Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-04-12
% BILLS PASS
OVER THE VETO
Legislature Broke Fe2ord in
This Regard Yesterday.

Trenton, April 12:-Twenty-two
bills were vetoed by the governor
were made laws yesterday after
noon and last night when both
branches of the legislature passed
them over the executive disapproval.
1t is the first time in the history Of
the state that such wholesale over
riding of 'vetoes took place in one
day.
The Senate disposed Of all its We
toed bills. 1t passed seven oven the
vetoes and they were all subsequent
Wy passed by the assembly. The
senate concurred In the governors
veto on ten of Its bills and they are
dead. The assembly passed eighteen
of It's measures over the veto, and
fifteen of these went through the
senate. The assembly did not CON
cur in a single veto. This house has
several vetoes yet to take up when
1t returns next Tuesday.
The measures made laws by over
riding the disapproval were. The
Leavitt bill permitting volunteers to
transport voters to and from the
polls.
The Leavitt bill creating a BIZ
partisan Board of Prison Labor
Commissioners.
The Gaunt bill extending the time
in which candidates of last fall may
file their election campaign expense
statements. Several of them we're
convicted of violating the corrupt
practice act.
The Edge bill, taking away certain
exemptions from distress for rent.
Thn Dno1 hfll ,,,r,,s4ty,- A.
stenographer of the Prosecutor to
act also as the stenographer Of the
clerk of the grand jury.
The Smalley trackless trolley bill.
The Hand bill, relating to the
government of cities Of less than
1900 inhabitants.
The Watson rope fire escape meas
ure, eXempting certain classes of
tenement houses from the require
ments to have fire escapes.
The Ogden bill, permitting the
Bergen county freehOlders to acquire
certain lands to straighten a public
road.
The Prout bill, increasing the sal
aries of excise inspectors in Newark
and Jersey City.
The Pikaart bill, regulating
cases of INDECENT ]incurables who are
to be supported by a bounty Of 81
per day from the county.
The Gill bill, increasing the sal
airy of Gardner Colby, chief examiner
of the Civil Service Commissioner,
from $4,000 to $4,000.
The Gill bill, permitting state
prisoners to apply to the State Pris-
on Inspectors for parole after sery-
ing two-thirds of their terms.
The De Unger bill, authorizing
the formation of a company to build
a toll bridge at Somers Point, CIV
ing access to Ocean City.
The Pikaart bill, authorizing sher-
ifs to appoint process servers. sal
AIRY not to exceed 5000.
The Stickel bill, making mandat-
DRY upon the finance authorities of
Jersey City and Newark certain ap-
preparations for street improve
ments, and which was opposed ~
Mayor ~'T-'f,ttnennr Of Jersey City.
The Holloway bill, prohibiting
candidates nominated by petition as
independents from using the name
of the two chief political parties and
designed to prevent a candidate de-
feated at the primary election to
run as an Independent to jeopardize
the chances of the regular candidate.
The bill providing appropriations
Of about $4,000 for the incidental
expenses Of the legislature.
The Davidson bill, striking from
the primary election act the proyis-
ion for the election of delegates to
state conventions.
The resolution for a further probe
of the Morris canal abandonment
question.