Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-28

BILL Is PASSED
Goes Through Senate and
House viii ACCEPT II.

two Hudson county districts had been
slightly changed, the Senate yester-
day. afternoon passed the Congress
sional r~edistrieting bill, which Will
give the State the two new members
of Congress under the reapportion-
ment following the census of 1910.
The bill went through by the vote of
ID to O..
Senators Johnson of Bergen, and
Price of Sussex, both Democrats,
voted for the measure, while the
other Democrats refused to vote.
The Republicans who voted for 1t
were: Senators Colgate, Edge, Gaunt,
Hand, Leavitt, Lewis, Nichols, Pierce,
President Prince and Smalley. SEN
ator Rear Republican, of Camden,
being absent.
The bill passed with all of Warren
county placed in the new Sixth Dis
triet with Sussex and Bergen Coun-
ties and Pompton and West Milford
townships in Passalc county, and this
action Is very displeasing to the Ber-
gem County Republicans. The pas
sage of the bill has been held up
more than a week while former Sen
ator Edmund WakeIee, former Speak
Sl Tally Vttu anu othCA b 'Si 6Oh
County Republicans made strong eff
forts to have Warren county cut out
of the District. The objection to hay-
ing Warren county was that being
strongly Democratic it would lessen
the chances of the Republicans car
rying the district.
Amendments Satisfactory.
The amendments offered yesterday
afternoon for the Hudson Districts
by Senator Edge were satisfactory
to Senator Fielder, Democrat, Of
Hudson county. The new Eleventh
District comprises the townships of
Weehawken and North Bergen, the
towns of. Gutenberg, West Hoboken,
West New York and Union, the Bor-
ough of Secaucus, the city Of Hobo
ken and the Second Ward of Jersey
City, all In Hudson county.
The new Twelfth District is COM
posed of the First, Third, Fourth,
Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, sIinth, Tenth,
Eleventh and Twelfth Wards of Jer-
sey City.
The bill as passed leaves the First,
Second, Third and Fourth Congress
sional Districts untouched. The First
District contains Camden, Glouees-
ter and Salem County; the Second,
Cape May, Cumberland, Atlantic and
Burlington counties; the Third, Mid
dlesex, Monmouth and Ocean eoun-
ties, and the Fourth Mercer, Hunter
don and Somerset counties.
The ~rearrangea Fifth District In
Guides only Union and Morris
ties. The new Sixth District has al
ready been described.
The Seventh District.
The Seventh District is made up of
all of Passaie county, except the two
northerly townships which are placed
with the Sixth District. The Eighth
District takes In a part of Essex
county, the Seventh Ward of Jersey
City, and the City of Bayonne, in
Hudson county. The Ninth and Tenth
Districts are made up of Sections of
Essex county,
Senator Edge advocated the bill,
explaining its provisions and stating
that the changes in Hudson county
had been made to suit the Hudson
County Legislature, as the Districts
We're both Democratic. He said it had
not been possible to suit all see
tions Of the state. Senator Prince
took the floor and said that the lines
of the Sixth District were not alto
gether satisfactory to the two town
ships of Passaic, IN one of which
President Prince resides, nor to Ber-
gen county. Continuing he said:
1.-THE Republicans tried to make
other arrangements that would be
satisfactory to these sections but
found 1t utterly impossible to do so,
therefore, I have yielded and will not
oppose the bill" Then the vote was
taken.
Put Through the House.
1t is expected that the Republicans
will put the bill through the Assem-
I'm the form In which 1T passed
the Senate. Discussing the rearrange-
ment today a prominent Republican
leader said that eight of the districts
were safely Republican, the two Hud-
son districts were Democratic, while
the Third District and the new Sixth
District will be debatable territory.
Outlining the political situation in
the Sixth District, he said that War
rem county was from 1900 to 1,400
Democratic. Sussex county voted
about 800 Republican. The District
therefore will swing over to the Ber-
gen county line with an average
Democratic majority of from 1900 to
1900. Bergen county is usually Re
publican by from about 1000 to o.
500, so that the Republicans will
have to work hard to keep the Dis
triet in their party column.