Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-06
.DETECJ Joker"
!. IN CANAL BILL
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canal new basin after the Chancery
Court had declare d that the railroad
company had no title to the BASIN
IL these claims gainst the State
should be included IN the amount of
II 600. 900 to be paid by the Lehgh
Valley Company to the State for the
canal basin it Is easy to see that the
company won't pay dollar to the
State The sales alone by the COM
mission will not be much more than
81 600 900.
The responsibility for the sinister
charges in the canal bill after 1t had
been printed in the report and pub
lished in the ne WspaperS and read by
the public rests upon the memhers OF
the commission. The work looks like
the act of a railroad attorney. for 1t
virtually saves the Lehlgh Salley
Railroad Company million dollars.
BY the change made the million dol
lars is not to come out of the COM
nany's treasury, but out of the re-
GENTS for the sale of the canal prop
erty and surrender of the bogus claim
for back taxes to be added Ii
necessary to swell the amount for the
railroad to pay the state Wlthout
paying anything.
The Lehigh Valley has already paid
900. in 1899. which amounts to
s115O0O. including interest, and the
report and bill section r. relinquishes
ali moneys paid by the Behigh' val
lev. including the alleged taxes paid
to the State, which amount Is IN
known.
The canal bill will not be taken up
this week, but the men who are en-
gineering 1t, including the commits
sioners, who want to WELD the vast
powers conferred by the bill, are
scheming for a special session to rail-
road 1t through. The discovery of
this joker in the bill suggests other
possible jokers in what is declared to
be the most vicious bill ever intro
6uced in the Legislature.
Former Assemblyman Fred G.
Stickel, tr., of this city, secretary to
the Morris Canal Investigation Com
mittee, had this to say today when
interviewed in regard to the change
In the language of the canal abandon
nent bill, from the form of bill APP
bearing in the committees printed re-
port submitted to the Legislature
My attention has been called to
statement or story in the Morn
ing Star to the effect that the
Morris canal abandonment bill in
troduced In the Legislature diff
fers in one particular from the bill
recommended by the Norris canal
investigating committee ana
printed on pages 2S to 40 inclusive
of its report.
The bill so appearing in that
report is the bilf which | and my
fellow members ON that committee
recommended and submitted to
the governor of this State. Any
bill which is not identical with
that bill is not the bill the COM
mittee recommended or submitted.
The change which is mentioned
In The Star as contained in and
proposed by the bill which has
been introduced is one of which !
do not approve.
j advocate the bill as ii appears
on the committees report.
The canal investigating committee
Consists of Foster NJ. Birch, Henry M.
Doremus, DR.. ]. ID. Ely, Mangold II.
EIlenbogen, Professor Albert f.
CAM, Carlton Godfrey, Charles n.
JngersalI, Colonel William Libbey,
John I. Blair Reilly, G. Howard Sla-
.tegt Fred G. Stickel, jr., and John
w. Wescott, -