The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-01-22
PERKINS TRIES 70
HURRY BILLS
Leader ofthe House Shows a
Good Example In Trying
to Push Legislation
TUESDAY NIGHT SESSIONS
HEARING ON EQUAL TAXATION
WILL TAKE PLACE ON WE'D
NEsDAY AFTERNOON.
Special to ..The Jersey City News,

TRENTON, January %, 1905,-Both
branches of the Legislature win recon
vene tonight to begin the third week Of
the session. Thus far nothing in the line
of law-malking has been accomplished by
either House except to receive a raft of
bills which are of paramount importance
to the people of the State and refer them
to various committees for constellation
Tonight's session will probably be no
exception. The greater part will be.
taken up by the reception Of bills and
after they are placed on the calendar
and referred to the committees, adjourn=.
ment will be taken until tomorrow
morning.
Failure to settle down to business and
begin the grind of lawma making is not due
to the refusal of the members to work
but rather to the refusal Of the commit
tees to which all bills are referred, to
make report on them Until this is done
the legislative machinery is at stand
still.
Sometimes the chairman will hold up
bills until the last two weeks Of the ses
sion before allowing report to oe made
and sometimes he viii hold them up in
do6,;+olxr I,i,a III, ;,,,oo ', Il. yapa,o Ilx- :,
power in himself and his colleagues on
the committee seldom know when he is
ready to report a measure until he an
nounces it. There is no redress except
an appeal to the House upon "a hours
notice, and this generally gives the chair
man ample time to secure enough votes
to sustain his action. 1t is a rare in
stance where a committee or its chair
man is not sustained in holding up bill.
Leader Perkins in the House and Sen
ator Hillery, leader of the administra-
ton forces in the Senate, are working
hand in hand to induce the committees
to consider and>report on all Bills as
promptly as they receive them.
Leader Perkins is chairman of the Ju-
dietary Committee, and with view of
inducing the chairmen of other commit
tees to follow his example, he has issued
call for meeting of his committee for
tomorrow morning for the purpose of,
giving the advocates Of, equal taxation
an opportunity to be heard on the three
equal tax measures introduced in the
House. Tomorrow afternoon his COM
mittee will give public hearing on the
repeal of the Hillery maximum tax rate
law, which measure was introduced by
Assemblyman Heck, Of Bergen County,
in the House, last Monday night.
The Judiciary Committee will give an
other hearing on the equal tax bills on
Wednesday afternoon, and if the argu-
ments are not concluded another meet
ing will be given the following day
Thursday.
Thus it will be observed that Leader
Perkins is losing no time in setting an
example for other committees. He is
anxious that the committees shall be re-
lieved of the important bills as speedily
as possible, so that they can be debdted
on the floor of the House before the rush
for adjournment.
In the Senate, Leader Hillery purpos-
es to advocate the holding of Tuesday
night sessions in his efforts to clear the
Senate calendar. He believes that the
committees should meet in the after
Moons and report the bills for the night
session. The holding Of night sessions in
the Senate is something that has not oc-
cured in many years. Heretofore the
only night session was that held on Mon
day night.