The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-12-12

senator last year ne was sponsor Tor
a bill providing for a bond issue TO
finance the bridge and tunnel project,
but he had little support for the meas
ure because of the long delay it would
entail.
The governor elect is still of the be
lief that This is the only proper way
of financing the two great projects.
A bond issue, however. will have TO be
submitted to vote of the people at
the polls for ratification or rejection,
and, as New York and Pennsylvania
are now committed to direct appropri-
atoms, the proposed bond issue will
form a problem in itself. The state
is now formally and irrevocably tied
up to these two important undertake
ings and cannot retreat. 1t must 90
forward to the completion of the en-
terprises in cooperation with the sis
ter states, and the people everywhere
are supporting them earnestly.
All these things and lot more will
have to be worked out in some salts
factory way, but the governor elect
has no present fear of lack of co-opera-
tioa on the part of the legislature. even
if 1t is of the opposite political party.
He has already expressed the belief
that he will have that necessary CO.
operation, for it is hardly conceivable
that partisanship will be carried to
such extremes as retarding enterprise
or Gripping state Institutions
The new governor may have some
difficulty in carrying out his program
for reconstruction in numerous depart
ments, where wholesome reconstruc-
ton could be carried out to the ever
lasting good of the state government,
and he may encounter some partisan
hostility in filling his long list of ap.
pointments, but it is not probable that
he will be left alone to work out the
solution of the intricate financial prob
lens. The responsibility in this re-
spect is not individual 1t rests equal.
ly with the legislative and executive
branches of the state government
High Honor for Fielder.
Chancellor Walker named former
Governor James F. Fielder as a vice
chancellor to succeed the late Freder-
ick w. Stevens. Former Governor
Fielder is a Democrat, as was his
predecessor. In naming a Democrat,
Chancellor Walker is following the
long established practice of keeping
the courts free from partisanship by
dividing the membership equally be-
tween the two dominating parties.
Vice Chancellor Fielder will take Office
| Immediately, when it is understood he
will be sworn in by the chancellor
| The selection gives the utmost salts
| faction to members of the bar.
Former Governor Fielder is fifty.
| two years old, born in Jersey City,
February 26, 1867. His ancestors were
of Dutch and English extraction and
| the families of his parents were
among the early settlers of New Jer-
sey and have long been prominent in
the social, religious and political ac-
tivities of the state.
Mr.. Fielder was educated in the pub.
lie schools of Jersey City and later was
| graduated from the Selleck School,
/ Norwalk, Conn. He was graduated
from Columbia University in 1887 with
the degree of LII. B., and was admitted
to the New Jersey bar in 1888. He
was elected to the assembly from
Hudson county in 1903 and 1904, and
in 1907 was elected state senator; was
reelected in 1910 by the largest ma
| jority ever given to a candidate for
this office in Hudson county.
In 1918, with the Democrats in con-
troll of the senate, Senator Fielder was
elected president, and upon the cleo
ton of Governor Wilson to the presi-
dency became the acting governor He
was elected to the full term upon the
expiration of the term of Governor
| Wilson. The new vice chancellor was
married June f. 1895, to Mabel Chol.
| well Miller of Norwalk, Conn.
Pennsy's Big Tax Bill.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Corn
pany paid to State Comptroller Bugbee
check for So, 255, 1921 in settlement
of taxes on its main stem and second
class property by the State Board OF
Taxes and Assessment for 1919. This
is the largest sum ever paid to the
State at one time. Under tax law
the railroads must pay their taxes by
| December l.
The total amount assessed for 1919
against first-class and second-class
property was $40, 544 ,56S.09. and the
amount paid by the Pennsylvania
Company was nearly a third of that
total OF the total to be collected
from the railroads the State fund
will receive S7,036, 107.9S for general
State use and the balance of S3.509,-
46011 will be distributed to the va
rious taxing districts for local uses.
The amounts paid by the various
companies follow: Pennsylvania, 49,
25595921; Central Railroad of New
Jersey, 50, 125, SIS 50: Lackawanna. ST.
FOG S2301; Lehigh Valley, S1.034, 50T,.
95; Erie, SS3621663; New York Cent
raj, S433, 20270; Reading, $3.50 991 NJ:
Susquehanna, 0.S53.63; unclassified
railroads. S442, 494.72.
GovernOr-elect Edwards reiterated
his campaign promise TO do everything
possible after he takes office to remove
the State Utility Board. He declared
there was nothing he could attempt
now and that he did not propose any
move to prevent the installation of he
seven-cent fare. l presume. he said
that if the Public Service demanded
the seven-cent fare. the Public Utility
Commission would give it to them.
believe in allowing the Public Service
a fair return on its investment n !
realize there must he profit in every
business or hankruntcY is the newt