Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-06

influence back of him, will probably
be renamed. There is still some doubt
concerning the position of secretary Of
state, which office is now held by
George Wurts of Paterson. He is back
ed by First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral William NJ. Johnson of Bergen,
and, although some believe that he will
be given another term, the general SEN
timent is that the Office will go to
Colonel Samuel d. Dickinson of Hud-
son.
The appointment of Senator Thomas
N. McCarter of Essex to succeed Sam
uel Grey of Camden as state attorney
general will not likely be sent to the
senate until the last week of the ses-
sion because of the fact that he is the
leader of the Republicans of that body
and his services are needed in the up
gerous pitfalls.
There seems to be little likelihood of
the favorable consideration by the leg
islature of the bill introduced by Mr..
Holman of Ocean county extending
to all municipalities in the state the
Meeker antispring election act, which
law now only applies to cities. Gov
ernor Murphy is said to regard the bill
unfavorably.
Fight For Pauper Children.
There is vigorous opposition to the
bill introduced by Assemblyman Stall
ter of Passaic providing for the giving
of absolute control over all pauper chill
dren found i'll almshouses. 1t is claim
ed that the bill is aimed at the Chill
dren's Home society, which now has
the right to place pauper children. Pc
titions have been freely circulated
throughout the state by the Children's
Home society in which the bin is char
acterized as pernicious and foolish leg
islation.
There is objection to the proposed
gift by the state to the new battleship
New Jersey of Il silver service to cost
$4,000, and it may be that the demand
for the appropriation will be refused.
The principle objection to the PROPOSE
ton is that the amount asked for is too
much. Some of the legislators look
with disfavor on the plan, and, while
it is expected that the state will do
something handsome for the battlcship
which bears its name, it is not thought
that any such amount as that asked
for will be expended.
For Publication of Laws.
There was a meeting on Tuesday at
the statehouse of a number of news
paper publishers who are interested in
the passage of the bill providing for
the publication of the states new laws
in the newspapers. For the past sew
eral years the laws have been publish
ed in pamphlet form and distributed
under the direction of the custodian of
the statehouse, which system, it is
claimed, is not satisfactory in dissem-
mating the laws. Senator Hands bill
provides for the publication of the
laws in as many papers in each county
as there are representatives from that
county in the senate and general as
sembly, with fifteen papers to be Sc
lected at large.
IL
mer Governor Foster NJ. Voorhees, will
not be made a vice chancellor, Chan
cellor Magic having declared a few
days ago that no additional vice chan
cellor was needed this year. This dec
laration was embodied in communi-
cation sent by the chancellor to the
joint appropriations committee in re-
Spouse to a request as to an idea of
the money needed for such purpose.
The chancellor has the power to ap-
point an additional member of his
court, but no one can be named until a
sufficient sum has been appropriated
for his salary. Governor Voorhees, all
along maintained that he was not a
candidate for the position.
AtIantic's Liquor Bills.
The ministers and the law and or
der people of the state are not relaxing
one iota in their fight against the At
lantic City liquor bills, and scarcely a
Sc ssion passes that the desks of the
secretaries of the two branches of the
legislature are not flooded with pro-
tests against these bills from all over
the state 1t is safe to assume that the
bill allowing an open Sunday at At
lantic City is now practically dead,
and if Atlantic City wants a new char
ter the bill giving one to that munich
paIity will seemingly have TO be great
ly modified before it can be passed.
CLAYTON