Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-20
SENATOR FIELDER
CORRECTS WILSON
M|SSTATE EMENT
Denies There Was Anything
Underhanded in Disposal of
ColdsStorage Bill.
GOVERNOR IN ROLE OF
CARELESS COMPLAINANT
Many Senators Resentful Over
ImputatiOn Cast Upon Them
by Executive.
lsp.eial to the Newark star ]

JERSEY CITY, Jan. Ex-senator
Fielder's statement on the cold-storase
bill shows Governor Wilson again &C.
cupying the roll of complainant on
false information.
In his inaugural he took the posi-
ton that this bill had in effect been
buried in the Senate. He did not state,
what was a fact. that the bill In ques-
ton did not pass the House until 8
O'Clock on fle day Of the final session.
When it reached the Senate the hour
of adjournment was at hand.
The governors public charge, which
has been proven to be false, again en-
phasizes the careless source from Whicn
he derives his news.
His senators of the present and past
bodies are openly angry at this latest
glaring evidence of unfalrness on the
part OF the governor. Many Of them are
manifesting their feelings In stirring
statements, others are confining them
selves to a straightforward account OF
the occurrences at the time, which is
proving very effective in placing the
governor in the wrong.
senator FieIdsr's Statement.
Senator Fieldex's statement follows:
In last nights issue OF the Jersey
journal there appears a news arti-
Gle with reference to the James cold
storage bill in which one of the Sem
ators Is quoted as having said that the
bill came up for final passage In the
rush OF the closing hours of the ses-
sion and that l then said 1t should
not be passed in the shape 1t was
drawn. The article then quotes me as
denying this statement.
''I'he fact Is that l stated to your
reporter that the bill was never re-
ported from committee and did not
come UP for final passage and that
did not make any such statement at
that time. l do not want y. under
stood, however, that at no time
stated that the bill should not be
passed in the shape In which it was
drawn, because I did say TO the prest-
dent of the Senate substantially that,
but that statement Was made at a time
when Mr.. james was making inquiries
of him concerning the bill and the
president of the Senate asked me
about 1t.
Your article also quotes me as say
ing to your reporter In connection with
the Governors remarks on this bill:
Governor Wilson has not been misin-
formed This is a misstatement
believe the Governor was misinformed
as to the true facts. This bill came to
the Senate q few hours before final
adjournment with many other bills
and was referred to a committee, Of
which Senator Brown was chairman,
but / am informed, never reached his
hands. Like the other Senators, 1 had
a number of bills on my hands at that
time, some in committee and others
ready for final passage, all of which
was endeavoring to move and L was
exceedingly busy.
when Mr.. James called my atten-
ton to his bin told him l thought 1t
was not properly or fairly drawn, that
It therefore ought not and probably
would not pass, and that IL gave any
time to it I would probably jeopardize
other bills which We're requiring my
attention. When President Frelinghuy-
sen asked me about 1t I made sub
stantially the same statement to him.
This bill suffered a fate no different
from many others which came to the
Senate at the same late hour and there
was nothing mysterious or underhand
connected with It, Governor Wilson
was certainly misinformed on the facts
and unwittingiy cast an undeserved re-
Election on the Senate"