Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-01-22

tNGW laHA LUG III 9ANladI 6doS6dfh
Probe ror Legislative Employees.
Game Law Changes.
Especial Correspondence
Trenton. N. j., Jan. 20.-Another at
tempt to abolish capital punishment is
to be made at this session by Senator
Hutchinson of Mercer. As he express
es it, he is half a Quaker" and is OPP
posed to executions as a principle. He
would substitute life Imprisonment as
a penalty and believes he will be sus-
tanned by public sentiment. The life
imprisonment feature has always fail
ed to meet with support, as many of
the legislators feared that the usual
method of granting a pardon to long
termers make murderers much less
fearful of the consequences of their
act. The senator asserts that he has
been led to advance the idea again be-
cause of the recent freeing of the con-
Wet Schuyler of Hunterdon county.
Schuyler Is the prisoner whose death
sentence was committed. and 1t was
later learned that he vas not guilty of
the crime charged against him. He
was pardoned a few weeks ago. Dur
ing his former term as senator, Mr..
Hutchinson was successful in his fight
against having legal hangings take
place in the state prison. He said
Trenton would be known as Hang
town." When electrocution was adopt
ed as a means of ending the life of
the condemned criminals lees objection
was offered and the state prison was
selected for the executions. To
strengthen his bill MI. Hutchinson may
insert a clause to prohibit %pardoning.
Criminologists have said that s~eclusion
in a narrow cell is harder punishment
than death itself.
Would Cut Salaries.
A new salary schedule introduced In
a measure by Senator Mathis of Ocean
has caused a ripple of anxiety among
che Democratic oficeholders. By Its
provisions the compensation of the
600 to $1,000. The governor, however,
is to retain the $500 additional permit
ted him as a member of the statehouse
commission. The salary of the chief
justice is shaved from $4,000 to So
600, but he gets an additional 1000
for sitting in the court Of errors. The
chancellor's salary Is cut in the same
way. The associate justices of the SUI
preme court and the vice chancellors
you'd drop from $4,000 to $500 and
the circuit court judges from $4,000 to
$500 The state treasurer, comptrol
Ter. secretary of state and attorney
general are cut from $4,000 to $4,000.
The clerks of the supreme and chan
Gerry courts would fall frome$6,000 to
$4,000 and the Commissioners labor
from $4,000 TO $1,000. EdIv "a fers
sioner of education wof od and fried
from $4,000 to $4,000 nav in tba hu
utility commissioners @,os and mo
$4,000 These, with sea cocks a,
would bring a saving or cora d,nned h
Contractors would bagSes There :
guarantee roads for efveS ho, mn,
constructed for boards ofEfreek MI
under a bill presented by Assd NJ,
man Weart of Mercer. and Assembly
man Oliphant Of the same county has
a measure to permit the sheriff to
name a court attendant for the grand
jury. pay all witness fees. etc. Max
Hammond has a bill to regulate the
practice of drugless therapeutics and
one to pension soldiers serving on pub
lie jobs for twenty years. Manufacture
ers of foodstuffs in packages would be
required to mark on the packages the
net weight of the contents under a
other measure Of Mr.. Hammond.
Assemblyman Pancoast of Camden
presented an interesting bill. 1t pro
vides that a married woman may be
secured in her property rights over
valuables that may be hers. Mr.. Pan
coast asserted that the measure is de
signed to make woman the owner of
ornaments and wearing apparel which
she has received through her husband
and which she thinks she owns, but
does not. Assemblyman Stevens of
Cape May has a measure to locate q
state normal school in Cape May
county. As there is great rivalry for
an institution of this kind in other
parts of the state. it is not thought
probable that the bill will get through.
The provisions have first to be approx
ed by the appropriations committee
and then by the state board of educa-
ton.
To Copy Washington Bust.
For the Annie Stockton chapter of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton Senator White of Burlington
presented a petition ttiat the state OBJ
tain a bronze reproduction Of the stat
ne of Washington now in the state
capitol at Richmond. Va. The original
was modelled by HouGon. the noted
sculptor. and was taken from life meas
nrements of the first president. The