Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-11
NEWARK To ARGUE
CHARTER REVISION
Assemblyman Quigley With
draws Measure to Permit a
Public Debate.
HOUSE VOTES EAVORABLY
ON LOAN "SHARK" BILL
Also Acts on Other lnportan.
Legislation in Busiest Ses-
sion of the Year.
IFrom a Stan Correspondent

year. The total number of bills
passed by the House In the two days
totalled seventeen.
Majority Leader Joseph M. Brane-
CANS bill to regulate and control the
business of making loans and ad.
vancements of money IN sums Of
$500 or less, and to regulate the as
signment of wages when given al
security was passed. but brought
about considerable argument and a
strong defense of the bill from Mr.
Branegan. 1t is the same bill which
Senator Charles Egan introduced Id
the Senate, where it was also debated
yesterday. 1t is measure drafted
by the authorities of the Russell
Sage Foundation of New York. II
. the bill passes the New Jersey Legis-
lature 1t Is to be offered to the New
York State Legislature next year.
Assemblyman Branegan said In
support of it that 1t is bill ito make
the loan sharks tremble." The pro-
vision that no greater than per cent
q month shall be charged is one cal
culated to protect the borrower, he
said. Control of the situation Is best
placed where the bill places it, in the
hands of the State commissioner of
banking and insurance, and the re-
quirement that a license be taken out
brewery loan agent or agency at a
cost of $50 a year insures that control
to the commissioner.
The same Assemblyman's bill, No.
81, rendering 1t unnecessary that
twenty-four hours elapse after a Ii
cense is procured when marriage in
court furnishes way out of criminal
prosecution, was passed Leader
Branegan's bill, No. So, increasing the
number of pages In the House and
adding one stenographer at $500 a
year to the officers of the Legisla-
ture, was also passed.
Newark Bill Passes House.
Assembly bill No. Il, making it pos
sible for Newark to appropriate $780,
900 for a new almshpuse, introduced
by Assemblyman James r. Byrne,
passed the House. 1t will enable New
ark to raise that sum for its munich
pal almshouse by thirty-year bonds
bearing 5 per cent. interest. The same
Assemblymans bill, No. 7s. permit
ting first-ciass cities to appropriate
funds for the celebration of Column
bus Day as well as Washington g
Birthday, Decoration Day and Fourth
of July, also passed.
Assernblyman Lawrence McCabe's
child labor bill, Assembly No. 49, was
also passed by the House. It amends
the title of the act relative to the
employment of employees and opera
tives in factory workshop, ETC., and
provides that no child under fourteen
shall be permitted to work in any
newspaper plant, printery. factory,
workshop, mill or place where print
ing or the manufacturing of goods Is
carried on.
Bills advanced to second read
ing yesterday were Assembly Nos.
241, 242, 211, 124, 1873, las, 100, 277, "a,
279, 242, 1872 and 204, and Senate No. 49.
Although Assemblyman Breden-
beck. of Hudson, ardently advocated
his bill, No. 50, which abolished boards
of excise commissioners in cities hav-
ing a population between fifty and
one hundred thousand population and
transfers all the powers and duties
heretofore exercised and performed by
them to the Common Council or
Board of Aldermen of such cities. 1t
received only four votes In the affirm
ative.
1t was warmly opposed by Assem-
blymen John ]. Griffin, of Union; SEQ
vel and Hates, of Camden, and 9TH
ers. The vote against it was IS.
Assemb1yman Joseph B. Blooms
House bill No. %, which passed at the
morning session yesterday, amends
the act to prohibit the sale of mer-
ehandise in bulk to defraud creditors
SO that the purchaser must lat least
ten days before the sale notify all
creditors when and where the transfer
will take place and the amount OF
consideration to be paid.
Woman Labor Bill Adopted.
Assemblyman Joseph P. Mulligan's
bill No. 80, prohibiting the employ
ment of women as coremakers or
adopted. His bill No. SO. providing
that in workmen's compensation cases
a reasonable fee for medical testi-
mony be taxed to the cost OF pro-
ceedings. It was passed.
The first bill to pass third reading
and be adopted by the House yester-
day was Majority Leader Joseph M.
Branegan's bill. which authorizes the
deputy register of deeds to take
Acknowledgements of conveyances,
deeds, etc.
Mr.. Branegan explained that the
bill is intended to permit the deputy
register. who really transacts most of
the business of county registers Of
flee, and all of it when the register is
absent, should have authority to at
tend to ali of the business of the de-
partment. The bill passed without a
dissenting vote, forty-eight voting af-
Tentatively.
This is an example of vicious leg
islation and | urge all members to
vote against It," Assemblyman Ben
nett H. FISHER of Montclair, de-
clared of Assembly bill No. 81, but
4f.4 1&t 80 11.- a
The bill ds designed to save the at
torney's fee and expenses when his
client settles suit for, physical in
jury out of court and without his
knowledge.
Newark Charter Bill Withdrawn.
Assemblyman Michael j. Quigley
withdrew his bill designed to put
Newark's revised charter into effect.
He withdrew it to give the citizens of
Newark an opportunity to review the
charter revision all over again at a
meeting to be held in the Newark
Board of Trade rooms next week.
Kinney Building Saloon.
Assemblyman Bloom introduced a
bill with the purpose of settling the
legality of the license for saloon in
the Kinney building, Newark. The
bill provides that whenever new
building has been or shall be erected
on the site OF al old one. for which
there was license to sell liuuor. al
though the building Is within 200 feet
of u church, the license discontinued
while the new building was in course
of erection, shall hold good for the
new building.
Assemblyman Hubert j. Rowe, of
Essex, put in a bill for the purpose
of giving the Park Commission of
Essex power to regulate traffic and
bar heavy vehicles on Park avenue
from Newark to East Orange. AS