The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-11
STATE CAPITAL NEWS.
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rule upon every requisition within "a
hours after he receives it. The bill pass
ed the Senate last week. 1t will now
go to the Governor and it is expected he
will vetoe it. The measure went through
the House by the vote of "a to %. -Four
Republicans Joined the Democrats in
voting against it. They were Acker-
man and Bailey, of Bergen, and Dadley
and Adamson, of Passaic, the Progress
iye-Republicans. This is one of the po-
litical measures Of the sessions.
Among the other important bills pass
ed by the Assembly were: Giving first
class cities the two-platoon system for
fremen upon referendum, the same as
for ~second-class cities increasing the sal
airy of F~reeholders in Essex and Hudson
Counties from $500 to $250O; provid-
ing for tenure of Office for all overseers
of the poor in the state; authorizing
boards of education to borrow money in
anticipation of the receipt of money from
the state.
Quick progress was made with the
Gaunt local option bill after it passed
the Senate. Under suspension of the
rules it was rushed to the Assembly and
referred to the Municipal Corporations
Committee. Yesterday this Committee
reported it without recommendation, and
it was made the special order for next
Tuesday afternoon, when the final vote
will be taken upon it.
The Senate yesterday passed the bill
by Senator Hennessy establishing in this
state the Torrens method of transferring
titles to land. If the measure becomes a
law the transfer of land will be greatly
simplifed and the long and expensive
searches of titles will be eliminated. The
method has been adopted in several 9TH
er states.
The Pierson municipal finance bills
were reported in the Assembly yester-
day, Mr.. Crosby, of Essex, refusing to
sign the report. Certain amendments to
them were also reported and will be
placed in the bills to meet objections
made at the public hearings on them.
The bill provides for a uniform method
of municipal finances and give greater
publicity in the financial affairs Of towns
and cities.
Bills permitting the exhibition of mo-
ton pictures on Sunday, for military
training in the high schools of the state,
increasing the probationary period of
school teachers from three to five years,
regulating the cold storage of food, pro-
viding for small boards of freeholders,
providing a 100000 state BONO issue
for road improvement and other import
ant measures were introduced this week.
State Road Commissioner Edwin A.
Stevens has just been elected president
of the American Road Builders Associa-
ton, and in accepting the honor deliver
ed a speech in which he declared that one
of the greatest needs of road building in
this country is to standardize the work.
He said:
The consideration of a statewide cam
paign for the determination of mosqui-
toes will be taken up at a conference in
Atlantic City next Thursday. The State
Board of Conservation and Development
has this question before it, but has de-
ferred action until after this conference.
LIZ OOdlA otdLCb lidL Nv ouNNCSo VI LILO
work already carried on by the County
Boards appears to justify a belief that
the state can be rid of these pests, and
that the cost need not be excessive.
Congressman William j. Browning,
of the First District, has come out for
Theodore E.. Burton, former United
States Senator from Ohio, as the Repub-
lican candidate for President. Con-
gresham Browning was formerly Chief
Clerk of the House of Representatives
for some sixteen years, and thus got to
know Burton very well. New Jersey
served well at the hands of Senator Bur
ton when be was chairman of the Riv-
er and Harbor Committee of the House
of Representatives in the times before
he rose to be Senator.