The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-08
The LaGi.Iature.

Business was pushed last week and sew
era1 bills became laws.
Among the bills introduced in the Sen.
ate, on Tuesday, we're:
No. 1877, Mr. Foster. Giving local boards
of health power to regulate bone boiling
and require licenses to be taken out. The
state board of health may prohibit the
business in certain cases.
No. 1873, Mr.. Van Cleef Extending to
the New Jersey Colored Industrial School
the benefits of the Congressional act Of
August 80. 1890. Carries with it an an
nual appropriation of 5000. The Gov
ernor is to appoint three trustees.
No. 200, Mr.. Reed. Amending the act
of March 2ad, 1895, for the protection Of
public health.
No. 2oI, Mr.. Reed. Authorizing local
health boards to prohibit the use or sale Of
impure ice and requiring dealers to have q
permit under penalty.
No. 2o2, Mr. Reed. Making duplicate
certificate of marriage and copy of mar
rage license as legitimate evidence in lieu
of the original.
No. 2o3 Mr. Reed Enabling the state
board of health or its agents to prohibit
the transportation or sale of milk suspect
ed to be contaminated by examinations,
exhalations or discharges of any persons
sick with communicable disease" Pen
alties for violations are prescribed.
No. 2o4, Mr.. Engle. Provides for an
annual examination of all local building
and loan associations by building loan
commissioner, who shall be appointed by
the Governor for three years the salary Is
to be provided for through assessment on
the associations.
No. 2o5, Mr. Daily. Providing for the
publication of the laws in the newspapers
No. 2o6, Mr.. Francis. Prohibiting the
taking of muskrats from April 10th tc
December Ist.
No. ao7, Mr.. Reed. Giving boards O
health power to supervise the sale of milk
by requiring statements from the dealer:
as to the source ofsupply, their customers,
etc.
| Among the bills passed were:
Senate 100, making the fee for signing
Judgment so cents; Senate I24, to make
the boundary line between adjoining mu
inequalities the middle of the road along
which boundary line runs; Joint Reso
luton No I, providing for the publication
of the records of New Jersey soldiers il
the early American wars; Senate I73, per
hitting savings banks to invest money il
borough bonds.
Senate II, the Teachers Fund bill, wa
explained by Senator Vreeland as contain
ing very little that was new. 1t embodied
the recommendations ofthe State Teach
ers' Association. One feature, however
was that, besides allowing $500 from thu
fund to pay the State Treasurer for admin
istering the financial operations of the as
ISOLATION, 1880 was allowed from th'
State Treasury to pay for clerical services
President Skirm was disposed to question
this feature as an opening wedge for state
appropriations, but Senator Stokes ex
planned and defended the bill, which ther
passed. Messrs. Barber, Braun and Pack
err voted in the negative.
The House passed the following bills
House 1874, amends act relating to civil
contracts; House I57, empowers cities
to compel street contractors to give suret,
company bonds for the completion of worl
within stipulated time; House 70 Twill
Senate amendment), provides for the ex
penses of the Hudson county investigating
committee; Senate I7o, provides for thu
registration of labels, trade marks, ETC., o
corporations adopting the same; House S
provides that mayor and common council
and township committee, by majority vote
shall divide assets where borough ha'
been created out of township.
Mr.. Gledhill moved that the vote BY
which House 4o-prohibiting the placing
of any inscription, design, device or ad
vertisement upon the American hag-wa'
ordered to third reading be reconsidered
for the purpose of amending it so that the
use of the flag as campaign emblem by
any political party shall not be prohibited
Mr.. Carroll, the introducer, objected, ant
Mr.. Allen vigorously objected to having
"Old Glory traduced by political parties
The flag, he said, is sacred, and no politi
cal party should be allowed to use it fol
advertising purposes. Mr.. Benny, re-
ferring to Sergeant Jasper's rescue of the
American flag at Fort Moultrie, said that
brave men would have dropped dead had
he discovered, after jumping over the
ramparts, that the flag contained like
ness OF Mark Hanna dressed in his
famous Davenport dollar-mark suit. He
also said that had the miners at Lattimer
carried flag bearing Hanna's likeness,
| they would not have been shot down Mr..
Murray said the American flag had been
adopted by the Republicans in the last
campaign, and had sayed the country from
financial distress. Mr.. Benny retorted
that the flag had been adopted long before
the great-grandfathe of the Republican
party had been born. A lively political
debate followed, Messrs. Gledhill and Por-
ter speaking for the Republicans. Mr..
GledhilPs motion was adopted by a vote
of "a to ~, and the bill was then recon-
mitted.
House 60, creating State Board of Vet
Urinary Medical Examiners was opposed
on final passage by Mr. Allen, and was
lost by vote of III to Io
On Wednesday, in the Senate, these
bills were introduced:
No. 2I6. Mr.. Stokes. Providing dam
ages for injuries to fruit trees and garden
and field crops by hare and rabbits. The
town clerk is to appraise damages which,
when approved by the State Board of Ag
riculture and Director of the Experimental
Station, shall be paid by the state.
No. at, Mr.. Stokes. Providing for a