The Penn's Grove record., 1911-04-07
LIABILITY BILL BECOMES 4 Law.
Election Bill Likely To Pass The
LEGISLATURE.

On Monday night the Assembly pass
ed the Senator Edges liability bill
which had passed the Senate. Gov
ernor Wilson signed it and made 1t a
law on Tuesday, thus completing one
of the big items on the legislative re-
form program this year..
Gov. Wilson appointed William Z.
Martin, a Colby Republican, to De
Judge in Essex county. AS n OF the
two Judges is Republican he appointed
a reformer.
The Senate passed Assemblyman
Meyers bill ap~propriating $4,000 to
make a survey and map OF a route
along the Delaware River from Tren-
ton to Port Jervis to be known as the
Delaware River Drive.
All of Senator Frelinghuysen's bills,
relating to the reformation OF the edu-
~cational system Of the State as a result
of the recent probe, were favorably re-
ported by the Senate Committee Oh
Education.
Power to enforce its orders by man
damus or injunction and to specify a
penalty of 500 per day for violations
is granted to the Public Utilities Com
mission by the Osborne bill, which Was
passed without a dissenting vote.
On Tuesday the principal feature OF
the Legislature was a hearing before
the senate committe of elections on the
tie merits and dement's of the Geran
election bill, which was recently passed
by the house, after a determined fight
on the part of the chief executive
against the Democratic leaders, who
were opposed to the act.
One of the principal speakers was j.
E. Deignan, private secretary to former
Senator Smith, was the principal oppo-
sition to the popular election of dele
gates to the National conventions. AS
Nh. Smith has been accustomed to
controlling such delegates 10 the past
five conventions he does not relish
a possible change. Former Gov. John
W. Griggs wrote a letter in opposition.
The principal argument in favor of
the measure was made by George l..
Record, the militant leader Of the pro-
gressive Republicans Of New Jersey,
who is said to have been n of those
who drafted it. He gave a clear and
lucid Interpretation of all the features
of the bill. declaring that it was one of
the best things the State ever had seen
and that it meant the overthrow of
bosses in political parties anil the ulli-
mate triumph Of the people. He de
Tended the provision for the election OF
delegates to national conventions in
such a convincing manner that many OF
those who had previously raised objec.
ton to that feature of the bill, while
SUduuluS lO1 IL All oebOt "uotS'o. WIN
f July convinced of its value in that also.
Finally, MI. Record raised aloft a sam
pie ballot less than half the size of that
flashed by DR.. Deignan, and exclaimed
that it had been prepared by a printer
under the direction of the bill, and that
the other, which had been SO sensa-
tionallysprung upon thecommittee, was
the most impossible that n could have
contrived TO deceive the committee.
Former John W. Westcott, of Cam
den, created a stir by stating that the
hearing had taken the form of the
people asking the Legislature for some
thing in this measure. AS they were
representatives of the peope they should
pass the bill. If they do not they will
send men who will.
Geo. J. McEwen, of Sussex, said the
reason some wanted a referendum on
the bill was because they wished to use
the old.time methods to defeat it.