Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-04-10
NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE
IS Ready For Final
Adjournment
DEPARTMENT HEADS ANXIOUS
[speelal correspondenee.l


the appropriation bills to learn how
their respective branches are to be af-
fected. While the appropriation com
mittee will not make public the
known that some of them will be much
less than was expected. While declin
ing to give specific amounts. Chairman
Hennessy asserted that the committee
clipped off more than 81. 10000 from
the sum that was asked for by depart
ment heads. The annual appropriation
ago. but the supplemental and inciden-
tai measures will be less. This will
bring the total figures lower than they
were n year ago.
1t is now fully intended to adjourn
sine die tomorrow, and the appropria-
lions bills will be among the last meas
ures considered. Their general effect
will not become fully known until that
time. To give more extended consider
alton to the need of money for the diff
ferent institutions a departure is to be
made this year by continuing the APP
preparation committee as a permanent
commission to make a study of the
states finances. The committeeman
are to be empowered to summon wit.
nesses from all the Institutions and de.
partments of the state and make a de-
tailed investigation into the expendi-
lures of money. They are also to de-
wise new methods of revenue An APP
preparation of $4,000 is given them to
cover their expenses, and they are to
make a report to the next legislature.
The state road department, the depart
mnt of public instruction and the in
situations under the direction of the
department of charities and correction
are to be especially probed. These
three branches now receive the great
est amounts to meet their expendi-
lures. Senator Edge. who is a men,
Der of the efficiency and economy COM
mission, voiced his approval of the
scheme and expressed the belief that it
should accomplish good results.
An amendment will have to be made
to the rules Of the legislature to permit
a final adjournment tomorrow, as a
provision had been adopted to require
the printing of the appropriation bill
more than a week to the close of the
session. The object of this was to, per-
NIT time for a study of the different
items.
Committee Says No.
The appropriations committee, how
ever, maintained that it was absolutely
impossible to complete the work within
the specified time.
At the direction of Governor Fielder
changes have been made in the newly
passed inheritance tax act. He stated
that under the present wording of the
measure it might be possible to collect
the 5 per zen a upon inheritances
between $500 and $4,000 passing to the
so called lineal descendant. He pointed
out that it was not the intention to
have any such requirement. He also
had the bill amended so that property
of nonresidents, except goods, wares
and merchandise, as well as stock In
New Jersey corporations and national
banks located in this state, should be
exempt from the tax, because it would
drive them from New Jersey, to the in
Jury of the commonwealth.
Some Dissension.
Surreptitious changes in the bill have
approached near scandals during this
session. When the house reconvened
Monday night the members first gave
their attention to an alteration in the
wording of the Morris canal amend
ment bill without the authority of the
assembly. The change placed a doubt
on the amount of money that would be
paid this state by the Lehigh Valley
Railroad company. In the original
draft the sum was set at 100000. 1t
is not the intention to pass the measur
this session, but the tampering with 1t
aroused the ire of some of the repre-
~sentatives. 1t was also discovered that
a false committee substitute for anoth-
er bill increased the salaries of county
supervisors and freeholders in first
class counties; that another was sub
stituted for the bill, which would pre-
vent the employment of children In
mines. A ecker" was found inserted
in the trackless trolley bill by provid.
ing that all water supplies of a munich
pality should be placed under the juris-
diction of the public utilities commits.
sion. A~ssemblyman Quigley of Essex
created a stir by his announcement OF
q change in the bill in which he was in.
terested. The original provided for the
exemption of taxation on improve
ments on lands owned by counties
The committee ubstitute, which was
passed, provided for a charter for Rah.
way. Mr.. Quigley scored Assemblyman
Dobbins, who spoke for the measure
and said that the assemblymen who
voted for it were in ignorance of what
1t contained.
Retort to Charge.
Assemblymen Scovel and Peacock
Republicans, sarcastically retofted Ia