Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-03-09
Among bins passed IN the mouse were

Among Dlils passed IN the mouse NeIe
these:
Providing for the establishment of
free public baths and gymnasiums in
cities so voting by majority vote;
providing that servant girls recovering |
a Judgment against an employer for
less than $25 may levy upon all goods
Of the employer. no exemption being al
lowed; exempting veterans Of the Mex
lean and Spanish American wars from
taxes on personal and real property to
the amount of $500; permitting second
class cities to pay their mayor an an
nual salary of $500. at the discretion
of the voters; Incorporating the town
ship of Summit, Union county. as
city; Incorporating the borough of Flor
ham Park in Chatham township. Nor
ris county, the country seat of II.
Nick. Twombly of New York; incor-
porating the city Of EnglewOod. Bergen
county; authorizing Plainfield's COM
mon council to provide in the general
tax levy for the expense of relaying
sewers; repeating the joint resolution of
1890, which gives colonies, upon retire.
ment, the brevet of brigadier general
The military authorities favored the re-
pealer, as the number of brigadier gen
erals in the state was growing at an
alarming rate.
Senate 19-Authorizing boards OF
health in towns, boroughs and villages
to license plumbers. was defeated in.the
house-29 to 20.
When senate bill 81, which provides
for the payment of wages in money at
least once every two weeks, came up
in the house yesterday, Speaker Wat
kins advocated it at some length. 1t
was unanimously passed. The bill re-
lates particularly to the glass blowing
districts of south Jersey. where com
pany stores exist.
Governor Voorhees, sent the following
nominations to the senate yesterday:
T. w Trenchard for county judge,
Cumberland county. and ]. Hampton
Fithian for prosecutor same county.
They were referred.
The senate passed the following bills:
Amending the provisions of the cleo
ton law in townships making it unlaw-
full to place sewage in the waters of the
state above the point of a municipal
water supply but not affecting existing
cases.
The bill permitting a minority of
stockholders to elect the board of di
rectors in corporations when the char
ter so provides was defeated in the
senate This bill was opposed by Mr.
McDermott. who held that it conveyed
dangerous powers. Mr.. Stokes stated
that the bill simply renewed the law as
| it existed previously to last winter.
Senator w NJ. Johnson said the bill was
imperfect.
Odds and Ends.
petition was sent in this week by
a score of boys and girls from Bergen
county asking the legislature to pass
law similar to that of Massachusetts
against the use of the bodies or feathers
of song birds for ornamenting hats or
bonnets. 1t was referred.
The Democrats of the house again
this week made attempts to get from
committee various equal taxation and
anticorporation measures, and there
was a lot of speechmaking on both sides
Of the political fence. The endeavors
failed, however.
The adoption by the house of Assem-
blyman Abbett's resolution indorsing
election of United States senators by
the people was rather unexpected. 1t is
not likely to get through the senate.
The senate. it is thought. will be
stumbling block also in the way of the
s per cent interest bill. which has pass
ed the house. The sentiment in favor
of reducing the legal rate of interest,
however, is growing.
Some New Measures.
Quite flood of bills keeps coming in
every week. Among the more interest
| ing this week are the following:
BY Mr. Sturr-Making ten hours
work performed in Z consecutive hours
a legal days labor for employees of sur
face and elevated railroads
By Mr. HalI-Authorizes the incorpo-
ration of tunnel companies and is for
the purpose of giving a new company
power TO tunnel from Jersey City to
New York and Camden to Philadelphia.
BY Mr.. Blackwell (by request)-Makes
| legitimate children of a woman who has
been married born within ten months
| of the dissolution of marriage.
BY Mr.. Ridgeway-A pipe line meas
ure. Authorizes the formation of cor
porations to lay down and maintain
pipe lines for the transportation of OIL
By Mr. Francis-Providing for coun-
ty auditor in addition to county col
lector, to be elected by the board of
freeholders in Monmouth county. one
officer to be named by the minority.
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