Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-22

for the law to fail in one of the CHIEF
objects it was designed to make secure.
1t was doubtful if, under the proposed
substitute, an action of debt could be
made effective.
Osborne said that he would like to
make some amendments to the bill,
but didn't know how to do so and
would, he thought, have to call upon
the Senator from Camden to aid him:
Bradley retorted that he knew that
the Senator from Essex was absolutely
opposed to the bill. He was endeavor-
ing to do his duty and would like Ito
make the bill as effective as possible.
Osborne then consulted briefly with
Bradley on his proposed amendment.
He had previously said that he thought
1t might be got in somewhere. In
answer to a sarcastic question by Geb-
hardt. Osborne SAID that he had con-
suited with Bradley and explained to
him why he was III favor of a new bill
and was willing that the present COM
missioners should contiaue in Office
until their terms expired.
Gebhardt declared that the pending
substitute was not in reality a COM
mittee substitute, but was, in fact, a
bill which had been prepared by the
Republican majority in the Senate. If
he was wrong he wanted to be cor
rected.
What he said was not contested. He
went on to say that the Senate must
stop fooling with the people, who had
demanded an efficient public utilities
bill, and to whom sue an act must
be granted sooner OF later. The time
to dc it was now. 1t would be easy
to retain the present commissioners In
office, but the methods of the substi-
tute were like ~smothering the vitality
of an effective law in order to keep
them in their places. =
To unite a tangle Silver wanted to
move that the bill be put back on sec
ond reading. Bradley objected that it
was already on second reading. Ere
! linghuysen said that Silzer's motion
would put the bill in the position of
a committee report. The matter was
dropped with the understanding that
the biz was open to amendment.
Try to Work In Egan Bill.
Osborne Their offered a substitute for
the pending substitute, which, he said,
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practically a new bill. 1t was, in fact.
the Egan bill which was passed by
the House.
Edge said tina the substitute offered
by Osborne wiped out the present COM
mission. The Osborne substitute was
defeated.
Osborne then offered an amendment
to give the commission power to en-
&c. a. a-J,~1 hxy 1aydpf11iId Qr In
junction. 1t was adopted.
Bradley offered an amendment pro-
viding that the annual expenditures OF
the commission should be increased to
$780, 900. AT present the amount is
$4,000.
Bradley said that the substitute pre-
scented by him embraced all of the
features but those of a negative char
acter which were contained in the Egan
and other utilities bills, with h e
ception of the Gebhardt bill. He
knew, he said, that the chief objective
point of the Democrats was to Dust the
present commissioners. He thought
this would be alike unwise and unfair
At any rate, he said, the substitute
just adopted is a mighty good bill
The Senate substitute for the foul
other public utilities bills was called
up again this morning. 1t was pu'
pack for amendment. 1t was founo
that the substitute was i'll part jeop'
ardized by a provision of the genera
railroad law. The lii was laid over.
1t seems that it will be necessary Il
introduce another bill so that the Brad
ley substitute will not conflict with thu
present railroad law in the matter o.
enabling tho utilities commission TO en-