The Penn's Grove record., 1916-03-03
STATE CAPITAL NEWS.
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the one bill taken up, the vote being ~
against it, to % for 1t. The friends OF
the bills seeing they were beaten did not
call up the other measures of the series.
The eleven independent Republicans
who refused to vote with the Dalrymple
supporters were: AdamSon and Dadley,
of Passaic; James Hammond, of Mercer;
Roberts, of ~Burlington; sheppard OF
Cumberland; Whitman, of Atlantic; Con-
rad, of Ocean; Greenwood, of Salem, and
Runyon, Pierson and Morgan, of Union.
Previous to bringing Up the bill in the
House, the Republican Assemblymen held
a conference at which an attempt was
made to make all the ripper" bills eau
Gus measures, but it failed, as the indie
pendents refused to be bound by any eau
Gus proposition.
Senator Wells bill, Senate 133, exempt
ing farm laborers and domestic servants
from the mandatory provision of the en-
ported in the Senate this week and was
placed on the calendar. 1t will be taken
up for action next week. This action
followed a hearing On the Colgate work
mems compensation bills at which rep
resentatives of the farmers voiced the op-
position of the agricultural interests to
the measures. The farmers are opposed
10 the pEONlSlOu lAdl COLupC1 LhClA W
take out liability insurance for all their
employees, claiming that they cannot add
the cost thereof to the selling price of
their product as the manufacturers do.
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The contest between Michael Dunn and
former Senator Peter j. McGinnis, both
Paterson Democrats, Eor the position of
Prosecutor of Passaic County, was ended
this week when Governor Fielder sent
to the Senate the denomination of Mr..
Dunn. The term is five years and the
salary $500. Mr.. Dunn has filed the Of
fee ~acceptably for five years, but ex-
Senator McGinnis and his friends made
a strong fight for the place. McGinnis
was the Democratic leader in the Senate
last year.
Senator Stevens, Republican, of Cape
May, has issued a statement declaring
that the appointment by Governor Field
er of James r. Carrow, of Camden, as
Prosecutor of Cape May County, is being
held up in the Senate chiefly because
Carrow is an out-of-t he-county man.
since he was first named by the Governor
last July. That was an ad interim ap-
pointment. and the present appointment
is for the full term of five years. Sena-
tor Stevens says he has suggested to
the Governor the names of nine coun-
selors-at-law who live and vote in Cape
May County and are qualified for the Of
fee, but the Governor has refused to
consider them. They are Republicans.
Senator Stevens charges the Governor
with p-artisanship in insisting on an out
side Democrat, rather than appoint a Re
publican living in the county.
Two notable public hearings on i'm
bills pending in the Legislature
urnpn hold this uranG OF fha Sfntn HnT1Cn /
One was a bill by Mr.. Iobst, of Hunter
don County, providing for reading at
least FIVE verses of the Bible in each
room or assembly room of each
public school at the daily opening exer-
Representative Hebrews, mostly
from North Jersey, led a bitter fight
against the measure. The Rev. Anthony
opposed it, while Senator Hennessy, of
Bergen, one of the candidates for the
Democratic nomination for Governor,
spoke against it. The bill was just as
strongly advocated by speakers for vari-
patriotic societies and ministers re-
presenting numerous denominations. The
bill has already passed the House.
There were lively clashes over the two
bills by Senator Egan, of Hudson County,
permitting baseball and other sports and
motion picture shows on Sunday. The
bills were advocated by Sunday baseball
partisans and motion picture theatre
owners who desire to show seven days
a week, and others mostly from North
Jersey, particularly Hudson County: The
people and friends of Sabbath observan-
ces from all parts of the state.
State House Custodian Smith an
nounces that the first section of the
laws for 1916 is ready for dis
tribution. These sections will be mailed
as issued by the state printer,
10 any citizen who request them. Those
copies should send their names
and addresses, plainly written to Custo-
liam John A. Smith, State House, Tren-
ton, n. J.. The bound copies of the
of 1916 will not be ready until
weeks after the Legislature ad-
Strong endorsement is given by Sena-
tor Gaunt, of Gloucester County, to his
amended State Road Department bill,
Senate 81, in a statement issued by him.
1t provides for a radical REORGANIZATION
Of the Road Department. Senator Hen
messy defends the plan of his measure
which provides for an advisory board, a
road commission of three members each
engineer paid a salary of $500. Mr..
Iaunt insists that the bill is nearer a
non-partisan measure than
my state has in improved roads, and it
$4.000.000 a year to maintain them.
he claims that his bill will give the
state just the road administration and
department. it should have.
The Supreme Court, in an opinion BY
Justice Parker, has just decided the suit
If the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
against L. Edward Hermann, secretary
10 Governor Fielder. The Court de-
that Secretary Her arm is en-
titled to ride free upon the railroads of
ne state under the act of 1914.
Hudson County without a political
'ow of SOM kind would be a marvel, so
I is not to be wondered at that the
of State Chairman Newton A.
(. Busboe In appointing Fred A. Hart