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the bill that had so long been her

the bill that had so long been her.
aided.
1t was supposed that with the party
in power committed to the measure un-
equivocaliy the McCran bill would have
been in the Governor hands in q week.
1t was not. Mr.. Beall appeared in
Trenton. The House judiciary commit
tee must give q hearing, he said.
Hearing followed hearing and the
fight on the bill became stronger and
stronger. Mr.. Colby Joined the ranks
of the water lobby. retained by the
b~ondholders of the company who are
talking of losses imminent IL the bill
goes through unchanged.
Butchered by Lawyer.
An effort was made to hold the bill
in the Judiciary committee. Mr.. De
Unger, of Camden. was the only mem
Der who could be found to vote for
the water snake on the ina show
down, however. and it was finally re-
ported. On March 2 1t passed the
House, almost seven weeks after its In
PRODUCTION. 1t a been four weeks
getting out of committee in the Senate.
and has appeared today so butchered
by the water company's lawyers that
1t lS NOT Recognizable
If the bill was to be amended, it
would be supposed that men with the
best interests of the State at heart
would have the attorney-general, who
draws $4,000 a year to look after just
such matters, take cars of it. But that
was not the policy of President FREE
linghuysen and his two Senatorial
shadows. They saw nothing out of or
der in permitting a man paid by the
Hudson County Water Company to die
tate a bill for their presentation to the
Senate.
The measur was first drawn as a.
substitute, taking some of the Ian
guage of the McCran bill as a cloak
for it's real Then the con-
ferees conceived the idea that they
could fool tom" They sent for him
and pointed out that they had left one
whole section OF his bill intact and
wanted to have a few amendments In
troduced.
The amendments start out with the
interesting suggestion that the enact
ing clause and title be stricken out
and others substituted. Then, instead
of a few sentences of clear English
that could not be misunderstood, hun-
dreds of words were placed in the bin.
There was no debate, no meeting Of
the judiciary committee. no attempt to
get the views of Senator James r.
Fielder, of Hudson, who Is a member
of the judiciary committee.
The fact that Mr.. Fielder is a Demo-
Graf seems to d~isqnalify him in the
estimation of the three Senate bosses.
AS soon as Mr.. Beal1, Mr.. Colby and
Mr.. Van Syckel had looked over the
typewriter cop to e that it was all
right from their viewpoint, Senator
Wakelee took it and instructed Senator
Alderman to report the McCran bill
with amendments. This was promptly
done.
Mr.. Van Syckel advised some time
ago that it would be unconstitutional to
pass a law that in effect might nullify
an existing contract. it was said yes
terday.
Mr.. Beall says that it means 100000
for his interests if he "a get the Leg
~islature to do as he wants. He doesn't
say this to the Legislature, but to his
friends among the lobbyists.
The amended McCran bill provides
that when the Governor of an adjoin-
ing State asks for water, the Governor
of New Jersey may, in his discretion,
under certain conditions, grant it.