The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-10

upon appncarion IN writing e1rner by
the mayor or the common council u
suant to a majority vote thereof to the
| judge Of the court of common pleas in
the county In which the city or town is
situated. Nothing in the substitute in
terferes with the continuance in Office
of any board of excise.
Senator Wakelee by request intro
duced a supplement to the practice act
which provides that in trial of causes
counsel shall agree to a statement of
facts and submit the same to the trial 4
judge in the form of briefs, and the
judge, with recommendations as to any
question Of law arising, shall transmit
the same to juries. Senator Brown(in IN
troduced a bill amending the mechan-
ics' lien law by comforting Jurisdiction
on circuit courts as well as supreme
court justices. A bill by Mr.. Bradley
permits stenographic statements of
trial Of use in district courts to be
used on appeal under direction of the
trial judge.
Canal Abandonment Bill.
The bill to abandon the Morris canal
and sell the waterway has been intro
duced by Mr.. Dufield.
Senator McKee's joint resolution to
codify the laws bearing upon fishing
in the waters off the Jersey coast is
meeting with considerable favor. Com
plants are being continually made by
the hand line fishermen along the coast
that the fish pounds which are located
just off the beach from Cape May to
Sandy Hook are driving the fish away
from those waters. The fight between
the hook and line fishermen and the
pound net owners has peer going on
for years, and it may be that the COM
mission which Senator Mckee proposes
will do much to adjust the matter.
There was a brief hearing Monday
afternoon given to those who opposed
and favored the amendments to the
tenement house bill. Secretary Charles
J.. Allen by figures refuted the state
ment that there had been a falling off
in the building Of small tenements
owing to the stringent provisions of the
bill. He showed the contrary to be the
fact. A number appeared who favored
the amendments, claiming a three fam
lily building should not be included in
the tenement classification.
h Excise Question.
The excise question iss just now the
paramount one in many cities of the
state. 1t is ever a vexed problem to
deal with in any community. Camden
and Trenton have probably found as
near a satisfactory solution as is at
tainable. After a trial by the courts,
by common council and a commission
legislation was obtained for an cleo
tive board of five members. If the
board fails in any respect to give salts
faction, it is displaced by the popular
vote, and, being thus directly amenable
to the people, it is guarded in it's action.
OF course there is and always will be
some complaint so long as licenses are
granted, but the public in nine cases
out of ten, 1t Is contended, is sure to
render a just verdict.
AT a meeting of the joint committee
on appropriations held early in the
week many applications We're made for
additional appropriations by the differ
ent institutions of the state. No ac-
ton was taken by the committee ex-
cept On those appropriations required
by statute referring to the attorney
generals department and the supreme
court clerks Office. The state reforma-
tory at Railway asked for 100000, in
addition RI itc rnnt1Iar ~ 4; ion |
for the purpose of building a new wing.
Insane Hospital Wants Money.
The State Hospital For the Insane in
this city requested $780, 900 additional
for two new wings. The pilot commits
sion applied for $1,000, which is double
the usual appropriation of that body.
Captain Oscar H. Condict, commander
of Battery A of East Orange, asked for
$1,000 to enable the battery to pay for
its new armory, erected at its own eX-
pense. Rev. M. T. Lamb, superintend-
ent Of the New Jersey Children's Aid
society, applied for $500 to pay a
mortgage on some private property
used for charitable purposes. The CON-
mittee decided it had no power to act
In this matter.
Now that the court Of errors has re-
fused to interfere in the case of Mrs.
Annie Valentino of Bergen county, SEN
fenced to be hanged for the murder of
her rival, Rosa Salza, and also in view
of the dreadful bungle at the recent ex-
ecution of Frank Raisinger in Bridge
ton, it is believed there will be a fresh
agitation for the abolition of capital
punishment in this state, and, it is
thought, many will favor Mr.. Colby's
proposition to do away with the death
penalty. 1t has been many years since
a woman has been hanged in New Jer-
sey, and there is a general feeling of
repugnance against carrying out her
sentence.