The Penn's Grove record., 1904-02-26

tons OF certain city ordinances. In
assault and battery cases and petty
larceny cases in these cities all the DO
lice justices do now is to hold the ac-
cused for the grand jury. The new
bill, if passed, would probably reduce
the work of the grand jury in many
counties about one-half.
The demands for a new normal
school for north Jersey have become
insistent, and it is believed there will
be no further delay in providing the in
stitution. 1t was arranged last year
that part of the appropriation should
be made this year, and this arrange
ment will doubtless be carried out. The
location of the new school by the law
passed last winter is left with the state
board of education, and Essex county
seems to be the place favored.
The insistence of Mr. Dalrymple Of
Passaic upon the rule adopted early in
the session without opposition, con-
corning the printing Of amended bills
in which the former law is put in
brackets and the new matter is under
scored, is likely to create a storm late
in the session when the delay and con-
fusion incident to the enforcement of
this rule will become more manifest.
While there may be some hitch as to
the practical carrying out of this rule
there is no doubt as to the sincerity of
Mr.. Dalrymple's motive in asking it's
enforcement. He points out that the
rule if obeyed will greatly help the
members to understand what they are
voting on in the way of amended bills
and so, he asserts, lessen the danger of
mistakes and the consequent necessity
for extra sessions.
Proposed Election Law changes
There is a movement on foot whose
object is to have the machinery of
elections, now in charge of the county
and municipal clerks, taken from these
officials and placed in charge of the
county board. At a meeting of the
members of all the county boards ar
ranged to be held in Newark at the
end of the week, a plan is to be made
whereby, through legislative action,
the end stated may be obtained. This
scheme of Capitalization embraces the
placing in the hands of the county
boards of elections the printing of the
ballots and distribution of all station
cry used in connection with elections,
the selection of polling places, custody
of the ballot boxes and voting machine,
which shall include the supervision of
their erection and operation during
elections, and their storage, insurance
and care between elections. 1t is also
contemplated by his plan to have
certificates of nomination for all Of
fees voted for at primary elections
filed with the county boards, instead
of with the municipal clerks.
1t is asserted that the present system
of dividing the responsibility is toe
cumbersome and complicated and that
the proposed legislation will secure a
more simple system of operation be-
sides materially reducing the cost OF
holding elections.
New Militia Bill introduced.
By the illness last week of Assembly.
man Colby of Essex, the Republican
leader of the assembly vas prevented
from introducing the new state mill
tary bill accepting the Dick law passed
last winter by congress and making
changes in the present rules governing
the national guard. This measure was
introduced this week. Among other
things the new bill requires the guards
men to swear allegiance to the United
States as well as to the state, and by SO
doing they will be placed at the dis,
posal of the president to be sent out
side the state, If necessary. Many new
commissioned officers are made in the
different departments of the guard, and
the governor will have a staff of five
colonies whose commissions will ex.
pire with the term of Office of the ex.
ecutive. An entirely new feature is
the creation of q reserved militia, which
will consist of all ablebodied citizens
between eighteen and forty-five who
are not exempted from military duty
A five days camp or practice march is
provided for, and the pay will remain
about the same, ranging from $1.50 a
day for a private to So a day for the
major general.
Child Labor Bill.
The south Jersey glass manufactur
ers are preparing to bring all theil
forces of opposition to bear on the new
child labor bill, and they have ever
gone so far as to say that the passage
of the bill would compel them to close
down their factories here and locate in
the west, where power is cheaper and
labor laws more satisfactory. These
glass manufacturers have many objec.
tons to make to the new bill, but the
provision most ~strenuously protested
against is that which prohibits the EN-.
ployment of children under sixteen
years of age between the hours Of G
o'clock in the evening and 6 o'clock in
the morning. This provision, the glass
men say, would be a great detriment
to their business. Those who advocate
the bill, however, say that this pro.
vision and the bill in general are no
more harmful to the glass factories
than to other lines of industry willing
to accept the measure. The advocates
of the bill do not believe its passage
will drive the glass factories out of the
state.
There are two bills before the legisla.
ture prohibiting "land sharks" from
evading the present law against usury
through exorbitant charges for "fees''
and "bonds" and for recording chattel
mortgages or from demanding a larger
amount of money than the sum of the
original loan with the added legal rate
of interest. The bill of Assemblyman
Birkholz on this subject is similar to
the measure now pending at Albany, N.
Y, and would make the law on the
subject practically uniform in the two
states. The other bill along the same
line was introduced by Assemblyman
Duff of Hudson county.