Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-25
LEGISLATURE
PLANS RECESS
Will Adjourn Tomorrow or
Wednesday Until Tuesday
of Next Week.
TO ACT ON ANY vETOES
Amendments to Geran Law
in the House and Other
Important Bills Up.
TO ACT ON ANY vEIOEs
tFrom the NEWS Correspondent. )

IL O'CLOCK Tor the home stretch law
making session. Quite number Ct
very Important bills must yet be act
ed upon, besides great grist of
measure OF lesser Importance, SO
that much work remains to be done.
The plan of the legislative leaders
is to stop the lawmaking tomorrow
or Wednesday and then take recess
until Tuesday of next week If Presi-
dent Prince and Speaker McCran
have their way there will be no all
night session tomorrow, with rail-
reading of bills in order to reach
adjournment at a specified hour.
President Prince said today that In
all probability a recess would be
taken tomorrow night, if all the bills
had not been disposed of, until We'd
nesday, with adjournment being
reached some time Wednesday. Then
the lawmakers will come back next
week to act on any vetoes the Gov
ernor may have issued.
Geran Law Amendment.
II the Assembly shall pass the two
Leayitt election bills in the form in
which they went through the Senate
last week, it is practically certain
ty that the Governor will veto them,
election laws for which the Governor
fought last winter and which were
finally enacted after a notable fight
One of these bills permits volunteer
workers without compensation to
transport voters to and from the
polls in any vehicle. The friends of
the Geran law claim such law is
not needed and that it will open the
way for bribery through automobile
rides which before the Geran and
corrupt practice laws were passed,
it is alleged, existed in many parts
of the state.
The other Leavitt bill provides
that personal registration shall not
be required in municipalities of less
than 10000 inhabitants. The Ger
an law makes the limit 5000. Those
opposed to changing the present law
claim that personal registration is q
buIwark against colonization and
other frauds and that 1t should not
be abolished in towns as large as
10000 population. The outlook is
thai this measure will pass the
House, but the Governor is pretty
certain to veto 1t. In all probability
the executive dfsapproval will also
hit Senate bill No. s, by Mr.. Leav-
lit, providing for the election of
Presidential electors.
This bill provides that the elect
ors shall be chosen at the state con-
yention In September, but 1t strik os
at the corrupt practices act in that
II provides that the electors shall not
be required to file any statement of
election expenses. It Is claimed that
this provision was inserted by the
Republicans to avoid having to ac-
count for the $1,000 which is always
exacted from each candidate for
presidential elector as a campaign
contribution.
Other Big Bills.
The big bills which have not yet
been acted upon In either house are
those providing for grand jury re-
form, Congressional redistricting,
the bill for the Abandonment of the
Morris canal and a few others
Grand Jury reform will come up In
the assembly tonight or tomorrow
and will take the form of the SUBJ
stitute measure reported last week.
1t provides that grand jury lists
must be advertised three weeks, the
juries must be drawn under the su-
pervision of the court and names
may be stricken from the Sheriff's
lists upon cause being shown. Con-
gressional redistricting will encoun-
ter strong objection from Bergen
county from being placed with War
rem and Sussex counties and a por-
tion of Passaic.
The assembly must handle lot
of important measures which have
passed the senate. Among them are
the amended Pierce grade crossing
bill, the bill giving women a ten
hour day and sixty hours a week;
the resolution giving women the
right to vote; the Pierce bill reor-
ganizing the taxing system of the
state and the accompanying resolu-
tion providing for commission to
investigate the whole question of
taxation and report next session;
providing for new Vice Chancellor;
increasing the salaries of the chan
ceIlor, chief justice, associate JUS
tees and vice ehancellors; and the
resolution for an investigation of
the question OF recognizing and
consolidating the state departments
House Bills In Senate.
The house bills In the senate In
ciude: The Atlantic City Sunday IL
quor selling Dill; the Ford full crew
measure the Ford bill prohibiting
the misrepresenting strike situations
by employers when engaging strike
breakers; the bill for the Delaware
River boulevard from Trenton to
Port Jervis; the bill requiring five
days must elapse after securing a
marriage license before the cere-
mony can be performed; the series
of bills simplifying the procedure in
the courts, and the James bill pro-
hibiting the carrying of concealed
knives. stillettos, daggers, or raz-
ors as weapons.
Automobile reciprocity is likely to
come up again on compromise bill
and the bills for a system of state
highways have not been disposed of.
The appropriation bills for the new
fiscal year and the supplemental ex-
penditures for the balance of this
fiscal year will likely be introduced
tonight.
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