The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-24

Il
duplicate Of several of the same tenor
| that had been sent to other mem bers,
which he had received. His vote would
be cast against the bill, he said, and
the letter he had just read had pOSSi-
bly, something to do with preventing
him from being d moral coward. This
is the letter read by Mr.. Baker
!" March 3, 1908.
Mr. James Baker:
Dear Sir-A great multitude of
church people are waiting to see how
you vote on the local option bill You
are an able man and a good fellow, and
want to see you continue in public
| life andrealizeyo your political ambitions
| but give you notice now that h9re-
after | shall oppose you with all my
power, and get all my friends to vote
against you as long as | live, unless
you give heed to the mighty call of the
best people of this State, and grant us
as far as you are able through your
! vote and influence, the enactment of
our local option bill soon to be released
from committee and submitted to you
| for your vote.
" If you evade your responsibility or
| vote against this measure, | now plain
| ly inform you that as long as | live |
will oppose you from pulpit and by
voice and pen as an enemy to the best
interests Of mankind. I am a wee bit
of hustler when get to work, and |
mean every word | say If you vote
with the rummieS, you are dead to
/ us forever. You and others had better
read the handwriting on the wall. Re-
fuse us our right of home rule on the
liquor question, and we shall be sour
and down on you forever.
81 have no i'll feeling to you person
| ally, but hate the traffic. 1t is only
right that you should know how null
titudeS of church people feel in adj
vance. Yours sincerely,
JOHN G. SCUDDER.
"P. S.-Rememper, / can reach
hosts of your voters in our Peoples
Palace.n
Mr.. Moxon said he had received an
exact duplicate of the letter read by
Mr.. Baker and then read from another
letter of similar character.
The anti-local optionists were jubi.
liant when the bill was declared defeat.
ed, and its supporters were correspond
| ingly crestfallen The Anti-saloon
league leaders declared that New Jer-
sey has not heard the last of local op-
tion yet. The final vote upon the local
option bill was as follows:
Yeas-Cattell Crosby, Fake, Hen
erickson, Jess, McCoid, Morris, Pierce,
Frank B. Potter, Joseph Potter, Ridg-
way, Smalley, Tantum, VanCleef,
| Whitehead-15.
Nays-Auf der Heide, Baker, Bee.
croft, Blohm, Braun, Burpo, Buxton,
| Clark, Colgate, Daab, Devine, Ep-
pinger, Firth. Gibbs, Ginnelley, Hines,
Holcombe, Holzapfel, Housed, Trick,
Keffer, Kenny, Keough, KRISTEN, Lew
| is Lowrey, Lyon, Martin, Miller, Nor
gan, Moxon, Olwell, Prince, Radcliffe,
Ramsay, Roberts, Smith, Stille, Sulli-
van, Thompson, Tumulty, Valente,
Voorhees,, Young-44.
| Absent-Buck.
The following bills were also passed
| by the senate: Provides for the incor.
poration of societies for the prevention
of cruelty to animals; validates the in,
corporation of all societies for the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals, and the
same power is given to district socie.
| ties as now exercised by county boards;
authorization for the formation of
parks and gives power to condemn
land for the purpose of laying out
parks; requires $40 license fee for the
naturalization of foreign born citizens;
requires all merchants and manufac-
turers to provide seats for female help;
provides for an appropriation of $100
by boards controlling towns and bor-
oughs for observance of Memorial
day by Grand Army posts therein;
provides for a change in the tax levy
for school purposes. The bill which
requires 81 license fee for resident gum
ners was defeated.
The senate passed the bill abolishing
the state board of arbitration.
A Few Bank Bills.
The senate passed the bill which pro-
vides that a note payable on demand
ON Saturday before noon shall be pay
able on the following Monday; also
limits date for the payment of note
at bank on the day on which 1t is
made payable. The senate passed an
other bill by Senator Brown which
prohibits a notary public who is en-
ployed at bank from protesting a
note In which he is personally inter
ested Another bill passed was that
by Senator Leayitt which makes pay
able monthly all appropriations for the
care of insane patients. Another bill
adopted by the senate was that appro-
priating $1,000 for DR.. Page Hough for
extra services as physician during the
recent epidemic at the Railway reform
atory.
Assemblyman Holcombe's bill pro-
yiding for the appointment of commits
sioners by the governors of New Jer-
sey and Pennsylvania to acquire rights,
franchises and property of all toll
bridge companies having bridges cross
ing the Delaware river between the
two states and making them free pass
ed the senate. Assemblyman Lewis
bill which authorizes water companies
to increase their capital stock by a
vote of the stockholders was another
measure approved by the senate.
Assemblyman Clark's bill to deter
mine weights and measures and dehn-
ing powers of common council in the
matters of weights and measures was
passed by the house. 1t was prepared
by Francis B. Lee Of Trenton after an