, 1899-03-03

For Married Men and - a Month
Measure Bobs Up.
Especial Correspondence
Trenton, March with today eight
weeks of the legislative session have
been spent. and the present week Is the
first OF the eight that both houses set
tied down determinedly to business.
Upward of 200 bills have been intro
duced In the assembly since Jan. 10,
and up to this morning 144 have been
offered In the senate. 1t Is easy to see
the pace at which the legislature has
been travelling when 1t Is known that
out Of this large number of new meas
ures only three have SO far reached the
governors hands. But now that the
legislative wheels are fairly in motion
they will move rapidly. and, with the
prospect OF fnar adjournment not far
distant, a tremendous amount of bust
ness viii be soon dispatched. Governor
Voorhees, Is fearful that in spite Of his
warning the legislature will leave a pile
Of bills IN his hands when final adjourn
ment comes. He tod the members that
he did not want the responsibility for
practically the whole legislation of the
winter. He wished the bills to be sent
to him gradually, SO that he might ex-
anime them with care and in the event
Of discovering defects OF any character
return them to the appropriate house
for correction or defeat. 1t has been
suggested, since there 10 no way to
avoid the usual hurry Of the closing
days, that the Legislature should on
comprising It's regular business take a
recess for about two weeks n then
return for the sole phrpos of acting on
vetoed bills, II there should be any. In
thea wtay the governor would be re-
lieEed OF some of the responsibility Tor
the final dispos ition of debatable ques-
lions.
Politics at the Prison.
HI first avow-edly partisan bill OF the
session made it's appearance this week,
being a measure introduced by Senator
Hutchinson OF Mercer to abolish the
n~onpartisan- board of inspectors at the
state prison. He proposes to nave Gov
ernor Voorhees, appoint five inspectors
three Repv. blicanis and two Democrats,
Who shall .enjoy Ave year terms. Thirty
days after the boards first meeting the
terms OF all the present. deputies az
a3 IN d - ~
'orce 10 now pretty evenly divided be-
.ween RI ,publicans and Democ ats, but
inder u re new act there woul . be a
lao GO . ~ DAn,norofn CpnAt0
autchin son admits the purpose W his
Dill and accepts the full RESPONSE Witty
or Ii, I hough II is believed that a n vm-
,er of Q ctive Republican workers in IND
bout . trenton are at the bottom of the
noven .ent. Considerable doubt is e-N-
,resse l as to the fate of the bill. as it IL
veil h nown that prominent Republican
workers from Jersey City and
Sewa rk have been laboring for weeks,
out In vain, with Governor Voorhees,
ryini to get his approval of political
neas Tres affecting those cities. The
Nero er Republicans are circulating a
tory to the effect that they unearthed
| pl u NOM the Democratic prison
iepu ties In the interest of Elvin w.
cran e, the Democratic candidate for
,ovs nor asst autumn.
&c vernon Voorhees, is gradually get
ing through with his list of appoint
mem rs. Yesterday he sent to the senate
he n smes of John Taylor and G. D.. w.
FrS )ln, both Of Trenton. for manag rs
II u ne. State Hospital For the Insane at
Tree IT on. Mr.. Taylor var confirmed at
'noe, being an ex-senator. while Mr..
Vro OF BIS name was referred. Another
n of appointments from the execu-
iu, chamber contained the following, ,
which, were referred:
Ilwood c. Harris to be judge Of the
iii st district court, Newark. vice Thorn
3 NJ, McCarter. resigned.
To be me m bers OF the board of medi-
"a examiners r.. L.. d. Godfrey, Cam
zen ! charles A. Graves. Newark: Davis
,. J borden. Paterson. all re~appointed.
To be members of the board of man
IL FRS OF state insane asylum at Morris
aims, George Richards. Romeo F.
! abert, James NJ. Buckley, Patrick
hrrelly and John c. Eisele, all re; p.
} pinted.
Pay For the Soldiers.
The senate has disposed of the vexa-.
tioue problem of paying the members
the New Jersey regiments and the
naval reserve who enlisted for the
war. Senator Ketcham's bill,
from the state military and.
finance o%ficers. was passed. 1t allows
70 a month TO married men and 81 a.
month TO single men, being the same
as vas given after the civil
war. The total expense will be about.
3lS5. 600. Other bills N the same sub.
ject would have cost Tia state $500, 000s
and 3TBAo0o respectively. There was.
some debate preliminary 10 action, Sen.
ators Keteham and w. M. Johnson de-.
the bill in the, interest of the
taxpayers. Senators McDermott and.
Van cleef claimed th at 1t violated the
promises held out by the Republicans
to the soldiers last fall The senate also.
passed the measure voting 5000 for
for the Survivors OF the war.
Before the passa "a of the bills the