXED.
rur LEG GIsLATUEE, IN SPECIAL
srSSIOS, PASSES 4 NEU MIL.
mi, ,orrcc;s tho Mistake In the ola MIL RE-
Ir,luE to the So'c on Constitutional Amend-
,r.nts, ana Aiao saves the state Moro
,nru $50. .oOO--No Other Business Done.

-.,. ,,rrec;. tho Mistake In the Oid MIL RE-
,,,,,g to the Sotc on Constitutional Amend-
u.nts, ana Aiso saves the state More
,bru $50. .OOO--No Other Business Done.
rryyy,x, May 25.-Thc special session OF tho
LEGISLATURE hcgin at noon and ended few min
.,.. mast o'clock this evening. Tho only busi-
.,., transacted was tho passage OF n now bill
.,o,idIng for II special election on Sept cS to
,o,c OH the thrcn amendments adopted at tbs
,,culnr session. Tbs delay in getting the bill
,hrouvh earlier was caused by an attempt on
IN. mart Of tro friends Of the Voorhees, plan 20
,corenni,o tlc higher courts 10 get the rejected
yoorlees amendment through to-day. They
%, together this morning, and after a count
iound t.irt they had u majority OF tho Republi.
e,r, ans, asked Leader Dcrousso TO call a eau.
cr, This Mr.. DeroGssc objected to doing. as no
hrIi,ycd the House mud NO power 10 hat on tho
amendment now. having rejected it in regular
,sssion. The friends Of the amendment insisted.
and threatened to call n caucus BY petition, and
Leader DCrousSc gave way.
Tho caucus lasted nearly two hours, and do
,aed by a vote of 2S TO - In favor OF attempt
,ro 10 pass the amendment, but with the under
sanding that It was not to be made caucus
MEASURE Then the friends Of the biennial scs-
,ons amendment brought that before the eau.
rus which refused, by n vote OF 20 to 60 to in
dorse IL. In the mean time the Senate had
pssscd the new Election bill and taken a recess.
When the bill was received In the House action
vas postponed until tho Voorhees, amendments
had been disposed OF. Mr.. Domarest OF Hudson
eounty presented the amendments and moved
their adoption, whercupon they were antagon-
he'd by Mcssrs Gledhll, Lloyd, and Golden
horn, and advocated by Roll, Demarcst. and
Klink After long discussion the House voted
ss to Is TO refer tho matter to the Attorney
General for an opinion on the right OF the House
to again net on the once rejected amendments.
After recess the House rcconvencd at 9
o'clock and received an opinion from Attorney
General Grey, in which he held that having
once rejected the amendments, the House was
without power to again consider them. The
friends of the Voorhees, amendments had enough
votes to pass them before the opinion was read,
hut the ma jority melted away after IL was read,
and Mr.; Gledhil,s motion to indefnitey post
pone the amendments was adopted by u large
vote without division, and after passing the
s,natc election bill tle members Of the House
mlrched over to tn, Senate chamber and the
legislature was once m)re adjourned without
day
Th, election bill passed to-day will save over
$4,000 TO the various counties, 80 that the
error made in tho bill passed. in the regular
session. was not costly one. Under the original
provided for and the election officers wero to re-
teive 50 a day for each registration day and $40
for election day. The new bill requires but a
single registration day, anl the pay Of the elcc-
ton officers is fixed at SO for all their work in
connection with the election.
large delegation of teachers was on hand.
having received assurances that IL any new
lesisIat on was adopted their amendment to the
teachers pension fund law would be considered.
Ii failed to become a law because the Governor
found sixteen serious mistakes in the engrossed
COPY and was compelled to veto 1t. The hopes Of
the visiting tc ,chers were high during the day.
but the opinion of the Attorney-General shut
them out.