The Penn's Grove record., 1916-05-12
FRIDAY, Ia 10, 1916
STATE CAPITAL NEWS.
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only SO per OF 1neH
came the fight for tax reform, resulting
in the law of that year providing that
the second class property, which in
cludes passenger and freight stations and
other structures outside the main stems,
be taxed at the local rates paid for local
uses.
In the appointment of United States
District Attorney j. Warren Davis,
Democrat, of Salem County, by Presi-
dent Wilson as the third Judge of the
United States Court in New Jersey,
Senator William Hughes won over Sen
ator MARITIME. Senator Hughes was
back of Mr.. Davis and also introduced
the bill which recently created this third
Judgeship. Friends of Judge James Z.
Connolly, Democrat, of the Union Coun-
ty Court, urged his appointment, but
their only hope was that President VIII
SON would recognize Senator MARITIME in
his selection, in which case Judge Con-
molly would probably have been named.
However, the appointing of Mr.. Davis
does not mean any difference between the
two United States Senators, but merely
that in this case the President gave the
preference to Senator Hughes. Charles
F. Lynch, of Paterson, the A U itant
District Attorney, was appointed - sue
coed Mr.. Davis as District Attorney.
.
The most interesting features of the
spring meeting of the County ScLcHi
Superintendent just held at the State
House were the address of State Com
missioner of Education Kendall en-
phasizing the office of county school sup
erintendent, and a practical talk by Miss
Myrtle Garrison, who has been working
as helping teacher in Hunterdon County
since last January. Magnify the of
fee of county superintendent of schools"
was the slogan of Commissioner Kendall.
DIR. Kendall also urged the extension of
kindergarten and manual training work
in the schools.
Miss Garrison gave the superintend-
ents a good idea of the benefits of rural
schools of having an experienced educa-
tor come into the school rooms and criti-
else and correct the mistakes of the in
experienced teachers usually found in
such schools. The State Department of
Instruction is strongly urging better
supervision of rural schools in order to
elevate them to the level of the city
schools in efficiency.
Representatives of former United
States Senator Theodore Burton, of
Ohio, who is being doomed for the Re
publican nomination for President, saw
State Chairman Bugbee this week and
asked if there was much Burton senti-
ment in New Jersey. Mr.. Bugbee re-
ltd 49, &bo,o c0oo,al 70 ~ ryorv 1ift1o
evidence of voters favoring the Ohio
man, Notwithstanding he was the chief
speaker recently at the Republican dol
lar dinner in this city.
State Chairman Bugbee predicts that
20 of the % votes of the New Jersey
delegation will go to Hughes ON the first
ballot. There will be two votes for Col.
Roosevelt, and it is expected the other
six will be for United States Senator
Root.
Final argument was heard by the
State Public Utility Commission last
Monday on the application of the rail
road companies operating in South Jer-
sey to increase their intra-state passeng-
er fares. The Board reserved decision.
Some time ago the application was re-
fused by the Utility Board upon the
ground that the companies had not
proved that the proposed increases were
justified. Then the companies had the
case reopened for the presentation of fur
cher testimony, claiming that the higher
rates were justified.
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The Prohibitionists of the Third Dis |
trict and of Middlesex County, which is
in this Dictrict, have declared for the
Rev. DR.. James Gilbert Mason, Of Me
tuchen, as their candidate for President.
The conventions of the District and
County were held jointly in Perth Am
boy last week and the endorsement was
there given. Prof. Livingstone Barbour,
of Rutgers College, was endorsed as the
candidate for United States Senator.
Two important decisions were handed
down this week by the Supreme Court.
In one of them, the Court rules that neg
lect upon the part of a fello7 employe
does not render him immune fir Z dam
age because of the liability of a.. en-
ployer under the workmen's npen
ton act, when another workman is in
jured and sues. This decision il in the
of Edwin j. Churchill ageinst Will
liam E. Stevens. Churchill had his ka-1
crippled for life in an accident in Ho-
boken, and charged that the injury was
due to the negligence of Stevens, who
was his foreman.
In the other decision, the Court holds
the act of 1913 limiting the number
Of saloons to one to every five hundred
inhabitants, does not apply to hotels hav
ing 80 rooms and upwards. The result
is that the Court dismisses a writ of GER
tiorari obtained by former Governor
John Franklin Fort to set aside the
granting of a license by the Monmouth
County Court to a hotel in Spring Lake.
Ex-Governor Fort has his summer home
in Spring Lake and endeavored to pre-
vent the granting Of this license upon
the contention thai the limit had already
been reached in IT, borough.
Supreme Court Justice Trenchard has
granted to the Attorney Generals De-
partment a writ of certiorari to review
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