The Penn's Grove record., 1912-02-02
The PENIS Grove Record
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1912.
The l36th Legislature

on Monday night. To meet the mess
age suggestions of Gov. Wilson for the
consolidation of different state depart
ments Senator Silzer. Senator SilZer
offered a resolution providing for the
appointment of five citizens of business
standing and e%xperince, who may en-
ploy experts on system and make such
investigation as may be necessary to
arrange a plan or system for the pro-
posed reorganization. An appropriation
of $25, 900 is provided to meet the ex.
penses Of tile commission. For the Re-
publicans Leader Edge offered a resolu.
ton providing for the appointment of a
committee of two Senators and two AS.
semblymen to bring about the same re-
suit.
Governor Wilson himself has strong
hope that by the lext session of the
Legislature a plan will have been
evolved by somebody.
The Governor sent to the Senate these
nominations, most of them having been
ad interim appointments:
Judge of Court of Common Pleas, Es-
sex cOunty-H. V. Osborne.
Judges of Court Of Errors and Appeals
John J. White, Atlantic; John j Treacy,
Hudson.
County Tax Board-Alfred K. Leuc-
KEEL, Mercer; Ruff V. Lawrence, Mon
mouth.
Board of Fish and Game Commission
ers-William A. Faunce. Atlantic.
Women's Reformatory Commission
Algernon 7. Sweeney, Essex; Mrs.
Allan Vanguard Mercer.
Seventy-two bills were introduced in
the Senate and 29in the House. Among
them were the Frlinghuysen school bills
which he lost last winter, but won on
the reorganization Of the state school
board, to which he has been named by
Gov. Wilson.
The bills of the night were along the
same line of giving the state board al
most complete control of municipal and
county school affairs as they were last
year, and are as follows; Tie board of
education i'll Il school district must ap-
point and discharge a truant officer; an
other bill gives the state board full pow
er to appoint a member of any local
board of education or to fill any acancy
which that board could fill, provided the
local board fails 10 make such appoint
ments; local boards have put on them
the duty Of visiting every school in their
district at least once in each school year,
and report of that fact must be filed
with the stale board; puts the naming of
the county superintendent of school in
the hands of the state board, this TAX
ing it away from the county any say as
to Who the MAJ shall be; and fixes sucn
salaries at s., 1000 a year; makes neces-
sary the appropriation of money for
specific purposes before any contract can
be entered into requiring money; allows
school teachers to retire OH half pay
when they have completed thirty-tive
years OF service and makes mandatory
the payment Of such salaries when the
school teacher has qualified for pension
and applies for it; local boards must
certify TO the county superintendent Of
schools the number of schools and the
attendance theieof 10y scholars and reg
ulates the distI ibution Of stale school
moneys by county superintendent and
the state board the state treasurer is re.
quired to place state school funds i'll
banks designated by the state school
board and III numerous other ways the
finances OF the state are 10 be more
rigidly safeguarded.
These are the bills which some of the
members Of the state board OF tduca-
ton are inclined to have let alone on
the principle that they were agitated
last year Too much for the good of the
schools, and they are i'll line with the
Frelinghuysen policy of the state board
Of education controlling more closely
both the administration of the schools
of the state and the funds which come
to them Oh the main stem of railroads
and from local taxation. II is likely
that these bills which were put i'll the
house by MIR. Anderson, and in the
senate by Senator Smalley, will provide
some of the interesting lights of the
session, because they violate the prin-
cipal of home rule, i'll the opinion of
those opposing.
The Senate received a communica-
ton from Bennett Van SICKLE, former
Supreme Court Justice, and Attorney
General Edmund Wilson, counsel for
the State i'll the litigation now pending
between the State and the Lehigh Val
ey Railroad Company, containing a
summary of the conditions which the
Legislature should consider in deter
mining action Oh the senate bill to au-
ttorize the abandonment of the Morris
Canal.
The lessee residents of Ocean Grove
have been urging the Legislature for
years to pass a law permitting them to
have a vote and voice in the govern
ment of that camp meeting resort
which has become the size of a city.
The Association members of 26 have
submitted a proposition to the lessees
of land, which will permit them to
elect 26 members on the fourth Thurs.
day in August of each year to act in
Joint conference with the members OF
the Association in regards to the gov
erning and caring for the Grove. They
shall have the ~nrivilepa of annointjuo