, 1906-02-14

0nd district. JaIneS Is. the
Fourth, s. st. J. McCutcheon; the Sixth.
Francis Scott; the Eighth. James l..
Hays.
Appointed by the Governor.
These appointments were received
Tuesday from the governor: Moses
Taylor Pyne. member of the public IL
brary commission; board of managers
State Home For Girls. Alfred b. Car
Macy, Margaret II. Sickel, John d. Rue:
Medical examining board. Edward Hill
Baldwin, John J. Bauman, John w.
Bennett. Mr.. Rue being a former sena.
tor, his appointment was Immediately
confirmed. The others were referred
to the judiciary committee. The gov.
ernor's appointments to the state board
of education. sem in Monday night.
were reported favorably.
The senate in executive session con-
nrmed these appointments: Edward 3
Atwater, judge of the district court OF
Elizabeth; David e. Ellsworth, mem.
Der of the board of geological survey
J. Howard Willets, member of the
board of managers of the Soldiers
home of Vineland. The confirmation
of Benjamin f. Jones as judge of the
district court of Orange went Owe be
cause of the absence of Senator Colby.
The senate confirmed the nomination
of Theodore Simonson as a member of
the state board of equalization of taxes.
Among the new senate bills intro
duced were:
BY Senator Observation-Disclosures com
mon councils to license cabmen, bath
houses, boarding houses, news stands,
theaters, billiard rooms and skating
Kinks.
BY Mr.. Observation-Disclosures mu-
nicipal boards of health to appoint com
missiOners to determine the fitness of
plumbers.
By Mr.. Wakelee-An amendment to
the express company act. Makes 1t IL
legal for a street railway company to
carry express matter.
BY Mr.. Observation-Disclosures cities
to purchase or condemn lands for the
erection of public piers.
A bill introduced by Senator Minturn
(Dem.) 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 commerce
laws. Affidavit must also set forth that
the applicants are the real incorpora-
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 IA modification of the law of New
Jersey which prohibits the sale of wa
tiers from sources within the state to
concerns or corporations outside the
state. 1t was Mayor MtClellan'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
laws there could be nothing done at
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 t%ranspire be
tween the governor and Mayor McCiel-
Ian on this subject.
The house passed Senator Hillery's
measure appropriating $1,000 for cler-
zeal 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 Il resolution, which was carried,
that the committee on banks and insur-
ance have printed n 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-
tin,, xU,o odonto6