The Penn's Grove record., 1919-04-25
Governor Said to Indicate His
DispIeasure Over Lobbying for
Items Not in Budget.
VETO ELECTION CODIFICATIoN
Whine Law R~epealers, Increase OF
Prosecutors in First Class Counties
and Extension Of Borrowing
CAPACITY Are Disapproved.

onnroved items aggregating $69,207.
The aunropriation bill in its original
form authorized appropriations
amounting TO $13,533,336.64.
Before quitting the state house Gov
srnor Edge disposed of all remaining
measures in his hands, thus bringing
RI q conclusion the work of the ses-
sion. Among the measures disap-
proved was Senate 106, which was the
proposed revision of the election laws
prepared by the Bureau of Research
of the State Chamber of Commerce.
AS n result Of the legislative session
Governor Edge has signed 26l bills
and mir Joint resolutions and has
vetoed or disapproved 46 measures.
Last year he approved 3 measures
and five Joint resolutions and vetoed
or disapproved IS bills.
In giving his reason for disap-
proving various items in the apprOpri-
alton bill, Governor Edge file a state
ment. remarking that under the CON
stitution he is not permitted to reduce
any item of appropriation, but must
either approve or disapprove it in its
entirety. He found it necessary,
therefore, to strike out entirely some
items when he would otherwise have
approved of a smaller amount had the
law permitted such action. In a num-
Der of cases, the governor said, he had
vetoed items to bring the apprOpria'
ton of a particular department nearer
the amount recommended in his an
nual budget transmitted to the legis-
lature when it convened.
"If the law had permitted" said
Governor Edge, Il would, of course,
have preferred to have scaled down
fled, but, as explained, this is not pos
sible, so that because items have been
vetoed in their entirety it does not
in every case mean that there should
be no appropriation for that particular
activity"
Considered as a Rebuke.
The action of the governor in dis
approving a number of items is gen.
orally accepted here as a meanS@he has
adopted of showing his ~displeasure at
the activity displayed by members of
various departments and institutions
in seeking to secure appropriations in
excess of those submitted to or ap-
proved by the Budget Commission.
Throughout the entire session it was
notorious that a number of depart
ments sought to increase the appro-
priatiOns recommended by the Budget
Commission through a direct appeal
to the members of the Appropriations
Committee.
Governor Edge is understood to feel
that if such a practice is allowed to be
continued successfully it will lead ulti-
mately to multiplying the work of the
Budget Commission, making the APP
preparations depend in large measure
upon the pressure brought to bear by
department heads or institutional
managers upon the Appropriations
Committee. :.
The specific items disapproved by
the governor were as follows: State
Home for Boys, materials for new
Kitchen and extension TO dining room,
$4,000; state prison, dairy barn at
Leesburg farm, $4,000; Home for
Feeble Minded at yineland. research
department, $500, and overhauling
water system and drilling new wells,
$4,000; Bordentown School for Col
ored Youth, moving and remodeling
house for domestic science, $4,000;
Agricultural College, maintenance of
farm grounds, $1,000; Agricultural
Experiment Station, cranberry inves-
tigation, $1,000; experimental work in
growing potatoes and tomatoes, So
0o0; Department Of Agriculture, chief
of publicity bureau, $780, commits
sioner of education, physical training,
two assistant superintendent, $4,000
Department Of Labor, incidentaIs, $4,-
900; Public Library Commission, in
cidentals, $500; summer school, $500;
Commissioner for the Blind. inciden-
tails, S6OI; higher education for the
blind, $500; Railway Reformatory, au-
tomobile, $500; Reformatory for Wo-
NS SNhoy supplies, yOOU. = Z
Errors In Election Bill. )
In disappearing Senate JOG, revising
the election laws of the state. Gov
ernor Edge filed the following state
ment: L1 :
Il regret exceedingly the necessity
OF filing this bill without my approval,
as 1t bears in evidence of a great deal
of hard, conscientious work and of re-
markable preparation. However, in
going over the bill section by section
ana as a general proposition, with
legal experts and with men expert
enced in the practical operation of
our election laws, | am convinced that
he enactment of this codification
would serve only to add to the con-
fusion which already exists with ref
erence to the election laws of the
state. The bill does not contain any
SPECIFIC repeater, but merely pro-
Tides that any ACT or parts of acts in
consistent with Senate JOG are re-
ucaic'l. The effect Of Ills would be
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