The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01


dentials were read, and Mr.. Simpson,
standing in front of the clerks desk, was
sworn in, the oath being administered by
Mr.. Porter, of Essex. Mr.. Carroll accom-
panied Mr.. Allen to the clerks desk.
These bills were passed by the House
No. 81, provides for the employment of
two female deputy factory inspectors
House I43, amends the practice act relat-
ing to the appointment of Supreme Court
Commissioners House 81, allows actual
travelling expenses and the sum of fifty
cents to witnesses subpenaed before Grand
Juries and Circuit and County Courts.
House I48, requiring city officials to fur
nish bonds through guarantee companies.
the city to pay cost of same, was opposed
on third reading by Messrs. Bruder and
Porter, on the ground that such action
should not be compulsory, but optional;
and, Furthermore, that the bill would en-
courage a bond-giving trust. Mr.. Nc
Murray said the bill would prevent Com
mon Councils from compromising with
private bondsmen, in cases of defalcation,
and was desired by Camden. The bill
was lost, IS to 80. motion to reconsider
was adopted. The bill was recommitted.
In the Senate, on Thursday, these bills
were introduced:
No. I78, Mr.. Vreeland. Allowing each
of the State Hospital Boards to employ
secretary, the salary not to exceed $500 a
year in each case.
No. I79, Mr.. Daily. To provide for the
registration of labels, trademarks, ETC., of
corporations adopting the same. Intend
ed to cure the constitutional defects found
by the State courts in the trades unions
label law.
No. ISo, Mr.. Engle. Incorporates the
borough of Seaside Park, Ocean county,
fixing the boundaries thereof.
No. 1S2, Mr.. Stokes. Gives typewriting
the same legal force and effect as writing.
Does not apply to signatures.
No. I83, Mr. Stokes. Constitutes an ad-
visory Board of Parole of FIVE members,
two to be appointed by the Governor, and
the others to be the Prison Keeper and the
two Prison Chaplains The two appointed
by the Governor are to receive IS per day
and mileage. Also provides for the ap-
pointment of probation officers, compen-
sation to be fixed and paid by the counties.
Provision is made for the undetermined
sentencing of prisoners.
Senator DAILY wanted No. I79 placed on
the calendar without reference. Senator
w. M. Johnson thought the subject matter
was too important to have the bill take
other than the ordinary course. Senator
Daily spoke at length in favor of his mo-
ton, and entered into discussion of the
merits of the bill. The motion to place on
the calendar, however, was lost by party
vote, and the bill was referred to the Com
mittee on Municipal Corporations.
Immediately afterwards Senator Daily
arose to point of order with respect to
Senate I72, Senator Johnson's substitute
grade crossing bill. He claimed that it
was improper and against legislative and
parliamentary rules to place that bill on
the calendar while like bill mo. I4) was
still pending in the Committee on Rail
roads and Canals.
Senator Daily held that No. ia was got
ten on the calendar by subterfuge, and
should be recommitted out of respect to
the committee in charge of No. IS.
President Skirm ruled that the point of
order was not we'll taken, as Senator John
same as No. IS.
Senator johnson then arose to question
of privilege, denying that any subterfuge
had been resorted to. He had stated plain
ly and openly, in introducing No. I72,
that it was in the nature of substitute for
No. IS, and he had moved suspension of
rules, which was carried without a single
objection.
Senator DAILY called attention to the fact
that the introducer didn't deny that No.
ia was substantially the same as No. IS.
Senator Johnson retorted that there was
a material change in the bills, for No. I72
had been constructed to avoid a constitu-
tional objection made to No. IS. There
fore the change, although apparently YER
bal, was important.
Senator Daily moved to recommit the
bill, though he promised to vote for it
when it came up in regular course.
Senator Vreeland supported the motion.
AS a member of the Committee on Rail-
roads and Canals, he resented the news
paper reports to the effect that the COM
mittee was smothering No. IS, and that
the committee was checkmated by the in
PRODUCTION of No. ia. He said that public
hearings had been given on No. IS, and he
had come from sick bed to attend, al
though every step he took on the way
down was a pang. The committee was