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MAY OALL SESSION TO AID NOUSING Governor Edwards Receives Pressing Request From Members Interested In Problem. THERE IS NO LIMIT TO ACTION Aneniblyman Nelson of Hudoon He* Boon Active In Movement Since the Declelon of the United State* Supreme C-uri on the Matter.

Trenton.—Just ae the people of New Jersey hud breathed a al*h of rel’ef and concluded they were done with legislation for this year comes the end prospect of a return of the legislature. The blow is almost as hard as bear e* the blight of th • peach crop, or the loss of grapes by the flare-back of winter, but It will probably have to he lived through. Governor Ed war's la - giving serlona consideration to a pressing deroard for a spedal aftmton of the law makers to consider the housing problem, but what prospect there Is for any more conclusive action than was given the b using measures .n the regular session no one can conjecture. Assemblyman Nelson, of Hudson county, who made the long and hard light for hla bills and then lost out because the senate did not consider them at all neceaaary or any practical solution of the problem, has been roost active In the movement for a special session since the dechdon of the United Slate* Supreme Court sustained the laws of the New Vo r k legislature upon the same subject. Mr. Nelson claims that these laws are workable and will relieve the distressing features ef Ihe housing problem In ths congested sections of the upper part of the state If pnssed In this state. He says the bills he presented In the legislature followed the lines of thous passed In New York and he believes that In view of the decision he may lie able to Impress the majority la Trenton—If It Is recalled—with the need of similar action. The request of the Hudson assemblyman hits been Joined by other members and Governor Edwards stated that he had the matter under advisement. The senate Is to be reconvened In special session In May, anyway, to receive the appointment of the superintendent of the new state eontabulery, so that It would bo vej> easy for him to recall the whole bunch at the

asme time.

The tqioclal session could not be confined by any statute or the fundamental law to any specific purpose, and It might go gallavantlng along Hues entirely out of the catalogue to the confusion and sorrow of some people not

looking for Just that.

Hut there Is nothing to Indicate a change of heart upon the part of the senate with respect to the bills sponsored by Mr. Nelson. Ho got them sercis the assembly, but they stuck on the ways In the upper bouse, never reappearing afte» being consigned to committee. Mr. Nelson exerted every possible effort to get them moving, and even presented i ••solutions In the house denouncing t* " attitude of the senatmajority, hut that me. was looked upon as discourteous, and he was forced to aee the regular session end with no relief, so far as the legislature was concerned, for those who have been suffering from the conscl mcelees greed of profiteering landlord* He made It one of Uie big Issues of the session, hut found himself powerless to get anywhere with the problem In

the face of the opposition.

Whether the governor will care to risk all r special session might do lr the way of legis'atlon Is a question. He pul the vent ax to a number of measures th which the Republican majority had more than passing Interest, ai d u would be possible for them to reive and pass these measures In spite of ilie demire of the originals. The governor was greatly relieved when the session finally adjourned with the decision not to come hack, and it Is very probable that he will hesitate to recall them and face fresh troubles Political circles In the state are very busy discussing the selection of Senator Kdwln I- Sturglss of Gloucester county for collector of Internal revenue <>r the Sout Jersey District, by Pnlted States Senator Edge over the pruintts of former I’nlted States 3‘ aati.r Baird. Congressman Patterson and their party lieutenant*. The general opinion seems to btliat Senator Edge Is forming a new and formidable lineup for next year's onropaign, when a governor and the successor of Culled States senator Prellnghuyt n^re to tie chosen. Sturgoas and hl» Gloucester county friend* are said to tie ready to Join the Edge ilue-up. but lu tills case there Is some difficulty In classifying the party organisation powers

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tor bYeMnghuysen. who tuts beea presumed to he allied with (lie Bain] wlt.g of the orKtinUnrlon In hi* quest for another six-year term. It u conceded that Baird and Patterson have been most potential In the South Jersey Une-up and alien they pulled former Mayor Harry Kacharach „f Atlantic City out of the reckoning for the revenue coHectorship. for which 8e .'or Edge was prvgumed to tw .rooming him and placed him In the Public Utility Commission, It V4 c Mippowd that they, had |K-rf<wm-„,l , coup With Se< nor Frellnghuysoli. th.- il"-' pe "sob a I Bod polltiea! yrtead ot' t K-tdo t UartlUig. and very f '..cb ttyanina md & Um Iflgft

Jersey powers next year* some mighty delicate situations nre-now forming. In the new alignment, too. former Gove,-nor Stokes, the state chairman, will oome In for reckoning, with National Committeeman Kean, and within a few months It will be necessary for all of them to know Just where they stand wl>h relation to the primaries for next year. The. possibility that Senator Edge Is planning to take the party leadership will present fresh Intricacies and there had been snch lovely dreams -of. party harmony and a solid front.for the- big prizes which will mean so much In the year to come! Federal patronage along other Is to figure la the calculations and many anxious eyes will be turned

upon Washington.

Senator William C. Parry's dissertation upon hla first year’s experience as slntor has scorched some of those who sat with him during the recent session. It Is the senator's •Initial peep Into public office, but he probably recalls some of the trials of his late who was the senator from Kur'lngton county some years ago and caused some tribulation to the “regular" Republicans. This younger SenParry, who comes from Essex and lawyer, expressed the belief that the average assemblyman was no more than a wire-controlled marionette, dancing and gyrating a; the Invisible operator Jangled the wire* It was a bold stand for a flrat-yenr novice to take and while bis burning diatribe has passed with almost total silence Majority leader Mackay baa deemed It advisable to prqd him a UtThe Bergen county senator says : la unfortunate that Senator Parry saw fit to attack the vaat majority of senators after profeaelpg such friendship for the men who were hla colleagues In ihat-laxly this year. ■ould say jpany things about.Senator Parry and hla legislative career thla year. Among other things he endeavored by Introducing Senate bills U31, 234 and 23.*i to put the New Jersey Assodaton out of business and cry dentist In the atate belonging the association will not very Boon forget him. It was the most vicious egialatlon of Its kind that baa been Introduced In the senate for many a h.i.g year. Fortunately, these bVIs came to the Judlc ary Committee, of which J was chairman, and outalde of granting a hearing did not light of day. Some • men who came Into the senate for the first time are ungrateful in the extreme. I personally assisted Senator Parry on a number of occasions because he w .a unfamiliar with the rules of the senate and apparently did not take time to or could not comprehend them. If Mr. Parry s looking for notoriety he has adopted it cheap, ungentlemanly and unappreciative way of doing It. Ha should remember It does not pay In the long run to slander and abuse your colleagues who stood by yon." Price Margin Too Wltfa Holding that exorh taut prices In retail markets for vegetables and othar farm products Ibis year will he an economic crime, officials of th* Sew Jersey Market - Bureau are urging truck growers to follow shipments occasionally through the markets and see that they reach the consumer at a fair price. Any but a fair price Injures the farmer as well as the .consumer, market

specialists declare.

••Farmers are not benefited when re* tell prices on farm products are a bora the rea>'h of the average family." 1*‘ 'he opinion of A. L. Clark, chief of the market bureau. “We saw jhe effect* of such prices lest year. WMh crops plentiful on the farm prices ware, arWtrarily boosted In the clliea. A certain class "f dealers made big profit* but the demand was checked. Fannere eotrtd scarcely give away Uie pr 'ducts on th. farm, hut the c;ty prices did not drop and thousands of tons of produce r»tted In the fields or wMied In blocked, vru iesale mark.-t* “The fin-er onder these conditions suffered fugge tng lo*«ea. The consumer waa depii', (! of fresn vegetable* and fruits that meant health, and turned to canned and manufactured predncts for which another part of the World was starving. It will be a baaluess necessity as well as a patriotic duty for fannere to combat auch profi-

teering this year." Posh Normal School

Speeding op o f work upon the proposed South Jersey normal school bnllding*. ample fund* for ihe erection of which were made available in additional appropriations by the legislature, is being urged by Olaasburo business men through the Chamber of Commerce. It la now said that operatlwis will start early la June. WHb the. big gla*H plants abut down for repair*, hundreds of laborers are available for *urh work aa excavations and getting tha foundations laid. One of the first operations w til be the laying of a eld- track iroui the West Jersey and Seashore railroad into the 50 acre site purchaeeu lor the school along U.e railroad. This will gnt Uly facilitate the movement of building materials, -wpeelally aa Uie main butldThrough U'v Gtwwboro Chamber of Coinin''i< r letter* are *o be went to the normal t.'hool OMiiaiUbc* of the State Board of Education urging that they put Uie contract through as quickly as possible. Superintendents of schu >1* asked to um- their lufli.ence with the atate tawrd to burry th lariated school. A cottmiunlcathm received from Thomas W. Synnott. Gloucester eounty'r representative on the State Board uf Education, convev* the Information that bids for the i.y school will soon be asttd for ead-th(ii the «,.rk will b* gottea padar way by J|ja%

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(Continued from page 1) not comply with the apecItlcnUomi and that Uie -work In not of the substantial character required by the ■peclfllcatlons." On page 10 of Mr. Sherrerd's report discussing the rasurf.trlnK of Landis venue. Sen Isle City, he states: "This resurfacing work has been n complete failure. The screening!', have not been, taken up by the bitumen coating ns contemplated tn the j spec! Heat ions and most of the screenings can be swept from the surface of the road. -The bitumen has either ■been applied when the road was wet r -the screenings have not been sum clenUy heated when applied. The bitumen coat penis off in large pieces • • • The contractors slxiuld never have received their . x cond payment until the defective work had Inreo

remedied."

On page 10 of Mr. Sln-m-d’s report is discussing the concrete povoment on Mechanic Street, and on Oo. hen Komi. Capo May Court House, he states: "On Mnrch €. 1021. muds cut in pavement In front of’the Warwick Co. Found Inches as the frill thickness of the pavement . Two other cut* were modi- that showed 6\i and T Inches. March M, 1921. cracks In the pav-ment bad been covered with

and received the money on the check. Conclusions In tire time -Uowed us we have been unable to examine into all the financial and contractual affairs of the county, and from the above related Instances It is perfectly apparent that the taxpayer* of Cape May Coumy have liven Imposed upon: that Its affairs bare l-een Uly and badly managed: that the board of freeholder* habitually violated th* Inw* of this state regarding the expend ■lures of public moneys and .the Incurring of (debts: that their metblds are unbusinesslike and wasteful: and that on

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irregularities,

illegality.

Such data and Information -I* we hn we will gladly turn over to the pro

authorities.

Hoapectfuily submitted this 7th day

April. 1921.

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identic had not been denned out before the tar was npplied. Many block* of the pavement have crack*, but these are worse near the F. R. It end of the work end also Very bad at P. & R. crossing. From inquiry foilml that, gravel first '-roughi to the Job was rejected and afterward muter ul* from .the same source were allowed to l-e used. Examination of gravel pit from which the material was obtained siiowed the same to »>•• far from uniform . Two cuts mad,' In the Uoshen road in the middle showed 54 Inches in thickness at a point 125 fret north of big tree and 6 Inches in thlcgnes* 20 feet north of the small house itn the west near the P. It. It." On page 13 of his report Mr. Rberrenl "If the specl fit cation* and conlrarl* have been so fiagrantly disregarded .In the number of inatanc--* where definite comparison can easily In- mad,, it is somewhat Indieun e that further disregard of the specification* have taken place on the jjther parts of th--county work which cannot tie so easllv checked up and regarding which there has l-een some qilestloii arised by Uie citiarns of the counts '' The latter of the last paragraph on page 13 < of his report rends as follow* “And while the specifications armore or less exact in their requirements, It Is liardly worth while to have this exactness unless the work is to conform thereto. This condition tends to discourage outside competition and militate* In the Interest* of favored

local contractors."

We consider the question ruined by Mr. Sherrerd regarding spocilluuUon* and their requirements vital in public work. It is a well known fact that specifications can be exact and technical In their requirements and yet larks In their enforcement and that only contractors wlm know what l» expected of th. m can successful!' hid on public work. The way K|K-clfiratloi>s are drawn and

l‘>itlUp .SUrfer. of Millville, seen led by his family, motored to rie Inst week to look after Ms new' 'Mired pro pert' on Ariadne sti-eel ■Shaffer is a prtunlneui Millville chant, -and an ardent Sea Isle «•

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Mr. K. A. Corson, on March 15. 11*21, presented a bill to the board for 1313.(18 (which was order 1 paid) for wo. k don* between February • and March 3. 1920. for removing debris from Central nue. Ocean City. Why this tall ■■mined dormant so long we cannot derstand and what method the coi had of checking up this charge for v after so long a period we do not ki but surely the county should adopt - method by which It would know It* billtles and see to It that proper eh were presented within a reasonable ' In order that the circumstances m tie fresh In the memory of the pr who is call-d upon *o either approv

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