The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-12-28
Senator Minturn Proposes
10 Give All Convict Made
Goods to Charitable Insti-
tutions
LEGISLATION FOR MOSQUITOES
STATE ENToMoLoGIsT is AFTER
THE LITTLE PESTS WITH 4
SHARP BILL - UNDERTAKERs
WANT BOARD OF EXAMINERS.
special to ..rhe Jersey city News

Especial to 1.-The Jersey City News.')
TRENTON, Dec. %, 1905.-The date
of the opening of the Legislature draws
near 1t has been announced by the
| leaders of the Colby movement that they
propose to do all in their power to have
the House get down to real work at the
very beginning of the session and not
waste SO much time in doing nothing, as
/ has been the general practice heretofore.
Even if this should be done, it is pre-
| dicted that the session will be one of nm
usual length, owing to the number of inn
portant measures which will be brought
| forward
In the first place there are bills for
the carrying out of the principles of the
platform upon which the Colby move
ment won such notable victory in Essex
and upon which the Essex and Hudson
members of the Legislature are now at
work Then there are the measures on
equal taxation and limited franchises
/ which the State House intends to offer
| because of an aroused public opinion, and
| no hint as to the details of these bills
can be obtained from the pewers that be
at the State Capitol
| Gi-,fr To- nf
Hudson, expects to introduce bin which
viii affect all articles made by prisoners
! in this State. Instead of these articles
being sold Senator Minturn proposes in
his b.ll to have them turned over to the
various recognized charitable organiza-
tions throughout the State. For years
past the practice of marketing nTislE
made goods mas been very dfste.sl 70
organized labor in this as well as other
States.
Senator Minturn said yesterday he has
had the introduction of such a measure
/ in mind since the last session of the Leg
/ islature. He is prominently identified and
/ actively interested in a number of Hud-
son County charitable organizations, and
by his association in the work being ear
ried on by him he is conversant with the
situation.
The Senator has the support of num-
ber of Organizations, Oh and also that of
Mrs. Caroline B. Alexander. of Hoboken,
who is interested in phi,anthropic work
in various ways.
In explaining his proposed bill. Senator
| A1inthrn declared that the articles could
be distributed from the prisons to the
various charitable organizations in the
State having proper credentials, and in
| that way the poor of the communities
could be reached al a small degree of ex-
perse.
The Senator contends that it is neces-
sary to give employment to prisoners, and
that his measure will accomplish a two
fold result In the first place, he says,
| il would protect organized labor, and sec
ondly, would save considerable expense
| TO cities and towns that are now obliged
to purchase clo, hing, shoes and other ar
/ ticles for distribution among the poor.
/ Professor John Smith, of Rutgers Col
lege, State entomologist, said yesterday
| that he would prepare bill to be intro
duced into the Legislature asking for an
| appropriation of $35OO0O to be used in
1 driving mosquitoes out of the State.
j There is now law on the statute
| books which gives municipalit es the au-
! thority to make an appropriations to
/ eradicate tie pest. but SO far only a
/ small sum has been put out by munich
/ pal;t'es for #his work.
Professor Smiths idea of rdding the
! community of the pest IS in draining
the marsh land and thus depriying the
mosquitoes of their breeding nlaces.
The New Jersey State Funeral Direc-
tors Association are in the field already
with their bill providing for the appoint
/ ment of board of undertakers and ON
balmers to examine and license all per-
/ sons hereafter desiring to follow the
business of disposing Of the dead in New
/ Jersey A similar bill was introduced
j last year but met with objections which
proved fatal to it. Chief among these
were the protests that the board was too
! small and deprived SOME Of the smaller
1 sections Of representation in it. and that
it took from the Beard of Health func-
tons which properly belonged to that
body. In order to meet these objections
/ the new bill provides that the board
/ shall consist of one representative from
/ each Congressional district in the State
i and a member of tne State Board Of
Health as a member-at-lsrge. The pro
| posed law is not retroactive and all who
are now legitimately carrying on busi-
ness after registering with the board as
provided in the act. must be 80 recog-
| nized.