The Penn's Grove record., 1913-01-31
Senator Davis Letter

Salem, N. j., Jan. 20, 1918
The Legislature opened on Monday
evening this week and has settled down
to its regular routine of work. A num-
Der of bills have been passed and the
probabilities are that many will be pass
ed next week.
The corporation bills, seven in number.
which have been designated as the seven
sisters" are attracting more attention
than any bills introduced in the Legisla-
ture within recent years. An able lawyer
of Pennsylvania sent a letter to the writer
stating that they were the most funda-
mental bills introduced i'll any Legislature
within many years. Copies of them have
been written and telegraphed for all over
the United States. Two kilograms were
sent to MI for copies of them from the
California Legislature and there is scarce
ly a State in the Union which has not
written or teIegraphed for them. As a
consequence, the supply of the bills was
exhausted and a SPECIAL resolution to
print 600 copies more passed the Senate
this week. Other States know OF New
jersey largely thru its legislative enact
ment and the impression has gone forth
that New Jersey, under the leadership of
Governor Wilson, is in the forefront of
sound, common sense, progressi We legisla-
ton. These bill were prepared by Chan
cellor Edwin Robert Walker, probably
the most skillful jurist in the State, Judge
Van Sickle and Governor Wilson. After
! preparation they went over them and ex-
smined every word and phrase in detail,
the II question being during the exami-
| nation: twill these bills, or any part Of
them in any way disturb legitimate bust
/ ness or put out of business anything
which ought not 70 be put out" That
was the purpose. Whether or not it has
been accomplished, experience alone will
tell. A number of suggestions have been
made, which were incorporated to-day in
| the way of amendments. Hearings will
be given on the bills next week before
the judicial committee, the first of which
it on Monday morning at 1890.
A great number of people thruout the
| County have written asking me to use
my influence against the passage of As
sembly Bill No. 81, which proposes to
lay a tax, it is calimed upon the deferred
dividends. l assure the policy holders
and those interested therein that if the
| bill in any way seems unfair or to lay a
tax for the benefit of Essex County which
comes out of the policy holders generally,
l shall do my utmost to prevent its pass
age.
Another bill in which a great many
people are interested, is the bill to incor-
porate Ocean Grove into a Borough. 1t
is claimed by the opponents of the bill
that if it passes and Ocean Grove becomes
a Borough, it will secularize Ocean Grove
and destroy its distinctive religious char
acter. This fact, if true, would be lament
able and the bill ought not pass. 1t is
claimed on the other hand that it will
not have any such effect and the advo-
/ CobCS POlkiV " L zig oIOfC, INV hro
been incorporated, as an example. They
claim that the incorporation will in every
way be advantageous.
At the banquet which was given Tues
day night by the Senators to the Cover
nor at the Marlborough BIeinheim, he
made one of the best addresses of his
lite, and said to the writer, beside whom
he sat at the banquet, that it was hard
for him to keep his spirits up. since he
was constantly reminded that it was the
last social and official function at which
he would gather with the New Jersey Sen
ate. In his address he spoke feelingly of
the support which the Senate had given
him and said that the happiest days OF
his life had been the past two years when
he was work. g for the State of New
| Ioroov WApPFN DAVIS