Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-01

writing to judges of Common Pleas
Courts to sit in the Circuit.
By MI. McCran-Provides that jurors
may be paid at such time as the Board
Of F~reeholders shall direct.
BY Mr.. Smith-Incorporates the Dor
ough of Califon. Hunterdon County.
The old bone of contention.
By Mr.. Baker-Authorizes municipali-
ties in first-class counties to pay ex-
penses incurred by clerks in advertising
any general, special or charter election
held during the year 1909.
Fifteen bills were reported out
of committee. The Lee bill,
House 219, empowering the Pub
lie Service Corporation, upon con-
sent of owners of 50 per cent. of the
property along such rights of way, to
build connecting trolley lines of a half
mile or less in length, provided the
Board of Works of Newark approves,
was the most important.
A~ssemblyman Terhune's bill to give
employees of the Boards of Work in
Newark and Jersey City life tenure
after three years service, unless re-
moved for cause, was another measure
reported.
Sullivan's Hudson County viaduct
act was reported, as were these others:
Schwartz's bill to permit appoint
ment of an Excise Board of four by the
Mayor and Common Council of Eliza
beth.
Schwartz's Elizabeth, Board of Works
act.
Schwartz's bill providing that unless
candidates for nomination file a certih-
cate conserving to stand their names
shall not appear on official ballots.
Moore's two civil pension bills.
Smalley's bill to make Clarence E.
Case eligible for the judgeship in Som
erset County, to which he has been
appointed.
S%ullivan's bill for a Hudson County
Contagion Hospital and to pay appro-
priations solely at disposal of boards
of managers of county hospitals.
A~ssemblyman Wohlfarth's bill allow
ing Newark to give band concerts in
June, as well as July and August, and
permitting an expenditure of more
money for that object, was passed
without opposition.
The House passed unanimously Mr..
Miller's bill providing that unless the
constitution or bylaws of county po-
litical committees fix the term at one
year the members of such committees
shall serve for two years. The bill
amends the law which was changed
through the efforts of Governor Fort
last year to require the election at
regular primaries under State law In
all city and county political commit
tees.
The Fort act is silent as to the length
of term of members so elected, and the
presumption therefore is that they
must he chosen annually.
Other bills passed include:
BY Mr.. Observation-Disclosures munich
palities to construct lateral sewers to
conenct with trung sewers.
BY Mr.. Moore-Regulates the fees to
be paid for redeeming property sold for
taxes.
House joint resolution No. 3, by Mr..
Layden, creates a commission to inves-
tisate the old g pension system.
House "a. by Mr.. Moore-Requires the
filing OF a bond in civil suits before a
rule to show cause why a new trial
should be granted shall become effec-
tive. which bond shall be in double the
amount of the Judgment.
Opponents of OIwelfs bill to pro-
hibit employment of children for night
work failed to put in an appearance
when the House committee on labor
and industry sat to hear argument,
1t was openly stated h a the reason
for their non-appearanee was h a they
felt sure that they could have the bill
s~mothered, as they have in the past,
when it reaches the Senate.
For the bill spoke Commissioner of
Labor Lewis T. Bryant, Harry J.. Gott-
lob, who represented the Essex Trades
Council; Mrs. Howard Crosby Warren,
of the State Federation of Women's
Clubs; Miss Cornelia Bradford, of
Whittier House. Jersey City; Mrs. G..
H. Perry, of the New Jersey child labor
committees; George Leary, the Rev, H,
B.. MacCauley, of the Inter-Church
Federation; Professor S. o. B. Harper,
of Princeton University, and Mr.. Ford
No decision was reached by the com
mittee.