Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-01-25
POLITICS AND COMMENT FROM
THE STATE CAPITOL.


abolition of the present State Road
Department, the State Highway Com
/ mission and the State Motor Vehicle
Department and the creation of new
State highway Commission are all
provided in a series of bills introduced
! in the Senate Monday night by Sena-
tor Gaunt, of Gloucester County max
ing them among the most important
measures introduced into any recent
session of the Legislature. The new
Highway Commission is to consist OF
three members, term four years, sal
ary $1,000 per year, to perform the
duties OF the abolished offices. The
proposed highway system is to con-
meet the principal cities of the State
and the seashore resorts and the Del
aware River Boulevard. The State
Treasurer and the State Comptroller
are authorized to borrow the neces-
sary money up to S10,000,000 to repair
/ the roads of the State. Under the con-
stitution this will have to be submit
ted to the public vote before it be-
comes a law.
Many other important measures
were introduced into the Houses this
week, including the following, for a
memorial park at Washington's Cross
| ing marking the site where General
| Washington and the Continental army
crossed the Delaware; giving nom
resident motorists a fifteen-day priv
| ilege in any one year in this State
without pay; prohibiting the employ
ment of females in stores, factories,
restaurants, ETC., more than ten hours
day or eight hours night; creating
the Office of State Fire Marshal to re-
duce fire losses in New Jersey; ex-
empting domestic servants, farm
laborers and office employees from the
provisions of the employers liability
act; requiring all passenger cars to
be equipped with ice water and drink
ing cups; providing small boards of
Freeholders in second-class counties;
making the carrying of concealed
weapons misdemeanor; permitting
chains on automobile tires.
The Senate this week passed the
two Edge bills for better protection
Of operatives of factories. One pro-
vides that factories must be properly
ventilated and flying dust from ma
chinery eliminated and the other re-
quests all machinery TO have proper
safeguards against injury. Other
bills that were passed by the Senate
provide that chains may be permitted
on automobile tires when roads are
slippery from rain or snow; prohibit
ing 'smuffier cut-outs" on automobiles
within city or town limits or within
two hundred feet of horse-drawn We
hicle.
Resolutions were presented to the
Senate yesterday by the New Jersey
Republican Club at Washington, d.
c., asking that the Geran election law
be amended so as to permit Jersey
voters who are employed in Washing
ton to register in this state.
Governor Wilson said Yesterday
that he had no statement to make in
answer to the letter OF Col Waiter
son relating to the Harvey affair. The
Governor announced that later this
session he would send to the Legisla-
ture a special message recommending
the ratification of the amendment to
the federal constitution providing for
an income tax.
There was an exciting incident in
the executive offices Monday evening
when the Governor ordered a New
York reporter to leave the room. Gov
ernor Wilson claimed that the report
er had misrepresented him and garbl-
ed an interview which the Governor
gave to the newspaper men Monday
Afternoon Governor Wilson telegraph
ed the New York evening newspaper
which the reporter represented, repu-
dating tn article published by it.
The split in the ranks of the Hun
dating the article published by it.
sized yesterday when a deleation of
85 from the Pidcock faction came to
see Governor Wilson to urge the ap-
pointment of Adam o. Robbins, of
Flemington as Prosecutor of the
county to succeed George K. Large,
Republican The delegation was
headed by Assemblyman Oliver c..
Holcombe and former AssembIyman
| John J. Matthews. Senator Gebhardt,
! who is one of the leaders of the other
| faction in the County repudiated the
delegation and would have nothing to
do with it. He said the visitors were
not friends of the Governor, and were
doing all they could to harm the party
in the county. Senator Gbhardt said
he would recommend candidate of
his own later.
|
Governor Wilson sent to the Senate
this week these appointments: Com
missioner of Education, DR.. Calvin
N. Kendall; member of the State
Board of Education, John p. Murray,
of Hudson; former Senator Joseph S !.
Frelinghuyse of Somerset; Professor
Henry j. Ford, of Princeton Univer-
sity; DIR. William G. Schaumfier, OF
Ocean; Col D. Stuart Craven, of Sa-
lem; Edmund B. Osborne, of Essex
John S. VanDyke of Middlesex and
Melvin Rice, of Monmouth. These ap-
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