The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-02-28
TRENTON SOLONS AT WORK.
Some Bills Passed Senators HANDS
Sensible Bill.

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The members Of the Legislature, il
would appear are beginning to realize
that if an adjournment is to be made
on March 14th they viii have to work
overtime. There were some vacani
seats in the lower House on Monday
night caused by the difficulty the
members experienced in reaching
| Trenton.
/ Senator Lees Atlantic City license
bill caused an outbreak among the
clergymen unlike anything that has
been seen since the days Of the race
track meetings.
Senator Hand is the first Senator
who has had the courage to intro
duce bill providing for the publica-
tion of laws in the newspapers, the
papers to be elected by the Governor
and Comptroller and to be equivalent
in each county to the number Of Sena-
tors and Assemblymen, also in fifteen
newspapers at large representing la
Dor interest and non English voters,
the price to be sixty cents per folio
for publishing. The laws should be
published in Ia suitable number of
newspapers when the laws would
then be read by large number Of
people who at present never see them
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In the House, Mr.. Williams, No.
Az provides for the appointment of
ten commissioners for the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition carrying with it
an appropriation Of one hundred thou
sand dollars. A number Of represen-
tatives Of the fair appeared at the
Joint Session of the Legislature and
presented their claims in an earnest
manner
Leader Horner's bill, No 143 pro-
vides for the establishment of New
Jersey sanitarium for tuberculosis
diseases, the site to be selected.
Mr.. Bachelors bill, No. 149 re-
quires officers making arrests under
action for prevention Of cruelty to
animals to notify the district society
who shall prosecute. Assemblyman
Which introduced two bills, No.
TIA snd 175. The first defines fire
limits in towns, and the latter enables
cities and towns to regulate the use
OF wagons, carriages, and smaller
vehicles on streets.
Mr.. McKee's bill limiting the speed
of automobiles to eight miles an hour
in cities and sixteen in the country
was defeated by vote of 11-7; q
number of the Senators Thought
eight miles an hour was too rapid a
pace for congested points in cities
The Freeholder's bill introduced
by Senator Strong providing for a
commission in place of the present
freeholders, at the request OF Senator
Wakelee was put back on second read
ing, and substitute bill was offered
by the Senator from Bergen. The new
measure applies to all but first class
counties and reduces the number of
freeholders to a commission Of seven
and fixes their annual salaries at
a Thousand dollars instead of fifteen
hundred. There is q very strong
sentiment back Of this bill
Mr.. Welsh's bill No. 30 allowing
the legal voters Of an Incorporated
town to decide on the question of in
creasing the appropriations for new
water works is among the passed
bills. This will help Dover to COM
plete its plans for = water supply.
A bill was passed appropriating
twenty thousand sand dollars for q
new dormitory at the Soldiers Home
in Kearney.
Although it is seldom that Morris
tonians are bothered with mosqui-
tos, there are years when they would
be interested in Assemblyman How
land Is anti-mosquito bill, which passed
the House by vote of 4S-9 carrying
with it an appropriation of ten thou
sand dollars to Investigate the mos
quito problem.