The Penn's Grove record., 1911-04-28
The PENIS Grove Record
FRIDAY, APRIL %, 1911.
LEGISLATIVE WORK CLOSED.
Governor Wilson's Reforms Enacted
Into Laws

Into Laws
The 1876 session of the New jersey
Legislature ended at 3 O'Clock last FIJI
day. after the passage of all the reform
bills advocated by Governor Wilson,
notwithstanding the Assembly was
Democratic anu the Senate had a he
publican majority.
1t was one OF IT, greatest epoch
making legislatures in the history OF
The State. because of the Enactment OF
progressive laws, after a long reputd-
ton OF having been a corporation boss
ridden state.
Gov. Wilson, discussing the Work OF
the Legislature, said he felt that he
was simply expressing a universal SEN
timent in saying that the session Just
closed was II remarkable for goOu
feeling and achievement.
cit has acted not only with unusual
diligence and sObriety, but with slngu-
lar absence of party feeling and party
contest, 1t has had about it the free
dom which characteIiZes men who are
acting in the public interest and With
out regard to priva'e connections Oh
personal interest. In no Othel way can
/ account for its extraordinary record.
s.The Employers Liability and Work
ingsmen's Compensation act has given
the State a statute more servlceable ana
more consistt mt with justice Il IN the
field to which it applies than perhaps
any other i'll the Union.
1.-THE Primary and Election bill has
worked a thoroughgoing reform OF tie
whole ELECTORAL process Of tie State,
and has put every process OF cholce
directly in the hands OF the people.
1.-THE Corrupt Practices act is slngu-
larly thOroughgoing and will undouDt-
edly prove most effective. 1t will DO,
perhaps, more than any other piece OIL
legislation on this notable list, to purify
elections and ecure unbiased actions
OF the people at the polls.
s.The Public Utilities act goes the
full length OF reform i'll respect OF the
control of public service corporations.
1t is a thoroughly businesslike act, well
conceived and well constructed, and
ought to afford a means OF settling
some of the most p%erplexing questions
connected with the control Of corpora
lions.
add to this list the regulation OF
cold storage, the substitution OF indie
terminate for determinate sentences t0r
criminal Offeuses; the ratification OF the
abuses liz connection with false weights
and measures; the administration re-
form of the school system, and it mus
be admitted, that it constitutes one OF
the most remarkable records Of legisla-
ton, l venture 10 think, that has ever
distinguished a single legislative ses-
sion i'll this country"
Among the measures thai failed OF
passage were those abolishlng county
boards of taxation, consolidating ana
abolishing certain Stale boards, per-
hitting sunday base ball, and provid-
ing for jury reform and incorporating
the borough of Ocean Grove. There
was no legislation on the subject OF
taxation except that requiring the rail-
roads to pay their axes III one annual
payment instead OF quarterly.
Local option was defeated and the
only liquor legislation Was the passage
of a bin permitting bottlers to deliver
goods in other municipalitie other than
those in which they were licensed.
The Morris canal abandonment prop
ositiOn was deferred until another year.
Governor Wilson held back his ap-
pointments until all his reform meas
ures had been passed by the Legislature
and they were confirmed. The list
furnishes many surprises. The Gov
ernor retired Supreme Court Justice
Alfred Reed, of Trenton, who ha been
a member Of the State judiciary for
thirty-fve years, and i'll his place ap-
pointed Samuel Kaliach, of Newark,
The first lawyer OF the Hebrew faith
ever named to the Supreme bench.
Justice Reed is to receive a pension of
$3,300a year under an act passed for
his benefit at this session.
He retired Theodore Strong, the
Middlesex boss, from the State Board
OF Assessors, and in his place appointed
George L. Record, progressive Repub-
lican leader in Hudson county. MI.
Record is the man who last fall accept |
ed Governor Wilson's challenge to de
bate campaign issues.
Their famous debate by correspond |
ence resulted, and Mr.. Record then pre- |
dicted DR.. Wilson's election as the
result of his answers to questions re- \
gard ng political reforms.
LIN the making of his appointments
the Governor provided for some of his
Princeton University assistants, among
them Moses Taylor Pyne as a member
of the Public Library Commission, and
Professor Winthrop Moore Daniels to
be a member of the Public Utilities
Commission. Professor Daniels sue (
ceeds former Sheriff Frank Summer of
Newark.
Among the other nominations were:
Judge of Court of Errors and APP.
peals Allen b. Endicott, Atlantic
City, who declines.
Salem County Judge-Edward G.
Waddington.
State Board of Taxation-Edward G.
Grosscup, Gloucester.
Chief of Shell Fisheries Charles r.
Bacon, Camden.
Geological Survey Managers-Stephen
Pfeil Camden; George w. Wheeler,
Bergen; David Ellsworth, Union, and
Professor William Libby, a Princeton
University instructor.
State tuberculosis Commissioners.
William II. Kensineer, Camden; DR..
Frank J. Hughes, Union; DR.. Elmer
S. Loomis, Mercer.
Manager of the Vineland Soldiers
Home-G. Howard Willets, Cumber-
land.
Live Stock Commissioners-T. Earle
Budd, Essex, and Ephraim T.. Gill,
Camden.
County Tax Board-Clifton G. Shinn,
Atlantic; Henry d. Winton, Bergen;
William F. Morgan. Burlington; Jos
E. Nowrey, Camden; Michael IL.
Kearns, Cape May; James Craig. Cum
berland; John r. Oelker, Essex; Thomas
c. Dilks, Gloucester; Mark M. Pagan,
James +. Connolly, and Philip Nc
Govern, Hudson; James A. Cleary,
Hunterdon; Martin P. Devlin, Mercer;
William b. Voorhees,, Middlesex; VII
liam K. Devereaux, Monmouth; E. A
Ouaile. Morris: George c.. Vanllise.