The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-08

| which Senator Colby, a Republican, had
introduced, though it was a Democratic
| proposition. The Democratic House made
an attempt to pass this bill. 1t failed be-
cause its ramifications went beyond the
| confines of the county.
ITO please the Republicans said Mr..
| Tumulty, 1--WE amended 1t so that 1t would
correspond to the bill that the Republicans
wished. Lo and behold you, Assemblyman
Barber, the minority leader, made a speech
In great opposition TO the bill even in
| that shape, and succeeded in having the
bill defeated, though Governor Stokes, in
his message to the Legislature early In
the session, advocated the passage of such
a bill"
Speaking OF the plank in the Republican
platform which declares for the separation
of State and municipal elections, the Eud-
son man said;
THE House has already passed such a
bill, with the Republican members in OPP
position, but IT died sadly In the Repub-
lican Senate"
He went on then to tell Of the passage
of the corrupt practises act by the House
| and It's killing in the Senate in spite Of the
demand of Governor Stokes for the pas
sage of such a bill. The platform declares
for that bill.
Supreme inconsistency" he shouted sar-
castically.
Railroad legislation was the next SUD-
ject Of attack. Mr.. Tumulty said that the
Wright bill as introduced in the House
was a good bill and that the Democrats
had sent that good bill to the Senate. The
latter body. he said. came back with a
substitute early the morning of the April
adjournment.
That bill has since been declared prac-
tically useless and as giving no power to
remove grade crossings"
Then came the public utilities bill,
which IL now pending in the Legislature.
The Republican platform declares for a
genuine public utilities bill,' he said.
Now. let us see what the Republican
Legislators have done. The bill they intro
duced does not affect railroads at all, con-
tinuing In force a powerless and useless
railroad commissions. 1t does not give
the power to regulate rates upon COM
plants made by citizens.
The House amended that bill to make
it worth something. It's commissioners
were made to be elective; the commission
was made a rate-making body. Besides
that the duties of the present commission
were absorbed into the proposed new COM
mission. saving at least 1000 a year.
over and above that, it gave the commits
sion power over gIade-crossings, which,
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT has ruled, the pres
ent commission lacks.
1T is now up to the Senate. See what
1t does with it,"
Mr.. Tumulty told how the bi-monthly
pay bill and the child labor bill had been
passed by the House, only 10 be killed in
the senate.
THE quo w%arranto' bill, giving a munic-
ipality the right TO go to the courts to
test the right Of certain corporations to
the use of the streets. went the road of its
predecessors in the Senate-to death by
smothering," Mr.. Tumulty declared. He
spoke also of the Jersey City water bills
and the unnel bills. applying to Jersey
City, as having met the same fate.
He elected a volume OF cheering when
he referred to Democratic endeavor which
resulted In the adjustment of the State