Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-12
S|LzER' ROAD
BOARD LIKELY
To BE WINNER
Action Tonight on Governors
Appointments in Senate is
Now Expected
LEGISLATURE IS RUSHED
Only One Week of Considera-
ton of BilIs-Many I'm
portant Party Measures
LEGISLATURE is RUSHED

TRENTON, March 12:-One week
of actual consideration of bills on
final passage remained as the mem
bers of the legislature gathered here
this afternoon for the reconventng
for the evening session. Next week
is to be devoted to the consideration
of bills which Governor Silzer may
have sent back with vetoes. Friday
of this week is the date set for the
final consideration of measures now
pending and if the highway commits
sion muddle is settled tonight by the
| confirmation of the Silzer nominees,
which seems likely, then there will
remain but three or four days, or
until this coming Friday, to take up
any of the other big questions which
were before the peoples representa-
tives when they began their present
session on January last.
Exactly seven weeks ago tonight
| the governor appeared before the
| legislature in joint session and an
nounced that he had removed the old
road board Since that time the
| backing and filling has been in pro-
gress 1t now seems as if a conbi-
| nation OF probably eight Republicans
and four Democrats in the senate
may this week confirm the nominees
Stewart, Jelin, Scott and Kidde.
Five subjects for consideration by
| the legislature were touched upon
| by Governor Siizer in his inaugural
address and it has taken seven weeks
| of the session alre~dy to thrl h out
! one of these questions-highWay
Nothing has been done to reduce
taxation, the subject which was first
! treated in the address and has been
! close to Mr.. Silzer's heart. The en-
actment of the bill prohibiting night
employment for women in factories
| has passed the senate but is being
! effectively blocked in the assembly.
! Mr.. Silzer urged this legislation too.
( His elaborate presentation of the
! trolley fare problem and his plan for
a rate based on the prudent invest
ment," with the elimination of The
| water" from the stock of the cor
porations has been sidetracked by
! the road fight and while measures to
| liberaliZe prohibition have been in
troduced by the d mocrats they have
| been bottled up in Republican con-
trolled committees. There is to be a
move by the House majority this
evening, however, to get action on a
resolution introduced by Assembly,
man Roegner, of Passaic, Republic
| can, which calls upon congress to
loosen up the Volstead act.
| The Democrats in the assembly
early last week did put up a fight TO
get action on the bills to reduce troll
ley fares, but the Republican ma
| jority blocked the effort.
/ Night Work for Women
! Another bitter fight is on within
| the COP. ranks owe rthe Stevens
| bill to prohibit night employment
| for women. Mrs. e. +. Feickert, OF
! Plainfield, head of all the women
| Republicans in the state, who has
| been fighting for this measure for
! two sessions of the legislature stands
| a the head of the forces behind this
| bill demanding action. 1t has pass
| cd the Senate and Mrs. Feickert
claims to have votes for its passage
| in the House. Governor Silzer VIII
| sign the measure and the Democratic
! minority in the assembly will vote
| for it, some of them because they
| have been told to from Hudson
/ county, not because they want to.
! Hudson county is afraid of the tis-
! pleasure of its own woman, one OF
| WnOll, MIS. NdllGIlue W. Pl Wv il'
is member of the House and strong
for this bill and because it is good
politics to put the onus of its prob
able defeat on the COP.
1t is probable the question OF
taxation may have to be deferred
until next years session of the law
makers when Governor Silzer may
again bring it before them. How
ever. if he succeeds in his plan tor
the honest and efficient administra-
ton of highways it may be counted
good days work at this session aud
indirectly a saving of money TO the
taxpayers. If nothing more is a T.
complished by the Silzer admins
tration in 1928 than the safeguard
ing of the road funds. estimated
variously from s40.000,000 10
| S1O0. .OOO, 900, ethe work of this year
will not have been in vain.
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