The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-02-09

George W. v. Cushin, of Orange, of
the Consumers League of New Jer-
sey; Mrs. E. F. Feickert, president of
the New Jersey Suffrage Association
and Mrs. Orville D. Oliphant, of Tren-
ton, of the New Jersey Association
Opposed to Woman Suffrage, likewise
added praise to the efficiency of Col
onel Bryant.
Other public hearings on the econ
omy and efficiency bills are scheduled
for this week.
Only the size of the Assembly
chamber limited the audience at the
hearing Tuesday morning nthe Gaunt
local option bill. Favoring the meas
ure were such well-known a~nti-saloon-
lists as James K. Shields, superintend-
emit of the Anti Saloon League; Rev.
DIR. John Handor, Newark; Robert
| Wellslager, of Trenton; Sheriff Cor
son, of Cape May county; Mr.. w
Burtis Ravens, of Toms River, and
Republican nominee for Congress ir
the Third District; the Gebhardt anG
others. The opposition to the bill was
led by John W. Griggs, former Gov.
ernor and Attorney General of the
United States under the Mckinley ad
ministration; former Speaker of this
House Thomas F. McCran, Henry F
Hilfers, secretary of the State Fed
Grafton of Labor and the Rev. DR.. Ed
mund A. WATSON, of Newark. Ther'
was no lack of spirit on either side ant
the battle continued for hours. Moth
ing at present indicates what the fat
of the bill will be unless the defeat.
local option has received annually il
the past can be used as a basis for al
opinion.
Chairman Pancoast of the Hous,
COMMITTEE on Election stated that fur
Their progress has been made in thu
investigation of the Bergen count.
election of last fall in which Jason
Elliot, Republican, contests the seat il
the Assembly now held by John J
johnson, the low man of Bergen.
three Democratic members of tn
House. If the ballots counted in thu
Prince congressional recount remain
unchanged Elliot will win by 16 votes
These ballots will be examined mex
week.
Senator Read took the first stab o.
the session at President Wilson's cor
poration laws commonly known q:
"The Seven Sisters" by offering a bill
permitting corporations to purchase
stock of securities of other corpora
tions. The bill provides that such
purchase shall be made solely for thu
purpose of investment and not to OBJ
tain control of other corporations by
stock ownerhsip. Investments arr
not to be made if the result would bt
lessening of competition.
The Senate has passed the bill tt
reimburse the Commission on Tuber.
~culosis in Animals for $4,000 expend.
ed in the determination of the foot and
mouth disease. Minority Leader
Hennessy tried to square himself with
the farmers of the State for blocking
/ this bill earlier in the session by OPP
posing it's passage under a suspension
| of rules.
Senator Hennessy vas made to rea-
lie the resentment of the farmers at
the recent convention of the State
Board of Agriculture which turned
down F. M. Curtis of Bergen county
his candidate for the presidency. As
soon as the farmers found out that
the Bergen Senator was behind Mr..
Curtis they went over to former Sena-
tor Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, who was
reelected.
Smarting under this rebuff Monday
night Senator Hennessy said:
II assume there are members on
both sides of the chamber who do want
to grant every reasonable requirement
of the farmers. Some gentlemen do,
however, play a great deal to the
farmers and some gentlemen assume
to be the spokesman of the farmers of
the State. The chairman of the ap-
preparation committee knows my OBJ
lection did not go to the merits of the
bill, but only to the improper haste
with which it was proposed to be
rushed through"
These remarks brought Senator
Gaunt to the floor on a question of
personal privilege. He said an exhi-
bition of the smallest kind of peanut
politics was shown last week and hint
ed that its effect was a sad experience.
Assemblyman Weart of Mercer coun-
ty, has ready for introduction a bill
that should be of vital interest to rural
residents living off the main roads.
The bill provides for the setting aside
of 20 per cent. of the money given to
the various counties for road con-
struction to be used by township
committees for the moderate improve
ment of side roads. These side roads
are almost impossible at times and
are never considered for improvement
by the County Boards of Freeholders.
Mr.. Weart's bill contemplates only
such improvements as will make the
roads passable to the farmers who have
to use them. Under the existing laws
all money for county roads is used at
the direction of the Boards of Free
holders.
Senator Read has introduced a bill
reconstructing the county tax boards
which, if passed, will save the state
about 500, 600. 1t provides for the
Office of secretary being filled by one
of the regularly appointed members
of the Board. 1t also reduces the sal
aries of Board members.
Riches Melt Under Fire.
The inquiry into the earnings and
financial standing of Binney Wood
ward Earl, of Edgewater Park, insti-
tuted as the result of the sensational
divorce proceedings brought by his
wife, Mrs. Irma Leigh Earl, has been
comnlotad bv cpociol uocfor Erodar;oL