The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-02-08


ment that Senator Mahlon Pitney, 0.
Morris County had been rendered ane
had decided to accept a position OF
the bench of the State was confirmed
this week when Governor VOORHEES,
sent the nomination in as follows:
Hon. Mahlon Pitney,
President of the Senate.
Sir:
1 hereby nominate for appointment
with the advice and consent OF the
Senate as follows:
For Associate Justice of Supreme
Court Mahlon Pitney to take effect
November 16, 1901 vice William S.
Gummere resigned.
Respectfully,
Foster M Voorhees,,
Governor.
Attest:
Hobart Tuttle,
Private Secretary.
Justice Gummere will be the sue
cessor of Chief Justice Depue whose
resignation is also to take effect
November 16.
Along with Senator Pitney's name
Governor Voorhees, sent the nomina-
tion of Garret D. w. Vroom, ofMercer
County, for lay judge of the Court
of Errors and Appeals. He will sue
ceed to the place left vacant by Judge
Charles E. Hendrickson who was last
week raised to the Supreme Court
bench in the place of the late justice
and Ex-Governor George @. Ludlow.
Under the prevailing custom the
Senate laid Mr.. Vroom's name over
until next week before confirming it.
Mr.. Pitney being Senator was con-
firmed at once.
Short Snappy Lession.
The sessions of the two houses this
week were short and crammed with
business. The Senate met Monday
night and Tuesday morning; the AS
sembly met Tuesday afternoon in ad-
dition.
One of the most important matters
of the week was the introduction of a
Concurrent Resolution by MIR. Reed
(for the president) providing for the
Constitutional amendments as proposed
by the New Jersey Bar Association.
1t provides for an independent Court
of Errors, consisting of chief judge
and four associate judges; makes
the vice chancellors constitutional
officers.and provides for their appoint
ment by the Governor; makes the
Court of Pardons consist of the Gov
ernor, the Chancellor and the Attorney
General.
Should the resolution pass both
Houses the amen iments must then be
submitted to popular vote for ratifica-
tion.
Mr.. Reed also presented for the
president memorial from the New
Jersey Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution requesting the
Legislature to make provision for the
preservation of the Colonial and Rev
olutionary records of New Jersey. 1t
was referred to the committee ON ap-
preparations.
A resolution was adopted in the
House providing for the engrossment
of the resolutions rendering the use
of the assembly cham ber to the Order
of the Cincinnati for memorial SER
vice in honor of the late Gen William
S. Stryker, and the presentation of a
copy of the same, signed by the
Speaker, to the family of the deceased.
More appointments.
The following nominations were re-
ceived from Governor Voorhees, and
were referred:
Judge District Court, Camden.
Charles V. D. Joline IRE. appointed. J
Member Board of Managers of the
Geological Survey-John f. Dryden
vice Thomas T. Kinney, deceased.
Commissioners of Palisades Inter
State Park = George Walbridge
Perkins, of New York and Abram s..
Hewitt, of Ringwood, N. j.. each for
five years. d. McNeeley Stauffer, of
New York and Edwin A. Stevens of
Hoboken, N. j., each for four years
]. Du Pratt White of New York and
Franklin W. Hopkins, of Alpine, N.
j.. each for three years; Ralph Trant-
man of New York. and William A
Linn, of Hackensack, N. J each for
two years; Nathan F. Barrett. OF New
York, and Abram De Ronde. of Engle-
wood, N. j., each for one year.
On Tuesday both Houses met in
joint session and elected commission
ers of deeds for the various counties
of the State.
influx oflBiIls.
Eighteen new bills were introdu ed
in the Senate and forty five in the
House.
The two Senate bills passed by the
House on third reading are No. 62
preventing the acting mayor of Eliza
beth from signing official documents
as mayor of that city and No. "a, which
is the Rutherford bond bill
Among the Senate bills passed by
the Senate and sent to the House
were No 8, enabling Princeton Col