Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-07
LEGISLATORS TO
END SESSIONS
IN TWO WEEKS
Little Has Been Accomplished
This SeasOn-Important
Bills Held Up.
ADMINISTRATION PLANS
NOT CARRIED OUT
Corrupt Practises Act, Public
Utilities Bill and Publicity
Measure Hanging Fire.
tFrom a stan Correspondent


TRENTON, April THE Legislature
will adjourn on April Fl, two weeks
from today, according to the best guess
that can be produced on that question
here today. Some of the lawmakers
would like to get away from the long
grind ext week, but the old timers
know that Tat connot be brought
about with so much work yet to be dis
posed of.
The Geran primary and election bill
still hangs fire in the Senate. 1t will
probably be reported out of the COM
mittee of elections, with amendments,
next Monday night. By the time 1t
has been discussed on the floor of, the
for concurrence in the amendments, the
legislative week will be practically
gone.
Bills Hanging Fire.
The Simpson corrupt practises bill re-
poses somewhere in the l%abyrinths of
the Senate and is yet to be acted upon.
The public utilities legislation, that has
long been promised, is still to be APP
PtOfS0 NY DVlh LOuScS.
These measures have occupied the
centre of the legislative program since
the session began, and there are other
questions of vast Importance that await
action. A committee has been appoint
ed to take up with the Lehigh Valley
railroad officials the matter of the
abandonment Of the Morris canal and
has been directed to make a report to
fhn aUicIo tfrA hofnrA !
THE Governor himself is a member of
this committee. He is scheduled to
deliver an address in Indianapolis next
Thursday, and If he fulfls that en-
gagement it will probably delay the
Morris canal report.
For Reapportionment.
The reapportionment of the assem-
blymen under the census of 1910 has
not been made. The Essex delegation
in the House is insistent that their
county should be given an extra mem
Der, at any rate, as all agreed it is en-
titled to. But the Hudson men are
not willing to concede that they, too,
shall not have an extra member, and
that Atlantic county shall, as is pro-
posed in the reapportionment bill in
troduced in the Senate by Mr.. Edge, of
Atlantic. Therefore reapportionment
OF any kind is held UP
One of the issues upon which Gov
ernor Wilson laid great stress in the
campaign last fall was taxation. He
promised to attempt a complete re-
organization of the taxation machinery
OF the State. Nothing has been done
yet toward this end. though the ques-
ton is probably one that has most in
.terested the people for the last decade.
Corporation Publicity.
What Governor Wilson intended to be
the keystone Of the arch of his cam
paign last fall was corporation pub
licity. All his first speeches were an
ampliication of the idea that there
must be an end to Corporation joy
riding" so-called, and he promised, by
inference at least, effective legislation
to the enc that the citizens Of the
State would be protected against ques-
tionable organizations and that those
whose stability were undoubted would
have to take the public into their con
ldence at reasonable intervals. Need
for some such Legislation such as
Governor Wilson then advocated be-
came evident in the action begun by
the stockholders of the Central Leather
Company to find out what salaries were
paid members of the executive commit
tee and to get a general inside glimpse
of the company's affairs. 1t was in the
discussion Of this end of his program
that Governor Wilson used the phrase
'.Pitiless publicity" There has been
nothing doing to bring that about. In
fact, the list Of promised things undone
is greater than fine things done.