Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-14
Under 1t Two Sessions Will Be
Held, With a Recess of
a Month.

pan Oh legislative procedure by As
semblyman Walter L. McDermott, of
Hudson, featured the organization of
the House of Assembly yesterday.
| The acceptance of one of Mr.. Nc
| Dermott's resolutions providing that
no Dill can be introduced after March
and that none can go beyond first
reading before March came as a
| great surprise to a number of the
| Legislators. The other, calling for an
adjournment of both houses on
March for recess until April /, was
| referred to the judiciary committee.
While the California plan had been
talked of for some time and had even
| been advanced by Mr.. McDermott at
conference of the Democratic as
semblymen a couple of weeks ago 1t
met with little encouragement until
| yesterday. A number of senator's
favored the plan, as did the entire
Essex delegation in the House, and
/ the others speedily fell in line.
| Following the adoption of Mr. Nc
| Dermott's proposition the Republican
minority, through Its leader, Emer-
son L. Richards, of Atlantic county
Offered number of amendments in
an effort to put the Democratic as
semblymen on record.
/
The discussion on Mr.. Richards's
| proposed amendments consumed con-
siderable time and none of them was
adopted. The opposition to the Re
| publican measures was led by As
semblyman Joseph M. Branegan, ma
jority leader. and Mr.. McDermott
| who, despite the fact that he was ap-
parently ignored by H. Otto Witt
penn, Of Hudson, was very much In
| evidence yesterday.
| Mr.. McDermott's amendment for
| the adoption of the California plan
was opposed by Mr.. Richards, who
| Offered substitute amendment for
| rule II as follows:
THAT no bill or joint resolution
shall be introduced later than two
weeks preceding the day fixed for ad-
| journment, and that no bill or joint
resolutions shall be considered during
the last two weeks of the session, I'M
less said bill or joint resolution shall
| have been on third reading at least
one week" The amendment was de-
feated.
Mr.. Richards offered a number oil
amendments to the rules, all Of which
were approved in the recent Repub-
1ican caucus, and all of which were
opposed by Mr.. Branegan and voted
| down. Here are some OF them:
Committee Meetings Public.
'.All committee meetings shall be
public, and at least twenty-foul
hours notice in writing of the meet
| ing of the committee shall be giver
to each member of the House. Every
committee shall hold at least one
! meeting each legislative week, pro
| vided there are bills committed to Il
for consideration.
''The several standing committee:
, of abe House shall report each bill
either favoratly or unfavorably
within three legislative weeks aftel
bill has been committed to the com
rnittee. unless the House shall ex'
tend the limit for the consideration
of the bill by the committee. Eacf
bill shall be reported. at all events
at least forty-eight hours before thu
final adjournment of the House. Th'
several standing committees shall
have leave to report by amendment
substitute bill or otherwise.
Each bill shall be reported to thu
House in writing. which reports shall
show whether or not the bill is re-
i ported favorably or unfavorably. ant
how each member of the committed
voted upon the question Of said re-
4 port"
whenever more than one bill has
been introduced on the same sub
ject the corr tuittee shall either re-
| port the bills In the order of theft
| introduction or shall report them
simultaneously, provided, however
that the committee may report all OF
part of the bills not substitute, bill,
amendment or otherwise"
THAT the bills appropriating
moneys out of the treasury of the
State of New Jersey shall be intro
duced, printed and placed upon the
desks of the members of the Legis-
1ature at least one week before the
consideration of such bills"
Jury Bill Goes In.
| Among the sixty-three bills which
were introduced were several of prime
importance Assemblyman John P
kirkpatrick, of Middlesex, introduced
the chancellor sheriff jury commits
sion bill of 1918 without the referen-
dunn. This is the measure which
passed both houses last year, was
submitted to the voters and adopted
only to be later declared unconstitu-
tional by Justice Swayze, of the Su-
preme Court. The first bill introduced
in the House was bill by Mr.. Brane-
gan, of Hudson. giving municipalitie:
the power to appoint policewomen
Mr.. Branegan said today that he had
enough votes pledged in the House tC
pass the bill.
Suffrage Resolution offered.
Not bill, but a resolution amend
ing the Constitution to admit of fe
male suffrage, was the offering O.
Majority Leader Branegan to redeem
IL Let n
the insertion of the words "and fe
MALE At every point where the wore
male citizens" appears in section
of the Constitution. That is the sec
ton providing for the extension O.
suffrage to all male citizens of tn,
State.
In the House gallery were nearly
200 women interested In that resolu
ton, and they were about equally
divided on the question of the desir'
ability of women voting. When the
bill was referred to the judiciary com
mittee for consideration 1t being I'M
| derstood that it might come up fol
discussion in about ten days. Mrs
Dayton. of Union County, one Of the
ants, had a request to make.
She asked that the anti-suffragists
be given a hearing in the House Ac-
cordingly, January 2S, at 10 a. m.
was set for a public hearing on the
resolution, at whict time the ants
will come into the House and make
their representations. Suffragists
will also attend, it is said.
Local option in applying the Sun
day law governing indoor and out
door amusements on that day is
sought, by provision that the Board
| of Aldermen, Common Council
Township Committee or other gov
erning body of any municipality In
the State, or camp meeting associa-
tons shall have power to adopt or
dinances to regulate and prohibit the
act made unlawful by the f1rst -four
! sections, and the eighth section OF
the vice and immortality act.
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