The Penn's Grove record., 1908-04-10

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walton of civil war records Id the. id,
iutant generals oficej makes 1t d High
misdemeanor to advocate anarchy Id
speeches or newspapers.
The house passed an anti child labor
bill prohibiting minors under sixteen
from working in factories between 6
o'clock in the evening and 6 in the
morning.
Governor Fort signed Senator Hands
bill appropriating 100000 for the con.
struction of an inland waterway from
Cape May to Bayhead along the At
lantic coast. Senator Frelinghuysen's
bill which permits any corporation to
change part or all of its common stock
into one or more classes of preferred
stock was filed with the secretary of
state and became a law without the
governors signature. Assemblyman
voorhees, bill which a%ppropriates $780,
600 to equip the new engineering build
ing at the State Agricultural college
was also signed.
New Nominations.
Governor Fort sent to/the senate
these nominations: Joseph Rice of Mer-
Ger, reappointed member of the board
of managers of the State Hospital For
the Insane; Henry Schmidt of Union,
reappointed commissioner Of the State
reformatory; F. Wayland Aver Of Cam
den, vice Thomas Smith, member Of
the state village Of epileptics; Charles
L. Park of Ocean, member of the for
est park reservation commissions; G..
Wilbur Stamford of Essex, member
Of state board of education; Wilbur
A. Mott of Essex, to succeed Henry
Young, deceased, prosecutor of the
pleas of Essex; Henry T. Caulett Of
Mercer, riparian commissioner.
House joint resolution Nc. Z, by Mr..
Holcomb, which authorizes the gov
ernor to appoint foul commissioners
to act with similar commissioners
from Pennsylvania to consider the es-
tablishing of free bridges across the
Delaware, passed the upper house.
Senator Price made a strenuous ef-
fort to secure the passage of his bill,
which gives the state treasurer power
to lend none on unincumbered farm
land, but he failed, his fellow men,
| bers claiming that the state had no
money to lend on mortgage.
Schools to Get Money.
The senate passed Assemblyman
Sullivan's bill, which permits work
ingmen's cooperative societies to mort
gage property owned. Senator Leav-
tits bill providing for the pensioning
of aged prison deputies was voted
| down by his colleagues.
The senate passed Senator Avis bill
which provides for the distribution Of
the money from the railroad taxation,
amounting to about $780, 1000 tmost
of which has already been paid to the
state) by May 1 and to be used for
the fiscal year beginning July l next.
The house passed the resolution by
Assemblyman Colgate which provides
for amendments to the constitution 80
that the salaries of senators and as
semblymen will be increaed from $500
to 81, 900 a year.
The assemblymen defeated the bill
by Mr.. Colgate permitting the speed Of
thirty miles an hour for motor vehicles
on roads outside of towns.
Although Mr.. Braun made desperate
efforts to get his boxing bill through
this week, it again met defeat, and his
motion to reconsider it once again was
lost.
The dwell fortnightly pay bill pass
ed the house this week, providing that
all railroad employees in the state re-
ceive their pay every two weeks in
stead of every month, as Is now the
custom.
The teachers tenure of Office bill was
lost by two votes, but because there
were several absentees who were in
favor of the measure it is likely that
the bill will be reconsidered before
the end of the week.
Senator Gebhardt's Sketch.
Senator William G. Gebhardt, q
Democratic member of the senate, was
born March %, 1859, at Croton, Hun.
terdon county, N. j., and Is a lawyer
by profession. He was graduated at
the Clinton institute and was admitted
to the bar at the June term, 1884, as an
attorney, and three years later he was
admitted as a counselor at law. In
early life his parents moved to Gin
ton, where he began the practice OF
law and has since made his home in
this picturesque town Of Hunterdon
county. He has also an Office at 25S
Washington street, Jersey City. Fol
more than ten years he was corpora
ton counsel Of Clinton and for three
years president of the board Of educa'
ton. Senator Gebhardt began life's
struggle as a schoolteacher. During
the five years he has been in the sen
ate he has decried every measure Of
waste and extravaganza in no unmis
taxable terms.
JOHN L. M. KELLY.