Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-03-29
APPROPRIATE
$5,OOO,OOO.
State Expenses Will Be Larger
This Year Than Ever Before
States Growth.
Get READY To CLOSE.
Speaker Robbins Attacks Judges Bill
Declaring Increase of Salary Is Tn
warranted, and Said He Had Been
Approached by Judges in Regard to
HiII-Appropriates $4,000 To Buy
Haddoniicld Revolutionary Relic.


Haddoniicld Revolutionary Relic.
TRENTON, Mar 29.-Notwith-
standing the plea of economy which
Governor Stokes has been making to
the legislature from the first day Of
the session it seems likely that the
appropriations this year will exceed
those of last year by several hundred
thousand dollars, due in part to the
natural growth Of the state and in
part to some extraordinary cXpendi-
lures which seem TO be unavoidable.
The totals in the regular and the sup
Elemental appropriation bills are ex-
pectcd to aggregate $1,000, 900.
Among the extraordinary cxpcndi-
lures will be $275. 900 for a new nor
NAL school in North Jersey, 100000
to carry the road department over nm
| til the regular appropriation of $3.50
600 becomes available (due TO Il
change of system by the Department.
| 100000 for the enlargement of the
state house; 100000 for the en-
]
tory; $4,000 for the jamestown ex-
position exhibit. and $4,000 for en-
larging the soldiers home, at Vine
( land.
The sum of SIS, 900 is desired for
building u reformatory for women
! but ii is doubtful if this will be grant
cd as there are comparatively few
women prisoners in the state. and
! the administration leaders have for
Il number of years refused to stand
for this expenditure.
Nearly all of the state departments
will ask for more money but these
will be kept down to the lowest cbb
Judges Salary Bill Defeated.
The sensation of the session yes
terday was the attack on the judges
salary bill by Speaker Robbins The
bill proposes to increase the pay of
circuit court judges from $500 to
$4,000 year and when it was called
up the speaker left the chair to make
a vigorous speech against it. He said
the increase was entirely unwarrant-
ed and also stated that he had been
approached by certain judges and
charged with using his position as
speaker TO hold up the bill This he
resented with considerable vehe-
mencc and he also charged that last
year when a bill was before the leg
iSlature to increase the compensation
of supreme court judges he was TAX
en- to task because he opposed the
bill. The bill he opposed, he said,
would have increased the salaries of
the judges $4,000 year. A com
promise was reached which increas-
ed the salaries 81 200 a year Mr.
Robbins further said that many OF
the lawyers in the house seemed to
be afraid to oppose these bills for
fear of offending judges before whom
they would afterwards be Obliged to
appear.
The speech of Mr.. Robbins created
a mild sensation and resulted in the
defeat of the bill, which received on
| ly twelve Affirmative votes.
Bills Passed and Defeated.
The senate passed the house meas
. j
Lchigh Valley railroad company to
determine the states equity in the
i Morris canal and also the senate bill
reducing the pawnbroker rate of in
| tercst to | per cent. per month.
Among the bills defeated was the
plumbers license bill, defeated for
the third time this session.
Tho house reconsidered the bill to
prohibit night work by children in
mercantile establishments and passed
it after South Jersey assemblymen
had been assured it did not apply TO
industrial establishments and would
not affect the glass works, where
BOYS are required in the night shifts.
F, Because of the refusal of both the
house and senate TO concur In amend
ments to the bill fixing the season for
killing deer the measure has been
eliminated and d new one will be in
troduced.
The assembly rcdistricting bill was
reported in the house and will he
passed in order TO get the question
before the court of errors, the su-
preme court having declared it un-
constitutional,
I The senate passed Assemblyman
Scovel's bill appropriating $4,000
/ for the preservation of "the Old Tav-
4 ern" at Haddonfield. the first home of
/ the New Jersey Legislature and rel
ic of colonial days.
The senate received from the gov
crnor the nomination of John /. h.
Kelley as prosecutor of Warren couu-
| ty. The senate passed the bill MAX
ing il a msdemeanor for any di-
rector or employc of bank or trust
company to knowingly overdraw his
account, to convert bank money To
his own use or to make false entries
in the books of the bank
Both senate and house adjourned