Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-01-29
Governor Fielder Urges Co.
operation In Agriculture.
DEBATE SUFFRAGE 4 HOURS
Joint Judiciary Committee Hears Ar
gunerts and Resolution Will Be vot'
ed on Monday Nisht-New Bill
Would Change Salary Schedule
Game. Boxing and Other Laws.
Especial Correspondence.l

Especial Cor~respondence.l
Trenton. ". j.. Jan. 27.-Acceptance
by New Jersey of the congressional Of
fer of $4,000 for agricultural work h
expected to be taken by the present
legislature. By an act OF congress
$4,000 Is set aside annually for this
work. $4,000 for each state which ap
propriates an equal amount. Governor
Fielder has sent a message to the legis-
lature urging the cooperation of this
state, and for him Senator Hennessy
and Assemblyman Martin have both In
troduced resolutions placing New Jer-
sey In line for the money. It Is ex-
pected that one of them will receive
approval.
For. four solid hours the joint judi
ciary committee listened to arguments
for and against the adoption of the res
olution to amend the constitution to
give suffrage to The occasion
served merely to allow of Fireworks
as all parties are pledged to the reso-
luton. which was passed for the first
time last year. Immediately after the
hearing 1t was reported out of commit
tee and has been made the special or
der of business for next Monday night
in the house. There may be more ora
tory at that time. but the measure will
receive a majority vote. Prominent
among the speakers was the Rev. DR..
Anna Howard Shaw, president of the
National Women's Equal Suffrage as
ISOLATION. The suffragfsts are willing
that the voters should pass on the reso-
luton. which will be done following its
approval by the legislature this year
but the ants are not quite enthusiastic
about the %balloting. Former Assembly
man John A. Matthews. who opened
the debate for the ants. however. ex-
pressed his confidence that the male
voters would turn down the PROPOSE
ton. One of the ants was Mrs. o. ID.
Oliphant. who brought suit for $4,000
against n western newspaper for the
publication of some u~tterances by the
Rev. DIR. Shaw which reflected on Mrs.
Oliphant. No display of animosity was
given. however. George GobeI spoke as
the representative of the Socialist state
committee. and while he believed that
Socialism would be hurt by equal suf-
frage, he thought it only the right thing
that the ballot be given women. He
anticipated that the women will be con
sentative rather than Socialistic.
No Fee to Residents.
Assemblyman West of Gloucester
has presented a bill to amend the fish
and game laws to permit residents to
fish md n.r H. &ha3r rvv ..a4-~
without paying a license fee. Work
on the stone pile is to be the occupa-
ton of wife heaters and deserters If
the measure by Assemblyman Pan
coast of Camden becomes a law.
Those who have remained in Jail
rather than contribute to the support
of their families are to be taken out
and given the physical exercise In the
open. Senator Egan has had adopted
a resolution requiring the attorney
general to take action against the
coal combine" which was revealed
by the probe conducted by the commit
tee from the legislature a year ago.
More salary cutting is to be advanc-
ed by the Republicans, and officers of
the counties will be affected by the
new schedule. Senator Read, major
fly leader. Is back OF a bill to lop of
part of the pay of the county boards
of taxation. and those bodies may lose
their secretaries. 1t is estimated that
$150,000 will be saved by the proposed
changes. Senator Reed is said to be
the chief supporter of the Mathis
measure reducing the compensation of
the state officers. and the county bill
is TO go In to prevent charges of dis
elimination AT present the pay of
the sheriffs, ~surrogates. county clerks
and registers in seven of the counties
are higher than the salaries of the sec
rotary of state, state comptroller, state
treasurer, banking commissioner. chief
of the labor department. etc. The
state officers give at least a part of
their time to their work. but the coun.
ty officials. 1t is declared. delegate
their duties to s~ubordinates. In Hud-
son and Essex counties The sheriffs re-
ceiye $4,000 a year each and the
county clerk. surrogate and register
$500 each. These would be cut to
$1,000 each. In Passaic, Union, Mer-
Ger and Bergen the surrogate. sheriff
and county clerk each get $4,000,
These would be reduced to $1,000
each. Comparative changes would be
made In other counties. In Middlesex
these officers would be reduced from
$500 to $500. Monmouth, Morris.
Atlantic and Bergen would follow the
Middlesex schedule, and Cumberland
would be cut down to $1,000. Glouces.
ter. Hunterdon. Salem. Sussex. War
rem and Somerset would be placed on
a basis of $1.S00 yearly and Cape May
and Ocean county $1,000 each. None
of these salaries would be made effec.
tive during the occupancy of the pres.
emf nncumbents,
First Partisan Clash.