The Penn's Grove record., 1923-03-02

800, 900 will receive a maximum sal
airy of $4,000 per year under House
41S. The bill does not affect Essex
or Hudson counties.
Mrs. Mabel c.. North of Essex made
her maiden speech in the House in
appealing for support for House bill
22S, which returns Prospect avenue,
West Orange, to the care of Essex
County Board o fFreeholders. The
bill received unanimous support.
Assembly 1877, making it obligatory
for automobiles to stop while trolley
cars discharge or take on passengers
until the trolley moves on unless the
auto may leave eight feet between
car and curb, was also passed.
Under House 264, only persons SEN
fenced to death for murder will be al
lowed expense for appeal from the
verdict. This was the rule prior to
1916, when the 10 was amended to
permit juries to recommend life i'm
~prisonment for conviction of first de-
gree murder. No opposition was
recorded against the measure.
House Passes
Senator Simpson was the lone
speaker in opposition to Senator
Roberts bill proposing a reduction
In the maximum weight for loads on
commercial vehicle trucks from 3d.
600 to &c, 900 pounds when it vas dis
cussed in the Senate. 1t was passed.
Senator Simpson said many trucking
companies in northern Jersey will be
affected by the bill.
Senator Mackay's bills to prohibit
restriction of apprentices in any
trades by labor unions was forced
back to the committee on revision
and amendment of laws after vigor
Gus opposition in debate. Senators
Parry, Reeves, Richards and Simpson
were a quartet of speakers unalter
ably opposed to it's passage.
SIlzer Sends Senate Nominations
Governor Silzer sent the following
nominations to the senate:
Prosecutor of pleas of Atlantic
county, S. Cameron Hinkle, of Allan
tic City; Atlantic County Board of
Taxation, John T. French, of Atlantic
City; judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of Gloucester county, Austin
H. Swackhamer of Woodbury.; Prose
cutor of the Pleas of Gloucester coun-
ty, Joseph ]. Summerill, Jr., of Wood
bury; Gloucester County Board Of
Taxation, George B. Hurff, of Wenoap.
Mackay Bill Vetoed
Governor Silzer after vetoing the
Mackay bill providing for a legisla-
ture-appointed elections bureau, for
warded a message to the senate de-
claring the measure was purely po-
l~itical," vicious, useless, unnecessarily
burdensome and perhaps unconstitu-
tional. The message in part follows:
81 can find no valid reason for ap-
proving senate (Mackay) bill No. 81.
No matter from what angle 1t is ap-
preached. its ~viciousness becomes ap-
parent. It's purpose is to transfer
from the hands of the prosecutors in
first-class counties to superintend-
ents of elections, the powers which
have ben exercised by the prosecutors
under chapter 210 of the laws of 1918.
"Since the enactment of the law of
1918, Hudson county has been put to
an xpense of S329,S07.79. The first
year the expense was S16,44S.74 and
in 1922. S105, 2S6.1S. In Essex county
the expense has been $42,797.25. A
total of nearly $500, 900 has thus been
spent in five years under an act
which foisted an army of office hold
ers upon the taxpayers Of these coun-
ties, without any expressed desire by
either the voters IT the officials or
either county for any such bureau.
$50 far as I have been able to
learn no good has been accomplished
by the law of 1918. Elections have
not been purified, nor has the admin
istration of law been bettered in any
way. On the contrary, this manda-
tory legislation has imposed numerous
useless office holders upon the people,
and burdened them with more taxes"
Hearing on Buses
The briefest hearing during the 1923
session of the Legislature was con
Quoted in the Assembly on the bill in
PRODUCED by Assemblyman Barkman
of Morris, by request, allowing trac-
ton companies to operate auto busses.
It required just about five minutes to
complete the hearing before the
House Railroad and Canals Committee.
Elmer w. King of Morristown, coun-
sci for the Norris County Traction
Corporation, put up a vigorous little
talk in favor of the measure. He de-
clared that it would enable the trolley
to use busses in reaching
parts of Morris county not touched by
the OWN to the great eX-
pense of erecting poles, wires, etc,
and laying tracks.
James D. Carton of Asbury Park,
representing the Atlantic Coast Rail
way Company, also spoke in support
of the measure, stating that his com
pany could operate busses into remote
sections that were not touched by the
trolleys. =.
The Public Service Corporation paid
no ostensible attention to the hearing.
1t is quite likely that the measure
will be reported out favorabl and with