Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-08
DIVERSION BILL IS
HELD IN COMMITTEE
Assemblymen Want to Vote on
Measure Affecting School
Money.

| TRENTON, April S.--What has
become of the administration bill,
Senate 240, which Senator Hennessey
introduced in the Senate and which
was waited through that House on
the Governors approval is what
some members of the Assembly
would like to know. 1t is another of
| these producing measures.
Anxious to get at the measure and
show their own feelings toward it,
the members are baffled by the fall
ure of the committee on education to
report it. There is a pretty thorough
understanding in some quarters of
what is to happen when the bill and
the report comes into the House. In
| the meantime there is shreWd sus-
| picion that the Governor is lying low
playing q little politics himself and
.holding the bill until it can be hustled
through in hurry on tired House
| of Assembly.
The bill is that measure which
would divert from the so-called
sacred school funds money enough
| to relieve the State treasury of the
necessity of supporting several edu-
cational departments now upheld with
State funds The money to do that
would be taken from the sums usu-
! ally devoted to the support of the
public schools of the State.
At one time il was said that the
amount to be diverted to the new pur-
| poses was to be only S300,000 but that
| appears to have been another of those
roseate dreams of Senator Hennessy,
! its maker, for the bill, ii has been
/ shown, will cost the schools much
more than if ii becomes law. Here
are the figures as they have been
taken from the appropriations of last
year, which are lower than the figures
/ this year.
Amounts which would have to be
taken from the school moneys to sup
port the various departments under
| the bill Commissioner of Education,
! sos. 673.96; State Normal School, New
ark, $67 $50; State Board of Educa-
ton, $4,000; State Board of Examiners,
$l0,500; industrial education and man
ual training, 100000; free school Ii
| bfaries, $4,000; practise teaching, 3d.,
300; total, $439, 1886. From this total
should be deducted the sum of $67, 900
IL the object is comparison with last
years figures, because that amount
was taken from the school funds last
year to pay for the upkeep of the
State Normal School in Newark
With that amount allowed, the sum
to he taken out of the school funds,
more than ever was taken before,
would be $372 90. Members of the
committee do not know why it does
not come out, unless it is the chair
man, Assemblyman Agnew, and he
will not say The understanding of
the other members of the committee
is that when the bill does come out il
will be reported adversely, that hav-
ing been the majority voice of the
committee on the bill. That fact may
account for the bill being still held
up by the chairman of the committee.
who is on excellent terms with the
Governor and his staff
The other Assemblymen do not
think SO. They believe the reason is
that the bill will stand a better
chance in the final rush of bills
whether reported favorably or adj
versely than at an earlier stage.
Also, there may be some of the
opposition absent when the bill
comes up.