The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12
White Livered Republicans
Colby Calls Opponents Of
Rate-kaking.
CIVIL SERVICE SLUMBERS
Hahn Investigators Empowered
to Continue Researches..Bill
Enabling Newark to Purchase
Water Front and Other In.
pOrtant Measures Passed.

TFrom staff Correspondent
TRENTON, Oct. 12.-The 131st Leg
isature adjourned without day at
3:15 o'clock this morning. New Jer-
sey's "long parliament in the closing
hours of its ten months session passed
twenty-five bills, including measures
providing for direct primaries in all
offices but Governor, Congressman and
Presidential electors, and for the ex-
preston of popular choice for United
States Senators.
| Bills for the creation of Public
Utilities Commission and for general
| civil service reform died in the House
after passing the Senate. The men-
bers of the Assembly insisted on rail-
road rate regulation in the utilities bill.
and demanded an elective commission
in the civil service bill. Neither bill re-
ceived enough votes to be passed in
the House.
A joint resolution continuing the life
OF the separate Assembly and Senate
investigating committees after adjourn
ment, with full powers. was passed,
and with the bills, will be placed in
week or so in the hands of Governor
Stokes. The stroke of his pen will de-
eide whether the inquisitions are to
go on.
While the concluding day Of the
Legislature witnessed bitter arguments
over the reform bills that awaited
, action, there were no scenes such as
; marked the adjournment of the LesI
islature last April to meet again in
June The members of both branches
gathered before the desk of President
Bloomfield f. Minch, OF the Senate,
singing "Apld Lang Syne." They
stopped long enough to hear the words
that sent them away for the year, az
/ then resumed their song, marching ia
procession from the State House
Senator Thomas ]. Hillery presented
a concurrent resolution for final ad-
journment in the upper House at
o'clock this morning, fixing 1'30 o'clock
as the hour for adjournment. The As
J sernbly had planned to adjourn at mid
night. and the official clock in the
lower chamber was stopped at 1850
The Senate clock was stopped at 1:26
/ so that there might be legal adjourn-
ment
Mr.. HilIerys resolution provided for the
/ adjournment Of the "129th Legislature
| through an error that il was feared at
/ first might be serious 1T wasn't noticed
/ in the rush and was passed by both houses
as drawn.
/ Attomey-Genera Robert H. McCarter
was consulted IN Newark today as TO the
seriousness of the mistake. de said:
'"The resolution should, OF course, have
provided for the adjournment Of the One
Hundred and Thirty-first Legislature II
it provides for the adjournment of the
ono Hundred land Twenty-ninth it is OBJ
vously an error and / do not believe at
fects the legality of the proceeding.
see no reason why the records should not
be corrected without formal action by any
official"
Senator Everett Colby, of Essex made
a strenuous fight to have rate regulation
provision placed in the public utilities bill
when reported by the joint conference
committee through Senator Hillery little
before midnight.
He offered several other amendments IN
tended 10 enlarge the power OF the pro-
posed commission When they were voted
down he refused to vote for the bill, de-
claring 1t to be worthless.
..Just three arguments have been ad-
vanced against comforting power to regu-
late rates eon the commission" Mr.. Solny
said. "One is that It would be bad egis-
lation, one that It would be inexpedient.
and the third that the plan is not sound in
principle
lie declared that the legislation had
proven good iu other States and then took
up the second argument
u am not rejecting on any Senator when
/ say this" he went on. ''but l know it 10
be fact that there are In the Republican
party some white-llvered men who are
afraid that if power of rate regulation is
included in this bill there will be no money
for campaign purposes from the corpora
tions."
There was applause from the Democrats
al this No Republican made reply then to
the "whlte-livered" charge. but when the
bill had been passed, despite MIR. Colby's
opposition and the direct primary bill was
up for consideration Senator Joseph s.
t'relinghuyseu, of Somerset, took occasion
to so after the Essex man.
Il am at least consistent" said fae
Somerset Senator - have opposed direct
primaries because ] don't believe in such
a method of selecting candidates and /
propose to vote against this bill
Il want to say to the senator from Es
sex that my liver was recently exposed
to the public gaze and was found to be
fun of good red blood corpusclcs. 1t Is
my belief that if us liver were opened
II would be found to contain nothing but
pure whte-crusted ange-cake.
Senator Frelinghuyseu underwent an
operation for appendicitis a few months
ago and told the reporter who questioned
him that it was then his liver was proven
TO be other than white.
Mr. Colby half rose but sat down again
saying nothing in reply to the angel-caks
bombardment
The Essex Senator. when asked today
he Intended to 'tsit down as he had
threatened to do II his party did not keep
the State eenvaiiion platform pledges, one
OF which pfaalises puhle Utilities com
mission s8ld.
not 6a Of i rudge Fort as candi-
date fos Governor, tavore commission.
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