The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-02
LEGISLATURE
HAS ADJOURNED
Petty Scandal in New Jersey
House Of Assembly lust Be-
fore Closing Time.
PASS APPROPRIATION BILL
Governor siIzer Vetoed Many Meas
ares Which Were Enacted Into
Law by Repessage by Both
Senate and Assembly.

Trenton.-It remained for the clos
ing minutes of the 1925 session of the
Legislature to bring forth the petty
scandal. Allan M. Trimble of Mon
mouth county, secretary of the State
Athletic Commission, was literally
chased from the floor of the House Of
Assembly by Speaker Powell after
Trimble had been accused Of caves
dropping On the last conference OF
the Republican majority.
The majority members Of the House
were in caucus in the speakers room
and were discussing Senate bill No.
1853. Although this bill was intro
duced by Senator Reeves of Cumber-
land, it applied principally to a sit
uation existing in Asbury Park. The
bill, which was subsequently passed
over the Governors veto, will give a
municipal body control over the let
ting of concessions On the beach front
and is designed to permit Asbury
Park to give these concessions to one
not the highest bidder. Walter Read,
a theatre owner, has certioraried the
action of Asbury Park In not letting
the beach front bathing concessions
to him and the bill will defeat the
suit of Read regardless of the out
come Of the litigation.
AS the conferees were discussing
the bill Speaker Powell saw Trimble
through a crack in the door, suppos-
eddy eavesdropping. Powell and Trim
BILE saw each other It the same time
and, as the athletic young speaker
started for the secretary of the Ath-
letic Commission, the latter made for
the chamber. Trimble eluded Powell
and got out of the building, although
Powell ran to the front door.
When the House reconvened AS
semblyman Stratton of Gloucester in
troduced a resolution which charged
that Trimble had been a persistent
lobbyist on the floor of the house
against the Reeves bill and denounc-
ing him in very, severe terms. The
resolution directed that the matter be
brought to the attention Of Trimble's
chief, State Comptroller Bugbee.
Speaker Powell later announced that
Trimble in a telephone call had ex-
pressed sincere regrets, stating that
he (Trimb;e) was entirely in the
wrong and wished to apologize. Mr.,
Trimble, the speaker said, had heard
his name mentioned and stepped to
the door.
OF course after this incident the
bill had no trouble in getting enough
votes to override the Governors veto.
Another surprise Of the closing
hours was the failure to put the gaso-
line tax bills over the veto of Cover
nor Silzer. For several hours the
conference committees of the House
and Senate debated these bills, which
would provide for a two-cent tax on
each gallon of gas and for it's admin
istration and distribution, but the
votes could not be corralled. The
gas tax therefore is dead for another
year.
The very last business on the part
Of the Senate war 20 receive a mes
sage from Governor Silzer calling the
Senate's attention to the fact that iE.
had not confirmed or rejected the fol-
lowing nominations: Coleman F. Cor
son, Cape May, to the Cape May
| County Tax Board; F. Newlin Acton
Of Salem to be prosecutor of the pleas
CT Salem county; Edward X. Allen Of
dew Gretna to be member Of the
Board of Shell Fisheries; e. w. Par
son Of Atlantic City to be one of the
commissioners of pilotage.
at is in the interest Of law and or
der" said the Governor. especially
in these times when so many crimes
Of violence are being committed in
our rural communities, that the office
OF prosecutor Of the pleas in every
county shall be filed and filed per-
manently and not by az ad interim
appointment, and 1t is in the interest
of good government to take the same
course with other offices. / am call
ing this to your attention that you
may not adjourn without having per
formed your full duty to the state, rs
required by the constitution and the
statues and the oath Of Office"
The Senate, however, did not con
firm these nominations. The Cover
nor sem to the Senate just before adj
journment the nomination of Mrs.
Geraldine L. Thompson OF Red Bank
to succeed herself on the Board Of
Control of Institutions and Agencies.
Mrs. Thompson's fate has been In the
balance for some time, and great
pressure has been brought to bear In
her behalf
The Governor. however, waited pa
tiently until the Senate confirmed the
nomination of John J.. Quinn Of Red
Bank to be prosecutor Of the pleas
for Monmouth county, and then Mrs.
Thompson was safe.
The Governor also sent to the SEN
ate the narpe Of Warren A. w. Grier
Of Salem to the Salem County Board
OF Taxation to succeed Charles L.
Richmond, aud the Senate confirmed
the appointment. {
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