The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-18

though some of them are in favor of
it."
iAssemblyman Tumulty said that he
did not propose to be intimidated by
any man, no matter what the color of
his cloth. Assemblyman Prince de-
clared that it is not possible to pass
legislation compelling temperance.
Temperance must be learned by edu-
cation" he said. 81 believe the time Is
coming when intemperance will be
looked upon as any other social crime,
but that must come by education and
not by legislation"
I'm going to vote against this BILL
said Assemblyman Rudolph Braun, of
Essex County, because I do not be-
lieye in prohibition. The advocates of
prohibition hypocrisy and
i~ntoxication. because it is history that
prohibition does not prohibit"
A~ssernblyman Biohrn, of Hudson
County. who lis a te%etotaler, said; Il
received from the clergymen last year
warning that if ] raj again ] would
be defeated. That's why I'm here. l
personally am q temperance man and
believe in local option in its fullest
sense. | believe that any municipality
SllOulu OG pei ii1tiiNo w NSShN%C
saloons shall be opened on Sunday,
and whether any saloon should exist
at all within its jurisdiction. but I be-
rlieve the ward feature in the Crosby
bill is a joker"
The defeat of the bill was preceded
by lengthy debates over various
amendments offered. The only one
which was adopted-and that by a.
narrow margin-exempted from the
penalty for the giving away or sale of
liquor in dry districts, the serving of
communion wine by clergymen.
Numerous amendments tending to
wipe out the ward-line features of the
bill, which made the ward a unit for
| voting purposes in determining whether
saloons should or should not be per-
mitted to exist, were offered. Assem-
| blyman Martin in speaking to these
amendments said: IF h ward-line
feature is adopted, l venture to predict
that in Jersey City, Hoboken, Pater-
son, Newark and other cities you
would have constant agitation for
changes in the ward lines in order that
favored individuals might be exempt
from the decision of the voters maxi
ing districts dry
Assemblyman Hendrickson objected
to section 13 of the bill, which provided
that If a majority of the wards in a
municipality should vote dry the other
wards, whether they voted to go dry or
wet, should be compelled to go dry also.
"Can the gentleman inform me-,
asked Assemblyman Martin, "of any
decision by which a man is compelled
to go before two tribunals, and If the
decision of one is against him it must
stand, while if 1t is in his favor he must
get it confirmed by a second tribunal
to make it binding|
II do not understand" retorted Hend-
rickson, that with section 10 elimin-
ated that would be the effect Of the
bill. / would ask the i%ntroducer of the
bill if in wiping out section 10 we
would not leave the question to be
settled by the wards alone"
Asscmblyman Crosby, after a whis-
pered consultation with J. Frank
League, said. "The gentleman from
Hudson is right"
Martin and Fake SDnt.
II do not u~ndcrstand,',. said AS
semblyman Martin, that the gentle
man from ocean is a lawyer or that
he is even expressing his own opinion,
but from what | have just seen / be-
lieve that he is expressing the opinion
OF the MAJ back of his chair q. Frank
Burke), who is the man back of the
bill. That gentleman went from one
end of Essex County to the other last
fall, dainning every man who declared
against the county and ward feature
in the local option bill"
II arise to a point of ORDER said
Assemblyman Guy Fake. 'The gentle
man is not talking to the question
IT will talk to the point and violate
no parliamentary rules retorted Mr.
Martin. What ! will say will be what
is public property. and / will violate
no condolences. Mr.. Burke, at the
local option hearing. said that many
States had adopted measures similar
to this and were working under them.
but when I pinned him down privately
he retracted what he said, and adj
mitted that in only two States in the
Union, Ohio and Illinois, were there
any laws similar to the one which he
seeks to enact"
The elimination of the amendment
doing away with the ward as a unit,
a accomplished by a comfortable
majority
Assemblyman Fake then introduced J