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Woman Suffrage was ratified by New Jersey at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning when the House concurred in the Senate resolution to ratify by a vote of 34 to 24. Announcement of the result was followed by a storm of applause from the galleries, which, despite the lateness of the hour, were still filled with enthusiastic suffragists. Opponents of ratification held up action in the House from 9 o'clock Monday night. After a series of con ferences and attempts to gain more time, the foes finally resorted to filibustering, but toward morning those in favor of the measure gained enough votes to force the resolution through. Introduction of a resolution , by Senator Mackay, of Bergen, in the Senate authorizing the president to appoint a committee of three to con sider and report on all sallary raising bills in both houses, provoked the only debate in the upper branch Monday night. Senator Simpson, Democrat, of Hudson, in opposing the measure, argued that the legisla tion would give the committee mon opolistic control. The resolution was adopted, BILLS INTRODUCED TO HAVE STATE BUY UP TOLL BRIDGES Senator Hagaman introduced a bill in the Senate to have the state buy toll bridges, such as those across Barnegat and Manahawkin bays in this county. As assemblyman Cranmer is ill and has not been able to be in Trenton for the past two weeks, Senator Hag aman also had one of the Assembly man’s colleagues introduce in the House a duplicate measure, with the idea that it might expedite the pass age, if it should be held up in the rush hours of a closing session. Another bill introduced by the Sen ator would allow landowners along the line of the state canal from Bay Head to Manasquan river, to dredge out basins on their own land and to connect up with the canal, by cutting through the forty foot right of way which the state has acquired on either side of the canal. Daylight-Saving Under Discussion Agriculturists and city dwellers participated in a lively debate on the question of daylght saving at a legis lative hearing Monday on Senator Mackay’s bill, which provides that clocks be turned forward an hour the last Sunday in March and back the last Sunday in October. Another daylight saving measure, that by Assemblyman Eldredge of Union County, patterned after the old federal law, was also given a hearing. Walter L. Minch, of Bridgeton; Walter H. Havens, of Cranbbury; Henry Loveland, of Bridgeton; Chas. Repp, of Glassboro; John H. Barclay, of Cranbury; and Howard B. Hancock and Leslie A. Platts, of the Cumber land County Grange, represented the farmers in opposition to the two bills. The main objection advanced by them was that on the farm nothing can be accomplished during the extra hour in the morning and that about all the daylight saving plan amounts to is to provide an additional hour s each day for recreation for persons who do not work on farms. Roger F. Murray, of Plainfield, and WH. H. Heydén, of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, were the main speakers for the bills, urging that they be passed because exper ience has shown the daylight saving plan to be economical and to be want ed by all classes except farmers. Assemblyman Guthrie put in a bill seeking immediate payment of wages which may be due to discharg ed employees. The measure would prevent the employer from holding up money by the dismissed employee. Mr. Guthrie also introduced a bill making it a crime for a person or a corporation to refuse to rent or lease a house to a family with children un der 14 years of age.
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Tuckerton Beacon
Tuckerton, New Jersey, US
Thu, Feb 12, 1920
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