The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-03-24
HUSTLING
AT TRENTON
Bills Hurying from Legislature
to Governor.
Five Per Cent. Bill Does Not Pass
Soldiers to Get Sc and 81
$l36.0OO for National Guards
State Hospital Gets $I4S,sOO.

State Hospital Gets $I48,SOO.
TRENTON, March 23. has been a
very busy week for the Legislature, and
one of those weeks when it was hard to
sum up the business, because so much is
done and undone Bills are rushed from
one house to the other, and actually re-
called from the Governor for changes.
It was a week of more than ordinary
interest to lawyers, insomuch that the
climbs of the law had lengthy discus
sions on the Dunn five-counsellor act and
the employees liability act. Both were
defeated. The Dunn act passed the
Senate by one vote, but it was lost in the
! House where there are number of law
yers, nearly all of whom opposed it.
! The employees liability bill was origi-
nally nicknamed the ambulance law
/ yers' bill, because it limited fees paid
to lawyers in damage suits to 500. 1t
1 transpired that the bill was introduced
in the interest of an employees liability
company.
The five per cent interest bill went
down under a heavy bombardment in
the senate At the last hour every bank
and savings fund in the State turned its
! Odli0Ilcb bnO Dlti. NAA 4uu0AC GA
! kilograms came into the State House
within few hours. The bill occupied
much of the time of the Senate and was
| finally lost.
The government is squaring itself with
the volunteers and the National Guard,
The bill to give each volunteer soldier
and sailor $4 and So month, according
to their station in life, the married men
getting the largest amount, is now a law
1t had narrow escape. The House
amended the bill so that each man would
get an allowance of $40 for clothing.
The Senate refused to concur in that
amendment, and the House was forced
to withdraw it. The Governor signed
the bill as soon as it reached him.
The appropriation of S. 600 for medals
for these honorably discharged volunteers
has passed both houses The Governor
has signed the bill giving $4,000 for
the equipping of the National Guard. It
is expected that this money will be re-
imbursed to the State by the national
government.
Senator Pitney yesterday offered a
number of important amendments to the
, bank and trust company law, for which
he stands sponsor. The bills are the re-
suit of the special codification commis-
, sion appointed by the Governor to pre-
pare these bills. Mr. Pitney is familiar
with the banking law, and on that
account was selected to introduce the
bills and see them safely through the
upper House.
III. B. rockingham, who has been the
secretary of the State Fish and Game
Commission, and who has been identified
with the development of Mt Arlington,
has been reappointed member of the
commission. The only change in the
commission is the dropping Of Col. Geo.
PFeffer of Camden and the substituting
of j. Frank Budd of Burlington.
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There is pending at this writing a bill,
one of Mr.. McDermott's, to give the
Lehigh Valley the right to abandon the
old Morris canal and use it 50 tha bill
says, for roadbed for the railroad; but
we'll l-founded rumor has it that the
canal and its water supply is to be used
to conduct water to Jersey City and
other municipalities. The bill was in
troduced on Tuesday and an attempt was
made to pass it on Wednesday.
In the way of expediting legislative
business two bills have been introduced
One abolishes the engrossing departments
of the two branches and the other creates
the Office OF supervisor of legislation
He shall serve for five years and prepare
all bills for the printer and see that they
are absolutely correct Hecan have two
assistants The amount of his salary has
not yet been fixed.
The Governor is working late at nights
trying to keep up with the Legislature,
in the important work of signing bills.
So far he has done well. being only few
bills behind the lawmakers. He proposes
to have every bill signed before the Leg
islature adjourns sine die, which will be
about 10 O'Clock on Friday night.
The appropriation bills were intro
duced in the Senate this morning. The
regular appropriation bill provides for
the expenditure of 50, AT 546 80, and the
supplemental appropriation bill for
$551 ,971,49.
The Joint Committee have decided to
appropriate $4,000 for the Railway
Reformatory and $14S, 800 for the Morris
Plains Hospital The supplemental bill
is unusually heavy this year. but it con-
tains a number of large items.
Some of the important items in the
supplemental bill are as follows:
Roster of Revolutionary ofiicers..... $500
State Prison repairs, s,....,............,. 2U,bO0
National Guard in connection with
the war with Spain. ..............". 42iyS
EpllHpllC toAOuN EAseF'
9GiIdf9 Iand .!.s...'..... anu e.'.o.s .,oo @ 44ON
Morris Plains HOspital. ................ b3 loo
Medals for volunteers .,.,....... 8 900
Extra compensation for volunteers. lS0 OO
The principal items of the appropria-
tion bill are as follows:
War with Spain. s 81 $50
Soldiers and Sailors Home........... 5w
Village for Enileptics ................ luuJ
Morris Plains Hospital. ............,.. s6,bi9
Railway keformatory ..........,....., @5V.uV
Caught his Hand Between Cars
While in the act of drilling cars early