Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-28
SENATE

TRENTON, Feb. 28:-The senate
in executive session early last even
ing confirmed the appointment of
Robert v. kinkead, Democrat, of
Jersey City, to be judge of the court
of common please of Hudson county.
The salary is $4,000 a year. Mr..
Kinkead will succeed Judge James
w. Mccarthy, Republican.
The senate also confirmed the
nomination of Leo S. Carney, Demo-
crat, of Harrison, as judge of the
district court of the second judicial
district of Hudson county. His salary
will be $500 year and he succeeds
District Judge Arthur b. Archibald,
Republican.
Edward Maxson, of Summit, a
Democrat, was confirmed by the sem
ate to be state commissioner of
banking and insurance for the full
term of three years at $4,000 a year.
He succeeds the late William E.
Tuttle, Jr., who died recently.
William M. Feufert, Democrat, of
Englewood, was also confirmed by
the senate as judge of the court of
common pleas of Bergen county,
having been appointed by the COVER
nor to succeed Judge John B. Zabris-
kie, Republican, for a five year term.
The salary is $500 a year.
Joseph j. Summerill, Jr., of Wood
bury, was confirmed to b. prosecu-
tor of the pleas of Gloucester county.
This position has been vacant, the
appointment having been held up in
the senate last year. by Senator Hor-
ace N. FODDER, Republican, of Glou-
cester. The position pays $4,000
yearly. The prosecutorship has been
temporarily filled for the past year
by Assistant Attorney General JOS
eph A. Lanigan, of this city.
The senate passed over the COVER
nor's veto a bill by Senator Mackay,
Republican, of Bergen, designed to
establish a bureau of elections in
Hudson and Essex county, respec-
lively.
A bill by Senator Whitney, Repub-
lican, of Morris, providing for a
change in the method of distributing
state school moneys passed the sem
ate after a somewhat lengthJ and
sharp debate. The measure would
apportion state money for schools
ON the basis of school attendance in
stead of at present, on the basis of
ratables in the respective counties.
Senator Whitney charged that I'M
der the present plan the counties of
Hudson, Essex, Union, Atlantic and
Cape May benefited when the school
money is doled out, while Senator
Simpson, Democrat, of Hudson,
charged that from his county alone,
under the new scheme, $620,000
would be taken. Senator Pierson, of
Union, and Senator Bright, of Cape
May, also opposed the bill, the form
er charging that a fund of $4,000
was available for the poorer coun-
ties, but that only $4,000 was used
last year. The vote was 1S for the
bill and against it's passage.
After a lengthy debate, two bills
by Senator Plerson of Union, were
forced tabled. One blIi provided for
a sum of $2,000,000 as reserve
fund for the teachers pension and
fund. The senate objected
to the large sum of money involved.
The other bill by Pierson, which was
defeated for the time being, would
amend the laws now governing the
issuance of temporary bonds by mu-
and one of the principal
provisions of the Pierson bill was,
that if the temporary obligations are
10 run for more than three years,
they must be sold at a public sale
instead of privately.
Other bills passing the senate
were: BY Senator Case of Somerset,
accepting the gift of Colonel An
thony Il. Kuser and Mrs. Anthony
r. kuser of Bernardsville, of the
parcel of fourteen square miles of
land at High Point, Sussex county,
Tor a state park, and providing for
o commission to care for the
park; by Senator Blackwell of Mer-
Ger, allowing the licensing of private
for the treatment of the
insane without the necessity of a
resident physician.
BY Senator Richards of Atlantic,
requiring municipalities to aid in
maintaing county alcShouses.
BY a ssemblyma1 Lyons of Ber-
gen, permitting the poultry patholo-
gist at the Agricultural Experiment
station, New Brunswick, to have a
laboratory.
BY Assemblymau Pascoe of Union,
to eliminate fire hazards in factories
by regulating smoking and to punish
offenders with fine and imprison-
ment.