The Penn's Grove record., 1919-03-21
Legislature to Get Bill That Will
Allow Making and Sale OF
Per Cent. Drinks.
LooPHoLE FOR BREWERiES
Said to Avoid Clash With the Ma.
tlonaI Prohibition Statute-8ilI
to Create Board of Moving
Picture Reviewers.

session or the senate Win prayer,
Chaplain Read implored Gods help
In bringing about home rule for Ire
land. He referred to the early his
tory of ireland when the rest Of the
world was In intellectual darkness
and Ireland sem forth enlightening
education to the far ends of the
earth.
President Runyon was the speaker
at a st. Patrick's day observance in
Union county and in his absence Sen
ator Smith of Passaic county pre-
sided.
Visions of brighter and moister
days loom for those who deplOre the
prospects of parched threats after
July /. 1t is proposed to the legisla-
ture as a measure of relief that will
be hailed with joy. 1t is a bill in the
form of an amendment to the Munic-
ipal Home Rule law of two years
ago, giving the municipalities of the
state power and authority to grant
licenses for the manufacture and sale
of Notwithstanding beverages. Right
there is the shining light of the pro-
posal.
What is and what is not intoxicat-
ing In the way Of a drink has been a
mooted question for generations.
Therefore. it is said the bill will once
and for all define aud establish the
standard so that in New Jersey, at
least, men may know. This definition
is to be based upon the proposition
that four per cent. of alcohol in a
beverage Is not intoxicating. Thus, If
the legislature enacts the law, it will
be possible for the brewers to re-
sumo the production of the foamy
amber so dear to the palates of the
weary and thirsty, but foredoOmed to
pass away into memory under the
'bone-dry" law. 1t is declared by
those familiar with the subject that
beer Just now carries q less percent
age of alcohol than four, and those
who sit around the tables upon which
the merry stein is o to figure as
sert that many stems are necessary
to obtain the semblance of a kick"
The proposed bill, it is declared.
will not run counter to the national
prohibition law, because that law
gives the several states coordinate
power to regulate such manufacture
and sale. Naturally there will be loud
and vigorous protest from the foes
Of booze, but advocates of the cas-
ure declare that 1t will meet the de-
sire Of a great majority of the people
of New Jersey. That 1t will aus a
lusty battle in the legislature is as
sursd In advance, since the uncom-
promising dry" men will not yield to
a suggestion for the sale of beer.
May Restore the Sturgeon.
The senate put through without
much discussion Senator Aliens Sc
ries Of bills designed to restore stur-
geon fishing in the Delaware bay and
river. The bills represent the eon-
Governors Sproul, Of Pennsylvania :;
Edge, Of New Jersey, and Townsend.
Of Delaware, and similar measures
are to be put through the legislatures
Of those states. Their chief feature
Is a closed season of three years and
it Is believed that in that period the
fish will have some chance 10 propa-
gate. The industry has been on the
decline for years and in recent sea-
sons the fish, once so plentiful that
no sale could be found for them, has
become so scarce that it has been
rare indeed to catch as many as a
dozen.
A sudden halt came to one of the
salary increase bills with which the
calendars of the two Houses are lib
orally sprinkled. This was the meas
IRE adding $1,000 a year to the $4,000
salary of the circuit judges. The bill
had passed the senate and was ready
for final passage in the House when
a deliver discovered that it had been
Incorrectly drafted and it was a
Judges" bill at that. The senate,
therefore, put through a recall rV
oIution and the bill will get back to
its original status. 1t is said to be
very likely that it will pass again
after the fault is corrected, but the
other salary increase bills are not TO
have such easy paths. The senate,
in accord with Governor Edges mes
sage of a week ago, has named a COM
mittee to investigate the program. .
Ocean Highway Loses Again.
Senator Ackerson, OF Monmouth,
made another Intellectual effort to put
through his bill for the Ocean High
way to be made a part of Route No.
t of the state highway system. The
measure was opposed so strenuously
last week that he lad it laid over in
she hope of gaths ing support, but
when it came up again tonight Re
publican Leader Case led the opposi-
ton on the ground that Monmouth
county already has more than its fair
share of the highway system. All
the Republicans Joined him. and the
bill was defeated with but five votes
cast for it. Senator Ackerson had
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