The Monmouth inquirer., 1918-02-21


passed. The bill, sponsored by Senator
Hammond, would permit connections Of
street railways between points two
miles apart 1t was designed primarily
to relieve the city of Trenton in its
trolley problem.
Originally the measure contained a
repeater of a section in the half-mile
law limiting franchises to so years.
When the bill came up there was no
apparent opposition to the idea of ex-
tending the half-mile provision to two
miles, but Senator Ackerson of Mon
mouth county objected to the change
relative to the life of franchise. Mr.
Hammond consented to an amendment.
and the bin was passed with bare ii
votes, Minority Leader McGlennon sup.
plying the needed vote after there had
been three roll calls.
Want Deer Kills Reported.
New Jersey game wardens are adyo-
eating the enactment of law that Will
compel every hunter who kills a deer
to report that fact to the warden Of the
county in which he is hunting at the
time. While the records compiled by
State Protector James NJ. Stratton
show that 327 deer were killed during
the four days of the open season last
year, wardens believe there were many
animals bagged that are not accounted
for in this list.
The act suggested would also make
"a To hta
law that prohibits the killing by gun
ner of more than one deer year, The
wardens are convinced that many gun
ners, successful in bagging buck the
first day, now continue to hunt
throughout the remainder of the sea-
son, crediting any second deer they
may shoot 20 some other member of
their party.
Atlantic county led the rest of the
state in supplying venison last year,
the reports showing that 81 bucks We're
killed within its borders. Burlington
county is second with r. and Cumber-
land also had good total of 81. Scores
in other counties were as follows:
Ocean, %; Warren, 26; Cape May, 10;
Bergen, II; Morris. 9; Sussex, 8; Pas
sale, 5; Mercer, 2; Camden, / Union, 1.
House for State Police.
After the strenuous session when
the members passed the state constab-
ulary bill by vote of "a to 26, the as
sembly convened to advance and dis
pose. of the measures in which less
acute interest was evinced.
Not even the local option fight :
brought out more interested audience
than the constabulary bill. The CALLER
les and the side aisles were jammed
with workingmen, members of unions
and unaffiliated workers, who all wore
red. white and blue ribbons in token of
the celebration OF Labor Loyalty
Week" The men did not repress their
feelings of antagonism to the bin, hut
Speaker Wolverton prevented what
might have been more vigorous DEM
onstrations by an appeal to the consid
GRAFTON Of the men, AT the end Of the
session he expressed qualification over
the compliance with his appeal for
order
Speakers who opposed the bill in
their talks were cheered and advocates
of it were hissed during the debate of
two and a half hours. The hissirg broke
out again when passage of the bill was
effected, and some one in the gallery
shouted:
"The thing TO do now is to declare a
general strike in the state"
Some of the labor leaders present adj
mitted that if vote of the men pres
ent was to be taken after the session
demand for such a demonstration
might be carried, but they counted on
cooler headed thought. They were still
angry, however, but were planning to
carry the fight into the senate, though
without hope of winning If the bill is
passed there the bill will he carried on
to the governors office, with a request
for hearing by him before he acts on
the bin
House Favors Police chapIains'' Pay.
Although Mr. Hobart's bill to author
ize the payment of salaries to police
chaplains was defeated a week before,
he succeeded in having it passed with
only five votes in opposition and 40 in
the affirmative. The bill will authorize
salaries of $1,000 to chaplains of the
Newark and Jersey City Departments,
$3.50 in secOnd-class cities and 500 in
others. The votes in opposition were
those of Messrs. Bostock, Gallagher,
Lord Marzulli and Prnden.
To Restore convcts' Citizenship.
Assemblyman Bostock of Essex Sc
cured passage in the house of House
297 by which persons convicted of
crime will be restored to citizenship
one year after their term expires. Mr..
Bostock said the bill aceords with the
views of Thomas Mott Osborne, 1t an
plies only to prisoners after their first
conviction.
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