The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-13

BY Mr.. hfvfnsAFixing Tie dpening
for the rabbit and squirrel season on
the second Thursday after election day.
bishops Bill Amended.
The senate adopted an amendment Of
fered by Senator Hillery to senate bill
305. a companion to the Bishops bill,
changing the measure so that it shall
not apply to towns of less than 1900
inhabitants. The bill provides for one
license, to every 200 inhabitants and
places appointments of excise commits
sioners in the hands of the court of
common pleas in cities where excise
boards are now appointed. 1t has been
seaboard cities or towns or townships
along the coast. The bill as amended
was passed Tuesday.
Mr.. Heck's bill requiring ferryboats
to have toilets was loaded with amend
ments Monday evening and killed. At
the Tuesday morning session the vote
by which the bill was lost was recon
sidered and the bill passed.
The senate by a vote of Is to 0 pass
ed Hillery's new maximum tax bill,
with a repeater attached repeating the
present maximum tax law.
Senator Hillery's joint resolution for
a commission to investigate the subject
of municipal ownership Of lighting
plants went through the senate.
In executive session the senate con-
frmed the appointment Of Ex-Governor
Foster NJ. Voorhees, as judge of the
circuit court; Luther M. Halsey, men,
Der of the board of managers of the
State hospital at Trenton, vice Benja-
min W. Andrews, and Richard H. Will
son, member of the board Of managers
of the Railway reformatory, reap
pointed.
Governor Stokes on Tuesday sprung
a surprise on the legislature when he
sent a special message to both houses
relative to the many bills concerning
municipal ownership Of public utility
franchises, the. diversity of their pro-
visions and the general lack of uni
formity in them. Although many Of
the bills have passed, only one of the
number has as vet reached the gov
ernor's hands. and he felt that it would
not be the part of wisdom for him to
approve of more than n IN account
of the discord of provisions.
Assemblyman James NJ. E. Hildreth
of Cape May county, recently appoint
ed Judge of the court of common pleas
in Cape May county, resigned Tuesday
as a member of the assembly to go on
the bench at Cape May courthouse.
One Saloon For 2OO Persons.
The senate passed Senator Hutchin-
sons jury reform bill, providing for
the selection of persons qualified for
petit jury duty by the judge of the
court of common pleas from a list pre-
pared by the sheriff of the county. The
right of challenge may be made to any
person who has served four terms.
The senate also passed senate bill
305, which limits the number of liquor
licenses to one to every 200 inhabitants.
The provisions of the bill eliminates
seaside resorts, boroughs, towns and
hSbIpS anu al luuliNIpuiitiNS VI toS
than 5000 population.
The Frelinghuysen automobile bill,
with the house judiciary committee
amendments, was considered in the
house at length. Two amendments
which do not change the sense of the
bill as approved by the senate were
adopted without discussion. Assem-
blyman Hoagland's amendment Great
ing seven automobile inspectors who
shall have police power was adopted
after a great deal of debate. The COM
mittee had suggested that there be no
state inspectors with police power, con-
tending that the local police forces
were sufficient to enforce the law.
The committee amendment authoriz-
ing the commissioner of motor vehicles
his deputies in any municipality to
grant licenses and giving the commits
sioner power to revoke licenses of those
who have violated the provisions of the
auto act was adopted.
There was no objection to the com
lulll0C duleIlullclL pTOHfDllluS Tue
granting of licenses to persons under
sixteen years of age as automobile
drivers and prescribing that applicants
for chauffeurs' licenses shall be ex-
amined as to their knowledge of the
mechanism of the car which they in
tend to operate.
The automobile bill as passed by the
house provides that no person under
sixteen can be registered, and thirty
horsepower cars and less must pay a
fee Of 81 a year, with So for higher
power cars.
The speed limit is restricted to one
mile in sever minutes at corners and
one mile in five minutes in cities and
twenty miles an hour in open country.
Doctors and military officers are ex-
empted from the speed limit. If the
law is signed it goes into effect July l.