The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-03-25
HILLERY CALLS
FAGAN DOWN
DenOunceS Jersey City's Mayor
as a Mere Tool Of
the Democrats
THE LEGISLATURES CLOSE

ILegislature of New Jersey came to
an end today. There was the usual
wild scramble to rush bills through
before closing time, followed by the
customary hilarity that marks the
close of every session.
In the House last night Mr. Ham
mill again called up the question of
equal taxation. He offered dupli-
cate of the concurrent resolution
presented to the Senate yesterday by
Senator Price, and urged its adoption
in speech denouncing what he called
an effort on the part of Republicans
to delay the settlement of the ques-
tion He quoted from the open letter
written to Governor Murphy by
Mayor Pagan of Jersey City, and de-
clared that the latter was evidence
that the demand for equal taxation
was not partisan measure.
Assemblyman Hillery declared that
Mayor Fagan's accusations of bribery
and corruption were deliberate lies.
He quoted the statement concerning
the Governors failure to urge the
Legislature to pass the equal taxation
bills, and contended that the execu-
tive had no right under the c0nstitu-
tion to coerce the lawmakers.
Mr.. Hillery said that Mayor Pagan
was not Republican in the true
sense of the term, but was mere
tool in the hands of the Democrats
of Hudson county. He referred to
the determination to defer action on
the Morris Canal Commissions re-
port, and declared that that matter
was of no less Importance than the
movement in which the Mayor OF
Jersey City had been SO active. AS
semblyman Birkholz said that Mayor
Pagan was endeavoring to further his
political ambition, and was angry
because the legislature would not
lend itself. to some of his schemes.
He declared that he was proud to be
a member of a legislature that was
not afraid to do it's duty and was not
to be coerced by the tactics Of Mayor
Pagan. Mr.. Hammill's resolution
was then referred to the Judiciary
Committee, where it fell into its long
sleep. The vote was 35 to 16.
Tenement House Bill.
The bill to establish permanent
State tenement house commission
passed the Senate yesterday and the
amendments made there were later
concurred in by the House. As Cover
nor Murphy has been personally in
terested in forwarding the measure,
it will doubtless receive his signature.
Governor Murphy signed yesterday
the child labor bill, the act appro-
priating 1926, 200 to represent New Jer-
sey at the st. Louis Exposition, and
the joint resolution No. 6, which pro-
vides for the purchase of portraits of
those JerseYmen who signed the Dec
laration of Independence.
Senator Bradley moved that the
bill, which provides that all executions
for murder shall take place within the
walls of the State prison, be put on
final passage. Senator Hutchinson
opposed the motion. The arguments
made by those Senator two weeks ago
were repeated. The vote was then
taken and the bill was passed, IL to 6.
The House passed the North Jersey
Flood Commission bill, which has
been pending for several days. The
bill has been amended in some minor
ways, but it is substantially the same
as it was when it left the hands
of ex-United States Attorney General
Griggs.
Another bill passed by the House ap-
propriates $500 to the widows of
three soldiers who were killed at Sea
Girt, while working in the rifle pit.
Governor Murphy sent these nomin-
ations to the Senate last night:
Members of the State Board of
Arbitration William Garrabrants,
Essex; j. Hall Browning, Bergen,
Henry N. Banker, Middlesex; Samuel
Berry. Cumberland, and Thomas II.
Joiner, Camden.
Riparian Commissioners William
Cloke, Mercer; Robert Williams,
Passaic; NJ S. Mclaughlin, Essex,
and John r.. Reynolds, Mercer.
State Sewerage Commission James
e. Fleming, Essex; John II. Capstick,
Morris.
The Governor also sent TO the
Senate the name of Factory Inspector
Lewis t. Bryant, to be Commissioners
of Labor, beginning on September 1,
when the Child Labor law goes into
effect This is the Office MIR. Bryant
now holds, but with a new title.
For member Of the State Board OF
Pharmacy David Strauss.
For members of the Board OF Vet
erinary Medical Examiners t. Earle
Budd and Whitfield Gray.
For members of the board Of trus-
tees of the Newark Technical School
Moses Strass and A. B. Garner.
For police justice of Orange Joseph
u Rrav