Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-04-11
ON THE RUSH LINE
THIS WEEK.
(From the Pioneer sfaff CORRESPONDENT. 4,

Trenton, Apr. 9-President Minch's
gavel will fall sometime Friday for
the sine die adjournment of the pres
ent Legislature. Fourteen weeks will
have elapsed since the session began,
and vt has not been most productive
session at that.
All is hustle and hustle this week.
Everybody is going at top speed.
Nothing is permitted to clog the
wheels of the machinery which grinds
out laws. There will be more bills of
one kind and another passed during
these five days than during the entire
thirteen weeks combined.
Members and officers will be nearly
physically and mentally exhausted
when final adjournment comes. 1t is
hard week
The two houses started in last night
to work out this final weeks business.
The session began at s O'Clock and it
was nearly midnight before the ad.
Journment permitted the members to
hurry to their hotels. The work starts
IN again Tomorrow, and two or three
nights she sessions will be ooptinued.
ALI rules are suspended and the clerks
are kept on the jump hustling bills
| from one house to another and getting
them into the Governor. So it will
be until the final fall of the gavel.
The session will not be productive
OF any great achievement of law max
| ing. The Democrats have made a
play for popularity, but they have
| failed to make any impression. The
party in the House has been disorgan.
| lied and without effective leadership.
They have failed to accomplish any
thing excepting to pass monstrosity
| legislation against the railroads and
get into snarl upon the liquor uues-
tion. They have been unable to- undo
any of the Republican legislation of
the previous years. There seems to
be sentiment among the people who
visit the capital that the Republicans
will nave control of the Legislature
n both branches next year.
The earlier weeks of the session
were given up almost wholly to poll
tics in the election of United States
Senator and later a State Treasurer.
Seven weeks elapsed before legislation
was seriously considered.
The passage by the Republican Sem
ate of the Insurance bills Is highly
commended, and will afford great pro.
teotion to policy holders in life insur-
ance companies doing business in this
State.
All OF the efforts to change the cleo
tion laws have proven unavaiIiog.
There have been score or more of
bills along that subject but there was
nothing agreed upon.
The Senate has had a Committee
appointed to go over the election laws
and report at the next session a codi-
tication of the laws and 60 recommend
such legislation as will be effective in
the future.
knights Templar Have BANQUET
There was an installation of officers
OF Olivet Commandery, of Millville,
Tuesday night. A good sized delega-
tion from this city were in attendance.
The following officers we're chosen =
Eminent commander, Harry s.
Hampton; generalissimo, Walter
Shropshire: captain general, Chester
Anderson; senior warden, BENJAMIN
T, Headley; jnnior warden, Harry f.
Barth first prelate. John d, Brandriff ::
second prelate, Samuel D. Bennett. M.
D.; standardbesrer, Oscar Bennett. D.
D. s.; swordbearer. Joseph H.
Needham; warder, Frank Pierce !:
recorder. Edward B. Beebe. treas
urer, George Reeves; third guard.
John @. Vanaman; second guard
William Edwards; first guard, John
d. Hentz; sentinel, Lorenzo Stiles
stewards, J. J. Durham, j. W. Mes
sic and Charles Pepper; drill-master
Joseph W. Messick; quartermaster.
Lewis E. Kurtz; organist. Raymond
Sheppard; chaplain the Rev. J.,Olarke
Robbins,
Following the ceremonies, a ban
quet was served to the knights and
their wives. Covers were laid for 1876
Will Make Good officer.