Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-19
NAME COAFEREEs
TO RESCUE COLD
STORAGE MEASURE
James Bill in Danger Through
Amendments of Both House
and Senate.


TRENTON, April 19.-The James
cold storage bill was itself placed in
cold storage to remain ION ice" until
a conference committee can report to
the House and Senate a measure that
stands, at least. some chance of being
acceptable.
When it came to the Senate it was
When it came to the Senate it was
amended and returned to the House.
That body, instead Of refusing to con-
cur in the Senate amendment, asked for
a conference committee. This request
was refuc d by the Senate. The House
then amended the Senate substitute.
which is, in reality. an amendnpent,
and sent = back to the Senate. The
Senate politely returned it.
Leader Matthews. of the House, was
around tonight "having some fun" he
said. over the parliamentary tangle into
which the Hou.- had enneshed itself.
The necessity for doing something p.
d. O., Mr.. Matthews said, could be seen
without glasses.
Later in the night. after some quick
work in the House. the cold storage bill
came over to the Senate again as a
message. Fielder thought the proceed
ing was irregular. Prince said II might
be Irregular. but it was not illegal. He
wanted the House amendments
taken up.
Calls Nichols Ipporamus.
They were taken up and q motion to
concur in them was objected to by
Gaunt Nichols hoped the senate would
concur in them. They simply changed
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and game i'll cold storage from twelve
to nine months. Gaunt said Nichols
was on this occasion, as he was whe
the bill was up the other day, utterly
ignorant of what he was talking about.
Gaunt commended that poultry was as
good at the end of twelve months as il
was at the end of two weeks. Nichols
said he wasn't considered an ignoramus
in the part of the State from which
he came.
The incubator would produce poultry
every day in the year The old hen
didn't 'lay all the chickens nowadays.
Didn't Gaunt know this Their why
had he said the other day hat we could
produce poultry only during certain
seasons of the year. 1t was the old
story of help the mhidleman'' that
this bill was telling. For the Lords
sake said Nichols, ''Iet the consumer
have a little chance"
Gaunt again alleged that Nichols didn't
know his subject. He was singing n
other song to the Cumberland County
farmers when he was running for Office.
THE Senator from Gloucester is a good
fellow. but he mustn't class me as an
ignoramus," he said.
Friction Over T~ime-Limif.
The Senate, after this ruction be-
tween Gloucester and Cumberland, got
round to the old storage bill again
and considered the amendments. The
first one made the bill effective in re-
gard to those who operate as well as
those who own cold storage plants. The
second amendment changed the time
limit for poultry cold storage from
twelve to nine months. They we're voted
on separately. The first amendment
was agreed to. The second amendment
was rejected.
F~relinghuysen said that as he un-
derstood it the failure of the Senate
to concur sent the bill back to the
House again. The matter was in some
thing of a tangle. and he suggested
that the Senator from Hudson witht
draw his motion on the first amend
ment and ask that a committee on
conference be appointed.
Third Amendment.
Fielder didn't accept the suggestion.
The preside In reply to F~relinghuy-
sen, ruled that the reflections on one
amendment opened the way to the ap-
pointlnent of a conference committee,
but that committees would not be
bound to consider a single ame>dm eLt,
but might, if SO inclined, consider and
amend the whole bill. A third amend
ment now appeared. 1t makes it a
fat misdemeanor for violation of any
OF the provisions of the act, instead of
providing a penalty of 800 for the first
violation. 500 for the second and a
misdemeanor for the third. This
amendment was rejected.
Prince moved that the Senate APP
point three Senators on a committee to
f~confer with the House on the bill. The
motion prevailed and the bill was put
in cold storage for the time being,
after having made more trouble than
any measure of the present session.
President Alderman appointed on the
part of the Senate as the members of
the joint conference committee on the
James cold. storage bill Gaunt. Brown
and johnson, all of whom are reported
here to be friendly to the Gaunt amend
ment to the bill, providing twelve
months as the time in which poultry
may be left in cold storage.