The Penn's Grove record., 1914-05-22
SESSION LAWS COMPLETE.
Governor Fielder Announces a Rec.
ord-Breakinu Feat,

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Governor Fielder announced that all
records have been broken and that
laws passed at the last session of the
Legislature have been printed and are
ready for distribution. The custom 70
years has been to daily with the print
ing until long in the year after the
session has closed and last year the
last OF the chapters were not printed
until about Christmas. So many COM
plants had been made that the Gov
ernor decided some action should be
taken and he got former Assembly
man Thomas F. Martin up in a cor
ner and read the riot act to him. Mr..
Martin is the head of the Hudson Dis
patch Printing Company, which holds
the contract for the printing, and he
promised to camp on the job. He kept
promise SO well that the Governor ap-
peared nightly relieved to make the
announcement,
Governor Fielder was the guest at
a planked shad dinner goven by Sen
ator William T. Read, of Camden, to
NCANO VI Tx 0CudL0 at
Westville. The Governor is arranging
a tour of all the State institutions and
departments starting with an inspec-
ton of the Epileptic Village, at Skill
man, the tuberculosis Sanitarium at
Glen Gardner and the Woman's Re-
formatory at Clinton.
Among the visitors to the State
House recently was Speaker A. M.
Beekman, who is being urged to be-
come a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for State Senator to sue
coed Senator Smalley, Republican, in
Somerset county. The Speaker does
not care to make the race because Of
the heavy demand upon his time the
campaign and the subsequent session
OF the Legislature will entail, fully
five months, in which he might be
forced to neglect his law practice.
Most of the influential Democrats of
his county, however, are endeavoring
to get him to make the contest, be-
l1eving that he is the strongest mar
of the county for them to name. He
will probably make known his decision
in a week or SO.
Joseph S. Hoff, of Princeton, was
elected chairman of the Civil Service
Board at the reorganization meeting.
Mr.. Hoff is the member from Mercer
Of the State Democratic Committee.
George H. Burke, of Paterson, took
his seat on the board, succeeding
Charles H. Bateman, of Somerville.
Named New Errors Judge.
Former Senator Robert Williams,
of Paterson, was appointed by Gov
ernor Fielder as a member of the
Court of Errors and Appeals to sue
coed the late Judge Joseph w. Cong.
don. The Judge, who will be a
lay member of the Court will take
his seat Immediately. The appoint
ment was not generally expected, al
though Mr.. Williams name had been.
mentioned. He is a Republican and
his selection is in line with the policy
of keeping the Judiciary of the State
non-partisan.
Judge Williams was born in Pater-
son in 1860, was graduated from
Princeton in 1881 and from Colombia
Law School in 1884. He studied law
with his father, the late Senator Hen
ry A. Williams, and was admitted to
the bar in 1887. He was a member
of the Assembly in 1890 and 1891,
State Senator from 1894 tt 1897 and
president of the body in his last year.
By a coincidence Judge Williams sue
ceeded the late Judge Congdon as a
member'of the old Board OF Railroad
Commissioners, resigning from the Ri
parian Board to take the place, and
continued as a member of the Rail-
road Commission and the Public Util-
tiles Compassion which succeeded it,
until 1912.