Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-04-12
LEFT over from Last Week.
STATE LEGISLATURE


to minors either to be drunk on the
premises or to be carried away. This
amendment is to stop the sale of
sgrowlers" to children Another
amendment carried provides that
where a license has been revoked the
property shall not be licensed for the
period of four months. The bishops
bill fixed the time at one year.
The power is given excise boards 70
regulate the screens and curtains in
barrooms. Senator Mckee offered an
amendment to this amendment except
ing bowling alleys and recreation and
,icnic grounds. 1t was adopted. Senator
Horner offered an amendment for tbs
200 foot measurement from churches,
schools and armories to be along
the street line instead of across the
block. Lost.
Amendment No. IL, which abolishes
the back room in saloons, was one OF
the principal objections offered by the
friends of the BILL Mr.. Hutchinson
spoke for his original BILL which, he
said, would be absolutely nullified by
the committees amendments. Mr. Min
turn said that as the amendment did
not do away with the back room he
was not in favor Of it. When man
leaves a saloon to which is annexed a
secluded apartment he cannot say to
himself that he has been in place
where virtue has not been gripped and
prostituted. Mr.. Avis, after Mr.. Min
turns speech, so eliminated parts OF
the amendment as to have it provide
that there should be no obstruction to
a clear view from the interior of the
entire bar. The one room clause was
accepted. The amendment itself then
came up and was adopted by vote Of
10 to 5.
Judges to Grant Licenses.
The committees twelfth and thir-
teenth amendments putting the license
granting power into the hands Of
judges of the court of common pleas
in municipalities where excise commits
sioners are appointed and terminating
the office terms of present commission
ers on July next were considered to-
gether. Mr.. Colby declared that the
amendment, if passed, would drag the
judiciary into the saloon. Mr. Avis re-
turned that in his county the judge Of
the common pleas grants the licenses
and that there is now no county in the
state that can boast a better control of
excise matters than can Gloucester.
The amendments We're adopted. Mr..
Minturn introduced an amendment pro
viding that an applicant for license
to sell liquors must be a citizen of the
United States and must have been for
at least one year resident of the
place where he desires to use such
license. The amendment was adopted
unanimously The bill was ordered to
third reading
Mr.. Hutchinson's bill, No. 305, limit
ing the number of licenses to one for
every 200 of population-the. act to
take effect Jan. 1, 1907-went to third
reading after the senate had adopted
an amendment by Mr.. Lee excluding
seaboard cities from the provisions OF
the bill
The senate passed Mr.. Hillery's three
bills respecting service Of circuit court
judges. One of the bills empowers the
governor to appoint two judges to hold
court in the absence of a supreme
court justice. The other enables a SUI
preme court justice to refer to a cir
cult Judge for trial suits brought in the
supreme court, and the third provides
that two or more judges of the circuit
court may sit in the same county at
the same time Mr.. Minturn's bill nro-
yiding for an additional common pleas
Judge in counties of more than 100000
inhabitants was also passed.
Senators Crosse and Minturn were
appointed members Of a joint commit
tee to urge on congress the Importance
of improving the New Jersey harbors.
The senate in executive session con-
frmed the appointments of John l..
Blair Reilly as prosecutor of the pleas
1 of Warren county and William w.
Watson as judge of the district court
of Passaic.
New Bills In the Senate.
The following bills were introduced
in the senate:
L.
regulation and incorporation of insur,
ance companies.
By Mr.. Hutchinson-Respects rail-
road crossings and provides for the
contribution of public funds for the
alteration, abolition and regulation OF
grade crossings.
By Mr.. Minturn- Provides that all
proceedings had, as well as any judge
ment rendered by any board of educa-
ton, superintendent or other authority
in connection with the suspension. dis
missal, retirement or reduction in sal
airy of public schoolteachers in this
state, shall be renewable by any jus
tice of the supreme court in a sum,
mary way
Governor Stokes has placed his veto
to Mr.. Heck's bill, which took certain
rights concerning children from the
hands of overseers of the poor and