Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-03-07
GOV. Will SON
IS CONFIDENT
Alter Conference With As
sembly on Legislation.
Especial Correspondence ]

Trenton, March 7:--Afrer spend
Ing four. hours In conference With
the Democratic rnembsrs or the
House of Assembly yesterday. after
noon Governor Wilson declared that
he was confident in the belief that
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the Democratic assemb1ymen. which
was the first conference OF It's char:
sacter ever held in the state House,
was behind closed doors. Accord
ing to Speaker Kenny, the governor
was on his feet continuously for two
hours and ten minutes explaining
the four administration" measures.
the Egan Public Utility Rate Max
ing bill, the Simpson corTup. ts--.c-
tees bill and the Edge Employ ~
Liability bill. The latter measure
represents the conclusions arrived
at by the commission Investigating
the subject last year For nearly
an hour and half of the time that
the governor occupied the floor he
was engaged In answering questions
asked of him by the various Demo-
cratic assemblymen. The governor
referred to the affair as "eonver-
sationa1 conference y
Agree ON Other Bills.
There was nGtfe difficulty In thu
conference coming to an agreement
to support the Egan, Simpson and
Edge bills. These three measures.
as result of this agreement, will be
put through the House at the earli-
est possible moment.
After the Geran bill had been
under discussion for a long time, 1t
was decided to delegate the Degno-
cratic House steering" COMMITTEES
to continue the consideration Of 1t
with the governor. The Steering
committee, composed of Messrs.
Matthews, LaMonte, Baekus, James,
Meyer and Ramsay, will meet the
governor IN the latter's Office tomor-
row morning at 9 o'clock.
These gentlemen and myself will
try to get the Geran bin In such
form as will be satisfactory to the
Democratic majority, and the com
mittee will then report back to an
other full conference OF the assem-
blymen," said the governor in refer
ring to this arrangement.
Many Different Rumors.
After the conference concluded at
Z o'clock last night, many contra
dietory rumors concerning what had
happened between the governor aud
the Democratic assemblymen were
circulated through the State House
corridors. One story had II that
number of assembIymen had made
some eaustie remarks concerning the
governors policies. The governor
said there was not word OF truth
In such q report. While he was
talking with the newspaper men
concerning the conference Assembly,
man Egan rushed into the executive
chamber to deny rumor that quot
ed him as saying that so1ne Of she
assemblymen In the conference had
"put It all over the governor
II want you 30 understand that
never said anything OF the sort.
exeitedIy declared Mr Egan to ths
governor II am with you heart
and soul for these measures, added
Mr.. Egan.
While there were mere OF less
suggestions for changes In various
features OF the hiii 10 meet sndivad-
ual ideas, explained the governor,
"I took II that all of those Who ad-
vaneed such suggestion womld vote
for the bill whether or not their
ideas We're adopted. |"
Speaker Kenny wanted tits Geyan
bill referred for further coDsidera-
ton to committee comnosed OF tho
speaker OF the House. the Demoeras
tic assembly and senate Leaders, tes
governor and the introducers
Geran. He put his propositions II
the form OF a motion and Il was feRs
hv 4 vote OF IS 70 IL
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