Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-06
AXE IS SWINGING
IN ECONOMY PLAN
R. B. Hutchinson, First Victim,
Loses $1,000 School Fund
Job.
IspecIal 10 the Newark STAR. ]

TRENTON, Feb. 6.-Supplementing
his speech on the necessity for curb
| ing the States finances and the
probability of a State tax at the
Trenton Chamber of Commerce din
ner last night, Governor Fielder to-
day announced that he had called
conference of all department heads
to consider the situation. 1t will be
held within the next ten days.
The governor feels the need of rigid
economy and is doing what he can
to bring about a better showing on
the States balance sheet. The board
of trustees of the school fund, of
which he is a member, today an
nounced that it will abolish the posi-
ton of clerk to the board. This posi-
| ton pays $4,000 a year and is held
by Robert c. Hutchinson, of Borden
/ town. Mr. Hutchinson Is a Republic
can. This is practically the first step
in cutting down the States running
expenses.
It is likely one of the clerks in the
treasurers Office will take over the
duties of Mr.. Hutchinson. The men,
bers of the board of trustees of the
school fund are Governor Fielder,
State Treasurer Grosscup, Secretary
of State Crater, Comptroller Edwards,
Attorney General Wescott and Com
missioner of Education Kendall.
At the dinner last night, Governor
Fielder sounded warning as to the
imminence of a State tax in New
Jersey.
should be taken of all the States
financial needs, the total of the
amount of money required to make
needed improvements should be
struck and then the question of iesu-
ing bonds to meet the obligations
should be submitted to the people.
Only in this way, he said, could a di-
rect State tax be avoided, and the
citizens of New Jersey for the next
twenty-five years would be paying
their share of the burden.
The governor said that the State
was almost criminal in the neglect of
it's wards. This situation, he declared
has been brought about by the lack of
funds in the State treasury, which
faces a deficit. He believed a direct
State tax would not be a bad thing.
1t would arouse the people to a great
er interest In State affairs, and make
them look more carefully to the men
and machinery operating the affairs
of the commonwealth.
Among the speakers were Job e.
11tuBtSy Vi INOW IOIh, ellu IhdyOA
Frederick W, Donnelly, of Trenton.
The latter dwelt at length upon the
Importance to this city and State of
the improvements of the waterways.
w. Morgan Shuster, ex-minister of
finance for Persia, in speaking of the
Mexican situation, declared that Mex
leo must be allowed to solve its own
problem unless it became apparent
that there was no hope of such a
solution, in which event, Mr.. Shuster
said, intervention should not be I'M
dertaken by the United States alone,
but by all the nations having inter-
ests in the war-ridden country.
This, he declared, would be an evil
dence Of good faith to the Mexicans,
who are at present suspicious of every
move made by the United States.
President Wilson was praised by
Mr.. Sinister for the manner in which
he had thus far dealt with the MeXi- |
can situation, and the speaker upheld
him in refusing to recognizing Gen
eral Huerta as the ad interim presi- |
dent, because of the means taken to
place him in power.
He admitted that the result If the
injection of idealism into such a prob
lem was dangerous. He thought that
the best way out of the difficulty in
which the United States finds itself |
involved in Mexico was through the |
cooperation of other powers