Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-03-26
PASS BILL To
PROBE TAX LAW
Senator Brown Answers Case
in Debate Few Bills Have
Been Passed

By Special Correspondent.
TRENTON, March 26.-Passage of
the Senate resolution calling for the
creation of a commission to 1nVestl-
gate the operation and effect of the
tax laws in thi State created some
interesting discussion in the upper
branch of the legislature. The meas
ure was fathered by Republican Lead
err Clearance f.. Case, of Somerset
county. and calls for a commission OF
five persons to study the subject. inc
commission created will report TO the
next session of the Legislature.
Senator Charles &. Pilgrim, Repub-
lican. of Essex County, predicted that
the heavy hand of defeat would be
felt by the party which failed to
realize the taxation burdens under
which the people of New Jersey are
laboring.
Brown answers Case.
Senator Brown, of Middlesex, VINO
is becoming one of the best advocates
on the Democratic side of the Senate,
declared that Senator Cases remarks
hardly conceded with his attitude last
week in speaking against the Edwards
bill for q bond issue for the proposed
bridge and tunnel. He pointed out
that at that time Mr.. CasI had advo-
Gated the direct tax plan OF paying TOT
these improvements.
Only Few Bills Passed
Although 1t is nearly eleven weeks
since the legislature convened, TO
date only about a score of bills have
reached the hands of Governor Edge
for his signature, and they are all of
minor importance. The final adjourn
ment will be reached In two weeks
more, April II, and 1t now looks as
If little legislation of Importance
would reach the executive for his APP
- .na
bly,. due to the failure to properly or
ganize with n speaker and the even
political balances there have operated
TO hold back the work of the law
makers and to make both parties de-
vote their time II attention to
watching. the other rather than dis
pose of pending bills with the same
dispatch which characterizes n legis-
lature which is dominated by one
party in both it's branches.
Little of Importance has happened
n either house this week n botn
assembly and senat are again meet
ing here today.
Pass Salary Raiser
Only FIVE negative votes were cast
when the bill by AsScmDlynlan Coch-
ran, of Atlantic City. calling for sala-
ries for the State Boxing Commission
members. passed the house yesterday
DN q vote OF forty SEVEN dilit liltliN To-
DcVoc wanted Change
Although he did not oppose the
plan to compensate the commission
ers, Assemblyman DeVoc, of Middle
sex, did oppose the wording of the
salary raiser, which is an amendment
to the state boxing law of 1918, on
the ground that it gave the commits
sion too much power. He said the
Cochran measure would allow the
members of this body TO decide when
violations of the boxing act were
committed. He thought this was 60
ing too far.
BY the terms of the Cochran raiser.
which must now pass the senate,
Chairman John s. Smith, of Atlantic
City, gets S2,500, as does Lester Bur-
LEX. of Newark. who is the secretary.
W~.E-5.ann. of Elizabeth, and j. +.
Grain, off Newark, the other two
members OF the commission, will re-
ceive $4,000 a year each.
Impeachment Proceedings.
The possibility of Impeachment pro-
ceedings at this session OF the Legis-
lature has doomed mp in the Hous OF
Assembly as the result OF the action
of Speaker Arthur ". Pierson. of
Union. in presenting to the House a
memorial from the Mayor M Board
OF Aldermen OF Morris County petit
tioning for proceedings against Pros
ecutor John NJ. Mills of that county.
The memorial stated that Mills ac-
cepted a plea of mon wilt" which
means guilty. from Thomas Z. Reilly.
who was indicted for the murder OF
a policeman. Later. 1t is alleged. the
Prosecutor accepted 4 plea of man
slaughter.
Assemblyman Cochran. of Atlantic,
has a new asu giving an appro-
priation of $4,000 for suitable rep
resentation for New Jersey at the Ma
tional Encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic to be held at
Atlantic City in 1920 Senator Acker-
son. of Monmouth, produced a park
memorial world war bill in the SEN
ate.