Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
SENTIMENT DOES
| NOT FAVOR RECESS.
Members of the House, How
ever, Seem Agreed on
March 2 Limit.
a.,peciaI to the Newark star.I

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81 Th%s'NTON, Jan. 16.-There will be
ooing5 IN the House of Assembly
= when 1t reconvenes next Monday
night over the resolutions which AS
semblyman Walter L. McDermott
Democrat. of Hudson, introduced at
the opening session and which was
= referred to the judiciary committee
The second of the two resolutions he
Submitted amends the rules of the
s. House on the principle of the Cali
fornia plan of legislation. and is caus-
ing all the fuss.
This resolution contains the PROPOSE
tion that both the Senate and the AS
sembly adjourn March 2 and take a
recess until April 1. then to recon
vene. The other resolution, which
was accepted by Majority Leader Jo-
seph M. Branegan, also of Hudson
requires that no bills be presented to
the House without the unanimous
consent of the House after March 2
end that no bill shall go to second
Teading until after that date.
81 Long Recess Not Popular.
The proposed amendment to the
Nico mas iiOt WOii ll1t liluOI Scilltill VI
many of the members of the House,
81 except the, first part of 1t, requiring
the introduction of bills and restrict
ing them to first reading before or on
8 March 2. The second part calling for
thirty-day recess has caught only
4 the fancies of a number of civic So
4 cieties, it is said. Some are opposed
to it, however.
& Both those favorng it and those OPP
II will ho y-onraGnnfad q fhn
Z sion of the Assembly at p. m. Mon
Z day night. The Citizens Federation.
& of Hudson county, favors its adoption
and will send some of their foremost
: members to Trenton to whoop things
2 along for the resolution. The names
of District Court Judge Charles L.
9 CarriclS. Palmer Campbell. DR.. Ulla-
I more Allen and one-time Congressman
q George L. McEwan are mentioned
among those likely to go to Trenton
q Monday night.
8 Meanwhile, Majority Leader Brane-
gan declares the bill will be reported
out of committee. The judiciary COM
& mittee of the House has it in hand.
4 That committee consists of Mr.. Bran
Il egan, Mr. FISHER. Democrat, of Els !.
sex: Mr.. Kirkpatrick. Democrat, or
NIiddlesex; Mr.. Agnew, Democrat, of
: Bergen; Mr. Richards, Republican, or
Atlantic. The committee will hold a
meeting at n. M, prior to the House
4 convening.
stormy Career Predicted.
The amendment in its entirety is
& expected to have a stormy career,
and may not be adopted. Governor
James F. Fielder is reported to be
opposed to it personally, although he
win not throw his influence against
st. He said yesterday: If the legis,
lators agree that the plan is good
one and should be adoptedt shall be
pleased to see it go through.
The proposed amendments are in
the form of concurrent resolutions,
which require adoption by both
houses. but not the signature of Gov
ernor Fielder to make them effective.
THE two resolutions as framed by Mr..
McDermott are. as follows:
Rule No. 71-No bill or joint reso-
luton shall, without unanimous con-
sent be introduced after the second
day of March, 1914, nor shall any bill
or Joint resolution, without unani-
NOUS consent, have more than one
reading until after the second day OF
March. 1914
Resolved (the Senate concurrlng),
That on the second day of March,
1914 both houses of the Legislature
be adjourned for a recess, and tnat
when they so adjourn it be to meet
again on the first day of April, 1914,
at II a. mr.
Essex Delegations Stand.
While every conceivable kind of
opinion has been quoted on the reso-
luton, there has been an evident mis-
understanding as to the appreciation
or disapprobation expressed. The at
titude of the Hudson delegation, ex-
cepting Mr.. McDermott and Assem-
blyman Thomas Il. A. Griffin, is mark
edly in favor of the first part and OPP
posed to the second. The Essex dele
cation of Democratic members APP
parently favored the first part and
not the second. 1t is said that even
the Citizens Federation, of Hudson,
while apparently favoring the whole
amendment, is split over the second
resolution. BY some Governor Fielder
is said to reject the second part, While
not Directing to the first.
Mr.. McDermott, speaking for the
double resolution, says that legisla-
lures are losing prestige and dignity
by passing too many laws and voting
on them hastily and earelessly. Con-
corning the recess plan he said, as
published in the Star yesterday:
"Unless the recess plan is adopted
any fair hearing and deliberation VIII
be Just as impossible as they have
been in the past. The recess is indis-
pensable, if the people are TO be prop
erly appraised of the new laws pro-
posed, and if the members are to I'M
derstand what they are doing. The
present method is a -as-you-please
from the time the bell rings, and devil
take the hindmost The Legislature
will never attract the men who should
rightly be in it until its procedure is
radically improved.
1.-THE recess plan is not radical. 1t is
only sensible 1t is fair and reason
able and If you have a bill which you
want to support or oppose, and your
reasons are sound, you are going to
have Just ten times the chance of hay-
ing it properly considered on it's mer-
its that you ever had before"