Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-20

advocates of this measure are conf
dent that favorable action will be TAX
en- on this question before the legisla-
ture adjourns.
Publicity For Corporations.
A lively interest is being taken in
Assemblyman Williams corporation
publicity bill, and there is likelihood
that it will be antagonized by a formi-
dahle lobby, who will work in the inter
ests of those who are said to be salts
fed with the existing law. Mr.. Viii
liams was prompted in Introducing this
measure by reading the charter of the
Atlantic Rubber Shoe company, which
was recently incorporated. which was
liberal in its provision for publicity
of its affairs as far as the investors
were concerned, and which opened con-
siderable OF its business to the public.
Senator McCarter on Monday pre-
scented the bond of State Treasurer
Briggs to the senate in the sum
100000. with She following sureties:
f. Q. Briggs, Ferdinand W. Roebling,
Charles 6. Roebling, John ii. Scudder,
Henry c. Kelsey, c. Harry Baker and
Leslie c. Pierson. He urged that the
bond be acted upon as soon as pos
sible. SO that the new treasurer might
take up the full duties of his office.
The bond was referred to the finance
committee.
Senator Reed presented Il bill, for the
Y,paSidnpf i,s.poa cinu fha n fin1,
to S300.000 for stone roads from $780,
600. \ bill by Senator Hutchinson APP
propriatcs $10,9IT.74 TO defray the ex-
penses. incidental to Governor Muir
phys Inauguration.
Another bill affecting gunners was
submitted by Senator Shinn, prohibit
ing dogs to run at large in fields OF
woods inhabited by rabbits or game eX-
cept from Oct. Il to March /, under q
penalty of $40. 1t also makes it un-
lawful to trap rabbits except in traps
marked with the owners name or mi
tails and after notice to the nearest
game warden. No one shall set more
than six traps and will be prohibited
from selling those captured. Farmers
and fruit growers will be permitted to
trap rabbits in january, February and
March OH lands used for raising fruit.
provided the persons trapping shall
make affidavit that rabbits have in
jured his fruit trees.
A bill by Mr.. Hand makes the open
season for killing marsh or mud hens
from September to December and pro-
hibits a gunner from killing more than
twenty-five marsh hens in one day.
The penalty is $50.
Senator Gebhardt's bill relative tc
primary elections provides that the pri-
maries shall be held on the first regis
tratiOn day and that the registration
and primaries shall be conducted by
the same board. The protection of the
general election act extends to the pri-
pendent candidates.
The Governors Message.
a special message was sent to the
senate by the governor ON Monday tc
the effect that DR.. Austin Scott, presi-
dent of the State Agricultural college
at New Brunswick, had submitted s
claim of that institution for education
furnished citizens of this state, in ac-
cordance with the act of the legisla
ture passed March 81, 1890, amounting
in the aggregate at the present time to
$131 610. The contention is made by
DR.. Scott that the state is at least NOR
any, if not legally, obligated to the in
stitution for this sum. The matter, the
governor says, further involves the
continuance or diScontinuance of this
system of education at the college
The money appropriated under the act
referred to has apparently not beer
paid because of serious doubts as to
the constitutionality of the act.
Governor Murphy recommends that
a law be passed providing for the ap
pointment of a commission of three
impartial persons to examine the sub
ject and report to the legislature what
sum, if any, the state is either legally
obligated or in fairness should pay tc
the college in settlement of this claim
and as to whether the system of educa-
ton provided for in the act above re-
ferred to should be continued in order
that the legislature may deal with this
subject in accordance with the public
welfare
The message was referred to the com
mittee on agriculture and Agriculture
college.