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offered by the Erie and Lackawanna
lines to the proposition to shift their
tracks on account of the proposed big
dam to be built.
Senator McKee's bill authorizing the
appointment of a bipartisan board of
health of ten members in Jersey CITY
by h mayor has passed the house. it
being advocated by Mr.. Van Blarcom
OF Passaic, who said that it did not
affect Newark. Another bill by Sena-
tor Mckee of Passaic which passed
the house was that authorizing cities
TO raise IN the annual tax levy $4,000
for the construction Of new police sta
tons or to issue bonds for the purpose.
The object of the bill is to enable
Paterson to rebuild a police station de-
stroyed by the big fire.
Senate Holds Up Tenement Bill.
mere was a warm debate on the
tenement house commission bill in the
senate Monday night, when Senator
Hudspeth opposed certain amend
ments, saying there would not be suf-
fcient time to properly digest them.
Senator Cross of Union wanted the
bill put through with the amendments.
senator Hudspeth asked to have the
bill recommitted and said that it was
so menacing to many of his constitu-
ents in Hudson county that if the ma
Jor1ty proposed to drive it through he
would consider it his duty to hold the
hoor OF the senate until the hour of
INA adjournment and thus effect the
b1lPs defeat. 1t vas decided to allow
the bill to go over to give time for the
printing of the amendments. This bill
passed the house without a single vote
in opposition.
The fixing, last week, of tomorrow
friday at 8 p. m. for sine die ad-
Journment put the lawmakers on their
mettle and compelled them to work
fast all week. When the hour of final
adjournment comes it is likely that, as
usual, the clock will be stopped.
The bill of Senator Bradley of Cam.
den appropriating $4,000 for a monu.
ment in the National cemetery at New
bern, N. O., to commemorate the mem.
DRY of the Ninth New Jersey volun-
teer infantry and appointing a com
mission of three survivors of the regi.
ment for this purpose has passed the
house.
The proposition to supply 300 more
voting machines at a cost of S150.OOO
is being favorably commented upon
throughout the state, although it has
been suggested that it would be pref
cradle to equip every voting precinct
in the state, numbering about 1,15O,
with a voting machine at the same
m Under the present plan of add.
ing new machines yearly the state will
be equipped with the devices in about
three years.
At a meeting of the New Jersey Re.
publican committee Monday night MAY
10 was fixed as the date for holding
he state convention to elect delegates
to the Republican national convention
which will nominate a candidate for
he presidency of the United States.
The only other business was to accept
the resignation from the state commit
tee of Major e. j. Anderson Of Somer-
set, who has served on the committee
for twenty years.
A unique bill has been presented by
a north Jersey assemblyman provid-
ing that no game shall be bought or
sold in this state. The ~introducer a V
that this would remedy at least some
OF the present defects in the existing
game laws. According to the bill, a
lover of game for food must go out
and shoot the game himself.
Stokes For Governor Next Fall,
1t is believed to be settled beyond a
doubt that Chancery Clerk Edward
@. Stokes formerly senator) will be
the Republican nominee for governor
next fall, Governor Murphy, United
States Senators Kean and Dryden and
State Assessor David Baird of Cam
den will be the four delegates at large
to the Republican national convention
and that State Treasurer Frank O.
Briggs will be the next chairman of
the Republican state committee.
tAO oCSOIu Lille ILLS WlULST Iu0
legislature has applied to Attorney
General McCarter for a decision as to
the constitutionality of the proposed
law granting to exempt firemen an ex-
emption from taxes on property to the
value of $500. The attorney general
In the first instance decided in response
to a resolution by Mr.. Miller of Cum
berland that the law of 1908 is not diff
ferent from the old tax law in this re-
spect and that the exemption allowed
fremen in the act is unconstitutional.
The second bill on which the opinion
OF the attorney general was asked was
that Of Assemblyman Dalrymple of
Passaic, and this Measure the attorney
general has also decided against.
1t is believed that only a constitu-
t1onal amendment will restore the tax
exemption formerly allowed unless the
decision of the supreme court on the
question should be reversed by the
sourt of errors and appeals.
Proper Treatment of Pneumonia.