The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-20

FOR BETTER ROADS.
Governor Voorhees, Listens
to Arguments oil the
Highway Bill.
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CORPORATION MEASURES
The Executive Signs One and
Will Consider An
other.
MEASURES
Especial to .sThe Jersey city News..1

EN- April ~, o5o.-0OFetiio
Voorhees, was waited upon yesterday by
upwards of a hundred farmers and wheel
men who urged his Excellency to sigr
three bills. The farmers advocated tbs
measure providing tho payment of
bonus OF $3.50 per wheel for the first year
ard 81 per wheel for the second year, te
all farmers using broad tires on theil
wagons, and ALSO the measure increasing
the appropriation for roads from $l00. 00(
to $159, GOO, and the one appropriating $780,
Q0 as a bounty for beet sugar raising
The wheelmen were on hand to urge the
signing of the two former bills. From
the Governors remarks, however, it is
safe to infer that he will not sign any OF
the bills. He is very much in favor Of
good roads, but he seems TO feel that
SlCe,0 600 a year is ample for the State to
appropriate, especially as the institutions
such as the insane asyiums, State Prison,
ETC., are SO badly In need of increased
facilities. As to the beet sugar bill, he
expressed no opinion, but 1t is safe to in
fer that he will not sign it as he does MOI
approve of such schemes.
The broad tire bill was the first to be
taken up, and it was explained at some
length by Assemblyman Crispen OF
Gloucester. He said the measure was in
the interest of the taxpayer, as eventually
u would greatly decrease the amount re-
CURED for the keeping of public roads in
good repair. Broad tires on wagons
served to improve the roads, acting as a
sort of roller, whereas the narrow gauge
wheel made deep ruts and kept the high
waVc In q ba1 condition ~
The Governor thought the bill was un-
constitutional. as it only authorized
towns. townships and boroughs TO pay
the n for the use of broad tires, but
Crispen said this provision had been put
In to meet an objection offered by Cover
Eor Griggs, who objected TO having the
measure apply to cities.
w. ]. Harvey, representing the Beverly
WhGelmen, said that he had been deis-
gated by that organization to urge the
passage of both the wide tire and in
creased road appropriation measures. He
said the bill Was wanted by the Pniladel-
phia wheelmen, who did most of their rid
ing in New Jersey.
'.but the Philadelphia wheelmen dom pay
taxes in New Jersey. This is a malter
affecting JerseyInen, and think the man
who, USES a broad tire wagon in the city
should be JUS as much entitled to a re-
bate as the man in the township"
Ore man from the uoDe end of the
State said he had used q broad tire wagon
for a time, but had to discard it because
1t required three teams to pail it, whereas
he could have the same amount of ma
teri2l on a narrow tire wagon with two
leans,
Governor Voorhees, announced that he
would refer the matter to the Attorney
General for an opinion as to its constitu-
tionality. and the bill authorizing the adj
ditfonal Appropriation of $4,000 for road
building was taken uD.
81 --r - n -, 49, n e !, -dn1 Vrbn
introduced the measure, said it was ia
vored b. the farmers and wheelmen. Sa-
mueI Allen of Burlington county and
Freebooter Lum of Morris county also
urged the adoption of the bill.
After they had advanced the usual argu-
ments in favor of the measure. Governor
Voorhees, asked: Is it more important
that we finish tho asylum at Morristown
the asylums are now overcrowded; the
State Prison is overcroWded in face OF
law, which say only one person can be
confined in a cell. 1t is unfortunate for
to increase, but there are LOO persons In
the State institution, whereas there is
only accommodation for SOC"
This argument on the part OF the Cover
nor served to quiet most of the clamor,
bEt Chief Consul G. Frank Kireker, of the
l.. Al. w. arose and said that there were
1000 embeTs of the organization he rep
resented, in New jersey, who are voters.
He made a further argument hat these
wheelmen were anxious to have more
good roads, and was followed by Henry
I. Budd, who said that applications had
already been filed with him for 275 miles
of roads. He told how a bill appropriate
ing $300.G0 had been passed by the House,
and how it had failed in the Senate.
money come from?Y asked the Governor.
Il don't know answered Budd con
fusedly.
ssNefther do l." responded the Governor.
THE State certainly could not afford 1t
row.. In these troublous times we on
know when business will come to a stand-
still. Our revenues from corporations may
not be so large next year as they have
been this,
MI. Budd had little further to say on
the matter, and the beet sugar bounty
measure was taken up. The first speaker
was Lawyer Albert H. Atterbury, who
said that he represented no syndicate or
organization of any kind.
Il am here to speak for the great mass
of people who will have to bear the bur
den of this bounty, he said. Those
titled to be heard, n their rights ought
to be considered. This bill is proposed
to increase my for the benefit OF
my neighbor.
labor and capital, as 1t would lessen the
production in the State. by diverting cap
ital from some profitable business to the
beet sugar business. The custom of pay
4AA6 49, ~ Ian Il was g. CL III 0dO
one, as It has been shown thai where a
system of paying bounties was inaugur-
atcd, instead of having the bounties de
crease as time went on, there was al
ways an effort made to have them in
creased.
DIR. J. Stockton Hough, who is really
the father of the recent beet sugar agi-
tatfon hereabouts, said that Mr.. After
bury was here in the interest of the
Havemeyers, but Mr.. Atterbury said thai
he only wished he was in the employ OF
such people. DR.. Hough closed the argu-
ment by presenting a long brief.
Yesterday morning Governor VOORHEES,
gave an extended hearing on Senate bills
poration laws. Later in the day he signed
the latter bill and will sign Nc. 261 eithel
TODAY or at an early date.
Lawyer James B. Dill of East Orange
appeared In favor of the bills, and it was
at his request that the Governor signed
No. 262 first.
While living in New Jersey, Mr.. Dill is
a New York lawyer, and is Interested In
the formation of corporations under this
laws of New Jersey.
Prior to the hearing William H. Corbir
had submitted to the Governor a brie1
protesting against he signing of either OIL
the bills, and Mr.. Dill devoted most OF
his time at the hearing to answering this
arguments Of Mr.. Corbin against the
Mr.. Dill explained that the objects O.
the TWO bills are as follows:-Senate bill
No. PSI makes it unnecessary for certifi-
Gates of incorporation to give the resi-
dence of stockholders living outside Of
New Jersey and provides that it shall BIZ
suficient to give as the legal address OF
such stockholders the postoffice address
of the principal Office of the il
the State: The object. Of this bill IS t
locating stockholders in New Jersey cor
norations for the purpose of taxing indi