Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-10
HOUSE BILLS
ARE ACTED UPON
Several Measures Are Con-
sidered Yesterday as the
Legislature Gets Ready to
Adjourn.
Isy Evsnlns News Correspondent

TBy Evening News Corrsspondent.1
TRENTON. March 10.-Tne Re-
publican caucus yesterday consider
ed the Loori bill, the purpose of
which is to take the Office of COM
missioner of motor vehicles away
from under the secretary of state
and make 1t a separate post filed BY
joint session of the legislature.
Practically since he has been in
once William l.. Dill. the encumbeat.
has been subject annually to lsgisia-
tive harassment by people who have
had designs on his job. Usually
they have emanated from Reoubli-
a sources. Dill being a Democrat.
They reached their height at the
1920 sessions of the legislature when
it took all the u of the Ed
wards administration to defeat a bill
which would have separated the mo-
tor vehicle department from that of
the secretary of state. The office
pays $4,000 a year. of which $4,000
also the assistant secretary of state.
The other $500 is from the motor
vehicle department.
When the matter was brought be.
fore the caucus yesterday quite a hot
discussion developed and some of the
more experienced Republican MEM
bers Of the House put their foot
down on the ripper"
One was former Speaker w. Irv-
ing Glover, of Bergen. who told Loori
and the other hackers of the bill all
about the fight which resulted last
year. Glover said the bill would
turn out to be dynamite" for the
Republicans and they had better
steer clear of it.
The present speaker. George s.
Hobart. also put his disapproval on
the proposition. Then 1t was decid-
cd to lay the measure over until ad-
vice from the senate leaders could
be had upon the subject.
The House yesterday passed AS
semblyman Pierson concurrent res
olution for an amendment to the
state constitution TO provide that all
amendments TO that document be
submitted 10 the voters at the regu-
lar November elections and not at
special elections. as the state con-
stitution now provides.
Assemblyman John Y. Dater, of
Bergen county. has recommitted to
the committee on education his bill
to abolish fraternities and secret
societies in the high schools of the
state. In a statement given out on
the subject he said he took this ac-
ton at the request of the represen-
tatives of the Women's Federation
Clubs, who are opposed to the
amendment which has been made
to the bill giving the authority to
sanction or abolish the societies to
the local boards of education.
Mr.. Dater personally favors the
amendment and he rave out a letter
Prom Assistant Commissioner John
Enright to the same effect. The
Eomen's clubs. however, want the
bill made mandatory and il is be-
ing made the subject for discussion
In many parts of the state.
1T has been my firm conviction
t~QRpug that this matter could be
tland1ed and should be handled by
Individual Boards of education,
iutroducer of the bill. This stand,
I feel. has been justified by senti-
ment expressed by many men and
women in close touch with the stu
alton in their communities.
However, I feel that the organ
izations representing the sentiment
opposed to my amendments are de-
serving of all consideration within
my power to grant. and that it
would, be unwise to advance the
at this time. Consequently,
I have bowed to their wishes as the
best and wisest course at this time
/ pursue"
The Republican assembly caucus
yesterday adopted the report of its
special committee named recently
to patch IN the differences between
the medical men. the osteopaths and
the chiropracters and instructed
that bills be drafted along the lines
of the suggestions made by the
committee with reference to the ed
ucational qualifications of the last
wv classes of healing practitioners.
The committee consisted of Sidney
w. Eldridge. of Union; George w.
Downs, of Morris. and Edward X.
Patterson. OF Essex 1t provides for
the raising of the educational quail
fcations of the two cults during a
period of years, eliminating in
standards practically as high as
those the physicians are now re-
auired to have to enter the medical
profession.
1t is understood that the recon-
mendations are not at all satisfac-
tory to the chiropractors and that
the o~steopaths. who have not as
much at stake are Indifferent. The
medical men are said TO favor the
proposed legislation. The chiros are
most affected because they now
have a separate board of their own
TO license healers in this profession.
and it would be abolished under the
new program. This provides for
the addition of three members to
the State Medical Board, which now
licenses the doctors and the osteo-
paths. The change would add one
more of the latter calling and two
chiropractors, but the latter claim
they would be o~utvoted by the med
icos and the osteopaths. The total
membership of board would be 13
made up as follows: 5 alleopaths. 3
homeopathic. . osteopaths. . chiro-
tractors and l eclectic.