The Penn's Grove record., 1904-03-18

about 600 acres of land adjoining the
state camp at Sea Girt. A bill intro
duced by Senator Bachelor vests in
the department of labor the enforce
ment of the biweekly payment bill.
The house on Monday night received
a petition from the Hudson county Re-
publican committee urging the pas
sage of the equal taxation bill. As
semblyman Hamill of Hudson IN
nounced that he would move to have
the committee on railroads and canals
relieved from further consideration of
the measure. This means that the mat
ter will probably be fully aired on the
floor of the house. A number of petit
tons have been received by the house
favoring the a%ntipigeon bill. The house
passed a measure providing for the
Newark track elevation bond bill and
also the measure creating the Office of
deputy comptroller for Newark.
1t was expected that the senate COM
mittee on labor and industry would
report the child labor measure Monday
night, but Senator Shinn, the chair
man, said the committee was not ready
to report the bill. 1t is thought that
continued delays will defeat the meas
ure.
Two bills by Mr.. Hamill Of Hudson
make fire and police boards in first
class cities elective. By another bill
by Mr.. Hamill boards Of freeholders
may erect or rebuild county hospitals.
Still another measure by the same gen
tleman authorizes every city in the
state, when this act is accepted, by a
vote of the people to elect a council
man at large. Other measures intro
duced in the house were by Mr.. Lehl-
bach, requiring holders of chattel mort
cages to ~foreclose the same by order
of a court Of competent jurisdiction;
by Mr.. Fordyce, requiring the record
ing of all certificates affecting corpora
lions,
Divorce Bill Beaten.
The bill by Mr.. De Lazier making
Imprisonment for a crime, misdemean-
or or offense not political for a term OF
two years willful, continued and OBJ
stinate desertion, emitting husband or
wife of such convict to a divorce, was
lost in the house by 81 to 5 after a
warm debate, in which it was pointed
out that in many cases the bill would
work an injustice. The bill may COM
up again in an amended form.
The appropriations committee on
Monday heard the board Of managers
of the tuberculosis commission, which
has asked for 100000 for a building
to accommodate 100 patients. The
committee gave little encouragement
to the managers. Chairman Hutchin-
son inquired whether the board thor
oughly understood that it was limited
under the law to a total expenditure
of $4,000. The board said it had con-.
sidered that amount only as a prelimi-
nary appropriation and declared, fur
Their, that if the commission was kept
down to this figure the work had bet
ter be abandoned at once. The state
military board asked the committee
for an appropriation of $3.50 for each
battery Of artillery. A reduction of
$4,000 was recommended in the
amount allowed for expenses for the
Sea Grit encampment, the board de-
claring that this amount would come
from the government under the Dick
law. The board asks an increase of
$4,000 for maintaining grounds, grad
ing, etc., of state armories, and also
asks $4,000 for heating and lighting
armories. The board asks $4,000 in
crease for repairing armories, $4,000
for jetty to protect the Sea Girt rife
pits and $1,555 for sanitary arrange
ments for the camp grounds. Increases
in salaries are asked for the head clerk
in the Office of the quartermaster gen.
eral and for the storekeeper at the
arsenal.
Attorney General McCarter asked for
$4,000 for expenses and counsel fees
in the Delaware boundary line dispute
suit now pending in the United States
supreme court.
Cape May Bills Passed.
MI. Gibbs of Camden has presented
a bill exempting agricultural corpora
tons or corporations interested in agri-
cultural pursuits from annual license
fee or franchise tax. Mr.. Taylor has
presented an amendment to the vice
and immortality act against Sunday
violations. The house passed these
bills: The Cape May sewer bill, the
Cape May waterworks bill and the
Cape May bond bill.
The bill by Mr.. Birkholz providing
that in second class cities adopting the
law the present fire and police com
missioners shall be abolished and a BIZ
partisan board substituted to control
both departments has been withdrawn
by its in%troducer, a storm Of protest
having been raised against the meas
ure.
Mr.. Pennington's bill authorizing the
government to appoint five persons to
be known as the board of undertakes
and embalmers Of this state, who shall
license all candidates and regulate the
practice of embalming, burial and dis
posal of dead human bodies, passed the
house after being strongly urged by
Mr.. Pennington. He said the under
takers of the state framed the meas
ure.
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