The Penn's Grove record., 1909-04-16

aDli1ty Ja1nfned through the house. is
having q hard time of it In the senate
When it reached that august body it
was referred to the committee on rail-
roads and canals, of which Senator
Wakelee of Bergen isechairman. Every
effort has been made to make the COM
mittee disgorge, but without success.
Must Have Water Analysed.
An important measure which the
senate passed is the bill which re-
quires persons and corporations selling
potable water to submit for analysis to
the state psychological department a
sample of the water they furnish.
The election bills, which were pre-
pared by the joint committee on pri-
mary and election legislation and
which have the approval of Governor
Fort, were introduced in the senate by
Senator Wakelee. The governor says
he expects to see these bills enacted
into laws before the present session is
over
The primary bill provides that coun
ty committees shall be elected at pri-
maries in all counties to be held in
September.
Where it is the custom to elect coun-
ty committee members at such pri-
maries or to elect them at special pri-
maries the bill provides that the same
proceedings that have prevailed here
tofore shall obtain in so far as it is
consistent with the regulations of the
present primary law. Where county
committeeman have not been chosen
in this manner the measure stipulates
that meetings shall be held to deter
mine how many members shall be
elected in September, 1909, it being
required that at least half the mem
bership must be chosen at the polls
this fall, the other half to be elected
next year.
Second.-There shall be enrolment
for all primaries held, beginning with
September, 1910. Democratic and Re-
publican poll books are to be kept at
this falls primary. The name of each
primary voter is to be entered in the
proper book and sent to the city clerk.
to be by him transmitted to the dis
trict boards on election day, in Novem-
Der. At the next election, If the bill
passes, each voter will have placed
in his hand, with his ballots, two slips,
n addressed to the Democratic elec-
ton officers and the other to the Re-
publican officers. These will request
that the name of the voter be enrolled
for a vote at the succeeding years
primary. On the first registry day of
the next year the enrolment books,
with the names entered to date. will
be at the polling or registry places in
each election district or precinct. An
arrangement is outlined for placing
names on the enrolment lists on this
first registry day by affidavit. The
county boards of election will meet,
under this bill, on the Friday before
the primary to revise the list, adding
or striking off such names as argument
before them may justify.
Third.-A new form of primary bal
lot is given in the bill, the ticket to be
printed hereafter with a little hollow
square after each candidates name
and the voter to indicate his prefer
ence by an x mark in the square.
There shall be no writing of any sort
on primary tickets, and pastors may
not be used. No man will be recog-
nized as lawfully entitled to receive
votes at the primary for a nomination
or for county committee unless his
name has been placed on the ticket by
formal petition.
The election bill provides
For a Wisconsin blanket ballot, the
names of candidates for office to be on
the big blanket sheet in party columns,
with a circle at. the top of each col
umn and a little hollow square oppo-
site every name. A straight ticket
may be voted by placing an x in the
circle and a split ticket by placing
similar marks in the squares beside
the names, the circle to be left with
out any mark when split tickets are
voted. Under this bill the district
boards of registry and election shall,
on the Thursday before the election,
send to each voter, at public expense,
IN official ballot, which he may use on
election day. One other ballot will
be handed to each voter election day.
so that he may prepare his ticket
either at home or in the booth. Elec-
ton officers are to be allowed 8 cents
a name for sending out the ballots, in
addition to the one cent postage.
The governor signed a large number
Of bills during the week, prominent
among them being Senator Ackerman's
employers liability act. Among the 9TH
ers were senate bill SO (Mr. Leavitt),
Increasing the state allowance for in
dustrial education to $4,000.
House bill 6 (Mr. Kenny, providing
that towns may pay assessors, if but
one, $1,000 a year and, if three, not
over $500 each.
Senate bill 5 (Mr. WILSON,, appro-
priating $4,000 to aid in ~defraying
the expenses Of G. A. R. encampment
In Atlantic City in 1910.