Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-04-19
BERGEN GETS H0N0RS
AT RECENT SESSION
OF LEGISLATURE

The 1919 session of the New Jersey
legislature came to Il close on FRIDAY
AprjI II. and at 6 o'clock session
i'm which the representatives from
Bergen county We're at all tunes an
influence for constructive and progress
siye work adjourned without day.
Senator Mackay concluded three years
of faithful service, while Assembly
man Winnie finished his fourth term
and ASsemblyman Glover his third. 1t
was Tozer's first year
The most important work was the
passage of Senator Mackay's bridge
and tunnel bill, known as Senate ~.
This bill with the appropriation Dill
gives the first million dollars from the
state treasury toward building the
Hudson River Tunnel, and makes GER
tain the beginning of the construction
at once. New York appropriated Il
like amount.
Senator Mackay introduced num-
Der of other bills, of which sixteen be
came laws. He incorporated the Dor
ough of Waldwick in this county,
passed bills for the Department of
Education, Commerce and Navigation
and for the attorney general and many
other needed and valuable acts.
The most important work of Ber-
gen county's assemblyman was done
by w. Irving Glover of Englewood, as
chairman of the Appropriation Com
,Iy fnr
eight weeks on the appropriation bill
of the state of New Jersey. and took
good care of all the needs of the state
while leaving a balance of million
and half dollars in the state treas
ury, made possible by the careful and
economic administration of the past
years administration. In addition to
the unusual appropriation for the tun-
mel, there was given 100000 for new
buildings at Morris Plains; $4,000 for
horticultural building at Rutgers;
$4,000 for the WOmans College at
New Brunswick $250,000 for a new
wing on the State Capitol, and $780,,
600 to complete the Henry Hudson
drive in the Palisade Interstate Park
in this county.
Bergen county was saved the cost of
electing aud maintaining ii register OF
deeds by Assembiyman Whine who
passed bill "a which accomplished that
purpose.
To illustrate the esteem in which
Mackay was held, he was chosen to
preside over the social session of the
House of Assembly on Thursday night,
an unusual and deserved honor. He
developed during his first term of pub
lie office into most popular and able
member of the legislature.
The appointment during the session
of men from Bergen county to places
of distinction must be largely credited
to Senator Mackay appointing Andrew
Gaul, Jr, of Ridgefield on the Board of
Public Utility Commissioners brought
the highest honor to the county that
exists in the memory of those interest
ed in public affairs. In addition to
this Theodore Boettger was placed on
the Interstate Port Development Com
mission; w. II. Noyes was made chair
man of the Bridge and Tunnel Com
mission, which will build the Hudson
river tunnel; Oscar Jeffrey of Engle-
wood was appointed to the State
Board of Charities and Corrections
Henry J. WOStbrock on the Tenement
House Commission and Watson G.
Clark, State Highway Commission.
In all, the year 1919 was successful
from legislative viewpoint, and its
success was due in large part to the
representatives from Bergen county,
and in return the county occupied
place high among the counties of the
state in influence and in reward.