Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1912-03-07

years Governor Wilson has let it
, be known that he will appoint no
one whom Senator Silzer does not
recommend There is some little
talk of Silzer himself for the place,
but he wants to be Secretary of State,
and 1t is not likely that he would take
the Prosecutorship
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For the first time in the history of
the State there will be no State or
district conventions this year for the
selection of delegates and alternates
to the National Conventions to nonlin-
ate candidates for President and Vice
President All the delegates and al
ternates will be chosen by direct vote,
at an open primary election to be
held Tuesday, May 2S, from p. M.
to 8 D. m. The election will be con-
Quoted in every election district by
the regular election officers. Every
voter whose name appears on the poll
because of the last election or who
has registered by affidavit under the
Geran law will be entitled to vote at
this primary The four delegates at
large and alternates at large will be
voted for throughout the entire State.
while each Congressional District will
vote for two delegates and two al
mates.
The Senate this week by vote of
Is to passed the Gaunt bill extend
ing from 20 to so years the limit on
franchises that may be granted to
Public Utility Corporations. The cry
| a few years ago was for short term
franchise grants, leading to the pass
age of the twenty-year act. 1t was
claimed that the present law prevents
the extension of trolley lines and 9TH
er Public Utilities because capitalists
will not invest in enterprises under
| franchises limited to twenty years.
| Several Senators argued that the
State was suffering through the re-
tarding of trolley extensions owing
to the present law BY passing this
4, bill the Senate records itself as Oh
posed to the Pierce indeterminate
| franchise bill on which a hearing was
given Monday.
The needs of additional transporta-
! ton facilities in South Jersey were
forcibly presented to the Legislators
Monday by delegation from that Sec
ton of the State who urged the pass
age of the Gaunt BILL Among those
in the delegation were Daniel F Hend
rickson, former Mayor of Woodbury.,
James d. Carpenter, editor of the
Gloucester County Democrat, of Wood
bury, Thompson Baker, Mayor of
Wildwood, William NJ Nattix, of Mays
| Landing, John E. Hates, of Ceilings
wood. and Ralph Kellum, of Mer-
chantville.
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Among bills passed by the Senate
this week were the following:
| Prohibiting the use of repeating
rifles in cunning; making it a mis-
deameanor to steal ice from private
ponds; appropriating $4,000 for. 9
State Agricultural Exhibit at the Land
! Irrigation Exposition in New York,
next Fall; authorizing cities to estab-
| lish public slaughter houses. The
Senate has also passed by a vote O.
Is to 2 the amended Pierce grade
crossing bill, one of the big meas
ures of the present session The
measure provides for the removal of
one dangerous grade crossing annual
ly for every thirty miles of track OPP
Grated by railroad, the removal to be
under control of the Public Utility
Commission.
The statute of limitations relating
! to the indictment and punishment of
public officials, extended from two tc
five years in a bill introduced this
week by Senator Fielder, of Hudson
county. Under present law an ac-
| cused public official may not be tried
| for an alleged offense after lapse
of two years, but under the Fielder
measure the time was extended to
4 five years.
After lively debate Monday night,
the Edge bill limiting the hours OF
employment of women in factories.
stores, laundries and restaurants was
! amended The original measure pro-
vided for ten-hour day for women,
with hours at night limited to eight.
Senator Fielder offered an amend
ment permitting extra hours OF work
in mercantile establishments during
the week preceding Christmas. This
was adopted by a vote of II to s. The
bill was then laid over.
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Among the measures passed in the
Assembly were the following:
Allowing dealers to place liens on
grave stones; providing for the
Strengthening of the river road near
this city where the recent automobile
fatality causing FIVE deaths occurred :
placing town superintend-
ents of Weights and Measures under
Civil Service; the Senate bill authoriz-
ing an appropriation for new build
ings and equipment at the State Agri-
cultural College, which will now go
to the Governor; the Colgate bill pro-
hibiting the use of muff1er cut-outs
on automoones, creating a commits
\ sion to establish a park and erect a
monument at Washington's Crossing
concentrating the crossing of the
Delaware by General Washington