Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-30
FORD'S NAME
is CONFIRMED
Senate Agrees When Cover
nor Refuses to Withdraw it.


Prom the NEWS Correspondent.)
Trenton, March 3O:-Governor
Wilson having refused to withdraw
his appointment of Professor Henry
James Ford, of Princeton, as Bank
ing and Insurance Commissioner,
the appointment was confirmed by
the senate last night with the aid of
four Republican votes. The Ford
appointment was thrashed out for
nearly an hour after a lively time
over it in a caucus of the Republi-
can senators earlier in the evening.
The vote on confirmation was as
follows:
In favor: observation-disclosures,
of Essex; Nichols, of Cumberland;
Pierce, of Union, and Smalley, of
Somerset. Democrats-Barber, of
Warren; Davis, of Salem; Fielder,
of Hudson; Gebhardt, of Hunterdon;
Johnson, of Bergen; Low, of Ocean,
and Slocum, of Monmouth. This
| just gave the necessary eleven votes.
Senators Edge, Lewis, Read,
Hand, Gaunt. Leavitt and Prince,
the other Republicans, refused to
vote. Senators Fitzherbert, Silzer
dud IIiCO, tu0 OlGGI bSILlOCt q bSy
were absent.
Committee Makes Report.
In the caucu the committee
which waited upon the governor at
his request, reported that the COVER
nor would not withdraw the name
of Professor Ford; there was a dis
c~ussion of the reasons forNthe oppo-
sition to the Princeton man, and
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Atlantic, N one or two Of the
other Republicans, it is understood,
refused to recede from their opposi-
ton.
The opposition was SO strong that
several days ago Senator Fielder,
the minority leader, was requested
to intimate to the governor how the
matter stood and he did so. Then
the governor requested a committee
of the Republicans to see him, with
Prince and Edge called upon him.
This meeting disclosed that the
name would not be withdrawn by
Governor Wilson.
Professor Ford will take office
April 15, when the term of Vivian
M. Lewis will expire. The salary is
$4,000.
Commissioner Lewis took excep-
ton yesterday to an attempt to con-
meet him with the fight against
Professor Ford. He issued a state
ment yesterday afternoon to the eff
feet that he proposed to quit the
office when his term expired. He
denied that he had in any way been
a party to a scheme to himself be
the beneficiary by holding on to the
office IL the senate refused to con-
firm Professor Ford.
Regarding the report that Presi-
dent Prince, of the senate, had engi-
neered the hold-up of the confirma-
ton in the interest of Mr.. Lewis,
who is the Republican leader In
Passaic. county, in which Senator
Prince resides, Commissioner Lewis
said he had requested President
Prince a week Or ten days ago to
take no hand in the controversy,
unless he felt his official position re-
CURED him to do SO.
The only appointment not con-
firmed was that of oliver T. Black
we'll to the Tax Board of Cape May
county. Senator Hand, of Cape May
county, opposed the nomination and
1t was not taken up.
Other Combinations.
The principal nominations con-
irmed were:
Hudson county-Josoph P. Tu-
multy, to be Supreme Court clerk;
Charles e. -Hendrickson, Jr., to the
State Board of Assessors; Joseph
Mccormick, supervisor of the State
Prison; Philip McGoVern. County
Tax Board; Frederick H. Lockwood,
trustee State Home for Boys; Mayor
H. Otto Wittpenn and Mrs. James
Fielder, members of the Woman's
Reformatory Commission; William
r. Faison, Board of Managers Tu-
b%erculous Sanatorium; Lewis H.
Broome, State Board of Architects;
John J.. Mooney, member State
Board of Medical Examiners.
Bergen eounty-Col. Alfred T.
Kelley, State Tax Board; George s..
New, Jr., of Grantwood, State Board
Of Architects; Herbert M. Bailey,
Board of Trustees, State Home for
Girls.
Passaic county--Gongressman Will
liam Hughes to be judge of the
Court Of Common Pleas.
Monmouth eounty-Dayid s. era,
ter, Secretary of State; Elmer H
Geran, State Water Supply Commits
sion.
Mercer county-Herbert P. Mar
gerum, State Board of Undertaken
and EmbafmeFs; manager State
Firemen's Home, Elias X. Leslie;
Alfred K. Leuckel, County Tax
Board; Martin C. Ribsam, Trustee
State Home for Boys: DR.. William
A. Clark and Miss Elizabeth Paxton,
managers Epileptic Village; William
A. Klemann, State Board of Archi-
teets.
Burlington county-Richard P.
Hughes, County Tax Board
State Board Of Health-Senator
Jacob C. Price, of Sussex. Civil Ser
vice CommissionEGolonel Alexan-
der R. Fordyce, of Essex. Union
County Tax Board-Calvin A. Brod-
head.
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