Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-03
COMMITTEES TO
HOLD HEARINGS
ON HOUSE BILLS
Important Measures to Be
Thresl1ed Out Before Ses-
sions Are Resumed.

From a Statt correspondent
TRENTON. March S.-Before the adj
journment last night of the House till
next Monday evening hearings We're
announced by several committees. The
committee on revision of laws will give
a public hearing on the Crosby bill to
prevent a tuberculosis sanatorium in
Lakewood, and on the Sullivan anti
beef trust cold storage bill next Mon
day evening at 1870 o'clock. 20
A public hearing is to be given Tues
day afternoon on Edward Kenny's bill
which aims TO make the Hudson County
Park Board toe the mark and secure
the O. X. of the Board of Freeholders
on All vouchers for expenditures. The
bill reached third reading Yesterday,
but was r-ecommitted to committee on
miscellaneous business after a hard
fought battle led by Mr.. Nissan, of
Essex.
The committee on elections Of the
House .wfll meet at 1890 Monday morn
ing to dispose of the business which
has piled up and prepare to report bills
referred to it.
Chairman Henry r. Tatem. OF the
House committee on municipal corpora
lions, says that his committee will meet
Monday night to agree upon q date
for a. further hearing on public utilities
bills. So great has been the demand for
copies of public utilities bills that 200
extra copies of each We're ordered
printed tonight on motion of Majority
Lender Edge.
Samuel A. Ridgway. of Salem
county, was the only member
of the House who voted last
night nafayor of child labor at night.
He cast his vote against Assemblyman
0Iwell's bill, Hous Il, prohibiting ems
ployment of children under is years
old between 6 p. m. and 6 a. m.
Mr.. Ridgway is a farmer living near.
Woodstown. and lis one of the most
successful in South Jersey, according
to his biography He believes that lit
tie boys and girls should work all
night in the glass factories.
His autobiography shows that Mr..
Ridgway Is a member of the Religious
Society of Friends, that he is a de-
scendant of Quaker stock. that he is.
a. member of the State Grange and that
he is held in the highest esteem per-
sonaliy by his fellow citizens of all
political parties"
AREN'T you proud of the passage of
the bil2' Mr.. dwell was asked after
it had gone through.
Yes. L am, said the Hudson Assem-
blyman. Il have been proud of its
passage in the House for four years,
but so far the Senate has been able to
kill it. The bill has been referred to
some Senator every year who. in the
nteres of the South Jersey glass
blowers, has srnothered it, letting hun
dreds ufs children go on destroying their
moral and physical stamina and doing
this States future men and women
~incaloulabie harm.
Last year the bill was .smothered by
Senator William Plummer. jr, who
states in his autobiography as a Sen
tx from Salem County that for six
teen yearsSlre served as Quinton School
trustee Pt was one of the chief argu-
ments in favor of the bill
that the practise OF forcing these chill
dren to work at night prevented them
from getting an education.
mir. Ptummer refused absolutely to-
report the ball in 1909. Why? Because
he IS a glass manufacturer himself. 1t
is a fne state of affairs when the Gus
todY of this bill that aims to correct a
bad condition in the glass industry is
referred TO a man who is presumably
an employer of children himself"
Assemblyrnan Snlalley secured unani-
vote of the House in putting
through his bill to repeal the law
makes Clarence r. Case ineligi-
bic for the Somerset county court
judgeship, to which he was recently
appcinted.