Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-09
LEGISLATURES
18TH SESSION
Will Open Tomorrow at
Trenton.
r. fae EvEgyga NEws.

Special to fAs EVENING NEWS.
Trenton, Jan. with a Demo
cratic governor for the first time in
fifteen years, a Democratic majority
on joint ballot for the first time In
eighteen years and confronted not
only with q strenuous United States
sehatorship fight but also with many
very important state issues, the one
hundred and t~hirty-ffth session of
the New Jersey Legislature will con-
yene tomorrow at noon. The DEM
o~crats, with their twenty-four ma
jority in the Assembly, will organ
isse that body, while the Republican
majority of three In the Senote will
enable that party to rule tt.cre. This
political opposition in the two
will lead to many interest
Ing situations throughout the ses-
sion.
1t is expected that following the
formal organization. both houses
will adjourn until Monday night Of
next week. Although both parties
Will p a for political advantage in
the matter of early legislation on
pending state issues. it is not likely
that precedent Of years will be bro
ken by the Introduction Of bills to-
morrow. What Is looked for is the
appearance next Monday night
among the food OF bills. Of tine big
party measures In each house upon
which the respective parties will rest
their hopes OF gaining legislative SUI
premacy.
Much interest Will center around
the reading of Governor Forts third
and last annual message. In his
former messages the Governor made
q number OF recommendations which
the Republican Legislatures turned
down. It Is considered probable that
he will r~eiterate most of those sug-
gestions and 1T would not be surprfs-
ing If he should speak of the failure
of the former Legislatures to heed
them. It Is not likely that Govern
or Fort will discuss new matters. as
it is customary to leave those to the
Governor-elect, particularly when
the latter is of the opposite party.
The organization of the Senate
will be featured by the contest over
the seat In Ocean county. This Is
the first one over q eat In the Leg
isIature since the famous "rump'
Senate quarrel in 1894, when TN
Democrats attempted to keep CON-
troll OF the upper branch by unseat-
ing Senator James A. Bradley. OF
Monmouth county, but were finally
beaten by an appeal to the state
courts. George c. Low. the Demo-
crat from Ocean, holds the certificate
to the Senate seat on the face OF the
election day returns, and without a
doubt the Republican majority will
seat him, leaving 1t to an investiga-
tion to finally determine the issue.
When the certificate of Senator
Low is presented, Thomas A. Mathis,
the Republican candidate, will file
a protest against the seating of his
opponent on tho ground that a re-
count has shown the former to have
been elected. This will raise the is
sue as to the alleged fraud In Ocean
county, which the courts r expect
ed to settle.
It win not be at all surprising IL
there are ON rtpples among the
Democrats Tn the House organfza-
ton. because the fight over the Uni
ted States Senatorship has led to
considerable d1scord, particularly IN
Hudson and Essex counties. For In
stance, there has been a lively fight
In Essex over the ONCE OF clerk OF
the House, which has been allotted
to that county, and Oh this and some
other questions the Essex delegation
Is not = unit. There are rumors
that, as the result of the attempt to
line up the entire delegation up
for James Smith, Dr., James Nugent,
Smiths chief ~lieutenant and state
chairman, will have some difficulty
In keeping all the Essex members
within the party traces.
The Senate will choose Senator
Ernest r. Alderman, of Union cnun-
ty, MS president, and owing to the
opposition OF Senator Isaac T. Mich
OILS, OF Cumberland, who Is a rank
snti-Stokes man, to Howard Tyler,