The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-17

day, the State offices are closed, and
the bills are locked in the Governors
safe. He is waiting to prepare mis-
vetoes in formal shape,
If extensive cuts have been made Ill
the appropriation bills, the State may
be able to get over the next fiscal year
without going behind it's income.
The fear that the Governor has done
slashing on many of the items has
caused considerable worry to the hea6s
of departments. Nest of them have
asked for increases in their a%ppropria-
lions before the Governor sent his mes
sage to the Legislature asking the pas
sage of the Avis bill to permit the State
10 take from the railroad taxes $780, 900
of the money thai now goes to the
schools. The failure to comply With the
Governors wishes in that matter
opened the appropriations to the risk
OF being cut.
1t was understood that the Governor
had vetoed the bill to exempt a in
yestments in non-taxable securities
from taxation. Protests against che
bill were made by taxing officers OF
almost every municipality in h State.
The Governor has now signed all the
bills he intends to. AS he interprets the
constitution, the Executive is allowed
five days after the adjournment of both
houses of the Legislature to pass on
bills.
Governor Stokes took as much time
as he felt like and signed bills months
after the Legislature had adjourned.
Governor Voorhees, signed all bills be-
fore the Legislature adjourned, and to
be able to sign them before adjourn
ment, used to hold the emb of both
house in session until he had acted on
all bills he intended to. His opinion
was that bills could not be acted on by
the executive department after the
Legislature had adjourned.
Governor Murphy signed bills after
the adjournment of the Legislature. but
dated them the day of adjournment.
Thus there are exhibited Jour differ
| ent ways of constituting the constitu-
tional requirement. The correctness of
any of these has never been passed on,
but Governor Voorhees's plan was alb
solutely safe.
Governor Stokes was not a lawyer.
but he undoubtedly had legal advice
before acting as he did. Governor Fort
left the Supreme Court to take the
| g%overnorship, so his course may be con-
sidered what he considered legal while
he was on the bench, and 1t is reported
that other judges take the same view.
Before completing the task of signing
bills the Governor had to dig several
bills out of the Office of the clerk OF
the Assembly. The Governor had
memoranda of all bills passed, and in
going over the list last evening noticed
that the bill for the retirement on PEN
sion of Supreme Court justices had not
reached him from the Assembly.
Executive Clerk Charles A. ransom
was sent to the clerks Office 20 hum
up the bill, and it was finally found,
together with two other bills and proofs
of publication of notices that bills
would be introduced for the annexation
of Belleyille to Newark, and also -or
the incorporation of the Borough of
Hawthorne in Passaic County.
All three bills that were found, to-
gether with the Hawthorne bill, which
had been in the Governors Office, were
signed.
The Belleville bill was vetoed yester-
day by the Governor because the proofs
of publication of the preliminary no.
tice We're not sent to the Governor with
the bill. There was an active and
wealthy lobby working against the
BellevilIe bill.