The Penn's Grove record., 1912-04-19
ACT ON VETOES
AND new BILLS
Gov. Wilson Sent Disapprov-
for FOrty-TwO Measures.
LIVELY WORK FOR SOLDIERS
Many Laws Passed over Executives
Head, Some Died and Others Lived
for Future Action-Fifty-Year
Franchise Act Got Through.

Especial Trenton Correspondence
Trenton.-Many of the AZ vetoes
which were sent to the Legislature by
Gov. Wilson, were passed over his
disapproval, some were not passed
again and others are still to be acted
upon. Some new bills were intro
duced, rushed to final passage and
sent to the Governor for his action,
there was lively debates and discus
sions, chiefly resulting from the yetoes
sent in with various hills by the Gov
ernor because of his disapproval for
causes which he set forth clearly,
though not in every instance to the
liking of the members of Legislature.
While possible that both houses may
decide to take another adjournment
for a week to give the Governor time
to pass upon such bills as may be
passed, there was a feeling that there
will be little need for this unless the
Congressional district r~eapportion-
ment measure takes the form Of a
new bill instead of the passing over
the veto of the Governor Of the one
which was passed prior to the last ad-
journment.
Passed over Veto.
The most important of the bills
disapproved by the Governor which
were passed yer his veto were the
ifty-year franchise act, the Newark
Board of Works mandatory appropria-
ton bill, which compels the Common
Council to provide sufficient money
with which to do the work for which
the Board of Works is held respon-
sible; the resolution providing for a
commission of twelve to further in
vestigate the Morris canal abandon
emit proposal; the incidental approx
ration bill, over which there at enc
time threatened to be something of
a row hat might have unpleasant
results; the bill increasing the salary
State Civil Service Commission, and
the bill regulating the release of the
State prison inmates. In the Senate
the House bill to permit wholesale
liquor dealers to make deliveries in
other municipalities of the State than
those in which they are licensed, was
not passed over the G~ubernatorial
veto, nor was the House bill providing
for the licensing and regulating of
poolrooms.. Senator Fielder's bill
extending the pension system in
municipalities also failed of passage
ove the veto of the Governor by the
Senate and awaiting House concur
renee include the volunteer transpor-
tatiOn measure, the bill allowing per-
0 n who have been deliquent in filing
election statements to remedy their
fault without losing their positions;
the prison labor commission bill and
the trackless trolley bill.
A Veto TangIe.
The greatest fuss of all has been
kicked up by the railroad grade cross
ing adjustment bill. Governor Will
son vetoed it on the ground that some
Of its provisions were not only un-
reasonable but actually prohibitory of
proper enforcement in fairness to the
State and to the railroads and sent it
back to the Senate. The shout i'm
mediately went up that the veto was
without value as the bill which was
actually passed by the Legislature
was a new measure originating in the
House and that the veto should have
been sent to that body, but that it
could no be called back, and as the
time limit fixed by the Constitution
had expired the bill had really become
a law without the signature of the
Governor. Governor Wilson insisted
that his action had been entirely
proper, all the circumstances consiG-
cred, and that despite the fact that
an informal ruling of the Attorney
Generals Offices seemed to bear out
what members of the Legislature con-
tended he still believed that he was
right, and that the veto should stand.
An appeal was finally made to Attor-
ney General for a formal opinion in
the matter. He decided that the veto
undoubtedly belonged to the House,
but that the Governor, it seemed, had
uiiIlA EPlA IL ~ 4lC II Win tHdI DOOy,
and hat he was in error in sending it
to the Senate the remedy would be to
get it back and send it to the House.
This was finally done, Notwithstanding
the fact that many of the members of
the Legislature did not fully agree
with the opinion of the State law
department. At any rate, no action
was taken toward passing the measure
over the veto.
The Veto Power.
If Attorney General Wilson's view
is correct, the Legislature is power
less to force the Governor to act upon