The Penn's Grove record., 1909-02-12
LEGISLATURE
H0N0RS LINCOLN
Governor and State Officials At
tend Services In Assembly.
LOCAL OPTION LIFTS ITS HEAD


Senator PIummer Introduces Anti
saloon Leagues Measure-Provisions
of the Act-House Votes $1,000 to
Send Troops to the Taft Inaugural
Parade-More Resolutions to Investi-
gate the States Financial Condition.
Especial Correspondence
Trenton, Feb. 11.-With simple but
impressive ceremonies the legislature
of New Jersey on Tuesday afternoon
celebrated the hundredth anniver-
sary of the birth Of Abraham Lincoln.
The exercises were held in the assem-
bly, chamber, which was ta~stefully
decorated for the occasion. Over the
speakers chair hung a portrait Of
the martyred president upon a back
ground Of national flags. The speak
er's rostrum was almost hid from view
by tall palms, and the front Of the gall
leries was draped in the national col.
ors. The floor and Hobbies were re-
served for the members of the legisla-
ture, the judiciary and state officers,
while the galleries were thrown open
to the public. Mrs. John Franklin Fort
and Miss Fort viewed the ceremonies
from one of the front seats Of the la
dies gallery.
The justices of the supreme court,
the judges of the court of errors and
vice chancellors met in the governors
office and, with the governor and Mr..
Justice Garrison in the lead, marched
two by two to the assembly. AS they
entered the room the senators who had
preceded them, the members Of the
house and the large gathering present
arose and stood.
Governor Forts Address.
Speaker John D. Prince called the
meeting to order, and the invocation
was made by the Rev. Henry D. Min
ton, D. D., of Trenton. The speaker
then announced that Governor Fort
had been selected to preside, and at his
direction President Robbins of the sem
ate and Leader Lewis of the house es-
corted the governor to the chair while
the orchestra played "Hail to the
Chief" When the applause which
greeted the governor subsidized he pro-
ceeded to eulogize the great enamel
pator." 1t was indeed a compliment,
he declared, to be asked to preside on
such an occasion, and he told of Mr..
Lincoln's visit to the New Jersey cap
itol forty-eight years ago and of his ad-
dress to both the senate and assembly.
At that time, the governor continued,
great issues which divided the country
were at their height, and the war of
the rebellion which followed seemed
almost impending. The governor then
spoke of the unique place in American
history which Abraham Lincoln holds
and in concluding said:
Probably no mar in American history
had such a hold upon the people in all
walks of life as had Abraham Lincoln.
He was not a time server. He never
Issued addresses or constructed platforms
with meaningless phrases. His whole life
sincere, and he kept every promise
that he ever made to the people. He be-
lieved in the republic intensely. He grew
up with its growth and strengthened with
Its strength. He stood for the freedom of
man and for its principle in the Declara-
VI lHutpSliu0HC0 tudI all men were
created free and equal.
LincoIn's Address Read.
Speaker Prince read the addresses
which MI. Lincoln made to the senate
and assembly upon the occasion of his
visit to the state capitol to which the
governor referred in his address.
Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen of
Somerset, leader of the Republicans in
the upper chamber, paid an able trib-
ute to the sterling characteristics of
the martyred president, during which
he said:
Today Lincoln lives not only in the
hearts of the people, but in the wonderful
growth, prosperity and strength Of our
country. To the accomplishment of his
great mission, the preservation Of the
Union, we owe our greatness today. When
we consider that our flag now flies, I'M
dimmed n %unsullied, not only in every
of the Southern Confederacy, but
around the world in almost every cline;
when we point to our population. in
creased to 100000 of people, to our COM
merce n industries, second to none and
to our happiness, advantages and oppor-
t%unities, unequaled in the history of the
world, we realize that Lincoln has been
immortalized, and we appreciate that we
owe all that we have to the martyr,
whose sole aim and ambition was to pre-
serve the Union, so that his posterfty
might enjoy the blessings to secure which
his f~orefathers had shed their blood.
Other addresses were made by Sen
ator William G. Gebhardt Of Hunter
don and Assemblyman Isaac T. Nichols
Of Cumberland and Assemblyman Mark
A. Sullivan, the Democratic leader.
New Jersey at the Inauguration.
New Jersey may yet be represented
In the parade in connection with the
Inauguration of President Taft, but un
less the senate interferes it will be in
a way that will be even more humiliat-
Ing to Jerseymen than was the parsi-
monious attempt of four years ago.
After a sharp debate and several at
to amend it Colonel Colgate's
bill appropriating $4,000 to defray the
expenses of the troops passed the
house, not, however, until the amount
had been cut down to $4,000. Those
who opposed the larger amount said
that $4,000 vas all the state spent on
troops for the Roosevelt parade in
1905, and they thought that was sufi-
cient to spend this time, while one
member declared that he was not on
posed to sending the troops to Washing
ton and having their expenses paid by
the state, bat he was opposed to pay
ing the expenses of a lot of fancy staff
officers. Colonel Colgate in vain ap-
pealed to the civic pride of the mem.
bers and urged them to send to Wash.
lngton a detail of troops worthy OF
the dignity and Importance of the
Military experts sly that with
the $1,000 it will not be possible for the
state to make even as good a display |
as 1t did four years ago.
On Monday night Senator Plumme1 |
OF Salem put at rest the various CON-
lectures as to what this years local
option bill should contain by laying the |
measure before the senate. 1t was ex-
planned that in doing so the Salem SEN
ator was fulfilling an differentiation
made last fall when he declared