Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-03-31


n total of S7.970.255.25 for the year 1917
as compared with $4,000. 769.O6 for
1916, the increase being 81 ,060.4S6.1 10.
while the new supplemental bill car
ries S4S0.911.55 as compared with
1914. 353.1 6 last year. an Increase of
S106, $3.50. The total increase is ST.
167. O44. 5S. Among the items carried is
one providing for the expenses incident
to the encampment of the national
guard at Sea Girt and another for the
establishment OF colonies for the feeble
minded. Another provision carries an
appropriation for the purchase of toll
bridges across the Delaware river he
tween New Jersey and PENNSYLVANIA. q
proportionate share of the expense he
ing borne by the state of Pennsylvania
Some Of the state departments are dis
satisfied with the in which
they have been provided for in the
bills. The civil service commission has
received no appropriation to enable
them to carry out the examination of
election officers under the Geran act.
The money for conducting the exami-
nation for this year is available from
the appropriation bill of 1915. but no
provision has been made for 1917.
State Road Commissioner Stevens is
preparing to close the road camps of
convicts because no provision has been
made by the appropriations committee
for the use of convict labor on work
on the highways. In the bills $3.50
Is allowed for the work. to become
available Immediately, and $4,000 to
become available in 1917. Commits
sioner Stevens contends that the
amounts should have been reversed
and the larger sum made immsA-.- J
available. With the bills as they now
stand about $50 convicts would have
to be taken back to the state prison
from three road camps. The camps
involved are No. l in Sussex county,
with fifty convicts; No. 2, neal King
sten, with forty convicts, and No. 3 in
Salem county, with sixty convicts.
Camp No. 4 is connected with the state
reformatory at Railway and will re-
main open. The convicts in this camp
are working on the road between Rah-
way and Woodbridge, and the appro-
III ldtlOD VI pZD,OOO WulCu 10 " DcCOlue
Immediately available would allow the
completion of this job and the continu-
ing of the other camps until April s.
Defeat Governors Veto.
By a ruse the Republicans defeated
the governors veto of Senator Wells
bill exempting farm and domestic la
Dor from the provisions of the work
mems compensation act. The cover.
mr. had not directly vetoed the meas
ure, but had allowed it to die by with
holding action for five days. while the
legislature was not in session. 1t was
then filed in the state library, to
gether with other measures not acted
on. AS the session is drawing to a
close, it would be practically impossi
BILE to introduce ar entirely new meas
ure and have it acted upon by both
houses.
AS the Wells bill had not been form
ally vetoed and sent back to the senate
by the governor that measure could
not be passed oyer the governors veto
To obviate the necessity of introduc
ing a new measure. the Republicans re
ported the Wells bill as originally in
troduced as a substitute for a bill by
Senator Ackerson which had been in
troduced earlier in the session and in
this way obtained quick action on the
Wells bill. 1t was passed by the sen
ate by a vote in which three Democrats
concurred, Senators Ackley of Cumber
land, Munson of Sussex and Martens
90 l~- @4t. "a A. TDo--I
leans. 1t is probable that the governor
will veto the bill in case it is passed by
the house. in which event it will prob
ably be passed over his veto.
The Republican plan to wipe out the
requisition act. which has caused so
much friction between the state insti-
buttons and the comptroller's depart
ment, which the house had started to
carry out by passing a bill repeating
the requisition act. was killed by the
senate. In the upper house a substitute
was passed for the assembly measure
which suspends the operation of the
Hutchinson amendment to the requisi-
ton act until next N@eomber, when the
present fiscal year -saus. 1t was the
lluICllllSOu uluClibO SNt, DdoSCu at lIlS
session to prevent t}s comptroller from
inquiring into the - of the money
requisitioned by the various depart
ments. which created a situation more
embarrassing than the one it was de
| signed to relieve.
Suspend Hutchinson Amendment.
BY a provision of the Hutchinson
amendment to the requisition act the
comptroller was only to have regard to
the question of whether or not the in
situations had the money requisition
legally standing to their credit. In
prior years the comptroller had allowed
the institutions to use money when
their appropriations had run out fol
the time being in anticipation of other
money which would shortly become
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