The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-30
KICKING
"BILLY" KOONS
Chronicles Versatile Trenton
Scribe on Recent Session.
Railway Reformatory Helped
Other Appropriations Less
States Record for Economy Ex-
ceIlent Important Measures Con
sidered "A Clever Witness for
Her Side.
special Correspondence. }

Legislature has gone into history. with
more or less uncertain results Hav
ing seen a dozen or more Legislatures
come and go, the conclusion is reached
that the recent session will stand as
very good argument for biennial
sessions, a necessity long demanded
and now positively needed. The
session was underworked in the be-
ginning aud oyerworked at the end.
The printing of bills, hinders rather
than improves the process of legisla-
tion.
The general school bill arrived
about ten clock of the night of adj
journment, amended in dozen places,
and the Governor felt very much like
sending word to the Legislature to
ment, but he put the screws on and
waded through it, Then came some
bran new bi lis in the Legislative
heaven, which had not been seen before
or heard of. These bills had to be stud
led and their legal status examined. 1t
was night that the Governor will
soon forget.
He, however, stands firm to the
proposition that the bills should all
be considered and signed before the
gavel falls. Hundreds have argued
against the custom, but he says Con-
gress can do it and if the United
C4o+oe non do ~ ouooacof11lxy xubot ic
the matter with the little state of
New Jersey doing it.
Notwithstanding the big windfalls
that have come to the State because
of the big income from the miscella-
neous corporations the State will
spend less money during the next
fiscal year than it is now doing during
the current year.
The ordinary or running expenses
for the year beginning November 1st,
1900, is So, O9S $50 against So. 046, 057
for the current year. The extraordi
nary expenditure for the new year
will be $133, 300 against $3SS, OBS for
this year. The supplemental, or
present use appropriations run large
this year. The amount is 1888, 060 less
than last year when it was $4S7, 723,
but higher than previous years. 1t
carries with it, some important omis-
sions in last years appropriation act.
The extraordinary appropriations
are as follows: The Morris Plains
Asylum, $86, 915, but it is said $3.50. 900
was needed; State Home for Girls,
$40, 1000; to finish Newark Armory,
$50, 600; for Epileptic Village, $21, 900
Palisades Commission. 50, 500; Rah
way Reformatory gets the lions
share, $3.50, 600.
The most important bill passed was
the State Sewerage bill and in view
of the Court of Errors and Appeals
decision to the effect that municipali-
ties can use streams for sewage pur-
poses. The defeat of track elevation
has stirred up mixed controversy,
but there are many sides to the ques
tion. 1t is stated that the Pennsyl-
vania Road will go ahead with its
work of elevating just the same The
Governor is pleased at the passage of
his franchise tax bill. He expects the
bill will have to be amended next
year but not seriously.
The bill reorganizing the National
Guard is not going to work any great |
changes in the citizens solidery, for |
some time to come. It's most impor-
tant measures do not take effect until |
the terms of the present officers ex-
pire and that makes things easy for
many now in commission.
There will be no Normal School in
Newark There will be no increase
in the accommodations of the Normal
School in Trenton. There will be no
new Senate Chamber, and the princi-
pal reason is that it will take so much
money for the Railway Reformatory.
When that all absorbing institution
is finished there will be chance for
some of the other institutions.
The Girls Industrial School mud
die is partly cleared by the passage of
the act which changes its name to
the State Home for Girls and gives it
new government There is nothing
in sight which indicates whether Mrs.
Eyler is to be removed, or made the
superintendent, the new administra-
tive Office provided in the bill. There
are rumors that majority of the
present Board of Trustees will not
accept re-appointment under the
terms of the law. The Governor may
be forced to get new board and it
will rest with them whether they will
look favorably on Mrs. Eyler. So
far the odds are in favor of the prin-
cipal. Since she testified so cleverly I
ON the stand, many new friends have
come under her standard and they are
influential friends. She made a good
and binding the statistics relating to
the four most important subjects with
which the census deals-population,
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