Palisadian., 1923-03-09
is EDGE REAL OWNER OF new JERSEY?
|SHE JUST STATE BOSS? OR DOESHE
CAvORT ANY OLD WAY TO SUIT WHIMS?
Remarkable Exhibition of Power Trying to Beat Gov.
Silzer's Fairly Conceived State Highway Board,
Intended to Be Bipartisan.

Trenton, March THE antics Of
U. S. Senator Edge over the State
Highway Board has never had coun-
terpart in New Jersey politics. He
started rumors about Mr. Silzer's
breaking his word to the, legislature
only to get cornered because he
couldn't lay false statement at any
body else's door, then admitted he
had falsely charged the governor be-
cause of misunderstanding" and
let it go at that.
Governor SilZer wants a highway
board of four members, but Edge
wants a board of one member only,
hand-picked by him. He has been at
Trenton all week and has disgusted
and disappointed his own party. For
high-minded leader his antics over
the highway board are pitiful.
Up to today, Wednesday, the mud
die was as far from settlement appar-
emily as ever, United States Senator
Edge having failed to produce any
definite action, although he devoted
an entire evening to desperate effort
to end the chaos.
Edges latest move, his scheme to
get the legislature to stand for sin
gle headed highway board, still lacks
approval on the part of majority OF
the senators, caucus held at mid
night last night having failed to end
the deadlock.
While Col. H., L. Bowlby of Wash
| ington is mentioned by some as the
man Senator Edge has in mind for the
single headed State Highway Board,
there comes from other sources the
tip that Engineer James Macdonald
of Massachusetts is the man Edge has
| in mind for the single headed board
if he can bring about such single
headed board law.
The Republican Senate caucus Tues
day night decided to pass the pro-
posed resolution calling for legisla-
! tive probe of the State Highway Board
of Governor Edwards that Governor
Silzer ousted on January %. A COM
mittee made UP of senators and as
semblymen is to do the probing.
The Republican managers hope to
dig up enough material to provide
| ton.
Trenton, March THE latest guess
here is that before long Governor Sill
zer's appointment of General Scott,
Walter Kidde, Abraham Jellin and
Percy Stewart for the State Highway
Board will be confirmed by the senate.
The belief of some is that seven insur-
gent senators will vote with the four
Democrats to confirm and that these
eleven votes will just furnish the re-
qured number of votes.
Trenton, March 7.-While the Re-
publican senators conferred some
more last evening without tangible
result on the state highway problem,
United States Senator Edge in final
message before he left Trenton early
last evening for New York once more
to fall in line for a single headed
State Highway Board and to make
Thomas H. Macdonald of Washing
ton, d. c., the commissioner.
Edge, up to the last minute of his
twenty-four hours stay here, kept up
his efforts to get the senate to reject
all of Governor Silzer's appointments
to the highway board, but the senate
again deferred action.
Just before he left Trenton yester-
day afternoon with Mrs. Edge for
New York the senator made final
plea to the G. o. P. women at their
luncheon at the Hotel Stacy-Trent for
the adoption by the legislature of his
plan for a single headed State High
way Commission.