The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-30
NAVAL VETERANS
WANT TO RECEIVE
CIVIL WAR MEDALS
Senator Osborne Has Bill Ready
to Rectify Inadyertent
Ignoring of Sailors.
CLARK HAS MEASURE
FOR RELIEF OF NUTLEY
Towns Street improvements
Held Up Pending Legislation.
Monday Night Plans.

The naval veterans of the Civil War
are to be placed on a par with the
army veterans in regard to service
medals. if the joint resolution which
Senator Harry V. Osborne, of Essex,
will introduce in the upper branch OF
the Legislature when it convenes on
Monday night, becomes a law. h
measure provides that New Jersey war
veterans medals shall be issued to all
persons who enlisted in the United
States navy during the Civil War,
credited to the quota of men from New
Jersey, and who performed the service
for which they enlisted and were hon
orably discharged either when their
time was up or at the end of the war.
At present only those who served in
the army are included in the act. There
are a large number who entered the
navy and did efficient service who feel
that they have equal claim to the
honor of wearing the medal.
Sailors Overlooked.
LAS l understand it," said MT.
Osborne this morning, the provisions
of the joint resolution under Which the
medals were issued to the army vet
erans. through some inadvertence, were
not extended to include the naval vet
Grams as we'll. The object of my reso-
luton is to have these medals issued to
qualified naval veterans as we'll as the
Others
Another measure that will be intro
duced, will, if passed, relieve Nutley
of a situation that has tied up many
street improvements in the town for
several years. Assemblyman John F.
Clark, of that town, will father the bill.
1t is a supplement to the act covering
the formation of towns and townships.
Under its provisions towns shall have
power to grade, pave, curb and improve
all streets and avenues aid out by
surveyors. and accepted by the town.
ship committee prior to incorporation
as a town.
Nutley's Problem.
The condition in Nutley is such that
there are many street Improvements
being held up for lack of such legis-
lation. When Nutley changed from the
township to the town form Of govern
illtill ptdll0 lOI GtlAdlil SNletlS lluu DtCil
accepted. Under the township law such
streets would be paved by the general
taxpayers, while the statute governing
towns would make the assessment come
from the owners of the abutting prop
erty. This the owners regard as unjust.
The improvements were designed for
the benefit of the whole town. and were
agreed to by the taxpayers as such.
After the agreement had been made and
the from of government changed these
owners were forced to bear the whole
cost of the work As a result, they are
objecting, although they believe that
the work should be done.
Mr.. Clark is introducing the bill not
only in the interests of his home town,
but also for other North Jersey towns,
which are growing so fast that they are
likely to be placed in a position similar
TO hat of Nutley at any time.
The Essex Assemblyman will also
press his amendment to the rules allow
ing committees in which the original
copy Of a bill has been lost or mislald,
to substitute a printed copy.