The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-03-28
MURPHY HAPPY
Very Much Pleased With
the Legislature and In
cidentally With
Himself.
PROMISES TO Be GOOD
Says He Will Learn and Be a
Better Governor Next
Year.
special to "rhe Jersey city News."l


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TRENTON, March %, 1S02-When the
Legislature adjourned last night Cover
nor Murphy was like a schoo5boy who
had just finished particularly disagree
abe term and was on the evening OF a
vacation long looked forward to with the
most agreeable anticipation. He left his
office and taking his stand at the inter
section of the main corridor and the hali
leading to his department, greeted the
members of the Legislature most pleas
antly as they passed out of the State
House and bade them goodby with ap-
parently the kindiiest feelings.
Then he went over to the Assembly
Chamber and was passing down the aisle
on which the newspaper mems desks are
located when he met a number of the cor
respondents on their way out. He greet
ed them in a warm manner and placing
his back against the wall opened his
mouth and spoke unto them as follows
'Well, boys, l suppose you are glad it is
over It has been very pleasant session
to me and the Legislature has been very
good to me. It is a fact that all but one
of the recommendations made in my
inaugural address have been acted upon
wholly or in part. That exception was the
Sunset election law. and that fell in the
Senate with dull, siekening thud The
matter of voting machines is in very
satisfactory shape.
Il am greatly pleased with the spirit the
House displayed in passing the appropria-
ton for the tuberculosis hospital in the
last hours of the session It looked as
though they really wanted to do it. It
| is a grand thing to think that the State
| is going to take care of its consumptive
poor and surround them with the care,
| comfort and attention they require in
stead of leaving them to die cooped up In
the restricted surroundings where they
can communicate their disease and death
to members of their families.
.'The Passaic pollution matter has been
! treated in the best possible manner Had
! 1t been disposed of according to the origl-
nal plan there would have been hard feel
! ing and dissatisfaction on the part of Pat
erson People who criticize the bill which
passed because they do not understand 1t
/ thoroughly. With the help of the gooa
Lord, I expect to appoint on the commits
sion provided for by the act men OF such
| high character that their work cannot
4 help but be successful, and am confident
that their work will draw all interests to-
| gether so that they will come 60 the
LEGISLATURE next year with a plan which
will meet the approval of all concerned
/ 81 am conscious of my defects as Cover
nor. 1 am new at the business and must
learn. I expect to learn I expect to be
| a better Governor next year. and more Ia
miliar with the affairs of the State. /
am going to visit all the State institutions
once a year and some of them twice, so as
to be in a position to understand their
needs and help them.
ssWhiie the school bill was not satisfac-
4 tory to all of us it was the best under the
:! circumstances. Essex opposed it and I
have on my desk a stack of objections
from Hudson. There was a great need for
a general comprehensive law and this bill
although it did not suit everyone, will pc
| foundation of good law when its de-
fects are patched up, as it they can be
when it has been tried a year.
The Governor left this afternoon for
Long Island. where he viii stay until
early next week, fishing in the brooks for
! trout in the day time and at night fish
ing in the big batch of passed bills ne
took with him for bad legislation. He
had about twenty measures in his little
1 grip and he intends to consider them all
before he returns so that the minds of
their introducers may be set at rest con-
cerning their fate.
1t is the Governors purpose either to
! approve or veto every measure before
him and not evade the responsibility by
allowing them to become laws without
his Signature.
During the session $50 bills were intro
duced-2os in the Senate and 343 in the
House OF this number 534 passed both
Houses. while the others fell somewhere
on the perilous journey from their ifl-
troducer's desk to the statute book. The
Senate killed eighteen House bills by not
giving them attention, and eight Senate
measures met the same fate in the House.
4 The Senate voted down. eight Of its own
bills and seven Assembly measures were
killed in Their own home. OF the 2S5
bills which the Governor has under con-
| s,.deration, 130 originated in the Senate
and l55 in the House.
Fifty-nine bills have received the Exc
cutive approval and become laws. The
Governor has promised that if bill meets
4 with his disapprova1, before killing it, he
i would send for the introducer of the mea-
! sure and talk it over with him before ve-
toing it, With the exception of the School
Z bill, the Passajc Pollution bills and the
bill to increase the salary of the Secretary
to the Governor, none of the bills yet
signed possess more than ordinary inter-
3 est except in the immediate locality they
effect.