The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-04-10
NEW JERSEY
LEGISLATURE.
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block Lost.
Amendment No. II, which abolishes
the back room in saloons, was one OF
the principal objections offered by the
friends of the bill. Mr.. Hutchinson
spoke for his original bill, which, he
said, would be absolutely nullifed by
the committees amendments. Mr.. Min
turn said that as the amendment did
not do away with the back room he
was not in favor Of it. When a man
leaves a saloon to which is annexed a
secluded apartment he cannot say to
himself that he has been in a place
where virtue has not been gripped and
prostituted Mr.. Avis, after Mr.. Min
turns speech, so eliminated parts of
the amendment as to have it provide
that there should be no obstruction to
clear view from the interior of the
entire bar. The one room clause was
accepted. The amendment itself then
came up and was adopted by vote of
10 to s.
Judges to Grant Licenses.
The committees twelfth and thir-
teenth amendments putting the license
granting power into the hands of
judges of the court Of common pleas
in municipalities where excise commits
sioners are appointed and terminating
the office terms of present commission
ers on July next were considered to-
gether. MIR. Colby declared that the
amendment, If passed, would drag the
Judiciary into the saloon. Mr.. Avis re-
turned that in his county the judge of
the common pleas grants the licenses
and that there is now no county In the
state that can boast better control of
excise matters than can Gloucester.
The amendments were adopted. Mr..
Minturn introduced an amendment pro-
viding that an applicant for license
to sell liquors must be citizen Of the
United States and must have been for
at least one year resident of the
place where he desires to use such
license. The amendment was adopted
unanimously. The bill was ordered to
third reading.
Mr. Hutchinson's bill, No. 305, limit
ing the number of licenses to one for
every 200 of population-the act to
take effect Jan. 1, 1907-went to third
reading after the senate had adopted
an amendment by Mr.. Lee excluding
seaboard cities from the provisions of
the BILL
The senate passed Mr.. Hillery's three
bills respecting service of circuit court
judges. One of the bills empowers the
governor to appoint two judges to hold
court in the absence of a supreme
court justice. The other enables a SUI
preme court justice to refer to a cir
cult judge for trial suits brought in the
supreme court, and the third provides
that two or more judges of the circuit
court may sit in the same county at
the same time. Mr.. Nfinturn's bill pro-
viding for an additional common pleas
judge in counties of more than 100000
inhabitants was also passed.
Senators Crosse and Minturn were
appointed members of a joint commit
tee to urge on congress the Importance
of improving the New Jersey harbors.
The senate in executive session con-
frmed the appointments Of John T.
Blair Reilly as prosecutor of the pleas
of Warren county and William w.
Watson as judge of the district court
Of Passaic.
New Bills In the Senate.
The following bills were introduced
in the senate:
By Mr. McKee-Amends act for the
regulation and Incorporation Of insur
ance companies.
BY Mr. Hutchinson Respects rail-
road crossings and provides for the
of public funds for the
alteration, abolition and regulation of
grade crossings.
BY Mr.. Minturn-P Provides that all
had as well as any Judge
ment rendered by any board of educa
ton, superintendent or other authority
in connection with the suspension, dis
missal, retirement or reduction in sal
airy of public schoolteachers in this
state, shall be renewable by any jus
tice of the supreme court in sum
mary way.
Governor Stokes has placed his veto
W MI. I1SCh piii, WHICH lOOh SSl tetAh
rights concerning children from the
hands of overseers of the poor and
gave them to charitable institutions.
The governor held that the giving to
charitable organizations of such rights
was bad principle, especially when
The fines recovered by proceedings UNI
der such rights went to the organlza-
lions.
A bill introduced by Mr.. Scott pro
vides that any suspension, dismissal,
or reduction In salary OF
public schoolteachers shall be reyiewa-
BILE by any supreme court justice in a
summary way.
House Passes Perkins Bill.
The house on Tuesday passed the
Perkins bill, one of a series of railroad
taxation bills. This bill provides for
the distribution of revenue raised by
railroad taxation under the equal tax
bill recently passed,
The bill passed by the house today
provides that a tax assessed on railroad
and canal property after deducting
therefrom one-half of 1 per centum Of
the total valuation of the property on.
which said tax shall be assessed, the
balance shall be devoted to the malnte-
nance and support of the public schools
and shall be apportioned annually on or
before Feb. / among the several coun-
ties by the state comptroller
The house passed the bill providing
for state reformatory for women aft
49, r..... !. $1,000, ia lA.r AI1,ccsa.cs