The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-04-05
OVERRIDING OF
vETOES A FINALE
147th Legislature RepasseS 81
Bills Disapproyed Before TAX
ing Final Adjournment.
SENATORS CRITICIZE SILzER
New Jersey Chief Executive Happy
as Legislature Dies-Think Their
Session Was the Most Note
worthy in History.

Trenton. = The final gasp of the
1923 legislature came Friday night
with a lack of sensation in marked
contrast with the constant friction of
the ten weeks of bitter battles in the
senate and house All the excitement
dropped out when in party confer
ences it was decided to attempt no
other action than that ape the We
toes of Governor Silzer, and in this
program only part of the ,arge num-
Der Of disapproved bills were put
over.
Before sine die adjournment the
| legislature passed 29 of the 5S~bills
which had been returned to both
| houses on Thursday night by Cover
|. nor Silzer. Added to this total were
three old vetoed bills, which brought
the final score up to 80.
Among the important vetoes over
ridden was senate joint resolution
No. 5, which provides for probe of
the deposed highway boards transac-
tons in the matter of the purchase of
the Amboy and Hackensack river
bridges. Others follow:
The Pascoe water bills.
Hudson and Essex county elections
bureau ripper.
The Blackwell bill making extreme
cruelty grounds for divorce.
The Mathis open specifications bill
Two elections bills preventing
judges and county boards Of elections
from adding names to registry lists
ON election day.
The boxing ripper.
Senator Mackay's bill permitting
private corporations to build tunnels
in competition with state owned
tubes.
Both houses caucused early in the
day and decided what bills ere to
be passed over the governors head.
With the exception of three bills the
program went through without
hitch. The three measures lost in the
shuttle were all house bills and In
ciuded Assemblyman Klein's two
bills, one to establish family court
and the other a traffic court in first
class cities. The third was bill by
Assemblyman Long increasing the
salaries oil. district court clerks. The
three of them passed the house, but
were lost in the senate.
Fight Divorce Bill
The only measure which was en-
dangered was the Blackwell divorce
bill. which came in for some strong
opposition from the three women.
members of the house, who lined up
against it. Majority Leader Corio
took a peculiarly active part in
rounding up votes for the measure
and brought in members from the
corridors and ante rooms to get the
necessary total. It was finally passed
by the house, 80 to 16. In the senate
it passed, IA to 8. 1t permits divorce
on the grounds of extreme cruelty
within six months after the COM
mission of the cruel act
At the suggestion of Mr.. George all
Democrats refrained from voting no
on the elections bureau ripper. Mr..
George denounced the bill as vicious
and a plulder of the treasures in
Hudson and Essex counties. He ask
ed the minority members not to vote
at all on the bill as an evidence of
their disdain and condemnation of
the bill.
1t was suggested by the majority
members that the sergeant-at-arms Of
the house could force the Democrats
to vote, but Mr. George declared,
There are not enough sergeants-at-
arms in the world to make me vote
for this bill" It was passed with
out Democratic support. Assembly
man Loprete of Essex cast the only
Republican vote against the measure.
The Mathis open specifications bill
was readopted in the senate by a
strict party vote. Senator Richards
declared the governor had blackened
the name of every county freebooter
In the state by his denunciation of
road grafters without giving spe-
cific instance to substantiate his re-
marks. 81 challenge the governor to
prove a single act against the Allan
tic board. The governor has been
using a welter of words" said Rich
ards.
Senators Parry of Essex and Pier
son of Union praised the Mathis bin
as a step forward in honest competi-
tive methods. Parry admitted the
bill is far from perfect, but better
than no legislation on the subject.
Pass Election Ripper
When the election ripper" was
brought up in the senate Senator
Mackay of Bergen said he was willing
to stand for any blame attached to
the passage Of the bill. Democratic
Senator Simpson of Hudson and Re
publican Senator Parry Of Essex at
tackled the ripper" Parry branded
the bill as vicious and distasteful to
taxpayers of Essex ecLnty. He fur
Their argued the election superintend-
ents may add officials without num-
Der and without civil service tests to
insure. efficiency. Senator Parry was
the only Republican to vote to sus-