The Penn's Grove record., 1912-05-03
MORRIS CANAL
COMMISSION
Gov. Wilson Appoints Four Mem
bers of Investigating Committee
TWO SERVED LAST YEAR
Senate President Prince and Assembly
Speaker Mccran Select Eight 9th
ers Completing the Quota Under
Joint Resolution of Legislature.

named the following four members to
serve on the new commission which is
to investigate the Morris Canal aban-
donment project all over again and re-
port to the next Legislature as provid-
ed by the joint resolution adopted by
the recent Legislature: At~torney-Gen-
eral Edmund Wilson, of Monmouth,
Third Congress District. Former SUI
preme Court Justice Bennett Van Syc-
KEEL, of Trenton, Fourth Congress Dis
trict. Former Judge John w. Wescott,
of Camden, First Congress District.
Charles H. Ingersoll, of East Orange,
Tenth Congress District. Attorney
General Wilson and ex-Supreme Court
Justice Van Syckel served on last
years commission, which produced a
canal abandonment bill that the Legis-
lature declined to pass on the ground
that it gave too many valuable rights
to the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
pany without adequate return. Charles
H. Ingersoll is a well-known resident
of Essex County.
Other Members Appointed.
The membership of the committee
to make further investigation and re-
port upon the subject of the abandon
ment of the Morris Canal, as authbriZ-
ed by House Joint Resolution No. 10,
has been completed by the appoint
ments made by President Prince Of the
Senate and Speaker McCran of the
House. President Prince announced
that he has appointed Foster F. Birch,
Dover, Fifth District; John |. Blair
Kelley, Phillipsburg, Sixth District; c.
Howard Slater, Jersey City, Twelfth
District; Henry NJ. Doremus, Newark,
Eighth District.
The appointments made by Speaker
McCran are as follows: Assemblyman
Carlton Godfrey, Atlantic City, Second
District; Mangold H. E~llenbogen, Pat
erson, Seventh District; As~semblyman
Fred G. Stickel, Newark, Ninth Dis
trict; Albert F. Cans, Hoboken, Elev-
enth District.
Morris Canal Abandonment.
Governor Wilson has appointed
members of the committee to make a
further investigation and report upon
the subject of the abandonment os the
Morris Canal. For at least two rea-
sons the appointments of Messrs. Viii
sol and Van Syckel are particularly
good. Both were members of the com
mission that prepared the abandon
ment plan that was rejected at the SEES
sion just closed, and are entirely famil-
lar With the situation. Their expert
ence will be Of the greatest value to
the new commission. The second rea-
son is that the Governor, in his veto
message accompanying the return of
the House joint resolution, said that
while there was no objection to anoth.
er commission, the resolution seems
to go out of its way to utter a gratuit-
IL and entirely uniustified criticism
upon the commission which last year
fulfilled this same function, at the re
quest Of the legislature. There sure
ly a be no excuse for ~embodying
such criticism in a formal action of
the Legislature, and | could not. with
self-respect, attach my signature to
such an action" Hy the re-appoint.
ment of his two former associates to
the new commission, the Governor has
shown his appreciation of their ser
vices and his confidence in them.
S~uffragists Plan Campaign.
The suffragists are making plans for
a lively campaign for the creation OF
sentiment favorable to their cause as
a preliminary step to the storming oil
the Legislature of 1913 in another eff
fort to get the ballot. A determined
effort will be made next year for the
enactment of a resolution for the
amendment of the state constitution
1 permitting women to vote. Mrs. Clara
S. Laddey of Arlington, president O
the New Jersey Woman Suffrage AS
ISOLATION, said that the campaign
movement will be organized thorough
ly for work throughout the summer
Particular attention will be paid t.
South Jersey, where the suffrage
movement has not made as much pro
gress as in the more populous north
ern section Of the state. The campaign
will include suffrage meetings both in
doors and out, automobile tours to car
ry the suffragist doctrine into remott
sections, and special meetings will b.
planned for the seaside resorts. AS
part of the campaign the suffragist
have arranged for a special exhibit a
the coming Newark Industrial EXPO
%sition, which will represent the caus,
and where literature will be distribut
ed for the winning of converts.