Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-03-31

Managers Of the New Jersey sanitarlum
For Tuberculous Diseases. Frank L. Shep-
pard and A. J.. Beavers.
Member of Passaic valley investigation
commission, William Mckenzie.
Members of board of managers OF geo.
logical survey, third district, M. d. Valen-
tine; eighth district. Joseph r. Mum:
members at large Alfred A. Woodruff
and Thomas W.. Synnott. :
State Home For Boys Gervas Ely and
DR.. Frank M. Donohue.
Board of medical examiners. Armin
Uebelacker William P. Watson and VIII
liam II. Ships.
The measure providing for the APP
pointment of FIVE river flood district
commissioners for the relief of future.
flood conditions in the Passaic valley
has passed both houses with all refer
ence to state aid eliminated
Legislative Prize Fight a Draw.
The usual resolutions of thanks to the
press and to the officers and clerks of
the legislature were passed by both
houses. Much amusement was created
by a resolution to the effect that Mr..
Duffield of Essex and Mr. Swack
hamer of Somerset, instead of set
Ting their differences in debate, be
brought before the bar of the house
and be required to adjust all differ
ences by the. manly art of self de-
Tense. The two members were brought
forward BY their admiring friends and
their hands were incased in boxing.
gloves. Then the opponents shook
hands aud Assemblyman De L;izier,
the referee, declared. the contest a
draw.
Scarcely was the ink from the gov
ernor's pen dry on the bill creating a
legal bureau with the attorney gen
eral at the head and providing for
an assistant attorney general than
John l.. Swayze. private secretary
to Governor Murphy. was appointed to
the new position created. The salary
is $1,000 a year Mr.. Swayze will as
sumo his new duties early in April.
1t has been discovered this week that
the legislature before adjourning
neglected to incorporate an enacting
clause in the incidental appropriation
bill, and the result will be that all the
officers of the last legislature, except
ing those provided for by statute, will
be compelled TO wait until after the
Fourth of July for their compensation.
All bills which do not specify when
they will take effect become operative
July and the incidental appropriation
bill, as one of this kind, must take that
course. The bill amounts to $22,6T5
and includes the pay Of the ministers
who opened the house of the legis
lature with prayers, a number of door
and gallery keepers, committee clerks
and other minor officers.
Nothing was done by the legislature
as to the resolution of Mr.. Scovel of
Camden calling for an investigation of
the state prisons management. The
resolution was referred to the commit
tee on municipal corporal tons, of which
Mr. SScovel is chairman 1t was re-
ported that the threatened inquiry was
used as a club to~make the opponents
to the bill providing that all hangings
in the state shall be performed at the
state prison cease their opposition to
the measure. At any rate the Hang
town. bill, as it is called, after being
lost in the senate was reconsidered and
passed, though it was promptly vetoed
by Governor Murphy.
Important Measures Which Failed.
Among the important matters con-
sidered and killed by the legislature
just ended were the state military bill,
the robin killing bill, the meteorological
laboratory bill, the Passaic river COM
mission loan bill and the measure
known as the steel corporation bill.
The Morris canal abandonment project
was laid over
After the close of the session Coy
ernor Murphy gave an interview to the
newspaper correspondents, in which he
said that he believed that the results
attained have been, on the whole, sat
isfactory to the people. He, however.
deprecated the practice of allowing the
early days of the session TO slip by
without doing much and piling most of
the work ON the last few days. He
thought the legislature should have
taken up the Morris canal abandon
ment question and said that the scheme
was so intelligent, fair and wise, first
to the owners of the canals, second to
that section of the state through which
the canal runs and third to the state,
that the plan was not only without inn
portant criticism, but had met with
general commendation He also re-
garded as one of the failures of the
session the refusal of the legislature to
respond to the demand to prohibit the
shooting of pigeons from traps.
Turning to the successes of the SEES
sion, the governor said he was pleased
with the law and appropriation for the
tuberculosis sanitarium. The appro-
priation was not as large rs he had
hoped for, but it was sufficient. He
was glad also of the passage of the
factory inspection law, law which
he thought so fair that labor organ
izations, owners Of factories and the
av,ooY,lo oar, a..alIu rnea0niznd If &C nor