Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12
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The following bills were passed in
the house: Creates commission to
compromise the claims of the commits
sioners named in 1904 to codify the
state laws; authorizes depaN ment of
inland waterways with a commission
er to serve five years at a salary of
$1,000 year; repeats the law creating
the state board of arbitration for set
Elements of grievances; creates a new
commission to codify the public acts
of the state; appropriates $4,000 for
the creation of commission to CO.
operate with similar commission au-
thorized by the state of New York and
Pennsylvania for the propagation of
fish in the Delaware river.
Senator Leavitt introduced a bill
amending the motor vehicle act. 1t
provides that no motor vehicle shall
be provided with chain when used
on gravel or macadam roads. Senator
Silzer presented bill which requires
215 per cent on all state deposits. A
repeater was presented restricting limit
ed franchises to first class counties.
The bill introduced in the house by
Assemblyman Holcombe requiring that
the state shall acquire all the bridges
across the Delaware river in joint ac-
ton with the state of Pennsylvania
, and to throw them open to free traffic
was reported favorably in the senate
and will likely pass that body.
New Nominations.
Governor Fort sent the following
nominations to the senate, and they
were referred to the judiciary commit
tee:
Ulamor Allen of Hudson, member of
the state board of education; Theodore
Senseman of Atlantic, member Of the
board of managers of the sanitarium
for tuberculosis diseases; Edwin West,
Jr, of Bergen, member of the board
of tenement house supervision; Will
liam A. Logue of Cumberland, mem
Der of the fish and game commits
sion; Mrs Brice Collard of the county
/ of Hudson, member of the state vii
lage of epileptics; Clarence L. Golden
berg, prosecutor of Atlantic.
The senate confirmed the nomination
of Winton c.. Garrison, chief of the
bureau of statistics and labor; also
those of Abram L. Beavers of Hunter
don, member of the state tuberculosis
| sanitarium, and Richard H. Moedenke
of Somerset to the board of managers
of the state village for epileptics.
The committee on election yesterday
reported adversely the measure provid-
ing for the adoption of the Massachu-
sets form of ballots at elections.
A joint resolution introduced by Mr..
Colby authorizes the governor to ap-
point commission to inquire into the
subject of industrial education and re-
port thereon to the next legislature.
The object of the measure is to pro
mote industrial and technical educa-
ton in this state.
Mr. Morris introduced bill which
amends the act of 1899 by increasing
the quantity of liquor that can be sold
under wholesale license from one
quart to twenty gallons.
Mr. Tumulty's quo warranto bill per-
hitting any municipality to bring ac-
ton against a public utilities corpora
ton without the consent of the attor
ney general by taking the matter di-
rect to the courts was passed in the
house after long debate.
The Probe Report.
The Hahn investigating committee
appointed by the Democratic house of
last year submitted it's report yester-
day to the house. The report was re-
ferred to the Judiciary committee. 1t
contains both censure and praise re-
garding existing conditions in state in
situations. The state reformatory at
Railway and the state hospital for
the insane bear the brunt of the adj
verse criticism, while the state hos
pital at Morris Plains, the epileptic
village at Skillman and the Trenton
state prison each receives share of
commentator.
The report declares that the states
method of handling health matters is
antiquated and proposes to reorganize
the state board of health and give it
complete supervision over sewage, wa
ter supply and bovine tuberculosis. A
radical recommendation made is that
a board of central control be estab-
lished to consist of five members to
manage all penal and eleemosynary
institutions.
Senator Wakelee's Career.
L
Kingston, N. Y, Nov. q, 1869, and is
a lawyer by profession. He was grad
uated from the Kingston academy and
then entered the New York university,
from which institution he was gradual
ed in 1891 and admitted to the bar the
same year. Senator Wakelee is a resi-
dent of Bergen county, where he is
now practieing law, having an office at
Englewood and also one in New York
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