The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-11

SON ESSEX'S
HOUSE HEAD
Henry Young, Jr., Assem-
bly, Chairman $ Germans
Ask Easier Excise Laws.

With Assemblyman-elect Henry
Young. jr., son of County Prosecutor
Henry Young, chosen chairman of the
Essex County delegation to the 132d
Legislature at a conference in Repub-
lican headquarters, Halsey and Aca-
denny streets, last night, and Henry
C. Hines chosen secretary, the repre-
sentatives are somewhat in shape to
act as a unit in matters legislative as
far as the needs of Essex are CON
Icerncd.
Mr.. Young wa selected by unanimous
vote. William Roberts suggested his
name, and William P. Martin immedi-
ately seconded the proposition. Mr..
Hines was chosen without any OPPOSE
ton. The chairman of the delegation
is a Regular and the secretary a Colby
a There was a renewal of the
pledge to support Martin to the last
ditch for leader of the Republican ma
jority in the House.
A delegation of the German-American
Alliance was received at last nights
meeting. For more than an hour the
Assemb1yman-elect and the represent
atives of the organization that is
DESTROYS of securing liberal excise leg
~islation discussed the form of bill to
be introduced in the mex House, to ire
iieve" what was declared by the MEM
bers of the German-American Alliance
to be a serious situation.
Gustave Wolber was the spokesman.
There were remarks by Frederick
Breithut, George Grimme, Otto jain
and George Hoerig. The advocates of
liberal laws asked, in effect, for the
enactment of a measure that would
permit all municipalities to decide at
special elections whether or not liquor
should be sold on Sunday.
I'VE are laymen," said Mr.. Wolber.
I'VE have placed our case before you
in the language Of laymen. It is for
those of you who are lawyers, IL you
will, to work out the remedial legisla-
ton that we ask. We want home rule.
We van to place the matter before the
people for a vote. We believe that your
pl-.tform will admit OF the presentation
of a bill such as we want to the Legis-
lature. The chief difference between
platforms this year seemed to be in
method of accomplishing the same OBJ
ject."
Some. reference was made to the Lee
bill. which failed of passage in the
Senate last year. That was to have
given the Common Council of such mu-
inequalities as Atlantic City the right
to dec,de whether liquor should be sold
on Sunday.
There was a wide variance of opinion
as to just what the excise plank Of the
platform of the Republican county con-
ventiop of last. September really meant.
Some were of the opinion that 1T pro-
vided for a bill that would give all mu-
inequalities local option or the entire
liquor question. That was by no means
the general view.
Mr.. Young, speaking for the Assem-
blymen-elect, told the petitioners that
he and his associates had prepared nc
bills for introduction as yet. and that
before the measure on which they
hoped to agree could be finally framed
there would be other hearings. There
was no pledge of sympathy with the
ideas expressed by the Alliance MEM
bers other than that there would be
some step taken in the direction they
advocated. Assemblyman-elect Ru-
dolph Braun expressed himself as In
favor of some such law as that asked,
it is understood.
The only other person present in the
conference outside of the men who are
to represent Essex in Trenton In 1908
and the members Of the Alliance was
Alfred N. Dalrymple, chairman of the
Essex County Republican Committee.