The Penn's Grove record., 1910-04-22
The PENIS Grove Record
D APRIL %, 1910.
GOV. FORT VETO RECORD BREAKER
$40 New Laws Enacted, 514 Meas
ures Fell by Wayside.
Lost Bill Hunt

Lost Bill Hunt
/ Having signed in all 80 laws and
vetoed sixty-eight, Governor Fort con-
cluded his consideration OF the bills
passed by IL e bath session of the legis-
lature.
OF the 552 bills which origin ated in
the House, 222 passed both House and
Senate. and were delivered to Governor
Fort by Chairman Benjamin III. Crosby,
of the Hou a committee on passed bills,
$50, OF nearly go per cent. of the house
measures failing Of passage.
A total of $40 bills were introduced
in the Senate, and of these 1856 were
passed by the Senate and House and
delivered to the Governor, 1874 meeting
defeat OF being killed in committee,
over "a per cent. of the total.
The average number of bills put
through by each Senator is, therefore,
about six. The average number per
Assemblyman is about four, while tie
average number of House bills that
have become laws is about three for each
Assemblyman.
Among those which were late III be-
ing unearthed were the dwell anti-ch1ld
labor bill, the Moore bill, leaving the
question of contribltory negligence III
suits following grade crossing railroad
accidents for the jury to determine, and
the Goldingray bill providing for a sub
way station under Military Park, New
ark. The first two were signed ana
the last named vetoed.
HUNT MISSING BILLS.
Leslie r. Fort, the Governors son
and Secretary, and Chairman Crosby,
of the House committee on passed bills,
worked most diligently before they
located the missing bills. The Governor
sent for Clerk James Parker, Ut the
House, for a heart to heart chat on the
subject of missing State papers before
the bills actually materialiZed. 1t has
com to be an annual custom, searching
for bills, and it has happened more than
once that bills have failed TO become
laws because they could Lot be found
OF because some proof Of publication OF
other paper necessary wasn't produced
within the time allotted for The Cover
..,sc nN,tiAorat ion Mr. Da1EnI, aS.
planned by showing that they were
being reprinted.
The total numbers of chapters Of The
laws of 1909 was 272 and OF 1908 232.
That does not include, Of course, joint
resolutions Which passed both houses
and became laws through The Cover
nor's apple oval. The volume of laws of
1910 Will contain sos chapters, many
more than Was anticipated.
There WAS a great deal OF talk i'll the
last campaign about leading the statute
books down with useless laws, and some
of the lawmakers pledged themselves 10
a plan of uudoing rather Than OF doing.
But the files OF both House and Senate
were flooded with mole than the usual
number Of proposed laws, while the
number actually PASSED broke records
of recent years. But foI The Governors
exercise OF his veto power there would
more than $40 chapters 10 lie laws OF
1910. Only two joint resolutions we've
passed for This year aud approyec.
Including a few recalled at the request
Of the Governor d total OF sixty eight
bills, most of them measures that orig
mated in the House, We're killed after
passing both House and Senate. This
is 4 record breaker tol Yetoes.
Governor Fort filed his veto Of the
Ramsey bill for the control and regula-
ton OF the practice Of osteopathy. He
shows that the bill tended TO serve the
interests Of the old school physicians
and to work against osteopatIs.