The Penn's Grove record., 1909-02-19
Other Excise Measures.

0NHCE IASiSS NtGaoQT0Ss
Although the bill which, it is Under
stood, the excise commission has pre-.
pared has not made its appearance yet
several other measures have been In.
troduced In both houses. In the ser.
ate Monday night Senator Wilson of
Atlantic put in one which is intended
to meet the situation in Atlantic City.
1t authorizes the issuance Of a special
license to hotels and cafes under which
they can sell liquor to guests or patrons
with meals without restriction as to
hours in any room except the regular
barrOom. Such a license is to cost 20
per cent more than the ordinary Ii.
cenSe
Another bill against a dry Sunday
came from Assemblyman Ford, one Of
the few thew idea" men from Essex,
n provides that saloons may be open.
ed from 2 to II p. m. provided that the
municipality adopts the provisions of
the act at a special election to be called
by the county Judge on the petition OF
30 per cent of the voters.
A bill dealing with another phase of
the excise question was introduced in
the senate by Senator Bradley and
came from the Rev. Ernest A. Boom
OF Camden, who is a member of the
commission on crime and dependency.
The bill provides that recovery may
be had in civil action of the damages
suffered by reason of the in%toxication
Of any person from any person who
shall, by selling or giving away intoxi-
eating liquors, have caused such intoxi-
cation, provided the one suffering such
damages shall, previous to such selling
or giving away, have given written no.
tice forbidding such selling or giving
away liquors to the person whose in
toxication shall have caused such DAM
age.
Ocean Boulevard Bill.
The ocean boulevard, of which so
much has been said and written, made
its appearance in the senate Monday
night. The bill was introduced by
Senator Brown of Monmouth and pro-
videsA for a highway a hundred feet
wide from Atlantic Highlands to Cape
May. The governor, president of the
senate, speaker of the house and road
commissioner are named as a state
highway commission to prosecute the
work and are empowered to take over
municipal roads to complete the boule-
ward. 1t is not likely that any appro-
priation for extraordinary work will be
made this session.
Six weeks of the session have gone
and only n bill and one joint resolu-
ton have passed both houses and been
signed by the governor, and both of
them relate to the observance of the
n hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Abraham Lincoln. On Tues
day morning the senate passed Assem-
blyman Colgate's measure providing
for sending a representation Of the
states military and naval forces to the
Inauguration of President Taft after
first reducing the amount of the appro-
priation therein named from $4,000 to
$1,000. In the afternoon the house
concurred in the senate's amendment.
AS this sum is too small to send any
troops to Washington, it has been ar
ranged that the state shall be repre-
sented by the governor and his staff.
Osteopaths See Victory Ahead.
After eight years of steady fighting
the osteopaths of the state think they
are at last on the highway to victory.
All Monday afternoon the assembly
chamber rang with the %eloquence Of the
regular practitioners" on one side and
the osteopaths on the other at a hear
ing which the committee on public
health gave on the two bills which
seek to recognize the osteopaths by pro-
viding for a board of examiners to IL
cense o%steopaths and regulate the prac-
tice. The regulars" violently opposed
the bills, which if passed would enable
the o~steopaths to pose as regularly ex-
amined doctors and surgeons without
being required to pass the first rudi-
mentary examination. This the osteo-
paths denied, saying that bill No. 1O1,
which they stood for-they repudiated
the other-expressly forbade that they
should administer drugs. Its main
PuiP thCy uCNldlCu, was W UEOlGCC
the public and the educated osteopaths
from those who purchased diplomas
from the SO called correspondence
schools.
Yesterday morning bill No. 1O1 was
reported adversely by the committee,
Mr.. Hines, new idea," of Essex, voting
for it and Mr.. Auf Der Heide of
Hudson and Mr.. Potter of Camden
voting against it. Nevertheless Mr..
Smith. who introduced the measure.
had the bill placed on second reading,
when Mr.. Matthews of Hunterdon
moved that it be sent back to the
committee, which vas defeated by a
vote of % to 30. The ~osteopaths were
jubilant at the vote and declared that
it presages the passage of the bill
through the house.
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