Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-10

! the sheriff. In this Chancellor
Walker takes the same attitude as
was taken by his predecessor Chan
cellor Magic, in expressing opposition
to naming excise commissioners.
Mr.. Colgate suggested as an amend
ment to the bill that the President
of the United States be the one to
appoint the commissioner and Sena-
tor Davis didn't know whether to
| take him seriously or not. There were
! others who were in a similar guam
dairy.
Pass Constitutional Bill
When the House decided to drop
discussion of the jury matter for the
day 1t passed the original Hennessy
constitutional convention bill provid-
ing for g convention in which repre-
sentation would be by population by
a vote of 81 to ID. This bill is similar
! to that the House passed in the regu-
| lar session and which the Senate. by
a combined Democratic and Republic
can vote, killed, except that 1t pro-
vides that delegates shall be elected
at the September primaries.
! In speaking for the bill Mr.. Hen
messy admitted he had no hopes it
would pass the Senate, and it won't,
either. The negative votes in the
| House were cast by these Democrats:
Ackiey. Beekman, Carhart, Carrow
| Holcombe, Rays. Mount and Smick
and by six Republicans
One OF the bills, providing for small
| boards of freeholders who were
ousted to receive back pay, had
substitute offered for it by Mr.. Crit
| fin. which was ordered printed, while
| the other. extending the boards to
second-class counties. was advanced
to third reading and laid over.
| As another substitute for the cham
cellor bill Mr., Martin offered the
original McDermott dual referendum
measure, which differs slightly from
that introduced last Tuesday and
which the House once passed by a
vote of 80 to 49, Mr.. Martin called
upon Democrats to stand by their
former votes and agree to the sub
stitution, saying he hoped the House
was composed of men who deserved to
sit there and of men who had re-
ceived their mandate from the people,
and having once passed the bill would
be willing to abide by that decision.
Then several members, including
Egan and Steuerwald, of Hudson,
offered excuses for their decision to
change their minds about the bill.
Mr.. Martin succeeded in having the
bill read in its entirety, so the mem
bers could know what they were vot-
ing on. Mr.. Fiseh, of Essex, de-.
Tended his own stand, and defended
the criticism of himself made by
President Wilson during the latter's
speeches in New Jersey, in which the
President said Mr.. Fisch had not
used his own mind in voting on the
jury bill Mr. Fisch told Of the many
requests he had received from labor
to vote for a referendum bill.
WiIsonltes Routed.
Mr.. Agnew, of Hudson, who has
turned away from the Wittpenn
faction on the jury bill question,
spoke for the McDermott measure,
and said he intended to stick by it,
and that he believed the House ma
jority should do likewise. sBreden-
beck moved the previous question.
and as this met with objection it
was decided by a vote of 81 against
and % for not to put the previous
question. Mr.. Martin then moved
that consideration of the McDermott
proposed substitute be postponed, and
this motion was carried by vote of
2s to 26. This postponement carried
with it the postponement of further
consideration on the chancellor bill
also.-so that when the, House meets
Monday. in order to take up the
chancellor bill, it. also will have to
take up the McDermott substitute.
The next bill to come up on second
reading was the McDermott bill,
which was introduced Tuesday, and
is much similar to that which just
before had been offered as substi-
tute Then came Mr.. Matthews's en-
deavor to kill this outright by strik-
ing out the enacting clause What
Mr. Martin had to say to this motion
by Matthews was.
This is the one motion in the book
of rules which no man with red blood.
in his veins ever makes. Therefore,
II hope this motion will not PREVAIL
let us have the matter out decently
and orderly"
Backing up Mr.. Martin, Mr.. Nc
Dermott charged that some of the
House members. had been told to
vote for the chancellor bill, and
challenged Matthews to deny that
he had been so told. Matthews did
deny it and then said that during
the regular session he had heard
Martin tell McDermott to change his
vote from the affirmative to the neg
alive on the Matthews primary bill.
In denying that such an incident had
taken place, Mr.. MeDermott said:
1T don't know why the gentleman
from Essex should tell that particu-
lar kind of lie about me-"
| Mr.. Martin also replied to Matthews,
saying that in all of Matthews's pos
| ing and playing to the newspapers he
desired to have his (Mr. Martin's)
name left out of the discussion. Mr..
Martin added that II was not fair play
| to appeal to a Republican minority
to strike out the enacting clause of
the BILL for the entire group of Demo-
Gratis had always shown the Republi-
cans enough courtesy to defeat their
bills in a regular way and not by such
an irregular method.
| At this point it was moved
to table Matthew's motion to strike
out the enacting clause, and by a
vote of 27 to rs this was done. The
affirmative votes on this roll call were
| cast by Ackley, Adams. Beekman,
Branegan. Bredenbek, Burton Car
row. Egan, Griffin, Hennessy, Hol-
combe, Hates, Kays, Kirkpatrick,
| Kuhllxe, Leonard, Lyons, j. A. Mat