New-York tribune., 1912-03-05
FIGHT ON CROSSING BILL
,s,sey Assembly DeIuged with
(]neer Looking kilograms.
o,Il ROADS FEAR EXPENSE
rrre Passage of Measure Which
10 Makes Municipalities Share
the Cost.
r.,o.,,nn N The Tribune.l

fr,, telegraph to Ihe lIlouHe'I
In y J., March A desperate at
nos made tonight to defeat the
;einp, Grade crossing bill, which passed the
I.. last week almost unanimously when
sen@so eo,orebe of kilograms from all parts OF
al 60 80 were placed on the desks OF the
the Ih,vnen. These kilograms urged the
ASSEM- - the Pierce bill which carries out
uei,' zoe made by the last Republican con-
~. that all dangerous grade crossings
So abolished at the expense of the raiiroads'
rsa kilograms urged the passage OF the
"a hill which makes the municipality
share the cost -
rvsrv Assenblyman received his quota OF
..,oorams tonight. the number rahglhs
s,or, ATTY to four hundred each. SO great
&c the rush that five extra telegraphers
"a % no sent here from New York to
IDLE r. II is estimated that something
a.. tan thousand telegrams were delivered
"a the Assemblymen tonight
when Senator Pierce, .he author Of the
,m was told Of the teleframs tonight ne
said he had no fear as to the success OF MS
An IN the house. "I don't think the AS
.Anohlvrnen will go back on the promise
thew made to the people last fall ne sa'o'
Most Of the kilograms were worded al'he'
ard this gave them a suspicious look.
Senator Gaunts bill wiping out the pres
ant twenty year limited franchise law. sun
situting in fits place fifty year tranchise
term. passed the Senate tonight by a vote
os15to4 Mr. Gaunt said the twenty year
franchise limitation defined I'm the law OF
isOs had caused a diminutiOn in trolley eX-
tension throughout the state. Mr.. Pierce
snd Mr.. Edge agreed that the law OF 1900
ongbt 10 he amended. but they felt that
tbe indeterminate franchise act would meet
,hs situation in a more satisfactory man.
nor than the Gaunt hill.
Mr. Gebhardt attacked the measure on
$be gronnd that its authority was too broad.
He also took exception to the statement by
Mr. Edge that but one trolley extension
had been built since the passage of the
law IN 1905 Mr. Gebhardt contended that
,puv a dozen extensions had since been
built and mentioned one in Warren County
end another in Morris County.
Mr.. Silzer also doubted II there had been
speh great degree Of backwardness In
the trolley business since 1905. calling NJ
,snt,on 10 two franchises since then in his
county NIiddlesex). Mr.. Silzer suggested
that If there had been any inactivity in
trolley construction the period Of financial
depression might safely be blamed for IL.
eebhardt. Pierce, Silzer and Fielder voted
IN the negative
Senator Richard Fftzherbert- of Morris
County who will be tried by the Senate
tomorrow on charges Of conduct unbecom-
lng a Senator, was in the lobby Of the Sem
ate chamber tonight, as chipper as lark.
Mr.. Fitzherbert did not sit in his seat, be-
cause. he said '1t might embarrass his
fellow Senators" He said that he expected
10 be vindicated at the trial tomorrow.
IF there IS any justice in the world" Sen
stor F1tzherbert said. Il will be cleared Of
any charge of wrongdoing in connection
With the acetylene gas bills"
A new educational bill will be introduced
In the Senate some day this week which,
It is expected, will settle the controversy
which has been raging for some time rela-
tive to the power of the State Board of
Education to prescribe a uniform eXami-
nation as a sole test for entrance into high
school. Under the new measure the state
board will retain its power, but the exami-
nation will count only as certain per-
eentage Of the test for entrance into the
high school. the examinations passed dur
ing the grammar years to count also. Gov
ernor Wilson and President Butler of Co
lumbia have approved the new measure.
The Gill bill, depriving the State Board of
Education Of all power in this respect, will
not be brought up in the Senate.
The Assembly tonight went after the
famous Jersey mosquito good and strong
when they passed Mr.. Mitchell's bill allow
Ing the Supreme Court justice sitting in a
county to appoint three commissioners in
each county TO work with the state en-
tomologist for the determination of the
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