The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-25
RESUME WORK
OF PROBING
This WEEK
State Prison Wing to Be
Investigated by Hahn
Committee.

1t is expected that the Hahn investi-
eating committee, which has been TAX
ing things easy since before election
time, will get to work again this week.
Chairman Simon Hahn, of this city.
said today that Friday would probably
be the day for the resumption of work
and that the State prison in Trenton
would be The place of sitting. 1t was
supposed by Republicans that this
committee. which was created by the
Democratic House of Assembly this
year n authorized by joint resolution
to continue it's work, as was the SEN
ate investigator committee, would do no
more work now that election was past
and there was no more campaign ma
terial to be gathered for the Demo
cratic party. The committee, however,
has taken it's work more seriously than
as mere campaign material, n a
hope that good will result from their
work, inasmuch as Governor-elect John
Franklin Fort In his campaign speeches
said hat he would cause the dismissal
of every employee or official whose
acts were not up to the
Speaking as to the future of the COM
mittee, Chairman Hahn said:
1--WE propose to go deeply into the
contracts that are made by the State
for the manufacture of goods by
convict labor, and make very def
mite accommodations for reforms
that l and the other members of the
committee believe ave been shown to
be necessary in the short time that we
have spent looking into the affairs of
the prison.
ut is more than probable that we
will go into the building of the State
prison wing to some extent, and re-
view some of the work that we have
already gone over in other State in
stitutions.
1.-THE committee will have a very full
and complete report for the considera-
ton of the next House of Assembly,
with concrete recommendations for leg
islative enactment. We ma prepare
the bills that we believe to be needed,
and submit them in proper form with
the report.
There are a number of things that
were covered in the report filed with
the House this ear that have not beer
taken up by the Legislature, or were
discussed but specifically and laid
over. Those things, of course, VIII be
emphasized in the final report.
zone matter that is of pressing i'm
portance and that may be probed even
further thar it has been, is that OF the
State oyster commissions. There are
seven of these besides the Fish and
Game Commission. 1t will be remem-
bered that the majority of the commit
tee showed the rottenness In the Fish
and Game Commission and that the
minority in it's report agreed that mat
ters there had not been what they
should.
s"The majority recommendation for
the correction of the evils in the Fish
and Game Commission and for the sake
of economy was that the commission
and the seven oyster commissions be
abolished absolutely and that a bureau
with a single head be established to
take care of the work that they were
supposed to do.
1.-THE seven oyster commissions cost
the State $26, 342.7 6 in 1906 and the Fish
and Game Commission $34, 935.57, a to-
tai for the lot of s61, 1883. The wiping
out of the Fish and Game Commission
and replacing 1t with another does not.
correct the evils that nave been shown
to exist. The reform must be far more
sweeping.
1--WE rave expended a large amount
of time and somewhat of money In the
investigation and propose to show re-
suits insofar as we are able. The results
will be in the shape of recommendations
and suggestions or laws. These will be
for the consideration of the incoming
Legislature. The wrongdoing has been
exposed: let it be corrected just as far
as the Legislature can correct it,"