The Penn's Grove record., 1909-03-12
THE REPEAL
OF 1906 ACT.
Bill In the Assembly to Garry
Out Governors Suggestion.
BATTLE FOR LOCAL OPTION.

Grove a Boroueh-Bill to Investigate
State Departments by Supreme Court
Commissioner Is Defeated-General
BreitnaIl Promoted.
Especial Correspondence
Trenton. March 1.-THE so called
raid on the state school fund mace
its appearance in the house Tuesday
when Assemblyman Henry Young IN
troduced a bill to repeal the act OF
1906 which gives to the schools the
greater part of the money derived from
| the taxation of railroad property. Inc
| repeal of the act, it will be remem-
bered. was recommended by Governor
Fort in his special message to the leg
islature on the finances of the state.
After pointing out the danger OF a
large deficit in the state treasury the
governor in that message pointed out
that there were, but two ways to meet
| the condition without subterfuge, eva
sion or mere temporary expedients,
and they were to impose a state tax
or repeal or modify the act of 9
Although the latter recommendation
was bitterly assailed in many quar-
tiers as a raid on the school fund"
the governor has been shown no good
reason why he should change his mind,
and he is understood to still adhere to
his original proposition. 1t is said
that the bill introduced by Mr.. Young
is not the governors bill, but that the
| executive measure will appear shortly.
The assembly chamber Tuesday aft
ernoon presented a spectacle which
| carried many back to the days of the
anti race track agitation. The senate
committee on judiciary gave a hearing
on the local option bills which it was
first announced would be held in the
committees room. When the time
fixed for the hearing arrived so many
people were present trying to get into
the small room that it was decided to
hold the meeting in the assembly
chamber. The throng of temperance
men and women and saloon people
soon filled the spacious chamber to
overlooking. They crowded into the
seats of the members, and the extra
chairs were quickly occupied.
Senator Plummer of Salem, who in
troduced one of the local option meas
ures. marshaled the temperance hosts
and introduced the speakers to Senator
Frelinghuysen, chairman of the com.
mittee, who presided, while like serv'
ices were rendered to the opponents
of the bill by Senator Hinchliffe OF
Passaic, who is connected with a large
brewery in Paterson.
personal Liberty" Plea.
The principal speaker for the meas
ure was ex-Assemblyman Samuel S
Swackhammer of Somerset, who made
a forcible and eloquent argument fol
the passage of the bill, and Major Car
Lentz, the former Republican boss OF
Essex county, who was put out OF
business by ex-senator Everett Colby
made the main argument against loca'
option. The basis of the majors re
marks was that local option was
against personal liberty" and there
fore opposed by all the liberty loving
German Americans of the state.
Some of the other speakers were
Fillmore Condich of Essex and Mrs
Emma Bourne of Newark, president OF
the Woman's Christian Temperance
union of New Jersey. Each side had
plenty of enthusiastic supporters or
hand, and time and again the cham
Der ran with the vigorous applause
with which they expressed the com
mendation of the points made by the
speakers.
Over 200 schOOlteachers attended the
hearing Monday afternoon which was
given on the assembly bill which for
bids the discharge without cause OF
all teachers except superintendent and
supervisors. Most of them were WON
en- from different parts of the state,
and they filed the senate chamber to
overlooking. The principal speakers
for the bill were Miss Elizabeth Allen
of Hoboken, Assemblyman Moore OF
Passaic and Edward A. Murphy OF
Jersey City.
Ocean Grove Bill Argued.
Ex-Governor Edward G. Stokes made
his first appearance before a leg
islative committee this session when
he opposed the passage of Assembly
man Poole's measure providing for
the incorporation of Ocean Grove as a
borough at a hearing given by the
house committee on boroughs Mon
day afternoon. A large delegation of
leaseholders in the Grove of both
x under the leadership of County
To CO117 m icciOnor JTT;lIso,, II no-a-.
eux of Monmouth came to Trenton in
a special train and marched in a body
to the statehouse, where they were
presented by Mr.. DevereuX to Gov
ernor Fort. The governor shook hands
with each member of the party, and
then the delegation filed into the com
mittee room. Ex-Governor Stokes and
Rev. DR.. Aaron Il. Ballard spoke
against the bill. The former executive
argued that the proposition was bad,
rs Ocean Grove had a proprietary
form of government, and. whether
wise or unwise, every one who signed
a lease for 4 lot there knew it when
he signed.
Men and women l~easeholders both
La oIeu tue UNI, dISuIIS lHdI uuuet
the present system of government the
LOT holders were paying for things
they did not get, while The opponents
of the measure declared that the place
now received more in benefits than it
would if its share of the township
taxes alone were spent upon it.
Monday afternoon WAS devoted to
hearings, II several were going on
at the same tine. Those who attend
ed the hearing before the house com
mittee on municipal corporations on
Assemblyman Stacey Smiths bill,
which seeks to keep children under
sixteen years of age out of theaters
unless accompanied by parents or
guardians, were treated to the SPEC
tacle of a house divided against itself.
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