The Penn's Grove record., 1916-03-17
FRIDAY, MARCH II, 1916
A CAPITAL NEWS.
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primary measure over @S 0ONOAAOA .
veto, the vote being 30 to Is. In this case
Adamson, of Passaic, and Bailey OF Ber-
gen, progressive Republicans, refused to
follow their party and voted with the
Democrats to sustain the veto.
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The third veto of the Governor this
session was sent to the lawmakers Mon
day night, when he d~isapproved the reso-
luton by Mr.. Hutchinson, Republican
Senator of Mercer, providing for a COM
mission 70 revise, simplify and consoli-
date the primary and election laws. The
resolution was d~isapproved because it
takes the appointment of two Of the three
members of the commission out of the
hands of the Governor, one to be named
by the President of the Senate and the
other by the Speaker of the House. A
similar resolution was passed last year
with all three members of the commits
ion to be named by the Governor, but no
appropriation for the work was made and
hence Governor Fielder never made the
appointments. He said in his veto mes
sage that if the appropriation now be
made the commission can be appointed
under the resolution of last year.
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Former Governor Murphy, of Newark.
was at the State House o Monday for
the first time in two or three years. He
asked the Appropriations Committee for
an appropriation of $4,000 to permit the
National Guard of the State to partici-
pate in the $50 anniversary of the found
ing of Newark. The committee took the
matter under adyisement. Ex-Governor
Murphy called on Governor Fielder and
paid his respects.
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Governor Fielder made some more
County Tax Board appointments this
week as follows: Atlantic County, Thos.
F. Williams, Republican, of Atlantic City.
re-appointed, and +. w. Somers, Demo
crat, of OceanYille, to succeed III. Starr
Giddings, resigned. Burlington County.
Joseph L.. Thomas, Republican, of Rv-
erton, to succeed Walter L. Stewart, of
Mt. Holly. Hudson County, Clarence I.
YanDeren, a Verden Republican, to sue
coed Charles Z. Annett, of Bayonne.
Van Deren lives in Harrison.
The Governor also made these appoint
ments, the positions being unsalaried
Department of Health, William Il Chew
of Salem County, r~e-appointed; Freder-
lex T. Crane, of Orange, to succeed NJ.
n. Baker, of Montclair; John NJ. Ever
EFT, of Warren County. Members of the
Board of Conservation and Development,
Stephen Pfeil, of Camden, and Henry G.
White, of North Plainfeld, both reap
pointed.
L. Edward Hermann, secretary to
Governor Fielder, was appointed by the
State Public Utility Commission yester-
day as its counsel, to succeed Frank FL.
Sommer, Republican. Mr.. Sommer has
resigned to become dean of the New York
University Law School. Mr.. Herman IS
a Democrat and his salary will be s. 600
The Pierson municipal finance bill
were passed by the Senate this week al
ter passing the Assembly several day
ago. Governor Fielder will give a pub
lie hearing on the measures in his office
next Monday morning at II O'Clock.
Jersey City and Newark are opposed to
them and asked for this hearing.
If convinced that it is a public duty
for him to become a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for United States
Senator, Attorney General John W. Yves
colt vii enter the race. He let this be
known here this week. 1t has been sug-
gested that he become a Senatorial can
didate. He declared that he had not yet
given formal consideration to the sug-
gestion.
II have reached the stage where less
strenuous activities would be more ac-
ceptable, but / will not shirk any respon-
sibility that may come to me-"
Attorney General Wescott is a strong
President Wilson man. He nominated
the President at the Baltimore conven-
ton He was a candidate for United
States Senator n 1912 against William
Hughes and former United States Sena-
tor James Smith, Jr., but withdrew in
the interest of party harmony and Mr..
Hughes was elected.
Friends of Governor Fielder. political
and otherwise, are greatly pleased that
a newspaper of the influence and stand
ing of the Newark Call should give the
Governor such unqualified praise as it did
last Sunday. Reviewing the Governors
administration and his work as Execu-
tive the Call said, in part:
Governor Fielder is practically about
to quit office, for his duties Of large i'm
portance end with the session of the Leg
islature. He has finished his big tasks.
and unless he disappoints us very much by
unexpected action hereafter, he will have
made a record which the state will re-
member and praise for many years. He
has been most successful in his important
function, that of appointments to the jul
dietary, and in these he has shown a spirit
which has come near great statesman
ship"
While in Newark last Saturday, for
mer Governor Stokes expressed himself
on the Republican factional fight in Hud-
son County. He sounded a clear and pos
tive, but dignifed warning, that unless
the bitter Hudson County fight is ended
New Jersey will be jeopardized as to Re
publican success at the election next
November. He characterized the pres
ent situation in Hudson as a party mis-
fortune.
The Republican vote in Hudson Co."
he declared, "has decreased to one-half
what it was in 1904 for the state ticket,