Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-13
Says New Assessment
Legislation Would
Danish Home Rule.
TAMPERING WITH
CUPID FROWNED ON
Mayor Finds Joker il
Canal Abandonment
Measure.

The municipal legislative conference
this n ofning jumped on several House
and Assembly bills which were brought
up for a hearing Among these was
Assembly. 226, which sought to abolish
the commissioners of assessment for
street i'm. rovement and to substitute
commission appointed by the court.
The mayor holds the appointive power
at present. The conference unanimous
iy voted to disprove this bill, on the
ground that 1t was blow at the sys-
tenn of home rule for municipalities.
City Counsel Nugent advised the dis
approval on the grounds that it was a
distinct step backward and would un-
do the work of years
Another bill, which met with the
unanimous disapproval of the confer
ence, was that which sought to amend
the marriage law, in requiring five
days notice from parties who wished a
license to the bureau which issued
them. aNt
The bill for the repeal OF, the act
which provided for the temporary: re-
lief of the Plank Road conditions,
met the same fate, the conference ap-
parently declining to let the small i'm
proyen1ent slip by on the mere proba-
bility of getting others. On the, grounds
that it was iilimical to the general good
of the municipalities in the Passaic
Valley sewerage district, the so-called
Beard bill, which was designed to en-
able the locating of a sewerage dis
lr.ft1 fifa1
and other municipalities, within the
limits of Beleville, was disapproved
by the Board of Health, to whom it
had been referred.
II there is any suffragetic sentiment
at all in the legislative conference of
the City Council, it was certainly not
shown this morning when Senate bill
,116 came up for scrutiny. This bill
called for the mandatory appointment
of women to the Board of Education.
and had been referred to that board at
the last meeting. This morning it
came back with the board recommen-
dation that it be amended to read so
that the appointment of women be
permissible" The conference. how
ever, disapproved of the bill absolutely.
with or without amendment.
duced by Mr.. Lowy, which provided
for the amendment of the act giving
pathological societies the right to take
bodies of INDECENT or unidentified per.
sons after DEATH City Treasurer Bay
asked that the conference pass favora-
bly, on the amendment.
It seems that the health department
as well as the poor and aims depart
NV, oy7if rio
ganizations favor Mr.. Lowys bill,
which provides for the regulating by
license of the organizations which can
claim these bodies. In its present
state the objectional feature Of the
act seems to be that two or more peo,
pie in the name Of science, traffic in
this line, without any regulation what
ever The amendment was drawn My
Judge William p. Martin.
President Donnelly, of the Common
Council who is acting as mayor in the
absence of, Mayor Haussling, presided
al this mornings meeting.
A communication prepared by the
Mayor was read in regard to the aban-.
donment Of the Morris canal In il
Mayor Haussling stated that the Nor
ris canal Abandonment bill should be so
amended as to give Newark, by pur-
chase, all rights TO that part of the
canal within the city. incidentally he
rc'nted out Joker in the proposed
bill.
4 he communication was forwarded to
the committees on railroads and canals
of both the State Senate and the House
of Assembly.
The Mayor explains, in the first place.
how the old Morris Canal and Banking
Company was chartered by the State
to perform a public service, and that
it was invested with certain powers of
the State. In the abandonment Bill the
present holding company appears be-
fore the State in the light of a con-
tractor who has found his contract un-
profitable and requests to be relieved OF
the burden.
The mayor then points out that the
feeling of the city of Newark isSthat
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