The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-02-07

of Street Electric Railway Employees,
opposed the measure He said jitney
traffic required more, not less. state
regulation.
The trolley strike settlement of last
summer he characterized as "a fine
example of passing the buck-from
municipal authorities to the Utilities
Commission to the Government and
to the courts"
Pay Increase for Sheriffs
Feeling that the salary of $4,000 a
year that is paid to the sheriffs of
Hudson and Essex counties is INSULT
cient for the responsibility of the Of
fee, Senator Simpson offered in the
Senate bill to increase the stipends
to $4,000 year.
"The salary of the sheriffs,' said
Senator Simpson, In talking about the
years and there has been no compen-
sation to them for the change in the
expense of living since. Some recog-
milton should be given to that condi-
ton in a position of such great i'm
portance."
To a question where the idea of the
increase originated, the Senator re-
piled that the thought was his own
and was due to his observation Of con-
ditions during the course of his prac-
tice at the Hudson court house.
To Modify Night Work Act
Senator Simpson also put in bill
to modify the law enacted last year
which would forbid the employment
Of women in factories at night after
the end of this year Under the Simp-
son measure, authority would be Civ
en- to the State Commissioner of La
Dor to permit the employment of wo-
men if his department found that the
working conditions in any certain es-
Enlistment are healthy.
Under another measure by the Hud-
son Senator. schools would be com
PEELED to recognize state certificates
granted to wounded soldiers authoriz-
ing them to receive credit because of
their wounds. Mr.. Simpson explained
that under the present law the
schools are not subjected to any pen
atty for failure to recognize the GER
tlficates. His bill is to put teeth"
into the law
Attack Election Bureau
With Republicans backing the bill
to abolish the county election bureaus
in Hudson and Essex, when the House
Elections Committee held a hearing
Captain Thomas A. Mcdonald Of Jer-
sey City, State Republican Commit
teeman Howard R. Cruise and others
interested in retaining the patronage
the bureau affords. were seriously fius-
tered to defend their jobs. In their
efforts they reverted to conditions OF
election CORRUPTION that existed seven
teen years ago.
This point was brought out by AS
semblywoman May NJ. Carly during
the hearing and she inquired why an
cient history should be dug up to ap-
ply to present conditions. Mr.. Bari
son, member of the committee, also
took part in the questioning. The bill
was assaulted by Director Dodd on be-
half of the Essex County Board OF
Freeholders, and then by Mrs. Lillian
E. Feickert, vice chairman Of the Re-
publican State Committee and presi-
dent of the New Jersey Republican
Women's Club
Views Of Judge Cary
with all of the local official power,
including all the low enforcement Of
ficers and bodies cvontrolled by a
single political machine" Mr.. Cary
wrote. mo matter how virtuous that
machine may be reported to be, a
temptation is presented that is too
serious to disregard. If this power
should be tempted into exercise for
the purpose of electing United
States Senator, a Governor, or even
a President OF the United States
lacking some state supervision or con-
troll. who could stop it or minimize it?
Election repeaters and stuffed boxes
would add nothing new to the history
of Hudson County majorities.
CAS- county Judge of Hudson | SEN
fenced one culprit, a pickpocket. to
fail, who admitted to me that he had
voted eighteen times in one section
OF our county in one election.
81 am opposed to a repeal of the
bill that gives at least a measure of
protection, unless some better protec-
ton is substituted by the Legislature.
III the probable cost of maintaining
the bureau is larger than desirable,
that situation can readily be met by
the Legislature limiting the amount
to be made available for the job.
Essex in no event will require the
amount requisite to be expended in
Hudson, as some of the conditions in
vclved are more serious in one county
than in the other, but legislation can
easily meet this situation.
cat any rate, the repeal OF this pro
tective legislation at this time in the
face of a Presidential election, an cleo
ton of a United States Senator and
the election OF new Congress of the
United States. would be an act Of
super-politlcaI stupidity, unless some