The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-03-12
FREE MEDICINE
Assembly Passes Bill Author
izing Dispensaries for
Poor in Jersey.
NEW SCHOOLS BILL GOES THROUGH
Dog License Fees to Be Ap-
portioned Row Over
Essex's Normal
School.

Especial to sThe Jersey City News.
TRENTON. March 12 19o2-The AS
semply succeeded in disposing of a NUM-
ber Of Bills this morning Among them
was Mayor Fagan's bill. introduced py
Mr. Hoffman, which authorizes Jersey
City to appropriate $4,000 for establishing
and ma ntaining free medical dispensaries.
When the bill came up Mr.. Tenant ep-
posed Ii. He said that he had no oppo-
sition to make to a scheme for dispensing
medicine to the poor, but the House had
already passed bin providing for new
hospital in Jersey City and he thought an
amendment could be made to that bill
providing for the dispensaries without the
expenditure of the 80, 900 provided for in
the bill
Mr.. Hoffman replied briefly to Mr.. Ten
mart. merely saying that the best people
of Jersey City wanted the hill passed and
he hoped the House would do as they
wanted The Assembly did so and passed
the measure by a vote of 40 to 2.
The House passed the Senate bill APP
propriating s45,GO0 for the Colored Manual
Training School at Bordentown.
Mr. Hudspeth's measure allowing Jersey
City to erect additional school houses
passed after strong speech in its favor
by Mr.. Tenant. The bill provides for
the erection of school houses in cities;
makes 1t the duty of boards of aldermen,
common council or other governing body,
when the educational board shall request
that a site or sites be purchased for an
additional school house. or school houses,
to Investigate the necessity for such adj
ditional school accommodation, and upon
being satisfied of such necessity, shall
advertise and purchase such lands as
may be necessary; the cost of such site
ana school building shall not exceed
si5cosa. Bonds bearing semi-annual in
terest not to exceed five per cent. pay
able in not less than twenty nor more
than thirty years may be issued.
President George Mccarthy left the
state House this morning in a contented
frame Of mind and at peace with all man
kind. His bill, which Senator Hudspeth
introduced, and which authorizes local
boards Of health to collect annually IL
cense fees for dogs. and issue license tags
therefore Onezhaif of such fees to be ap-
piled to the uses of said board and the
other half to be paid monthly to the dis
trict society for the prevention of cruelty
to animals. The latter society is required
to maintain a shelter or other place for
the caring of animals and shall seize and
pound all unlicensed dogs, such dogs to be
returned to owners on payment of 81 with
in three days.
Passaie county made some opposition to
the bill on the ground that if it should
become operative in Paterson it would de-
pFive the poor fund of that city of s6.001
a ayear. Mr.. Bachelor showed that the
bill was not mandatory and then it
passed.
Speaker Bradley showed this morning
that Cars after the manner of Thomas
Bracket Reed had not entirely outliyed
their usefulness. Mr.. WilIiams's bill pro-
viding for new normal school in Essex
came up on third reading.
Mr. Williams made an e.oquent appeal
fer the measure, which evoked the un-
feigned applause of the House. Mr.
Horner opposed the bill, and 1t soon de-
veloped that ii was fight between North
and South Jersey.
Mr. Tenant OF Hudson moved that the
bill be laid over. and although the noes
were by far the louder. the Speaker.
South Jerseyrnan, declared the motion
carried. Mr. Edwards asked for the ayes
and nays and the motion was lost by a
vote of "A to 80.
The bin was then taken up again and
Mr.. Horner made an earnest plea for the
appointment Of a commission to investi-
gate the whole matter, but it was voted
down The bill then came UP on final
passage, and was lost by vote of 2S to a.
Mr.. Lutz voted no, as he said he favored
the appointment of a commission to in
yestigate the matter