The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-03
PROMISE
HAS NO WEIGHT
WITH ASSEMBLY
Increase Governor Said He
Would Give Reformatory Su-
perintendent Killed in House.

TRENTON, March S.-The House
yesterday defeated the Senate bill pro-
viding an increase in the salary of the
superintendent of the Railway Re-
formatory from $500 to $500 a year
and maintenance, it receiving three
votes less than were necessary. This
measure was supported by the gov
ernor, who, with the board of man.
ayers of the institution, promised the
increase to the Rev. DIR. Frank Moore,
president of Pennington Seminary, II
he would become superintendent, DR.
Moore resigned at Pennington and &C.
copied and now finds the promise given
him will not be fulfilled.
The bill extending the primary law
to the nominations Of governor and
congressman vas reported adversely,
and the motion to put the bill on second
reading was also defeated.
Governor Fort sent to the Senate
these nominations:
James r. Mullikin to succeed himself
as civil service commissioner.
DIR. John Nevin, of Hudson county,
as a trustee of the State Hospital for
the Insane at Morris Plains to succeed
James C. Morgan.
Arthur D.. Forst, Of Trenton, to be a
trustee of the State Hospital for the
Insane at Trenton to succeed John Tay-
lor, deceased. a
Governor Fort asked the Senate's
consent to confer the rank of major
general Upon Adjutant- General BRENT
nall, who retired from office today un-
der the new retirement law.
. Another bill introduced places on the
State Health Board the work of the
State tuberculosis Commission.
Among the bills passed in the House
were: House 1875. by John F.. Clark, of
Essex, placing the management of the
Soho Isolation Hospital and it's employ
ees under the supervision of the new
Republican Board of F%reeholders and
taking it from the. present board OF
managers; a political measure. House
142, by Martin E. Keffer, of Atlantic.
to give Atlantic City the right to build
a half-million- dollar hall for conven-
lions and public gatherings. House rs,
by Joseph P. Tumulty, of Hudson. in
creasing police salaries In Jersey City.
House No. IA, by John F. Clark, the
Newark bill to permit further paving
under the Jersey City act by making it
DOSSIDlc " uC+tCIlpOEdT lOdH DOIuS.
instead of redeemable certificates to
raise funds for payment, was with
drawn tonight by Mr.. Clark at the in
stance of the Board of Works of New
ark and Chief City Engineer Morris r.
Sherrerd.
The House, by a vote of 80 to %. dis
posed of House bills 40 n Al, by Henry
C. Hines, of Essex. The measures re-
spectively provided for extension of the
direct primary law to nomination Of
candidates for congressman and gov
ernor.
A~ssemblyman James G, Blauvelt, of
Passaic, started a lot of trouble by
proposing an amendment to Senate
concurrent resolution No. 1, to amend
the State Constitution and reorganize
the judiciary, his amendment providing
that no person should be made amen
able for contempt unless such contempt
occurs in the presence of the court.
This is one way OF getting directly to
the Democratic national campaign
proposition of Samuel Gompers to pre-
vent governments by injunction" The
amendment is in the interest of or
ganized labor.
The joint Senate and House finance
committee report, while signed by the
three Democratic members. was grilled
by most of the Democratic minority Of
the Legislature, For the caucus, AS
semblyman Mark A. Sullivan. of Hud-
son, House, Democratic leader, mada
this statement
"The report submitted by the fnan-
cial investigating committee does not
represent the sentiment by any means
of the Democratic members of the Leg.
islature."
The Legislature adjourned last night
until next Monday.