The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-04-05

State Highway Commissions pur-
chase Of lands at the Amboy bridge
was opposed by Senator Simpson.
He favored 4 complete investigation
of all acts of the board and not alone
a probe of the land purchase.
Senator Case of Somerset opposed
the highway grail route bills. He
pointed out the legislature was obl-
eating the state to expenditure OF
millions of dollars with no one COM
petent to advise the lawmakers as to
the desirability Of adding the routes.
Senator Parry also condemned the
'log rolling" for new highways.
Assemblyman Powell's bill for the
Palmyra-Berlin highway route was
brought up in the senate by Senator
Roberts of Burlington. Roberts saids
he could not vote for the bill because
the proposed route would pass his
property for one mile The measure
was adopted without Roberts vote.
Senator Parry explained that his
relatives own proper on she route
of the Toms River-Camden highway,
but he was representa- 2 the state and
not his family in the sena-e.
While the new routes were being
Iegalized house bill to reduce the
system to IA miles had hard road to
get through the senate. The measure
eliminates Bloomfield from the New
ark-Paterson route The measure
was adopted after several votes.
Other New Laws
Assemblyman Corio's measure val
idating land sales by school districts;
Assemblyman Negus, extending for
two years the term Of Clifton's city
clerk; Mr.. Chamberlin, includes
horseshoers as fire department mem
bers: Mr. Powell, tenure of Office for
secretary of Camden's Board of Edu-
cation: Mr.. Mccullough, salary in
crease for Somerset county court SER
geant-at-arms; Senator Fooder's anti
revolver statute requiring permit for
carrying deadly weapons; MIR. Food
er, includes among deductions in debt
statement of third class cities net in
debtedness for school purposes; SEN
ator Richards, provides for referen-
dunn on municipal acquisition of wa
ter works; Senator Mackay, repeats
1920 act placing in di trict court COM
plants of cruelty to animals; Sena-
tor Bright, gives small cause court
Jurisdiction in landlord and tenant
proceedings.
All efforts of the follower Of Sena-
tor Edge to get the spring primary
bill through in the eleventh hour
proved unavailing, and it went by the
board with many other measures of
sembly conference 1t was found that
the votes to pass the measure could
not be corraled. Speaker Evans wa
ter bills, over which the big scandal
broke two weeks ago, were linked up
with the primary measure, and the
program came to jam.
There were but IS Republican
members in the conference. and the
vote was 81 to IA, ten shy of the re-
quired majority to make success pos
sible. Very reluctantly the toilers
for the primary measure gave up the
ghost at that stage of the game, ac-
cepting defeat with what grace they
possessed.
During an executive, session of the
senate a cloudburst struck the state
house with fury and stove in two
large windows in the north gallery,
scattering broken glass in every d.
rection. Fortunately there were no
spectators in the gallery, so no one
was injured. The senate turned down
the appointment of former Assem-
blyman John Fallon as prosecutor OF
the pleas of Hudson county.
Governor Names Another
The governor withdrew Fallon's
name and substituted that Of former
Corporation Counsel John Milton, and
he at once was confirmed. He also
appointed John N Butler Of Atlantic
City as prosecutor of Cape May coun-
ty. as the senate had rejected
George Cries of the latter county.
John ]. MCGOWAN, newspaper man