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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-21
YORKVILLE BUGGY co
Blacksn,ithing

We are pleased to announce to the
public that we have secured the SER
vices of a first class, reliable Black
smith and the best Horseshoer IN the
country. We think II you VIII give
him a trial, you will be more than
pleased.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-21
AUTOMOBILES

w are selling agents for Ford Auto.
mobiles, and have one in stock and
would be pleased to show you the
many advantages it has over other cars
of a like price. It Is right-up-to-the
minute. If you are interested, come and
let US show you Why the Ford is the
Car for you to buy.
YORK FURNITURE CO.
Cash or credit-and Square Deal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-21

ENo. 8 Rebuilt Oliver Typewriter,
AA- Grade, $50, at The Enquirer office.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-21
BARGAINS s IN
MONUM ENTS

Stock taking time will soon be here,
and we must reduce our stock OF nm
isted work.
In order to do this, we will, during
the next 80 days, make some very close
prices on any Monument or Headstone
In our yard.
II you have an unmarked grave, 1t
will pay you to see us at once.
We have some special bargains In
Headstones for children.
YORKVILLE MONUMENT WORKS.
- Anything In Marble Or Granite.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-21
Buggies

We have a full line of goods, and a
large lot of Second hand Buggies, that
have been carefully worked over and
renainted. that will be sold regardless
of price. Now Is the time to Sc
cure bargains in our line.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-21
ROCKERS
ART SQUARES
PICTURES

Either of these articles Is suitable
for Christmas presents to mothers, Sis
tiers, wives and other friends and loved
ones, and you will find choice selections
Of these~goods here.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-21
PICTURES

We have a nice line, carefully select
ed, low priced. Come and let us show
you
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-21
ART SQUARES

We are especially strong on Art
Squares and at our prices you can
we'll afford to put new one on your
parlor or dining room floor. See them.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-21
ROCKERS

Our line Of Rockers Is very large ant
varied, and includes many choice pat.
terms in Reed and Wood Chairs, ant
you will find our prices especially low
and attractive
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-12
Department of Corporations.

TIL creation of the department of cor
porations, in accordance with the recon-
mendation of the commission on the re-
vision of the corporation laws, in its report
of last winter, is strongly urged. The fees
for the organization of miscellaneous cor
porations and from the annual corporation
tax thereon, amounted last year to $780,
900, which makes this department the
largest of the event earners of the State.
If it were closely watched and carefully
administered, the fees could be collected
much. more promptly and every detail
looked after in delinquent cases, thus saw
ing much of the expense and trouble Incl
dent to ~defaulting companies. 1t would
also take considerable labor off the attor-
ney generals department. Much of the
work now done there could be done
through the commissioner Of corporations.
But aside from the financial Importance
of a department of corporations to the
State, the other features of control recon-
mended to be given to this officer by the
report of the revision commission of last
year, would be of the greatest Importance
in the administration of our corporation
laws.
New Jersey should continue, and if pos
sible, broaden her past policy as TO the
organization Of corporations. They came
to us because of the conservative, settled
character of our judiciary and the fairness
of our past legislative treatment. Criticism
of our corporation laws by citizens of other
States has about ceased, except as to a few
unreasoning unreasonable persons.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-12
Constitutional Amendments.

-Four amendments were referred by the
last Legislature fer your concurrence.
The first increases the salaries of the
senators and aSsemhlymen to one thousand
dollars per year, which should be done.
Tit second would make the term of the
governor and the senators four years and
the assembiymen two years.
The third authorizes the districting Of
counties for the election of members of
the General Assembly; and
The fourth relates to the reorganization
OF the judiciary.
The election of assemblynen by districts,
under proper restrictions against a gerry
mander, Is almost universally demanded in
the counties Of the State having more than
a single assemblyman, and as the popula-
ton Increases, the necessity will become
the greater. Another important feature
about this proposed amendment is that IL
will make possible the selection OF National
and State officials Mt a different time from
the election of local officials-a consumma-
ton greatly to he desired.
Concurrence in the amendments referred
to you by the last Legislature is earnestly
urged. That they nave public approval Is
evidenced by the fact that they have been
published the past year, and. that during
the vigorous political campaign. through
which we have just passed. they were not
criticised by any one. All the propose
amendments are without political signiii-
canoe and clearly in the interests of the
people. It would seem to he difficult to
find reason to justify the Withholding from
the people the right to express their will
Uuou them.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-12

Almost every session of the Legislature
either appoints or authorizes the governor
to appoint Investigating committees or
commissions which have inquisitoral pow
erS.
Proceedings before these committees or
commissions are not conducted in n judi
eial manner, nor, are the rules of evidence
observed, especially as to hearsay state
ments; with the result that injustice is
often done. Beside. the investigations so
conducted are made unnecessarily expen-
SiVe. Counse and all others assisting seem
TO expect, and, / regret to say, usually OBJ
tain, much more than they should be al
lowed. Yet, Investigations are useful. If
cial character, and be made by a Supreme
Court commissioner, appointed by the court
on petition of the encouragement at the
direction of the Legislature or governor.
commissioner, when appointed, power to
issue subpoenaes, out of the court appoint
ing him. to compel the attendance of wit
nesses. and he were clothed with power to
pass upon the admission or rejection of evil
dence, we should have a useful system In
the State, and n comparatively inexpensive
one, and good results would flow from 1t.
On these hearings the attorney-general
could appear to represent the Legislature
or governor, or the Legislature could, If IL
preferred. direct that the Investigations be
conducted by n committee of its own or by
q counsel appointed by itself.
There is no reason why members Of the
Senate or House could not he appointed
as counsel for their respective bodies to
conduct the examinations and receive rea-
sonuhle conversation for such service.
The method would he similar 70 that pnr-
sued in proceedings in court. or before the
Senate when sitting as a court of impeach-
meEk.
The passage of an act creating such a
system Is earnestly to your
favorable consideration.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-12
State Institution
Two New
Buildings.

Several new State buildings Or institu-
tions will be asked, and at least two are
badly needed. These are a woman's re-
formatory and d house of detention for
insane convictS
The hospitals for the insane in this State
are each full and the State prison is over
crowded. There are at the State prison at
this time ffty-one women inmates. The
room occupied by them is greatly needed
for male prisoners. The Home for Girls
has in it a number of young women over
II years of age who should not be there.
The law increasing the age of the inmates
of this home from Is to 10 was a mistake.
The State owns land enough at Jamesburg
to build a suitable institution for women
upon Il location to be selected upon such
land
A building for insane convicts can be
erected either near the hospital at Morris
Plains or on land near the hospital at
Trenton, and the building erected
for this purpose could he placed under
the management of the board of the hos
pltal near which it may be erected.
The operation of neither institution need
require, therefore, any additional en-
ployees save a few guards or attendants.
The number Of insane convicts in the
State hospital at this time is 1876, of whom
10 are at Morris Plains and eighty-siX at
Trenton.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-12
IRON a star correspondent.l

TRENTON. Jan. I2.-The annual
message OF Governor Franklin Fort TO
the Legislature today was a strong plea
for n more rigid ecOnOm in the regu-
lation of state expenditures. He rec
commended that the numerous state
commissions be reduced in size SO as
to cut down expenses, and that the
county tax boards exercise greater care
In their expense.
The executive asked that he be given
power to remove certain public officials.
Among his many business-like sug-
gestions are: More improvements IN
State institutions, elimination of vot-
ing machines and riparian land grants,
a State board of managers for insti-
tutions. inland waterway improve
ments, preservation of natural re-
sources and q broader policy regard
ing the regulation of corporations. The
message follows:
Gentlemen of the Senate and General
BY the express terms Of the constitution
of our State, adopted III 1914, 1t is made the
duty of the Governor ito communicate, by
message. to the Legislature at the opening
of each session = " 9 the condition OF
the State, and recommend such measures as
he may deeIn exponent.
Upon your assembling for the slXty-fifth
time under that fundamental instrument, as
the representatives of the people, you are
not only to he personally congratulated on
the honor which your fellow citizens have
conferred upon you, but upon the greatness
o. the State for which you are to legislate.
The growth of the State, during the
siXty-four years of government under our
present constitution, demonstrates the wis
dom of an adherence to a good govern
mental chart.
Our fathers made the constitution of 1874
under circumstances which would make i'm
probable, If not impossible. the creation in
our day of such a terse, yet comprehensive
and elastic instrument.
There has been from time to time some
spasmodic suggestions for a constitutional
convention for the submission of a new
constitution. but, so far without success.
Our constitution has few, If any serious
faults, and these can be remedied In the
way pointed out in that instrument for its
amendment.
The mania for constitutional revision in
our day has largely been one for placing In
such Instruments the various isms of GER
tain theorists which should never be found
in 2 constitution. A constitution should
contain fundamental principles, not de-
tailed thories-these should be left to stat
utPS.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-12

to pass a public utilities bill such as pub
lie sentiment seemed to demand. On this
subject | still adhere to the views ex-
pressed in detail in my inaugural address
and in the special message sent TO the
legislature on March 80, 1908. This COM
mission can take the place of the present
railroad commission appointed under the
act approved May 10, 1907, and which act
should then be repealed.
The point upon which the legislation
failed at the last session seems to have
been over the ~rate-making power. A bill
without some control over rates, at least
a correctional power as to them, would
be of little, if any, more value than our
present railroad commission act. The COM
mission should have the power to revise
and correct rates shown to be unreason-
able, upon complaint and after hearing,
subject to a review of any final order. as
to rates, by the courts. with a provision
for speedy hearing and Determination on
the appeal. The power which IS now IN
the court of chancery to regulate grade
crossings should also be transferred to this
commission, when appointed. Such a com
mission can work no harm to legitimate
and properly managed public serving cor
porations of any class. The people are
entitled to the best service tina such COM
panies can give them and the companies
to the protection from unjust public crit1-
cism or unreasonable exactions.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-12
State Board of Control.

But / am firmly convinced that the pur-
chase of all provisions and supplies or a
staple nature that are needed Tor these
institutions should be under the control Of
a single board or department.. the com
missioner OF charities and corrections,
together with two persons to be appointed,
should constitute a board for the purchase
of all supplies for the inmates, Which are
of daily and general use. OF necessity
there can be no uniformity in purchases
with as many separate purchasing agents
as there are separate institutions. NOR can
such purchases be so easily made by con-
tract or in such large quantities as to OBJ
tain the low prices which the State should
secure. All kinds of food, fuel and other
like supplies, except probably those perish
able, can be advertised for and secured by
contract, to be delivered at the respective
institutions on acquisitions, as required.
The total cost OF our state Institutions
last year was in excess of $l,5OO,OO0. The
timat made show that q saving can be
made under a uniform system of purchases
of 10, and probably 10 per cent. of the
present cost of running the institutions.
A departmental cost of $4,000 per annum
would, in my opinion, probably save to
the State $150, 1000. and possibly in excess OF
that sum. Such a system in New York
has caused a saving there in excess of the
percentage here suggested.
such a board would be or the greatest
possible value to the State, not only In the
matter of purchases, but in supervision, in
spection and control. No contract for any
permanent improvement or new addition or
extension TO any institution should be made
except with the approval of this board.
This board should also receive and adjust
all estimates from the boards or wardens
of the various institutions for their needs
for each fiscal year, and go over and ap-
prove the same and present it to the ap-
preparation committee, with their indorse-
ment, together with the reasons for asking
for the appropriation.
l strongly recommend the creation of
such a board.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-12
Legislative Committees Should
Visit.

While on the subject of the State %institu-
tons, let me make another suggestion.
1t seems to me that the joint committees
of the legislature appointed each session
on these institutions should visit them.
They should give the management a hear
ing as to their needs in the way
OF new or remodeled construction.
They should go carefully into the cost of
operating them and the causes, and they
should recommend to the appropriation
committee the sum needed, with the rea-
sons. for running the institution the sue
ceedlng year. The general appropriation
committee is n very busy body. 1t cannot
give the time to the managers of these in
stitutions which they think they should
have in explaining their needs. The man
ayers are entitled to full hearing. They
serve the state sratuitously and have no
interests but those of the State and in
mates at heart. Besides, if this course
We're pursued there would be in the senate
and house members able to explain the
needs Of the institutions and to suggest
needed remedies for existing conditions.
l cannot impress this too strongly on
the legislature. It will be found to have
excellent results.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-12
Public Roads.

The problem Of the future in our public
roads is not so much that of road building
as of road maintenance. There have been
built in New Jersey about 1,400 miles of
public roads by STATE aid, and the counties
have built even Il larger amount of roads
without State aid. The cost of maintaining
all these roads is becoming a serious item
of local expense. If possible, the State
should take over, with the consent OF mu-
inequalities of course, all of these roads
which may be considered through highways
from the chief points in the State and main
tain them. 1t has seemed to me that if
the counties and localities consent, that it
would be wise for the State to have trans
ferred to n proper body to be designated
for that purpose, the maintenance of all the
highways connecting the various county
seats of the State with one another. This
would make a continuous roadway under
maintenance by the State of about 745
miles.
A strong movement has been started by
residents along the New Jersey coast for
an ocean boulevard from the Highlands, in
Monmouth County, to Cape May, in Cape
May County, the idea being to eventually
have q highway by the sea from the one
point to the other. At the present time prac-
tically Il continuous improved roadway ex-
lists from the Highlands TO Atlantic City,
except for about seven miles. From Atlantic
City to Cape May the road exists, but 1t is
unimproved. 1t is not all by the sea, but
for present purposes the existing roadways
could be taken over and maintained by the
State, being widencd where necessary and
t+&A3' u AAVA Aa>
Highlands to Cape May.
| recommend that a commission be ere
ated, consisting Of the Governor, the Presi-
dent of the Senate, the Speaker of the
House and the State road commissioner,
who shall have authority to take over all
highways herein referred to from county
seat to county seat and along the proposed
shore boulevard route, that they may be
maintained by the State, through the State
Road Department, without expense to the
localities through which the roads pass,
the control of the surface of these roads
being transferred to the commission by the
local authorities. All the revenue derived
from license fees for automobiles should be
given to this commission to be used in the
maintenance of these highways, and such
additional sum added thereto annually, by
appropriation. as will furnish a sufficient
fund TO properly maintain them. An esti-
mate Of $3.50 Il mile seems to be sufficient
to guarantee the maintenance of these
roads.
If this suggestion is adopted by the Leg
i%slature, appropriations for new roads can
be omitted for the present and the benefit
to the localities from the care and main
tenance of the highways here mentioned
will be of much more value to them than
the present amount allowed for State aid
for road building. II lateral roads are de-
sired by localities. connecting with the
main thorofares which are maintained
by the State, these roads can be con-
structed By them.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-12
OF Contracts and Bills.

The governor is required by various
statutes to approve all contracts before
they are made, and many bills of depart
ments before they are paid. This
duty. it seems to me, should be
placed on the department contract
Ing them and the Encouragement.
The encouragement is the law officer of
the State and is. or can make himself,
familiar with all the statutes applicable to
the State departments and institutions.
A. this time, many little bills, of the
board of health. inland waterways, oyster
commission, incidental expenses and the
require the approval of the governor.
| recommend that the governor be re-
lieved from all this class of contract and
bill approval.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-12
Employers Liability Act.

The enactment Of al employers liability
act Is IN line with the best opinion or our
time. Leauing business men are auVOcat-
ing IT. and the annual report OF the De-
partmen of Commerce and Labor OF the
United States the present year, after u most
thorough investigation and study. Oh the
question. strongly urges it.. 1t Will be round
in operation to be productive of much
good and 1t is a simple matter OF justice 10
the employee. 1t exists in Great Britain
and in our own nation in many States.
Tn old common law rule, which prevents
an Injured man, although innocent or any
negligence himself, from recovery because
| some of his fellow servants were negligent,
is not adapted to our day. When that rule
, was promulgated by judicial decision, sew
eral centuries ago, the conditions III busi-
ness, and the character of public and ln-
dustrial enterprises, were quite different.
By the decisions In our State, the su-
perintendent of the factory is d Fellow
workman with the employee, under many
conditions, and the untairness OF his RUE
In modern conditions of work Is sell eVl-
dent.
Another Objectionable rule has grown up
by court decision, namely, if a workma
works at a defective machine OF uses d
defective appliance, knowing II 10 pc ae.
fcctive, even though the master also knows
it and puts him to work thereat, or there
with, and the workman is injured, ne can
not recover The remedy, says the lay,
is for him TO refuse to work at or with
the defective machine or tool. Conditions
are not equal that permit this. The master
has no moral right to put a man TO work
at or with a deIecuVe machlue a.,
He owes it to his employee to exercise
reasonable care to see that his machinery
and tools are proper and in good order at
all times, and II he, to save the expense
of putting them in that condition., permits
O man to work at a machine or appilahce,
known to be defective, even with the
workman's consent, and injury results, the
master should be liable.
The rule as to co~ntributory negligence OF
the rkm himself, which results in MS
injury, I would not relax. A man should
not be able to hold his employer for III.
juries resulting from his own careless ACT
or from dangerous conditions which are
obvious to him. and against which the
natural impulse of self preservation should
guard him.
q law modifying the law of master, ana
servant, at least in the two respects here
in suggested.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-12
Direct Primary Laws.

The primaries held in this State the past
with general public approval. This sys-
TEN gives the citizen a potent voice in
selecting candidates. With the legal pro-
prevented. The primary is the source of
all political power and it must be kept
pure and in close touch with the people.
the protection possible, by law, is to en-
courage fraud There was abundant proof
of the g~rossest frauds in the primaries held
in certain places in this State in April
last. when delegates were being elected
to select delegates to the national con-
v%ention. This was clearly due to the fact
that there was no law regulating that pri-
mary election. To me ii Is the most
astounding thing in government that men,
honorable in every other walk Of life,
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-12

should be liberal; thirty miles an hour
could be allowed there with safety.
Arrest and trial should not be summary,
but, the right to stop should only exist to
inquire as to the possession by the driver
of the machine of the requisite authority,
or to obtain its number, If violation Of law
be claimed.
Suit should only be instituted by direc-
tion OF the department In proper courts
near the residence of the alleged offender,
or at convenient points within the State
for the nonresident.
Willful injury to person or property by
intoxicated driver. should be a misde-
meanor, and punishable accordingly with
out, of course, the loss of right to main
tain a civil suit by the injured party or
the owner of the damaged property.
The present license fees are not excessive
and should not be modified by any reduce
uniform legislation between the States.