The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-01
Appropriation Bills to Be Care
fully Considered During Pres
ent Legislative Session.
NATIONAL GUARD MAY
SUFFER in FINANCES
Democrats Rubbing II in on Re.
publicans Because of About
Face ON Money Question.
IFrom a staff Correspondent

TRENTON, Feb. 1.-If there are TO
he any appropriations made at all this
year some method of escaping tile
threatened $780, 900 deficit in the state
treasury must be devised, as Senator
Bradley, chairman of the committee on
appropriations, has declared that he
will not sanction a single bill carrying
an appropriation until a way is found
out of the present financial difficulty.
The special finance committee of the
Senate, of which Senator Thomas j..
Hillery, of Morris, is chairman, is ex-
pected to report progress tonight. The
committee met this morning at IL
o'clock. MIR. Hiilery does not approve
Of the Governors plan to divert the
money received from the taxing of
main-stem railroad property from the
use of the schools.
1T will be my aim as a IN OF
this committee, and / believe that the
other members, or most OF them, feel
the ~me way, to prevent The use tor
any other purposes of the money ms
schools nov receive from the laNatlon
OF first-class railroad property ne he.
cared
"Cut Down. the ~siO.rD.
Senator Bradles ana tie o,.ter mem
bers of his committee VIII so rut1Ioss-
" through last year Appropriation
biii, seeking What may be e.1.nliateti
rom the measure this year, M Ma
tional Guard, which cost the STATE
S252.0O0 last year. is one OF the shlaias
marks that will undoubtedly receive
the attention of the committee.
Another reduction that may be lie
cided upon lies in the appropriation tor
the School for Deaf Mutes. the state
Normal School n other educational
institutions. 1t is claimed that the
money received from the main-stem
K can, under the law, be used Tor
the maintenance of such institutions.
Last year the State paid out of the
general fund $500, 600 FOR their support.
To prevent the State schools from
getting more than their just share the
committee might recommend that "a
sum of not more tina 500, 900 be taken
from the State railroad tax for their
support. Governor Fort, in his mes
sage on the State finances two weeks
ago, made such a suggestion for par
TALLY meeting the deficit. AT the same
time he favored the diverting of $780,
GOO or more from the tax receipts for
the use of the State.
Democrats ChortJinr.
The Democrats are not. backward in
bringing up against the Republicans
past praise of the present method OF
providing for the schools. The plat
form upon which Governor Fort was
elected in 1907, they point out. ,tails a.
tention to laws passed by the party
raising the States income from less
than $1,000 900 to over 5000, 0e0 per
annun1 So, SOC, 900 of which Is by law
distributed to the Local taxing districts
for school purposes
They remind the other party that
while In 1907 and 1908 every Republican
speaker had something TO say in praise
Of the law of 1906 which made this dis
tributiou possible, the Governor is now
r~epudiating il.
Several of the administration bills de-
signed to afford relief will be presented
to the Legislature when it c%onvenes to-
night. One provides for the appoint
ment of Il board of control to purchase
supplies for the various State institu-
tions. Another combines the depart
ment of labor and statistics with that
of the State labor commissioner
New Auto Law.
The Newark Board of Trade auto
mobile measure will also be presented
in the House tonight. 1t provides that
the speed limit in the open country for
autos shall be extended to thirty miles
IN hour. 1t also contains provisions
giving visitors from other States free
privilege of the roads for "a period not
10 exceed ten days without q New ,Jcr-
sey license. There are many ~restric-
tons to this section of the measure. as
it is feared that New Workers and
Pennsylvanians, who travel back and
forth or spend the suinme at the New
Jersey resorts, might contrive to avoid
paying a State license If the provision
We're made any broader.
The House committee on judiciary
will give hearings this afternoon on
Assembly bills %. "a, SO and 50. OF the
first two, both of which We're intro
duced by Assemblyman Martin. Of
Essex. No. % repeats the Hil,ery law
of 1906, requiring the constant rcduc-
ton in the rate of taxation, and the
other permits the appeal by any mu-
nicipality from an assessment made on
railroad and canal property by the
State Board of Assessors to the
State Board for the Equalization Of
Taxes. The o5her two measures are
Mr.. Blauvc4,s, Of Passaic. House No.
81 provides for the taxation OF fran
chises used for railroad and canal pur-
poses. The otter Is known as a nome