The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-18
LEGISLATURE To
START REAL WORK
OF YEAR TONIGHT
Election Pledges to Be Carried
Out in Measures to Be Intro
duced at Session.
EMPLOYERS LIABILITY
BILL IS PREPARED
Senator OsbOrne's Sunday Sa-
loon Law Is Also Ready.
Governors Appointments.

This weeks session of the Legis-
lature, which will begin at o'clock
tonight, will mark the real opening of
the work for the year. Governor
Forts appointments for several State
offices will be presented, and his mes
sage on the financial condition of the
State will follow tomorrow morning.
Bills. either already promised during
the campaign or decided upon since
election, will begin pouring in, and the
voices of Captain Jim Parker and
Howard l.. Tyler clerk in the House
and secretary of the Senate respec-
tiveiy, will go into training for roll
calls.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT William P. Martin S
public utilities bill, which will differ
little If any from the one introduced
Ivy him last year, will see the light to-
night Senator William c. Gebhardt's IS
measure for the same purpose viii
lroba bly, come forth about the same
time. AT last years session dupll-
cate Of the Martin bill was introduced
in the upper branch by Senator Everett
Colby. but the absence of New Idea
men in this years Senate will probably
mean that the. maneuver will not be
repeated, II may also mean that the
Regulars bill, fathered then by Sem
ator Samuel K. Robbins. now presi-
dent, willsbe allowed to remain in the
oblivion into which it sank in 1908,
as the solid Republican majority cf
13 to in, the Senate can handle all
questions of the kind to its own satla-
faction and kill any unwelcome at
tempts at legislation by the minority.
osborne's Bill Ready.
Essex's Senator, Harry v. Osborne,
will bring out his employers liability
bill tonight, also his excise measure de-
signed to permit Sunday selling of
liquor during restricted hours on a
vote of the people.
The executive appointments are still
matters of conjecture, as the Governor
last night would not state whom he
had in mind for the various offices
that must be filed this year. State
Librarian Henry c. Buchanan, whose
term expires on February 1, is fairly
certain of reappointment The Rev.
DR. George B. Wight, State commits
sionr of charities and correction. has
only until Saturday to finish his term,
and though protest has been made
against his filling the Office again,
there have been equally strenuous ef-
forts by his clerical brethren to have
him kept in his present position.
Former Sheriff Frank H. Sommer, of
Essex, the Governors ad interim ap-
pointee to the State Railroad Commits
81 Ole no Ia
Senate before he becomes full-fiedged
member of the body. His name will
probably go in tonight Prosecutor
Wilbur A. Mott, of Essex who took
the place of the late Henry Young. has
been assured of reappointment by the
Governor for the full term.
Judges TO Hold Over.
The Governor, several weeks ago,
announced that he would endeavor to
keep the same judges on the bench as
now preside, if they can be persuaded
to continue in office. That will leave
but one new appointment. successor
TO Judge Elmer E. Green, of the Court
of Errors, to be made. Those whose
terms expire are Supreme Court JUS
tice Charles c. Garrison, of Merchant
vile, Camden county, and Lay Judges
George r. Gray of Newark, and John
W. Bogert of Hohokus, Bergen coun-
ty. in the Court of Errors and APP
peals
The Senate has already signified its
intention of cutting expenses to the
bone, an object which the Governor
has held up as the mL 1T worthy that
can be striven for this year. Legisla-
ton of every description is to be re-
duced to q minimum, If the desires OF
the party in the majority are followed.
First and foremost in the administra-
ton measures to be introduced viii be
the abolition of the county tax boards
At the same time the Governor Will
make his appointments to each of the
twenty-o county boards in the state.
AS the terms of the present incum-
bents do not expire until May /, they
viii be among the last, if not the last,
names to be presented for confirma-
tion.
The Governors expressed intention of
aboIshing commissions and boards of
various descriptions has excited some
comment and more ire on the part of
those interested in keeplng offices
plenty. The objection is not always
put in that form, however, when the
subject is being discussed in the corri-
doris of the State House. The proba-
bility of the abolition plan really re-
ducing expenses is one way of express
ing it. Those who dislike to see the old
commissions and boards disappear con-
tend that there will be no real saving,
as 1t is the executive plan to have them
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