Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-01-07
FEATURES OF
SESSION OF
LEGISLATURE
Two of Particular Interest
Besides the Election Of
United States Senator.
BIG RIVALRY BETWEEn
THE TWO HOUSES
spscar 90 The EyRNrve VIEWS.


Trenton, Jan. 1.-TWO special fea-
lures will mark the 135th session Of the
New Jersey Legislature which will be-
gin at noon next Tuesday aside from
the spectacular fight over the United
States Senatorship. One will be that
an unusually large number Of impor-
tant measures will be introduced and
the other, that these measures will have
exceedingly rough journeys before they
reach the Governors pen, because OF
the cross political fire resulting from
the different complexion of the two
houses.
Governor-elect Wilson has not given
hint of what his inaugural address
will contain, but it is expected that
his recommendations and the Demo-
cratic Legislative program win be along
the line of the state platform Of last
September upon which Dr. Wilson was
/ nominated.
The platform declared first for
thorough administration reorganization
Of the state government in order to
secure greater economy and efficiency,
and DIR. Wilson reiterated it in his
speeches, SO doubtless the Democrats
will introduce some bills along this
line.
Abolition of unnecessary boards was
another plank in the platform and this
has been the Democratic cry since the
Assembly investigation of 1907. The
Democratic program will probably In
clude bills for the cons. idation Of
the Bureau of Statistics and the De.
partment of Labor and other merging
of similar departments.
! In order to meet the platform plank
declaring for equalization Of taxes
! there are rumors that the Democratic
| will fight to consolidate the State
Board for the Equalization of Taxes
and the State Board of Assessors and
reduce the number of members Of the
board to three.
/ Both parties have declared for giy-
ing the Publict Utility Commission
4 power to regulate rates, but nntW3khj
this will produce one Of the HvefieB'
II fights of the session, owing. tessth!
: effort Of each party To- fst z3f|
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: pnb1feans have programs calling fo
! the early Introduction of Important
! bills and each party will endeavor ID
Get its OWN bills FAsseds and on shs
statute books. This will lend inevfta.
bly, to partisan clashes ON MANY
measures, for the Senate Republicans
will not accept the measures OF the
Democratic Assembly without stren.
loas opposition and vice versa.
Both parties will introduce bills
] providing penalties for corrupt pracs'
tiees in elections, and here again thera
will be struggle for party suprem.
aey in order to win political capital.
Some of the other Democratic plat
form propositions that are Iikelg.to
appear In meassHess-in--t tite reg fsfa
are: Control Of corporations, simplI-
fication 4of the electoral machinery tx
make direct nominations more effec-
tual, extension of the civil servsre;
providing for giving the same rights
to automobiles from other states as
are accorded in those states to mo-
torists from New Jersey; stringent
employers liability law; for the abo-
lition of the County Tax Boards; and
in favor of an amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution providing for the
election of Unit States Senators by
direct vote of the people.