The Penn's Grove record., 1913-04-11
We, n. j., FRIDAY. APRIL II. 1913
Appropriating $4,000 to the San

Appropriating $4,000 TO the San
Francisco Exposition.
Appropriating $4,000 to the State
Village for E~pileptics for extensions,
and $4,000 to the State Normal
School here, for the same purpose,
and $43,600 for the State Normal
School at Montclair.
Bills That Failed.
Constitutional Convention.
Jury Reform.
Tax Commission bills.
Efficiency and Economy Commits.
sion bills.
Anti-injunction labor bill,
Patrolmen's pension bill.
Mothers pension measure.
Morris Canal abandonment
Sunday baseball.
Abolition of poll tax.
Five-cent trolley and telephone
rates in first class counties.
Extension of Mayor Wittpen's term
to January 1, 1914, in case OF the
adoption of commission government
in Jersey City on April Is.
Eight-hour law for employees in State
institutions.
Ocean Grove borough bill.
Prudential tax measure.
Forbidding merger of competing
telegraph and telephone companies.
Giving commission government
Mayors power to veto.
Soldiers Home Scandal.
One of the interesting matters of
the session, though it was not entire
ly unexpected in some quarters, was
the report of a joint committee of
the Senate and the House appointed
to investigate the management of the
Soldiers Home in Kearny, of which
General E. Burd Grub is the super
intendent. He had caused to be intro
duced a bill to GUST the members of
the present Board of Managers and to
have a new board APPOINTED by the
Governor of the State, though for the
half a century that the institution
has been in existence the board ap-
pointments have been made by the Su-
preme Court. Unpleasant controver-
o1GO OfSI I1S UO1l1O I'LL
der General Grub brought this about.
After the bill had passed the AS
sembly and while it was in the Sen
ate, a committee of investigation was
determined upon. Several sessions
were held for the taking of testimony
and the committee abruptly termin-
ated it's work and reported that the
bill to change the board of managers
should not be passed, Is it had been
found that General Grub was at fault
in the manner which haa been charged
when he brought the matter to a head
after it had been smoldering for more
than a year. The report also sug-
gested that he be removed from the
Board of Managers, a position which
he holds in addition to being the home
superintendent, in order to lessen the
constantly occurring friction and to
give the board better opportunity to
more fully and freely control the af-
fairs of the institution.
Snugly tucked away in a committee
room, the Morris Canal abandonment
measure died a natural death and the
work of the investigating commission
appointed last year will go on and be
finally reported upon early in the ses-
sion of next year. The attempt of the
P.> B. A, the State organization of
police patrolmen, to take control of
police pension funds from the boards
of police commissioners, also failed of
passage after a bitter fight and strong
denunciation of it in the Senate. Bills
submitted by the Economy and Eftici-
ency Commission of members of the
Legislature of last year, intended to
consolidate departments which do
work similar in character, to elimi-
nate some offices and to reduce sal
aries of others, were also left in the
deadwood when the session closed.