The Penn's Grove record., 1922-02-24
JERSEY GOESSLOW
ON DRY BILLS
No Progress Upon Vexatious
Measures Apparent as LegiSIa-
ture Resumes Its Weekly Grind.
BRIDGE RIPPER IS IN JAM
Governor Vetoes Speaker Rowland's
Bill Abollshlng Camden County
District Court-Resume Morris
Canal Battle.

Trenton.-No sign of progress for the
new dry enforcement bills, introduced
by Assemblyman Hobart as part Of the
Republican program, was visible as the
law mill resumed the grind. Several
animated conferences have been held
by the majority, but 1t Is evident that
agreement upon the measures is not
so easy to reach as had been fancied.
1t is said that the bills, although pro-
vidlng for trial by jury and smoothing
the rough edges of the search and
seizure clauses, are still a bit too dras-
tic to meet the approval of the more
conservative men in the majority, and
1t is not as yet possible to count the
votes required to put the bills over, and
the leaders are not prepared to buck
the line"
Practically the same situation Is pre-
scented in the effort to put through the
bridge and tunnel board ripper, which
caused such a furore. This bill has also
been made the subject Of warm party
conferences, because of the political
aspects 1t has taken since It came to
notice by the subterranean route.
Speaker Rowland and Senator Wall
worth of Camden county are said to
have insisted that If the bill is made
a party measure 1t must provide for
a board of eight members so that South
Jersey and the Delaware bridge shall
have equal representation with North
Jersey and the Hudson River tunnel.
This plan, it was said, is likely to
be accepted by those responsible for
the original bill, and that 1t is to De
put through in that form. Majority
Leader Evans, who introduced the orig.
inal bill, said there is no real jam upon
the bill, although 1t has been generally
rumored that opposition within the
party might block the bill.
1t will be strong opposed by the
Democrats, of course, as 1t takes the
power of appointment of these com
missioners out of the hands of the
governor until 1925, and creates a body
in Republican control.
Veto for Rowland Bill
Governor Edwards sent to the house
a veto of Speaker Rowland's bill abol-
fishing the Camden County District
Court, over which Judge Rudolph S.
Ayers, Democrat, presides. In the
veto message the governor says:
"My veto of this measure is based
upon objection made by the Camden
County Bar Association to the effect
that litigants would be unduly incon-
v~enienced and delayed through the
submission of the lawsuits to the Dis
trict Court in the City of Camden.
Furthermore, no provision seems to
be made for pending cases. If the
court is abolished without some such
provision the fees which litigants have
paid will be entirely wasted"
1t Is said to be on the program to
pass the bill owe the veto, and, pend
ing this move, no further action upon
the suspended judiciary appointments
for Camden county is likely.
The National Guard scrap broke out
in a new spot through a letter sent to
the members of the senate by Colonel
w. En- Guthrie of Paterson, elected
colonel of the One Hundred and Four
teenth Infantry under the Borden
regime and one of the moves which
brought the Powell reorganization bill
forth. The Guthrie letter charged
that those who will be most benefited
by the Powell bill, now awaiting ac-
ton in the senate on the governors
veto, would be Colonel T. D. Landon,
Colonel w. S. Price, Colonel L. D..
Coyle and Colonel E. B. Stone, who
had been Canned for inefficiency / n
the world war, the same men who had
caused the upheaval in the guard over
General Borden's elevation.
Heath Chides Senate Thinkers"
Senator Heath took the members of
the senate to task for permitting state
boards to do their thinking for them.
The Mercer senator said that the
members were directly charged with
the responsibility of understanding
bills passed, but he charged the SEN
ate in most instances took the word
of some interested board Oh depart
ment. The discussion arose over the
CONSIDERATION VI Luc I1cotH Dhl ~
ducing the hours for the first and sec
ond school grades from four to three.
Senator Heath charged that there was
something wrong with the school sys-
TEN of the state.
He said that the educational depart
ment was ~overzealous and he called
upon the members Of the senate to
study this and other bills, so they
would not have to depend on the say
so of some department. His plea for
the bill was on the ground that the
little children should have more time
for play. Senator White and several
Others opposed the bill and it was
lost.
The senate passed the Evans bill
providing $4,000 to fight the battle OF
the people in the United States courts
against the Public Service Corpora
ton. Senator White, majority lead
or ox-nloinad how the public Service