Bridgeton pioneer., 1913-01-30
HUSBAND SOLUBLE LEGISLATORS IN
IS IN CUSTODY SCHOOL AGAIN
Young Man Named Talman The Governor Calls Private
Embarrassed Session
GIVES HIS DIRECTIONS
Excepting Upon the Matter Of Con
stitutional Convention Wilson,
Has his Way.

Trenton, Jan. 2S.-Any attempt to
defer action ON Governor Wilson's
antitrust bills until after March 4,
when he will be President, will be
sharply met by his friends in the State
Senate, who now have the seven sis
ters" in their own hands. The bills,
which at lrst were divided between
the Judiciary and Corporations Com
mittees, are now all in the hands of
the former. That committee is made
up of Governor Wilson's friends, and
it is prepared to block any scheme
for delay.
Senator J. Warren Davis, its chair
man, who is also majority leader in
the Senate, told Governor Wilson to-
day that hearings would be held, but
that his committee would see to it
that they were not unduly prolonged
or made Statewide. The Governor
agreed with him that it would be nec-
essary to afford an opportunity for
free discussion before the bills were
reported, provided these hearings
were not used for delay.
After this conference with Senator
Davis, the Governor welcomed Demo-
cratic Senators and Assemblymen into
his Office. They had come in response
to a summons from him to discuss the
reform program he wants to put thru
the Legislature. The conference was
held behind closed doors and lasted
nearly two hours
The Governor formally recognized
the existence of opposition to his anti
trust measures bv taking up the other
numbers ON the reform program first.
The decision of the seven sisters
was postponed to another conference
to be held next Tuesday.
Governor Wilson supplied a reason
for this when he said, in opening the
matter, that it would be best for the
conferees to confine themselves at this
first conference to those matters on
which there was agreement in the
main. Those whom he addressed
knew that there was no such unanim-
itysas to~the seven sisters.
y Hence>-the omy~ bills on the reform
program that were considered we're
jury reform, the abolition of grade
crossings and the calling of a ceh.ti
tutional convention Governor VIII
son sat in the conference with copy
of his annual message in his hand, as
if to check off the recommendations
and their adoption by the conference.
In the main his recommendation
were adopted, though some times
there was long discussion before the
vote was. taken On one point, the
abolition of grade crossings, the Gov
ernor was not successful in getting
everything he wanted. He desired a
positive order to the Public Utilities
Commission to force the railroads to
remove the crossings. but the best he
could get was vote declaring to give
the commission discretion in the mat
ter. He proposed compromise in
the constitutional convention issue,
and it was adopted.
Senator Davis presided. The whole
conference was held in secret, but
Senator Davis afterwards gave his
report of the Governors opening
speech.
The first OF the measures advocated
in Governor Wilson's message to be
taken up by the conference was jury
reform. There was a discussion last
ing an hour, at the end of which time
it was decided by vote of SO to 9 to
take the selection OF grand and petit
jurors out of the hands of the sheriffs.
Was Governor Wilson overruled on
the grade crossing question:" Senator
Davis was asked.
That word is not the correct one",
he replied "The Governor was not
really overruled. If he had insisted
on his proposition it would have been
accepted" 1t was decided to support
a bill authorizing, not compelling, the
Utilities Commission to order grade
crossings removed at the expense of
the railroads.
The conference split upon the mat
ter of constitutional convention. and