Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-03-23
JERSEY LEGISLATURE
Mill Grinds Faster as End oil
Session Draws Near.
NEW ANTIcORPORATION MEASURE
Bill Introduced by senator Minturn
Would Prohibit Interownership of
stock by Dinerent Companies With
out Legislative Sanction.
Especial Correspondence. /

Trenton. March 22.-With the end OF
the session in sight the grind of the
legislative mill continues to increase.
Many new measures We're introduced
early this week which will never get
out of committee. unless. of course.
some few of extreme Importance. This
week has been hard one on the legis-
lators. and next week will be just as
busy
Following his bill TO prevent the
chartering of companies with dunn
my incorporators. Senator Minturn of
Hudson presented another anticor
poration measure. Lit is entitled An
! act to prohibit the purchase and hold
ing of capital stock of Il corporation or
! any part thereof by another corpora
ton without legislative sanction. The
! bin provides that lit shall not be law
ful for any corporation created under
the laws of this state to purchase and
hold the capital stock Of any other cor
poration without first making applica-
ton by petition to the legislature and
obtaining legislative consent by joint
resolution thereto" For violations of
the proposed act the offending com
pany may be proclaimed in the manner
in which corporations are now pro
! claimed for nonpayment of taxes. The
bill is likely to have difficulty in both
/ houses.
Passaic and Essex members engaged
in an encounter over Assemblyman
Lehlbachs bill. which permits justices
of the peace in cities to act summary
4 in cases where the defendant is charg-
1 ed with cruelty to animals. Mr. Ma
! rell in Il warm speech opposed the Civ
I ing of justices of the peace any more
/ jurisdiction than they now have. He
! said. Any lawyer who has any
thing to do with a justice of the peace
finds that they are not usually to be
depended upon Our liberty is not safe
in the hands of justices of the peace
in the cities; in the country the peace
justices are generally all right He
also said that the bill might leave room
for Matchmaking schemes. After Il
lengthy debate the bill was lost-29 to
20. The bill increasing the salary of
the Jersey City police force was re
committed on motion of Mr.. Scott.
As to Juries.
Senator Wakelee presented a bill
concerning the selection. drawing and
summonimg of grand and petit iulies
The measure provides that in counties
of more than 100000 population the
justice of the supreme court holding
the circuit shall appoint a jury commits
sion consisting of three residents of
the county to hold Office for three
years, but one shall be appointed for
one year, another for two and the third
for three years They are to receive
not more than 5000 annually and may
employ assistants The salaries are to
be paid by the county when approved
by the supreme court Justice The bill
provides that each jury commission
shall keep Il jury list of at least COG
names of persons liable for jury duty
in the county and qualified to act prop
erly and intelligently as Jurors. togeth-
err with their residences, places of bust
ness and occupations.
The jury commission shall prepare a
grand jury list of forty-eight names
and shall submit the same to the jus
tice of the supreme court at least TWEEN
ty days before any grand jury shall be
required to serve. The justice shall
strike twenty-four names from the
grand jury list. and the persons whose
names remain on the list shall he sum
moned for service as grand jurors
Each jury commission shall prepare Il
petit jury list for each panel of petit
jurors as may he required by the coun-
ty courts.
The measure also provides that nc
name shall be placed on the grand
jury list more than once in one year
and no name shall be placed on a petit
jury list more than once in one year,
also no person who has served on a
grand or petit jury shall be again
summoned for any jury duty within
one year
Bills Passed by Senate.
Among the bills passed by the senate
were the following. BY Assemblyman
Robbins. appropriating 50 per cent of
the state school tax, approXimatine
$1,000,000, out of the state fund for the
purpose of reducing the state school
tax; Mr.. Colby's bill, permitting coun-
| cimen at large in towns to be known
as the mayor drawn for towns where
the two officials are practically onel;
the bill providing that in municipal
courts clerk may in the absence of
the judge sign papers designed to meet
a condition in Englewood. Bergen coun-
I ty): Senator Hutchinson's bill, to sim
plify and improve the present methods
/ of obtaining census records this year
/ and every ten years hereafter the bill
requiring the licensing body III first
class cities to publish for five days in
lspril the names and places of appli-