Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-01-19
BILL TO GUST
AUDITOR ROWE
PASSES HOUSE
Wolf Act Is Rushed Through
Under Suspension of the
Rules.
REACHES SENATE JUST
TOO LATE FOR ACTION
Mayor Raymond Carries Battle
to acknowledgements Were
Right on the Law.
special to tho Evening Star.

/ Special to the Evening Star.
TRENTON, Jan. 19.-Municipal
battle scenes shifted from the city
| Hall, Newark. to the legislative halls
here last night, proclaimers Of the
, change of base on the part of Mayor
| Thomas l.. Raymond's forces com
! ing in the shape of two bills intro
duced in the lower house by As
| mblyman II. Edward Wolf. of Es-
/ sex county.
| Assemblyman VOLTS first bill which
! bears the House number Il, was TAX
en- up by the Republican members
| for prompt action early this morning.
| The act authorizes the mayors Of
/ frst-class cities, commission governed
municipalities excepted, to appoint a
/ clerk in the Office of the auditor OF
/ accounts, who shall be acting auditor
/ in the event of q temporary vacancy
In the authorship. He will have full
power to discharge the duties of the
auditor. The bill is aimed to dispose
/ of James A. Rowe as auditor of New
! ark.
Bill Passes "a TO IS.
As soon as the Assembly settled
down to the active business of the
morning session Mr. Wolf called up
/ the measure, moved that the rules be
suspended and the bill advanced to
third reading and final passage.
| It was passed by vote of "a to Is
and as soon as possible rushed over
to the Senate. The clerk reached the
Senate chamber about one minute
after the upper house had adjourned
/ This rendered it out of the question
! for the Senate to vote on the bill to-
day.
1t is understood that Governor
Fielder viii approve the act as soon
as 1t reaches his desk.
There was a short and sharp de-
bate in the House before the motion
to suspend the rules was carried.
/ Assemblyman Thomas F. Martin,
the minority leader, demanded to
know why the rules should be sus-
pended, and also why the Repub-
Ilicans we're resorting to the practice
OF 'railroadir8' Bills SO early IN the
session.
Less than 3 week ago., said Mr..
Martin. "the Assembly passed a rule,
that full and ample time should be
allowed for the consideration Of all
legislative measures. There was TO
be no railroading. Yet here, before
the ink on the paper is dry, you start
to railroad a bill If the majority pro-
pose TO do this sort of thing it is per
haps well that We should know 1t and
also know why
Assemblyman Wolf. in explaining
the measure, merely said that 1t was
an emergency act for the relief of the
city Of Newark.
| Mr., Wolf is known as one of the
| Newark mayors close friends. In
fact he was his confidential man at
home during Mr.. Raymond's south
ern trip, taken right after the No
| vember election.
Bu If there could have possibly ex-
listed any doubt as to what was go
ing on and why, 1t was dissipated by
the appearance Of Spaulding Frazer,
citv counsel of Newark, whose tall
slender form was directly behind
Assemblyman Wolf, at last night )
session, as the latter as he arose ana
on two occasions announced:
"Mr. Speaker | wish to introduce
a bill"
The bills were labeled Assembly
Il and Assembly 90, respectively.
Caused Craining of Secks.
There were craning of necks and
the turning OF the best receiving
| ears of the members and other spec
tators as the clerk Of the House rat
tied off bill No. Il as being an act
! concerning cities of the first class,
and which provides that the mayors
! thereof may appoint clerk in the
/ nf tyyh
! shall be the acting auditor when in
| the event of resignation, death or
other causes vacancy occurs there
| in. This measure was the first shot
! out of the box after the House had
| settled down to business.
| Assembly 90 hove in sight in It's own
GOOD time last night. and would have
! beep an earlier arrival but for the
activity of other members getting In
| their individual pet measures.
| Synopsized, No. 90 is an act to
amend an act concerning the govern
ment of cities of the first class, ap-
proved April 2S, 1907 Amends para
! graph Of the law so that the term
| Of Office of all city officers, members
| Of citv boards and other employees
anpointed bv the mayor, whether
with or without confirmation of Com
mon Council, shall expire with the
| term of the mayor, and the success
sors of such officers shall be appoint
| ed by the incoming mayor without
confirmation of Common Council. This
nct does not apply to cities governed
nv the Walsh commission government
| law.
| Roth bills are referred to the COM
nittee on municipal corporations, of
/ which Assemblyman Peacock. of Bur-
| linston county. is chairman. Assem-
| hlynan Crosby. of Essex, is a mem
| her OF this committee.
An Admission of Legal Error.
'There we have it with us" re-
marked an assemblyman. "They are
showing that Newark controversy on
MS. Got in some difficulty over the
INTERPRETATION of the laws, the new
administration has, and Is coming to
us TO remedy matters and straighten
them out. We are to be the goats.
There was no one to deny that the
introduction of the bills was the
strongest kind of admission on the
part of the Raymond administration
that il had the wrong end of the legal
controversy and that the Democratic
aldermen's attitude on the question
of their right to confirm or reject the
uavor's nominations to office was
sound from the viewpoint of law, re-
pardless Of any other consideration.
might Just as we'll have acknowl-
edged the corn from the start" said
a, we'll informed Republican lawyer,
"and tried some other way. But some
people had to raise a hula bailoo