The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09

uoem.) is to prevent the incorporation
of trusts in restraint of trade by requir-
ing that applicants for Incorporation
shall make sworn statements that such
incorporation is not entered into for
such purpose in this or other states or
pooling receipts of other companies or
~contravening the interstate
laws. Affidavit must also set forth that
the applicants are the real i%ncorpora-
tors and not substitutes.
Senator Minturn presented a bill
amending the act pertaining to insur-
ance companies. The bill requires that
such companies shall make sworn
statements to the commissioner of
banking and insurance showing bust
ness for year and condition at close of
year, the statement to be filed in Jan
uary.
Letter From Mayor Mcclellan.
Governor Stokes in a brief message
to the senate submitted a letter from
Mayor Mcclellan of New York request
ing his cooperation in an effort to OBJ
tain a modification of the law of New
JERSEY WHICH DGOlllDltS lu6 safe Ol wa
tiers from sources within the state to
concerns or corporations outside the
state. 1t was Mayor McClellan's idea
to obtain water for Staten Island from
New Jersey.
Governor Stokes in his message to the
legislature, in reply to Mayor McClel-
lan's appeal, stated that under existing
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present for the request and that there
is now litigation in New Jersey on that
question. The senate passed a resolu-
ton to the effect that both bodies of
the legislature be supplied with what
ever communication may transpire be-
tween the governor and Mayor McCiel-
Ian on this subject.
The house passed Senator Hillery's
measure appropriating $1,000 for cler-
ical assistants in the state comptroller's
office.
There was a heated discussion on the
insurance question in the house when
Assemblyman Miller of Cumberland Of
fered a resolution. which was carried,
that the committee on banks and insNr-
ance have printed a thousand copies of
the testimony taken in the New York
insurance investigation. The resolution
also provided that ten copies of the en-
tire testimony taken last year be pro-
cured. Two copies are to be placed in
the state library, and the rest are for
the committee on banking and insur-
ance of the house and for the judiciary
committee of the senate After the de-
bate had lasted a long time the resolu-
ton was adopted.
Automobile Hearing.
Friends and opponents of the Freling-
huysen automobile bill We're at the
s~tatehouse Tuesday. Charles e. Case of
Somerville presented a number of ar
guments as to why the bill should be
passed. He said its provisions were in
clined to be drastic, but such legisla-
ton, he declared, was necessary in
view of the increase in automobiles and
the lack of enforcement of existing au-
tomobile laws. John A. Murray of New
York said the sport of automobiling
should be subject to reasonable regula-
tons. Colonel Edwards. executive Off
Ger of the S. p. c.. A. of Newark, also
favored the bill. A number of automo-
bile men, headed by Professor j. e.
Gill of Trenton, secretary of the Associ-
ated Automobile Clubs of New Jersey.
asked the committee to adjourn the
hearing on the autoists' side of the case
for two weeks. and this was done.
The state brewers had their innings
when the house committee on munich
pal corporations heard the opposition to
the Miller local option bill Monday aft
ernoon. Ex-Judge Skinner and William
Foster of Newark, representing the
State Brewers association, appeared
and gave lengthy arguments why the
bill should not pass, declaring that the
advocates of the measure were seeking
to make New Jersey a prohibition state
and not fighting for home rule, as they
had declared.
Another hearing was given Tuesday.
There was but n speaker against the
bill, while a delegation of ministers
from all over the state was present to
urge the committee to report the bill ia
vOrably. John o. II. Pitney of Newark
claimed that it would be depriving the
people of what they want, and have a
right to have, to take from them a bev-
erage. Mr.. Pitney said that Newark
was made up of the cream of the for
eign element, who are used to taking
their beer, and to deprive them of this
would be making game of the so called
freedom Of America.
The friends of the bill said no man
was being deprived of buying his liquor
when necessary. Their main argument
was that it was the defeat of the same
measure about twelve years ago that
beat the Democratic party in New Jer-
sey, and the same fate would meet the
Republican party now if they defeated
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