Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-03-01

nails, excluding $l,000,000, which snail
| be retained by the state.
A third bin relative to the taxing q
railroad property was introduced by
| Mr.. Martin. 1t provides that In taxing
railroad and canal property @main
STEM shall mean the 100 feet wide
roadbed, with rails and sleepers, and
not include depots. waterway or tow.
| ing path, and tangible personal proper
| ty shall besrolling stock cars, locoIno
tives, ferryboats and floating movable
personal property.
Mr.. Smethurst introduced a bill IN
the house which makes it obligatory Oh
persons and corporations other than
railroads to pay employees weekly
The railroads are allowed to pay
monthly, but must pay before the 20th
of each month.
Senator Jackson's county fee bill was
reported with committee amendments
| in the senate Tuesday morning, and
after a discussion the amendments
were adopted In number Of IN
stances the salaries provided for in the
amendments are greater than those
provided in the original bill.
The amendment provides that surro-
gates, registers of deeds, county clerks
and sheriffs shall receive salaries in
lieu of fees.
Joint Session.
The senate and house met in joint
T session on Tuesday for the purpose OF
electing a state director of railroads
and commissioners of deeds in the yarl-
Gus counties OF the state. Senator Hill
lery placed in nomination Charles r..
Bradley Of Essex to succeed himself
as railroad director, and Senator Min
turn placed in nomination the name of
| William X. Deyereux of Monmouth
county, the well known legislative cor
respondent who was Democratic can
didate for the assembly from Mon
mouth county last fall but was de-
| feated While Mr. Devereux was not
elected to the office, he had the salts
faction of running ahead of his party,
receiving eight votes. Mr.. Bradley was
| elected with seyenty-two votes.
The joint session adjourned until
Tuesday, March ID, at noon.
The senate at its Tuesday afternoon
session took up Oh. second reading Mr..
Hillery,s limited franchise bill. For
the committee on municipal corpora
| lions Mr. Hutchinson offered amend
ments fixing the franchise limit at not
exceeding twenty years by governing
bodies, at not exceeding forty years by
majority vote of the people and at
not exceeding sixty years by two
thirds vote of the people.
Trolley the Poor Mans Friend.
| Mr.. HAlleIy. III the course of his re
marks, said that the trolley is the poor
mans privilege ana that in permitting
him to live iii tie country though work
! ing in the cry it has; zone away with
many teAe.Aeal ss...vis a the cities.
| Mr.. Colby s.;.s. .lias when he consld-
cred the agitat.oa sgeepLlg over the
country toAay tile sixty year amends
ment WAS most sdise cod ssi4lg. lie inea-
| toned that there ai'a .-zlied franchise
! laws on the Statute C5As ct more THAN
twenty-nine states ALL s;liG that when
ever a municipality las 4 provision il
its laws whe-e s a c9ss.s:s ~ can get a
franchise Tor sixty g..-.s no company
| will take franchise 10. less than that
extreme limit Senator .SEis also spoke
against The anne 1un1anI III that it pro-
| vided for tw0-thiI,ds vote The
amendment was lost This leaves the
/ extreme limit by the bill at forty years.
! Mr.. Colbys aineadneat~ to prevent
the snap passage of an ordinance at an
adjourned meeting of a governing body
was adopted His amendment requir-
/ ing written consent TO the acceptance
of a franchise was also adopted.
Thirty-five Year Limit.
He next offered an amendment fix
ing the limit at thirty-five years in
/ stead of at forty and an amendment
that provided for the repeal of a fran
elise where the company did not give
| good service An amendment prOyid-
ing for repeal of franchise where a
company failed to give good service
was lost.
Senator Minturn offered an amend
ment providing that the cost of pub
tlcnlliSS OlutAdANCc oAO1A4 W CN- ~ ~
the companies applying for the fran
| chises. This was adopted. His amend
ment providing that elections under
| the bill should be by voting machines
was lost. The Hudson senator then of
! fered an amendment limiting fran
chises to five years and giving to the
/ people the power of extension. The
amendment was lost.
The house passed Senator McKee's
resolution creating a commission to in
yestigate the acquiring of title to pota'
bic waters for the state.
Mr.. Hoagland's bill for pure milk
was amended in the house by the pub
lie health committee to read that when
the standard of milk falls below II pei
cent of solids the state board of health
shall notify the milk producer and fine
him $15 for the first offense and S3e
for each subsequent offense.