Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1912-03-21
POLITICS AND COMMENT
From the State Capitol.


Trenton, March 20 New Jersey
women suffragists failed to get their
resolution getting the ballot through
the Senate yesterday, but they will inn
mediately begin their campaign in the
Assembly. The Gebhardt resolution
| amending the. constitution so as to
give women the ballot was defeated
/ in the Senate by the vote of II to 3,
ators who voted for it were Senator
| Gebhardt and Davis, Democrats, and
Senator Gaunt, Republican
/ Women vote in Wyoming, Idaho,
/ Utah, Washington and Colorado, why
not in New Jersey?" was the slogan
/ of tn suffragists as they invaded the
! Senate in the interest of their resolu-
1 ton. The gallery was filled with the
! Suffragists and they displayed much
j enthusiasm in their cause. The New
Jersey Equal Franchise Society, the
State Suffrage Association, the Wn-
mems Political Union and the Mems
! League for Women Suffrage were
largely represented. Senator Geb-
hardt and Senator Davis both advo-
! Gated the resolution, while Senator
Edge, the Republican leader, Senator
Nichols, Colgate and Pierce, Repu0ii-
cans, spoke in opposition to it,
! Mrs. George T. Vickers, of Jersey
! City, President of the Equal Franchise
4 Society said after the vote in the Scn-
ate that the women were greatly pleas
/ ed in the progress made The New
Jersey Suffragists, she. said, had made
more progress in the first year OF
4 their movement than had been glade
/ in any other state.
/ Candidates for Congress in the pro-
/ posed new North Jersey Districts are
already appearing. In the Hudson
County District four Democrats have
already announced themselves as can
didates. They are Assenblyman Jas
I G. Agnew, of West Hoboken; former
Assemblyman J Emil Walscheid;
Lawyer Francis H N1cCauley, of Wee
hawken, and John Gallery, Weehaw
ken's tax collector. These men Will
contest for the nomination in the 18th
District, and it is believed that AS
semblyman Agnew will stand the best
show of landing the place on the
! ticket.
The Republican bill for the division
of the State into twelve Congressional
Districts SO as to provide for, two
new Congressman has been introduced
in the Senate, and without doubt
will create a warm partisan contest
as the Republicans have so arranged
/ the lines as to give them nine or rem
of the districts. The First, Second,
Third and Fourth Districts are left
as they are The Fifth District is
changed by cutting out Warren, leav-
1 fro 70 ho owl lxy of FIT
and Morris County. The new Sixth
District is made up of Warren, Sus-
sex and Bergen Counties, and the ex-
treme northern section of Passaic
County Bergen County is not at all
pleased with this arrangement,and the
lawmakers from that County may fight
it. The Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Elev-
enth and Twelfth Districts are divided
between Essex and Hudson Counties.
After having started as a clerk In
the Office of the Court of Chancery
thirty years ago, Vice-Chancellor Ed
win Robert Walker, of this city, be-
came the head of the Chancery Court
Monday evening when Governor Will
son sent his name to the Senate as.
Chancellor to succeed Mahlon Pitney,
now Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court. Mr.. Walkers.
appointment was Immediately con-
firmed.
Although Vice-C Chancellor Walker
has been talked of in connection with
/ the office, the appointment came as
somewhat of surprise because last
week the Democratic politicians at the>
State House thought that Supreme
Court Justice Charles G.. Garrison
would be selected as Chancellor. 1t
is known that Governor Wilson was
considering Justice Garrison, but al
most at the last moment, he was
eliminated and the appointment of
Mr.. Walker followed. Chancellor
Walker was born at Rochester, N. r.
/ in 1862, but since 1859 has lived in
this city. He became clerk in the
Office of the Court of Chancery in
1878, and while serving this clerkship
/ he studied law He was admitted to
the bar in 1886, and was made Vice
Chancellor in 1907. The salary OF
the Chancellor is $1,000. Mr. Walk
er's appointment is very gratifying to
the members of the Democratic State
Committee.
Some of the bills passed in the Leg
lslature are: Making 1t misdemeanor
to steal ice from private ponds; regu-
lating moving picture shows; giving
New Jersey suitable representation
at the celebration of the Fiftieth An
niversary of the Battle of Gettysburg
authorizing the appointment in each
county of Commission to work for
the determination of mosquitoes; ap-
propriating 100000 each year for 6ve
years for the construction of the Dell
aware River Boulevard from Trenton
to the New York state line; the Gaunr
bill extending the limit of Public:
Utility franchises from twenty to fifty
years; the Leavitt bill creating the
State Board of Prison Labor Commis-
sioners; increasing the salary of State
Labor Commissioner Bryant from S3,-
500 to $4,000; prohibiting the use OF