Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-10
REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS
ARRAIGN THE DEMOCRATS
With Adjourned Senator Edge Bames Them for Push
ing Only Taxing Acts and Minority Leader Edwards Scores
Them for Ignoring Platform Pledges.

declared the adjournment and drop
ped his gavel for the last time in the
Senate Chamber in 1914
Session "a Conservative One.
In the main the, session has been a
conservative one, remarkably so when
compared With the three preceding
sessions, when President Wilson was
governor There has been little legis-
lation of a radical nature and none
likely to disturb the business inter
ests of the State.
Except for the passage of revenue
raising b lis to meet the financial
eXigencies of the State, chief among
which is the imposition of a direct
Inheritance tax and the passage of
the bank stock tax act, designed
primarily to reimburse nun 'cipalites
for funds otherwise diverted TO State
uses. the session has been devoid OF
striking features. The election laws
will remain substantially as they are
except that in cites operating under
commission government the expert
ment of preferential elections will be
tried.
Governor F'ielder's program, an i'm
portant feature of which was the
solution of the States financial prob
lem was not carried out in it's en-
tirety In a statement commenting
upon the general work of the session
the Governor said:
Fielder's Statement.
"Of all my nine years of legislative
experience this has been hardest and
] am glad the session has adjourned
and we can now sit down and take
an account of stock. The passage of
bills advocated in our party platform
and in my message has been made
exceedingly difficult by reason of the
many factions existing in the AS.
scmbly But a hurried survey would
Indicate that much has been accom-
pllshed. We have passed bills cover
ing the following subjects: Preferen-
tial election for commissioned gov
erred municipalities. home rule for
commission governed municipalities,
legislative reference bureau, legisla-
tive legal advisor, prison reform
liberal method Of amending the Con-
stitution, assembly district constitu-
tiOnal amendment, Hillery maximum
tax act repeater, taxation of bank
stock.
VIII Try to Get Along.
II regret that none of the economy
and efficiency bills We're passed and
that the Legislature did not dispose
of the subjects of tax reform and
small boards of freeholders. also
regret that legislation taking care OF
the State revenues was not enacted,
other than the inheritance tax bill
There were several other measures
in tn 8 connection which, in my
judgment. should have been passed.
but we shall endeavor TO conduct the
State government with the added
revenues from the tax on in
heritances, and in this we will be
aided by the success of the apprO-
priation committee In keeping down
riations-notably the small
amount allowed the supplemental
appropriation bill, being merely ST.
100000 less than REQUESTS for that
purpose made to the committee.
$50 far as / know, no bad legisa-
tiOn has been enacted, for | have
been as careful as possible in affix-
ing my signature to bills presented
to me, with the result that to date
l51 bills have been signed, seventeen
vetoed and ten sent back to the
Legislature for correction"
Bills Passed to L.
The number of bills passed by the
Assembly yesterday, after previously
having passed the Senate, was exact
ly fifty Forty bills already passed
by the House were passed by the
Senate. The proportion of the thou
sand separate bills introduced in
both houses to survive the Legisla-
ture was one to three.
The more important hills passed by
the Assembly yesterday were as fol-
lows
Senate 1877 regulates the custody of
INDECENT, feeble-minded men; Senate
272 provides for custodian of the
funds appropriated to the New Jer-
sey-San Francisco exposition COM
mission act, Senate 2S8 extends
the provisions of the employers
| liability law to mines; House 54s
fixing pay of court attendants; House
500 fixes pay of employees Of police de-
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