Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-21
PASSES
10 BILLS, DEFEATS
IWC AOJOURhS
Fielder Mayoralty Act First
Measure TO Pass Both Houses
This Session.
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TRENTON, Feb. 21.-After passing
ten bills OF minor Importance and de-
feating two, one increasing the salary
of policemen in second-class cities, the
Senate today adjourned for the week.
The police increase of salary bill,
known as Assembly 100, this Ford bill,
occupied practically all of the debata-
bic time OF the senate session. Sen
ators Bradley and Leavitt led the OPP
position TO the bill, which was advo-
Gated by Majority Leader Prince.
Mr.. Bradley held that any intelligent
laborer could fill the position of a po-
liceman, and that few laborers received
ever the minimum salary now paid to
policemen.
Mr.. Prince took exception TO that
statement, but the bill was lost by 2
vote of IL TO @
Hous 16l. the Baientine act con
flrming the tenure of office of school
janitors, was defeated by a vote of :
to s.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union filed a petition against the re-
peal OF the act restr. citing The sale OF
liquor within one mile of a camp-meet-
ing association.
Tho first bill of the session TO pass
both houses and reach the governor
was delivered in the executive chamber
shortly after the Senate adjourned this
afternoon.
senate Bill No. Is First to Pass.
1t was Senate bill 20, the Fielder act.
which provides that in the event oil the
death or disability of the mayor of
Newark or Jersey City the president
of the Council shall act as mayor I'M
til a new mayor is dul yelected; that
was the law until Mark NJ. Pagan as
mayor of Jersey City had the sucles'
sion changed to make 1t the president
of the Board OF Finance. George l..
Record, who framed the Pagan bill,
was at the time corporation counse of
Jersey City. He suggested the change
because while the Board Of Finance
was Republican, being named by the
mayor, the Council was Democratic.
inc II the mayor died II might mean a
political change.
Among the bills reported in the Sen.
ate vas Senate 113, the Gebhardt local
option bill, which has the approval in
advance of Governor Wilson, according
to the advocates of the measure.
Among the Senate bills passed were:
Senate IS, legaiizes stock certificates
when signed by certain officers of cor
porations; House 7, provides for retire
ment of national guard members who
have served over twenty years; House
y. permits f~reeholders to purchase
lands for erection of buildings for
county offices; House SO, provides con-
ditions for appropriation of moneys to
pay for pedestals and foundations for
soldiers n sailors monuments; Sem
ate 81, establishes department of poul-
try n h~usbandry at agricultural xpe-
riment station; Senate As, grants reli-
gious, etc, corporations the owe to
sell cal estate previously conveyed to
them in trust.
senate So, concerns free scholarships
at State agricultural college; Senate
81, enables any Justice of Supreme
Court to ummon witness from n
part OF State in any investigation of
municipal officers; Senate Ill, provides
for payment of proceeds Of building
and loan stock; Senate so, increases
salary of DIR. Moore, superintendent of
Railway R~eformatory, from $500 to
$4,000 a year.
Senator Hand Has Three.
Among the Senate bills introduced
were three by Mr.. Hand concerning
the assessment of taxeB; one by SEN
ator Price giving exempt firemen a
share In the benefits of firemen's re-
lief associations; one by Senator
Fielder giving municipalities the right
to furnish water for public or private
use to other munic palities or private
corporations therein, and an amend
ment to the civil service law authorlz-
ing citizens Of other States to take
civil service examinations where special
training is required In lines of special
work.