Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-10-19
Thomas M Fesfeil's Legislative
Record.

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| Record.
| Thomas M. Terrell served two years in
the Assembly, two years in the Senate and
two years in Congress, and he was a factor
in each. He was worker and his work
counted. The laws he fathered ale still on
the statute books, having born the test and
scrutiny of time.
He had passed the law abolishing Hshin
plasters," the most infamous system of
payment of wages ever devised.
The law compelling employers to pay
wages in cash. Other laws have been
enacted since, but this law still stands, and
is sufficient, if enforced, to meet any
emergency of the present time.
The law known as the pass-book Law, .
which prohibits the use of pass-books in
the payment of wages.
The law providing for the incorporation
of cooperative societies, under which all
cooperative factories. stores, ETC., have
since been organized.
The law collating the election laws and
providing for system of blanks for use of
all election oficers-the first step toward
ballot reform
A number of sanitary bills prepared by
the State Board of Health, which were
recognized as of great usefulness.
Though in Congress but one term, he
introduced the first law to prevent the
importation of foreign labor under contract,
and the first section of the law as it is now
on the statute books is his work. The
Republicans had enacted q law during the
previous Congress allowing the importation
of contract labor and under it were i'm
ported the horde of Huns, Poles, Slays and
Italians who filed the mines, mills and
factories and have since given so much
trouble to American workmen.
He introduced bill to increase the term
of service of the life savers on our coasts
from ten months to twelve.
He prepared the bill, afterward enacted
into law, by which the National Bureau
Of Labor and Statistics was organized. To
the laboring men this Is the most important
bureau in the Government. Mr.. Terrell
advocated the passage of the bill in
speech which attracted wide attention.
LabOring men ordered thousands of copies
of this speech for circulation.
Every request for river and harbor aid !,
every effort to increase the mail facilities
of South Jersey, every request for aid in
securing pension received his personal
attention, and his services in these par
liculars were fully and freely acknowI-
edged.
Mr.. Ferrell has served his community as
Township Committeeman and was a
trustee of Glassboro school district for
fifteen years.
He was President of the Glsssblowers'
League of the United States for six years,
and under his administration the craft was
most prosperous.
He deserves. and should receive, the
vote Of every lahoring man in the county
whether in the factory. on the farm, in the
shop or Office.
Solomon Strangers Legislative
Record.
We have investigated the last two years
of Senator Stanger's record as Senator
1898 and 1899 land find that of 29S bills
introduced in the Senate IN 1898, not one
was introduced by Mr.. Stanger In the
year 1899, Mr.. Stranger introduced one bill.
Senate No 26. entitled /" An act validating
contracts made by employer with employ
ees." The object of this bill was to avoid
the operation of Thomas NJ. Ferreli's cash
bill. This bill passed the Sc nate, but was
killed in the House.
And we are informed that the only bill
which Mr.. Stranger introduced in the
balance OF his five years legislative life
was bill to take the selection of Police
Marshal from the people of GIassboro and
place the appointment Of that officer in the
town committee
As the people will have no trouble in
placing Mr.. stanger's record in their
interest under their hats, we suggest they
do it.
The corporations and Trusts have a
record of his votes in their behalf and are
going to use the same means to elect him
that they employed to secure his nomina-
ton.