Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-02-02
FRAZER MAKES
HIS DEBUT AS
BILL ADVOCATE
City Counsel Speaks at Hearing
on House 90, the Ripper
Ripper.
REFERS TO HOUSE 81
AS TEMPORARY MATTER
Plays the S o S Signal on DaI-
rympIe's Broad Shoulders
and Discusses Situations.
Special to the Evening star.


TRENTON, Feb. 2.-city Counsel
Spaulding Frazer, of Newark. made
his debut as an advocate of legisla-
tion down here last night. He per-
sonally appeared before the commit
tee on municipal corporations which
was sitting for hearings on various
bills referred to that body.
The assemblymen had listened pa
tiently or otherwise to arguments,
pro ana con, on an act concerning
the registering of laboring men un-
der civil service regulations and
House bill No. 80, through which eX-
FIRE Chief David e. Benedict, of
Newark. seeks to obtain a $1,000 an
nual allowance from the Newark
paid firemen's pension fund. Assem-
blymen Peacock, of Burlington,
chairman of the committee, and his
colleagues, were a pretty well tired
set of men, as the hour of 8 was
coming along, after abruptly dispos-
ing of the Benedict bill, and each
wanted to get a bite to eat before the
regular session of the House was
called to order.
Mr.. Frazer was in the room ap-
parently waiting for something, and
Mr.. Peacock evidently knew what
his mission was, as he remarked:
rip the Ripper" Bill.
Thine is short, and here we have
been in session all the afternoon. We
are entitled to little lunch before
the House gets down to business, SO
we'll Just consider one more bill,
Assembly 92. I think they call 1t the
rip the ripper bill Each speaker
will be limited to five minutes, and
let us hope that he will cut it short. 4"
Assembly bill 92 is a sort of COM
panian measure TO Assembly bill IL
(the Newark auditor bilD, both hav-
ing been introduced by Mr.. Wolf of
Essex county. No. 92 amends the
original ripper act of 1907 in that, in
addition to providing that the terms
of all appointive officers shall ex-
pire with that of an outgoing mayor,
the incoming mayor may appoint
their successors, without the formal
ity of confirmation by Common Coun-
eli.
This bill. u yaacted into law, as
| previously pointed out by the Even
ing Star, being Of the subsequent leg
| islation order, would affect such off,
that had been considered outside tbs
ripper act circle.
! Mr. Frazer attracted considerable
interest when he stepped forward to
SesAA for the bill, he having been
announced as the new city counsel
! of Newark He started in by saying
| that the measure was merely II
clarity the situation existing in New
| ark over the authorship and the
Health Board, and remove the am
| biguity of language In the original
| Y-irN OF Tn
more. The original act was very am
biguous, he declared, and while, IN
| his opinion, it should be construed to
mean the same thing as Assembly
| 80 taeans, the language of the latter
was too clear to admit of any mis-
understanding or confusion. He ex-
| pressed hope that the bill would be
| reported out of committee favorabiy
and passed without delay.
''Is this bill anything like House Al
| that we put through for you a week
ago." asked Chairman Peacock.
II Any One should Die.
"Oh dear, no." replied Mr.. Frazer,
number Al is just a little emergency
, act to take care of the auditors s
office in the event of a vacancy, il
, any one should die. Merely tenn
porary arrangement.
Can hour later Assembly bill Al was
defeated in the Senate.)
Continuing his talk on Assembly 81,
Mr.. Frazer remarked that the ten
dency of modern government was to
vest in the mayors of cities all pow
ers and all responsibilities, and that IS
what the measure in question sought
to do.
THE bill will only affect Newark" ="
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