The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-09
Adjournment MARCH q.
CONTINUED from FYrst Paoe.


Der of the committee stated yesterday
that in all probability all three for ms
of selecting the Board Of Education
will be Incorporated in the law with
a referendum clause for each, and
communities can apply the one best
suited for their needs.
WINTER PICKEREL FISHING.
Senator Pitney came to the rescue
of those people in Morris County, who
are fond of going up to the lakes and
enjoying fishing through the ice. The
Senate took up the Mungle game bill
for the second time and considered the
proposed amendment offered by Sena-
tor Reed, which cuts out the ice fish
ing and makes the closing season for
pickerel, pike and perch date from
Feb. 20, to Nov. go Senator Reed
is very heartily opposed to ice fishing
and said that the practice was carried
on to the detriment of the summer
sport.
| Senator Pitney was ready with a
reply at once and said that many peo-
| pie in Morris, some of them needy
followed the practice of gathering
fish in winter and he had yet to learn
that it interferred with summer fish
ing at Budd's Lake, Lake Hopatcong
and other resorts of the up-to date
Isaac Walton.
Senator Reed said he had heard en-
tirely different and that tons of fish
are being taken out of Lake Hopat
cong in winter. to the detriment of
the summer fishing. He was informed
that the property around Lake Hopat-
cong was depreciating in value be-
cause sportsmen would not come
there any more because fishing was
bad. The Senator from Morris thought
he was competent to make safe ex-
preston on the subject because he
was familiar with the conditions and
he created some humor by honoring
Senator Reed for protecting the rod
and reel society from the big towns,
but he proposed to stand by the hun
CRY stomach association. - The game
laws are not all for fancy fishermen
but for citizens who have right to
the food and to earn living securing
that food.
DR.. BUCKLEY ON HAND.
Rev. DIR. James M. Buckley made
his annual visit to Trenton. He never
comes without something important
to look after. He entertained the
Joint Committee ON appropriations by
an interesting chat about the work of
the Epileptic village and it's needs and
he will come very near getting just
what he asked for which is the lapsed
appropriations of last year and money
for four new cottages and the price of
the Mesick farm. In all nearly one
hundred and thirty three thousand
dollars.
Senator Pitney is beginning to get
burdened down with bills which it is
his duty to look after as leader He
has fairly good number of his own
and some of them a trifle trouble
some, but recently he introduced a
batch of eleven applying to court
procedure, which were prepared by
special commission. These bills will
have to be explained to the Judiciary
Committee before they get on the floor
of the Senate and explained by Sena-
tor Pitney to the satisfaction of the
Senators who are not lawyers. He has
also introduced three bills which
amend the corporation acts and make
change in the law which the miscel-
laneous corportions that do business
with the State.
THE BIG FOUR"
There is little gossip about the
coming State Convention. 1t selects
only four delegates at large and those
who gossip say that the 'big A" will
be Senators Sewell and Kean, Chair
man Franklin Murphy, and the genial
County Clerk of Mercer, Barker Gum
mere. b.ve heard it broadly intimat-
ed that mere was some disposition to
make Nj. Gummere State commit
teeman at large in place of the late
ce-President Hobart, a position that
he formerly held on the State Com
mittee. The vacancy is not filled by
the committee but by the Governor,
who made the original appointments.
AS Governor Voorhees, did not see fit
to appoint Mr. Gummere when he was
nominated, it is not likely that he
would place him on the committee
now.
He therefore named Supreme Court
Clerk William Riker, who has been
active in Essex County politics for
years and is becoming an active factor
in State politics. 1t now looks as if
Mr.. Gummere will be one of the big
ones at the National Convention and
Franklin Murphy will go into the Ma
tional Committee and Mahlon Pitney
will be the logical candidate for
Governor.
| The members of the State Commit
tee state that this will be an aggressive
campaign in New Jersey during the
summer and fall The campaign is
now on and there will be activity
within Republican circles until No