The Penn's Grove record., 1914-02-20

acts upon either Of several bills now
pending and to be introduced looking
to the provision of certain Ahours on
Sundays on which saloons car be kept
open, or to be giving OF homes rule 70
municipalities in the Sunday selling
matter.
Operates Canal at Loss.
Through bills and resolutions three
attacks were made upon the PennSyl-
vania Railroad Company, and there
are those who are unkind enough TO
say they would never have appeared
If the railroad company had not re-
Gently shut off the use of passes by
1877 State officials and employees. One
move has for its object the repeal of
the charter by which the Delaware
and Raritan Canal is operated by the
Pennsylvania as a subsidiary concern,
The ground upon which this is based
is that the company operates the ca
nal at a loss of more than $780, 900
a year, but holds on to it in order to
be in a position to force the use Of its
railroad service by shippers of freight.
Another nov has for its object an in
vestigation of the finances Of the West
Jersey and Seashore Railroad in order
to determine whether it can afford to
build a new station which has long
been demanded by the people ut its
Atlantic City terminal. The third
move is for the investigation of the
pension fund which is operated for the
employees of the company, the declara-
ton being made that contributors to
its funds are compulsory rather than
voluntary, and that men who leave the
employ of the company, for whatever
cause, are allowed to have no further
rights in the pension fund and are not
permitted to obtain any of the money
which they have paid in, no matter
how long they have been paying in.
The Hilary maximum tax act was
repealed by the Senate, and it IS ex-
pected that the Assembly will take
the same action, and that Governor
Fielder viii sign the measure, as it is
part of the program of tax system re-
vision, and was urged by the Governor
In his inaugural message to the Legis-
lature. The Ocean Grove borough bill
was passed in the Assembly and will
go to the Senate, but it is said that
it will have little chance for passage
there, and that it is also unlikely that
the Governor will sign it, as despite
the many reasons advanced by the.
boroughites there seems to be a hest
tation about robbing the famous re-
sort of its distinctive features and its
religious character and regulations.
There was introduced in the Senate
the State police bill which has been
discussed at various times for the last
three or four years, but which had
never before advanced to the stage of
actual introduction. 1t provides for
two companies of mounted police, with
the usual officers, carries an appropri-
alton of $4,000 for the organization
of the force, and provides for salaries
which will total Sill, 600 a year. 1t
will, if the bill becomes a law, be pat
termed after the Pennsylvania State
police system. It is said that there
are already in training for the jobs a
list of expert horsemen who have seer
cavalry service in the regular army,
cowboy service in the West and State
police service in other sections of the
country.
No Seat, No Fare.
Two bills which were introduced
calling for a mo seat, no fare' law
to govern trolley and other public
transportation companies have aroused
opposition because of their impractical
bility and it is not expected that they
will be pressed to final passage, at
least not in their present form, which
is declared to be a physical impossi-
bility for the companies to live up to.
The bills for proper regulation of loan
sharks were advanced, being passed
in the Assembly and sent to the second
reading, after a long debate, in the
Senate. It is expected that the oppo-
nents of the loan sharks will win their
fight this year in spite of the strenu-
GUS opposition of the representatives
of the usurious money lenders, who
have heretofore been free to operate
as they pleased unless some one prose
cuted them under the %disorderly house
act.