The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-25
INTERESTING NEWS FR6f TRENTON
What the Legislature and State
Officials Are Doing

Senate Chamber.
A bill passed the Senate to provide
for a woman's reformatory. President
Frelinghuysen vacated chair to Senator
Prince and spoke in its favor. He
urged it eve to bonding the State, If
necessary. Senator Leavitt declared 1t
would costs million dollars and thought
the epileptics and feeble minded should
be cared for first. Senator Bradley
voted against it because he thought the
finances of the State would not warrant
the building of a separate prison for
women.
On Tuesday the local option bill went
down to defeat by a vote OF IA to 6, the
same as last year. A spiri' ed debate
was made by Senator Gebhardt, DEM,
in favor of the bill and Senator Prince
against it. The vote in detail was as
follows:
FOR LOCAL OPTION.
Ernest r. Alderman, R., Union.
William J. Bradley, R., Camden.
Geo. W. F. Gaunt, r., Gloucester.
William Gebhardt, D., Hunterdon.
Bloomfield H. Minch, R., Cumberland.
William Plummer, r., Salem.
AGAINST LOCAL OPTION.
Oliver H. Brown, R., Monmouth.
James E. Fielder, D., Hudson.
JOS. S. Frelinghuysen, R., Somerse'.
Robert E. Hand, R. Cape May.
Harry D. Leavitt, R., Mercer.
Griffith W. Lewis, R., Burlington.
Thomas A. Mathis, R., Ocean.
Edward X. Mills, R.. Morris.
Harry v. Osborne, D., Essex.
Jacob D. Price, D., Sussex.
John D. Prince, R., Passaic.
George S. Silzer, D., Middlesex.
Edward W. Wakelee, r., Bergen.
Edward A. Wilson, R., Atlantic.
ABSENT.
Johnston Cornish, D., Warren.
The local option bill in the A. sembly
is not likely to be reported from the
committee al Assemblymen do not de-
sire to be put on record.
On Wednesday a bill vas passed to
provide an Armory for Bridgeton.
MI. P.ummer introduced a new child
labor law designed to take the place OF
the dwell bill which passed the house
unanimously. 1t is the same in every
respect as the dwell bill except that it
reduces tile minimum age Mt which a
child may be employed from 16 to 10
years. labor and industrial).
Some sportsmen from Salem attended
the hearing Of the game bill on Tues
day.
The Senate fixed April 9Th as the
date for final adjournment.
The new laws thus far are as follows:
Permitting the licensing milk OF vendors,
regulating building in boroughs, regu'
lating salaries in first class cities, valid
ating certain school bonds, validating
certain acknowledgements, validating
sewer bonds, validating certain deeds,
appropriating 100000 for an armory
for Battery B at Camden, prohibiting
false alarms of FIRE, repeating the act OF
1898 relating to formations OF towns
and cities, relating to the tenure Of en-
ployees of street and water commission
ers, a police department tenure OF Office
measure, appropriating $1,000 for the
tuberculosis campaign, appropriating
$25, 900 for the equipment of the chem
istry building at the State College at
New Brunswick, regulating city salaries
by ordinance, extending the powers OF
juvenile courts and of the State Board
of Children's Guardians, regulating
construction of viaducts, authorizing
towns to open waterways, exempting
from taxation property used for pubic
monuments, increasing the fines under
the disorderly act, permitting the
Kearney Soldiers Home to cede certain
lands, ceiling to the Federal Government
lands in Gloucester county for an i'm
migrant station, repeating the provision
that a county judge must be a counsellor
at law of five years standing so as to
permit Clarence E. Case to become
Judge of Somerset county, relating to
the care of destitute persons, appropri-
ating $1,000 for State inland waterway
work, amending the act concerning
tax sales, annexing the township OF
Wall, Monmouth county, to Belmar,
the Gaunt "white slaye'' bill, regulating
the navigation of vessels, creating
boards of trustees for the care Of the
poor in third class counties, prohibiting
prisoners more than twenty-five years
of age from being committed to the
Railway ReformatOry.
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