Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-03-28


SO hired. Another section Of the new
law makes mandatory on the boards of
finance to provide the moneys for the
payments of salaries of clerks SO APP
pointed.
Governor Stokes sent a message to
both houses concerning the concurrent
resolution suggesting that the legisla-
ture shall not adjourn sine die until all.
bills passed shall have been in the
governors hands at least five days.
Governor Stokes showed the impossi-
bility and impracticability of his sign
ing a majority OF the bills passed in
five days The governor said he, was
perfectly willing to give more than the
usual hours regarded as working day
to the consideration of all measures
passed by the legislature but he de-
clared he cannot perform physical iln-
possibilities. AT the end of the ses-
sion last year, the governor said, he
received 260 bills and stated the intel
Iigent reading OF that number of bills
would at least take month, After
showing the insufficient time five days
would give for the consideration of the
bills the governor said sSucl meas
ures as had been unable to consider
at the expiration of that period
should be compelled to return to you
without my approval. could not per-
NIT them to become laws by default.
/ would suggest, therefore, that il the
rS<yTs
to consider vetoes it make such arrange
ment as will enable the executive and
the lawmaking body to work together
with mutual convenience to this end. 2
Following this message concurrent
resolution was adopted to have com
mittee from the house and one from
the senate confer with the governor as
to the date of sine die adjournment.
For Sunday Baseball.
Assemblyman Alexander of Hudson
secured the reconsideration Of the vote
by which the Daab Sunday baseball
bill was defeated last week When
it came up for final passage again.
Daab said several members who had
previously voted against the measure
had gained new idea of it and no
longer opposed it. The bill passed by
a vote of 80 to 10.
The senate passed the house bill ex-
tending to veterans of the Spanish
American war the tenure Of Office act,
which now applies to civil war vet
erans
In executive session Monday night
the senate received from Governor
Stokes the following appointments:
County judge of Ocean, Major Leon
Berry, who at present lives in Tucker
ton, but win move to Toms River, the
county seat of Ocean, and his selec-
tion, with the reappointment of Prose
cutor Theodore J. X. Brown, who was
named last week, is believed to have
cleared the political atmosphere in that
county; Palisades interstate park com
mission, Nathan F. Barnett; Somerset
county tax board, r. " D. van Doren,
Newton B. Smalley and Stewart A.
Kenny; state board of education, T.
O'Connor Sloan. Charles g. Surdam
and Edward Russ. The last named
were confirmed under a suspension of
the rules, together with these mem
bers of the Sussex county tax board
named last week: Henry G. Hunt, Pat
rick j. Dolan ana Andrew J. van
Blarcom.
Civil Service Passes.
The senate passed the Colby civil
service bill by a vote of IS to 8, Sena-
tors Frelinghuysen, Shinn and Hand
voting against the measure. Senator
Frelinghuysen led the attack on the
bill, claiming that it was uncalled for
and would cost the state $4,000 per
year to put into effect. Senator Colby
denied this, saying that the cost would
not exceed $4,000. He claimed that
to eliminate politics from public Office
would be worth that amount and more
AS amended in the senate the Colby
bill applies only to the state service
and to first class cities and first class
counties Newark and Jersey City and
Hudson and Essex counties). In these
places physicians. teachers and labor
ers in public position are eliminated
from the civil service regulations. The
measure goes to the house, where it
will probably be passed, although a
similar measure is now pending there
The house defeated the two-men-in-
a-cab bill, a measure which has been
coming up regularly for number of
years. 1t was shown that the bill as
drawn would be detriment rather
than benefit to the travelling public
and it received only six votes.
Among the bills passed by the house
were the following: Preventing the es
adjustment of consumptive sanitari
UNI at Lakewood; forbidding the EN-
ployment of boys under fifteen in bak
cries; protecting oysters in Raritan
bay; combining woodcock shooting to
the months Of October, November and
December; extending the season for
catching trout; requiring nonresidents
to take out a license for catching trout