The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29
LAW MAKERS
ADJOURN
OF 652 Bills introduced Only
2l5 Become Laws


School Census Abolished LehigE
Valley Water Steal Killed for the
Year New Congressional Dis
tricts-SenslbIe Pure Food Meas.
ure.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
clocks in the Senate Chamber and in
the Lower House marked the hour
S.55 on Friday last, it was in the wee
small hours of Saturday morning that
the Legislature finally adjourned.
The heavy work during the past fort
night had been pushed along at rail
road speed.
The 125 Legislature enacted 215 laws
during its existence. In all 652 bills
were introduced, 242 in the Senate ant
40 in the House. Governor VOORHEES,
signed SO bills, including the Morris
town Excise measure, Senator Pitney''
bill regulating the commitment o.
patients to State Hospital for the
Insane, the measure permitting tht
Morris County Savings Bank to in
crease its Board of Managers to thir
teen, during the last "a hours.
Closing Scenes.
The scenes incidental to closing
both. branches of the Legislature were
enacted.
In the House horse" play was the
order of the day or rather night.
Following the last Executive Session
of the Senate, at which number OF
nominations were confirmed, as given
in part below. President Pitney in
troduced Senator Stokes the new. clerk
in Chancery. Senator Reed made a
complimentary speech in which he
expressed the loss that the legislature
would sustain by the retirement OF
the Cumberland senator. Senator
Martin, the Democratic leader, gave
voice to similar sentiments.
Senator Johnson, of Camden, re-
minded the senators that President
Pitney was about to retire from legis-
lative work and enter upon new du-
ties in the highest courts of the
state, he expressed the hope that his
success in his new place would be as
great as it had been in the past to
which Mr.. Pitney made fitting res
ponse. Later in the evening Senator
Martin, of Sussex, offered resolution
thanking the president for his fair
ness
just before the senate finished its
work, the President appointed Senators
Reed, McCarter and Hudspeth as a
committee to consider the advisability
of having New Jersey represented al
the Louisiana Purchase exposition at
St. Louis in 1908.
Nominations.
Senator Edward @. Stokes, of Cum
berland county, to succeed Lewis A.
Thompson as clerk in chancery. The
term is for five years, begins March 30
salary Sc, 600 year.
President judge court of common
pleas-Hunterdon county, John L..
Connect; Middlesex County, Wood
bridge Strong.
Prosecutors of the pleas-Hunter-
don county, II. Burdett Herr; Middle
sex County. John S. Voorhees,.
Trustee for the state home for boys
Gervas Ely and James M. Parsons.
Member OF state sewerage commits
sion-David L. Wallace.
State board of Education-First
district-Edward E. Grosscup, three
years. George A. Frey, four years.
Second district-James B. Woodward,
five years; Silas r. Morse, four years.
Third district-D. Louis Bevier, two
years; R. Edmund Wilson, one year.
Fourth district-Samuel ST. John
McCutchen, five years; ssFrank O..
Briggs, three years. Fifth District
Benjamin H. Campbell, four years
Charles e. Surdam, one year. Sixth
misunderstanding Miles, two years
Francis Scott, five years; Seventh dis
trict-James Seymour, three years
Everett Colby, two years; Eighth dis
tricU-James L. Hays, five years. Ninth
Observation-Disclosures Allen, two years
Otto Cruise, four years. Tenth dis
trict-Edward Russ, one year; Will
liam d. Forbes, three years.
Commissioners of the New Jersey
formatory-George W. Fortmeyer,
one year; Richard H. Wilson, one year
Charlton 7. Lewis, two years Percy
r. Pyne, two years; Benjamin Edge,
three years; Thomas H. Gopsill, three
years; Patrick Farrelly, four years
George A. Squier, four years.
Members of the state board OF medi.
cal examiners-Armin Uebelaeker,
William F. Watson, William H. Ships.
Board of visitors to state agricul.
tural collee e--Fifth district-J osiah
Ketcham, James H. Burnet.