Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1914-04-10
FINAL SESSION
Of LAWMAKERS
BREAKSRECORD
Legislative Curtain Drops at
4.50 O'clock Yesterday
Afternoon Quietly.
MANY BILLS LEFT lJNRANDIED
Politicians Say That Governor
Has Added Greatly to
His Prestige.
PARTY WAS SPLIT IN TWO
Fielder Logical Candidate for
United States Senator
In 1916.
PARTY WAS SPLIT IN TWO
Special TO the EVENING NEWS.


Trenton, April 1O:-The 138tb
New Jersey legislature ended IT'S
session at 4:50 O'Clock Yesterday
afternoon, breaking all records in
recent years for closing in dayligh.
and In seemly manner. There was
another unique feature In that the
assembly was through more than an
hour before the senate and had to
Aiil time until the upper branch was
ready for the final drop of the
gavels.
The lawmaking of 1914 officially
ended when Senate President Slocum
eaid:
Il now declare this session of the
138th New Jersey legislature ad-
Journed without day"
The sixty assemblymen, headed by
Speaker Beekman, had marched TO
the senate chamber, and as the
presidents gavel raped as he utter
ed the order closing the session, the
eighty-one legislators joined in sing
ing Aud Lang Syne." The session
ended officially at 3 O'Clock, in keep
ing with the adjournment resolution.
as the legislative clocks were stopped
at that hour.
The legislature has made it's rec
ord. In reviewing. its work today,
politicians expressed the opinion that
Governor Fielder had added consid-
orably to his prestige, while his party
1s split into factions worse than when
Ashe .hhe session began.
Y ext.s,5ernor Fielder emerges from
the work Of the session as the logical
candidate for United States senator
in 1916 against Edward G. Stokes"
Is the way one man at the State
House put it.
Viewed from any angle, it must
be admitted that much of the reform
legislation proposed died because of
the failure of the Democrats to unite
in favor of it. The playing of poll
tics all through the session, particu-
larly in the assembly, was marked
feature, and this was true of the
Republicans as we'll as the Demo-
Gratis.
1t was due to politics that only two
of the Economy and Efficiency Com
mission bills were enacted, these be-
ing the minor ones. One of those
passed was Senate 163, merging the
work of the Ship Canal Commission
with that of the new Harbor Com
mission. The other one makes the
State House Commission the pur-
chaser of the stationery used in the
state departments, that it may be
uniform and more economical.
The fight against the economy
program is we'll illustrated in the
first named measure 1t was a COM
R,.r,k
ed the senate also consolidated the
State Riparian Board with the Har-
Dor Board.
The State Riparian Commissioners
are paid $500 each and they and
their friends lobbied effectually to
have the board eliminated from the
consolidation. The proper amend
ment was put into the bill in the
assembly, and the senate had to
accept it or nothing.
The two bills consolidating the
State Board of Assessors and the
State Tax Board into new Board
Of Taxes and Assessm ent, died in the
house, where they were the subject
of bitter politics, after passing the
senate.
Tax reform went down to defeat,
none Of the important bills on this
subject having been passed.
Only one of the governors state
revenue bills got through, the direct
Inheritance tax act, which has al
ready been approved. The two auto
mobile bills, one of which would
have brought s350,000 additional
into the state treasury annually from
motor vehicle fees, and the other
handing sop to the motorists for
this increased license by abolishing
the personal tax on all automobiles,
now paid to the municipalities, failed
of passage In the assembly, where
thev were introduced. Another rev.
enue bill, taking $4,000 of the
school money and putting it into the
state treasury for the expenses Of
the Normal Schools, State Board Of
Education, etc, passed the senate, |
but met the fierce opposition of the
oatriotic orders who stand for the
public schools, and died In the
assembly.
Three proposed constitutional
were passed and will be
referred to the next legislature, and |
If they pass there will be voted upon |
by the people. They are women
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