Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-07

failure to enact this legislation during
the past two years has been a fragrant
violation of a most honorable and
specific political pledge"
Just to show again how the leader
and his abject followers obeyed orders
a pertinent resolution was submitted
to the House, reading as follows:
High Cost of Living Bugsboo.
whereas, According to a recent re-
port of Bradstreet's Commercial
Agency, it is shown that the necessi-
ties of life in the w of foodstuffs
have increased in ratio as follows
since 1926: Wheat, 81 per cent; corn,
l0S; oats. IS; flour, IS; beef, a.; hogs,
$50; mutton. p; eggs 2o4; pork, 212;
lard, POI; butter, 113; cheese, $50; beans,
1856; potatoes, 100, and,
Whereas, it is believed thai such
tremendous and intolerable increase in
the cost of living is caused by
monopolies established and kept alive
by the tariff avs Of the United States,
therefore be it
Resolved, by the General Assembly
of the State of New Jersey, the Senate
concurring, that the members of the
United States House of Representatives
from the State of New Jersey and the
United States senators from the State
of New Jersey be, and they are hereby
requested to have a law passed by the
United States Congress at once placing
all such commodities and necessaries of
life, as well as coal and lumber, on the
free list at once;
Resolved, That certified copies OF
this resolution be transmitted at once
by the secretary of state of the State
OF New Jersey to the several senators
and representatives of the State of
New Jersey in the Congress of the
United States"
The leader" Immediately moved that
the resolution be referred to his own
committee, the speaker shut off debate,
and the resolution was never per-
mittted to come before the House.
Both parties had declared for home
rule for municipalities. Bill No. 205, a
most comprehensive measure for home
rule, was introduced February l. 1t was
referred to the committee on municipal
corporations, inc Mr.. Tatem. the chair
man, never permitted it to see the
home rule bill, passed the House, but
was buried in the Senate graveyard.
How long will the people stand for
NioidtSI lGdSC S anu OIOhCi ptOlIilcCS .
Oh, how long?
have settled the question of equal
taxation or railroad taxation forever.
1t was never let out of committee.
Enormous Appropriation.
AS to the financial feature Of the
Legislature of the session. The appro-
priation bills of the session amounted
to the enormous sum of $5,096, 092y77, an
increase of 81, $50, 742.21 over last year,
and ain increase of 50, 23S, 110.77 over the
appropriation of $1,S57 ,982 OF 1893, that
shocked the State" and that does not
include the incidental bill for the ses-
sion. The appropriation and incidental
bills should be considered the most Inn
portant bills Of the session, and the
members should rave the time and the
opportunity to examine them, but they
came from the printer and were laid
on the desks of the members on the
last day of the session, when disorder
vas the order OF the day, and when
no one was permitted a minute CT
serious thought or of serious reflection.
The public school fund was looted last
year, n the public school fund is
looted again this year, so that the
bosses may have money to spend to
further their own public (?) enterprises
The Glen Gardner Tuberculosis Insti-
tuition is crying for better accommo-
dations; about every dependent insti-
tuition is asking for money to meet
immediate demands. The cries of the
State dependents are unheeded, but a
half million dollars Of the States
money is pledged for an automobile
speedway in Bergen county and $50, 900
more is gone for another automobile
speedway on the ocean front, and has
been laid on the people this year. Will
the people stand it? Will they stand
it?
AS to the Incidental graft" one item
is enough to show the rapacity of the
majority in the last Leg%islature-the
money paid by the State for station
cry. The total amount paid was ST.
221.17, or about $50, for each member
All that the members received, SIG. 10
worth. NThat's all, Total ST. O4. 10.
Who got the balance of So, 917.07 1lched
from the State? Who got it? Each
member received the following: Three
bill files. worth 81: $50 letter-heads and
envelopes, worth So; a knife worth 81;
a paper cutter worth 10 cents; erasers
worth 90 cents; a nail brush, a comb,
a hair-brush and toothbrush, worth
81; four quires of legal cap and some
pads, worth about 50; a pen, worth
$3.50; half a dozen pencils, a few steel
pens, ink and paste and a box of rub
Der bands, worth about 81; a box of
pins and some ct c~eteras, worth about
81; that's all.
A proper employers liability bill was
refused, and the question was turned
over to a commission of inquiry, al
though there is on file in>the State
House the report of a similar commits
sion appointed in 1907.
The proposition to nominate candi-
dates for governor and for Congress by
district primary vote was killed,
though the people want it.
The cold storage bill, which would
to some extent prevented monopo
lists from keeping up high prices on
the necessities of life, was mysterious
ly lost by the usual orders of the