Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-22
QU|GLEY BILL OLD
OSBORNE MEASURE
Sections Objected to When
First Offered Are ELM
mated.
INTRODUCED IN SENATE .
AND FAILED OF PASSAGE
New Measure Carries Home
Rule and Charter Pro-
visions.

House bill No rs. fathered by
Assemblyman Michael ]. Quigley, OF
this city. which is the proposed char
ter for Newark, is. with several modi-
flcations and eliminations and addi-
lions of essential features, the meas
ure introduced by Senator Harry V.
Osborne NOW Common Pleas 1udge)
in 1911. The bill, which was known
as Senate 351, failed of passage, be-
cause of provisions that some law
makers considered as restricting oper-
atlons too closely to this city. Points
to which objections were raised three
years ago do not appear In the Quig-
ley bill. The act has been further
changed TO meet conditions.
A commission to prepare a new
charter for Newark was appointed by
Mayor Haussling some years ago.
The commission consisted of former
City Counsel Chandler w. Riker. Will
lam p. Martin, then alderman. now
Common Pleas Judge; John r. Hardin,
City Clerk James r. Connolly, former
Mayor William II. +. Fielder, D.
Harry Bachelor then city comp
troller; Street and Water Commits
sioner Patrick H. Ryan. then presi-
dent of Common Council, and Alder
/ man Patrick Corlsh.
City Counsel James r. Nugent was
counsel to the commission ana VII
son J. Vance, secretary to Mayor
Haussling. was its secretary. the
commissioners were named for a pc
riod of five years each.
Charter Is Praised.
The proposed charter when made
the subject of public hearings was
generally advocated and praised by
prominent and open-minded citizens
of Newark. The bill, embodying the
charter, was drawn by City Counsel
Nugent.
one Of the provisions was that in
case of the failure of the Common
Council to adopt its terms it could
be referred to the voters on the ming
of a petition signed by per cent
of the citizens who voted for mem
bers of the General Assembly at the
last election. There were also no
conditions imposed that in order that
Il might be adopted any fixed per
eentage of the voters must favor II.
Text of Quigley Bill.
The Quigley bill presented Monday
night provides that the petition call
ing for the referendum must nave az
least 20 per cent. of the voters Tor
the General Assembly at the last cleo
ton as signers. 1t also requires that
80 per cent. of those voters support
the adoption of it in order that 1t may
be put into effect. In these proVls-
ions it is similar to the Walsh act.
The changes in the bill remove
from it the criticism that it is availa-
BILE only for Newark.
The great purpose of the bill is to |
provide for Newark, if the people |
want it, modified form of commits
sion rule without some of the fea-
lures of the Walsh act, to which OBJ
lection had been made.
The bill provides for a revised
charter, with an elective mayor and
four other commissioners. One fea-
ture of it, which is wanting In the !
Walsh act, is that the commissioners
shall have over tapping terms, cleo
lions being held biennially for three
at one of the blennlal
elections, two at the next.
Elections are to be held in odd
numbered years for four-year terms.
The first election may be held In an
year, with the pro-
vision that the mayor and two other
be elected for five
years and the other two for three
years, or until their successors are
elect ed.