Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
LEGISLATURE ENDS
{ ITS FIRST PHASE
With All Measures In, Law-
makers Begin to Approve
and Reject Them.
ASSEMBLY HAS los BILLS;
SENATE'S TOTAL Is 1872
Both Houses Behind in Work
\ and Final Adjournment Is
Far Off.
Especial to the Evening star.l


the storm, the Legislature succeeded
In closing its first part of the years
work yesterday afternoon. Yesterday
was the last day on which bills for
the year could be introduced.
The total number of bills in the
Assembly this year is 1855. ninety-one
less than last year, while the Senate
has 392, thirty-six less than last years
total.
With eight weeks of the session
passed, the Assembly is away behind
In its work, for less than one hundred
bills have been considered on third
reading thus far. The prospects of an
early adjournment grow less rosy as
The work goes slowly on. Committees
report bills slowly and sparsely, and
protracted sittings are due to be held
within the next few weeks.
Only FIVE bills were passed by the
House yesterday at two sessions but
this was partly eXplainable on the
ground that members were eager to
introduce bills on the final date al
lowed them. Assemblyman Dali
rymple's House bill, No. 1884, amend
ing the Martin tax act, was put
through by the House. Senator Ram
seys Senate bill. No. 81, amending
the Board of Health laws, was passed
and so was Senator McGinnis's Sem
ate bill, No. 55, regulating the filing
of MAPS
In the afternoon two House bills
were passed They were Assem- bly,
man Agnews, No. 81, validating
I title to property conveyed by a dis
solved corporation, and Assembly
man Kirkpatricl<'s, No, so, regulating
the appointment of prosecutors de-
tectives.
Many Important Bills.
In the rush of bills that came
pouring to the Speakers desk today
were many of importance and inter-
est. Assemblyman Fisk, of Hudson,
introduced bill that has the sup
port of constables of county courts.
1t provides for fixed annual salary
of $1,000 Il year for all such con-
stables. Incidentally it does away
with the fee and mileage system.
At present their pay is $3.50 a day,
figured by weeks of six days each.
Constables serving as court attend
ants get no advantage from the fee
and mileage system, and work harder
On the average, the cost of constables
remuneration under the bill would be
about the same as now. Hudson
County constables favor the bill.
Assemblyman Brackner's quo wan
ranto bill, providing that when a quo
warranto writ has been argued and
lost any person claiming to be inter
ested can appeal 1T without consult
ing the attorney general or the court,
the same as if the person were the
original relator, was taken from the
table yesterday and sent back to COM
mittee This is the bill which hits
at commission government and was
attributed to Wittpenn Influences.
The reconsideration is taken to indi-
cate amnesty in the Hudson political
war.
Majority Leader Branegan intro
duced bill making it a misde-
meanor for any county engineer not
to devote all of his time to the SER
vice of his county. Assemblyman
Barbour. of Passaic, put in bill re-
quring that all candidates for MEM
bers of boards of education must
have resided three years in the dis
trict or municipality and must have
completed the first eight years of the
public school, including primary and
grammar grades, or had an equiva-
lent education.
Assemblyman Sheppard handed in
bill reducing the salaries of the new
jury commissioners from $500 to $500
in first-clas counties. from $3.50 to
$3.50 in second class counties, and from
$500 to $3.50 in all others. Assembly
man Quinn introduced a labor bill
regulating the issuing or granting of
any restraining order or temporary
or preliminary injunction, in cases of
labor disputes.
Assemblyman Rays seeks to repeal
the widows pension act Assembly
man Nutting would insist on railroad
conductors announcing distinctly
when the train, is approaching sta
ton the name of the station, and con-
ductors of trolley cars the names of
streets being approached.
Following is the list of bills intro
duced in the House yesterday:
No. 635, Mr.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a de-
partment of architecture, and CONSOLE
dates therein the state Board of Archi-
tocts and that branch of the office of
commissioner of charities and corrections
that plans supervises, constructs and
superintends State buildings. The depart.
ment shall consist of the state Board OF
Architects and the assistant to the com
missioner of charities and corrections,
who must be an architect and shall mere
after be known as the state afchltect,
and who shall be the executive of1cer OF
the department, at a salary of $4,000 per
year. (Iudiciary.)
No. 636, Mr.. Weart-Requires boards OF
registration and election in all election
districts in municipalities having popu-
lation of 10000 or less to meet annually
OF the second Tuesday of September, and
shall then proceed truly and accurately
entering canvassing books, the names and
residences and street numbers of all legal
voters residing within such districts en-,
inqlliry at every dwelling house or hab.
itation. and shall continue such personal
canvass until the same be completed.
No. 637. Mr.. Bryne-Authorizes the Gov
ernor. with the consent of the Senate, to
0ppoint a commissioner of marine fish
cries for term of five years, at salary
of $4,000 per year and actual expenses,
who shall secure the enforcement of all
laws for the preservation of marine
Ashes. He may appoint five marine fish
wnrdens for terms of one year, salary of
$1,000 per year each, who shall perform
such duties as assigned by the commits
sioner Game and Fish,
No 63S Mr. Moore-FiXes fee OF %
cents for the name of each person or cor
norntion to be searched against in the
Sunreme Court for lien. (JudicisHS.l
No 63g Mr. Moore-Provides for the re.
nnvment to az railroad the sum OF
1,A.y deposited with the State treasurer,
ms required by law, upon the ming OF lts
certificate of organization, upon comply
ing with the conditions named in the act.
lJudiclary.) -,
No G40' MIR Moore-Gives the Board OF
puhlic Utilities Commissioners the gen
oral regulation and supervision OF track
less trolley and automobile omnibus.
No. 641, Mr.. Moore-Whenever the
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