Palisadian., 1916-02-26
Bergen Legislators
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East Paterson out of Dundee Lake
is pending in the Legislature and
has been favorably reported in the
House. There are referendums at
tached to both bills.
Town Water Mains
Senator Hennessy piloted through
the Senate on Tuesday his bill to
enlarge the powers of municipalities
to build water mains in municipali-
ties where the private water com
pany declines to build the extensions
through sparsely settled localities be-
cause such extension building would
not at once be profitable. The bill
passed by unanimous vote. 1t is
to help sections in Bergen county
not now supplied with water from
the Hackensack Water Company to
get such connections through NUM-
cipal aid. The extensions are to be
owned by the municipality and be
paid for by assessment. Assembly=a
men Winnie, Bailey and Ackerman
will support the bill in the Assembly.
New Sewer Commission
Senator Hennessy made a vigor-
GUS fight to land the Passaic Valley
Sewerage Commissionership for Ber-
gen county, but the appointment has
gone to John j. Berry, of Newark,
and Berry will get the Commission
ership which John F. Sinnot vacated
when he became postmaster of New
ark. 1t is a $1,000 job. Senator Hen
Messy presented names of three Ber-
gen county Democrats to Governor
Fielder and urged him to give the
place to Bergen county. The men
recommended were former Freehold
er Daniel Goss, of Rutherford; Miles
Whitehead, of Garfield and William
j. Connolly, of Lyndhurst. Cover
nor Fielder told Senator Hennessy
that while he would have liked to give
the place to a Bergen county Demo-
crat, he felt that there was merit to
the claim of Essex that the Commits
sionership should stay in Essex, the
retiring Commissioner Sinnot being
a Newark man.
Combining InjunctiOns
Assemblymen Alderman, Bailey
and Whine all voted for Assembly
man Felten's bill this week to pre-
vent the indiscriminate issue of in
junction in labor troubles. 1t is
known as the anti-injunction bill and
is warmly advocated by labor organ
izations. The Felten bill provides
that injunctions shall not be issued
until it is shown that property is
actually in peril. The bill passed 81
to IL, and now goes to the Senate.
Hennessy's New Suffrage Bill
Fair suffragists, ants that were
just as fair, both physically and in
argument, fiuttering pennants and
frequent applause marked the hear
ing before the Senate Committee on
Elections on Senator Hennessy's bill
to allow women to vote at the next,
November election, for Presidential
electors only. 1t is a limited suf-
frage bill. Arguments were present.
ed for and against the measure by
the speakers on the opposing sides,
the contention of the suffragists be-
ing that this was a national question,
and therefore not to be regarded as
settled by the recent defeat of the
woman suffrage amendment in New
Jersey. The Ants contended just as
strongly that the people had ex-
pressed their wish that women should
not vote, and the Legislature should
be guided by that decision. The bill
is still in committee.
Tri-tOwnship Poor House
Assemblyman Winnie, of Bergen,
has gotten his bill, to wipe out the
tri-township poor house in Teaneck,
safely through, the House of Assem-
bly, and the bill is now up to the
Senate, where Senator Hennessy will
fight for it. This bill would relieve
the municipalities on the east side
of Bergen county of about $4,000 ex-
pense every year by closing up the
old Tri-Township poor house and pro-
viding that the few inmates now in
that institution shall be taken care
OF at the county aims house near
Oradell.