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Trentcn, Wednesday afternoon, May 12, 1916. — With the new Board of Shell Fisheries named by . the Governor in accordance with the Economy and Efficiency Bill passed Ijy the recent session of the Legislature the several oyster commissioners of the State who will be thus legislated from office, believe they should make public explanation of their determined opposition to the legislation. With that end in view the Commissioners met a day or two ago and prepared a statement for issuance, to the public, making plain their reasons, which, they declare, are based upon the knowledge that the measure now a law was not for tlie best interests of the large body of oys- , termen of the State nor the better- ; ment of the big industry. Few peo- , pie of the State, they say. are fa- ; miliar with the value and extent of the industry, which employs more j that 8,000 men and has invested j capital of many millions of dollars, j Nor is it generally known that ! there are many thousands of acres j of land under water used for The cultivation of the crops which re-| quire from three to five years to mature so that the laws for the protection of these "oyster farms" and the preservation of j the industry are necessary. The | commissioners whose terms of ser- j vice expire July 1, when the new j Board takes charge of the industry !> and who have felt that they were;' grossly misrepresented during the i jdiscussion on the pending bill in j I the Legislature, make the follow- ! ' ing statement as to their position.!' They refute strenuously the un- j ' founded insinuation that they j ' were opposed to the hill because it > provided for the elimination of f their positions. Considering that t these Commissioners were paid hut * from $250 to $500 a year and were •' obliged, under the old laws to give if a great deal of their time and at-j* tention to the business of the State, 1 11 this insinuation is scarcely tenable, j* but it was one of many made in ' a

the effort to put the' bill through the Legislature at any cost. At all •times, the Commissioners felt that j they were representing the general « Sentiment of all of the men engag- i ed in the shell fish industry in the < Gtate and at no time during the i three yea$s in which the agitation | for the passage of a bill of some | character reorganizing the Depart- j| ment has there been any voice : ( raised in favor of the proposal \ from among those vitally interest-.} ed. if "When the Economy and Effic- I iency Commission first projected i the idea of a Department of Shell Fisheries, it introduced a bill elim- , inating all of the present Cominis- i rioners and providing for four new , members of the State Fish and i Game Commission who were to Ik* , in complete' control of the shell , fish industry. This proposal was | so ridiculously impossible and im- ] t practicable that it never received : serious consideration. The qexjt , year, the Economy and Efficiency ;, Commission endeavored to secure the passage of a bill providing for a separate Department composed of a Board of 'seven members but , the opposition to this measure was j so apparent that the House refused to pass it after the Senate had put it through. This year the bill provided again for eight memliers and a Department of Shejl Fisheries in one section and in another, for two separate and distinct departments. The aim of this pro-

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t, vision was to allay the opposition of the large interests involved in y the Maurice River Cove and Delah ware Bay, where five-sixths of the ; 11 shell fish industry of the State is ie centered. i- "Despite the manifest opposi- I <e tion of all those engaged in the ' e shell fish industry, the Senate put ! i- t' at hill through after the Judic- ' n iary Committee bad ripped the or- ' d iginal Economy and Efficiency bill • from top to bottom and completely i changed its aspect. After its pas- ' •- sage in the Senate by a bare ma- < 5, jority, it went to the Assembly < d and hung fire for weeks. Three ' >- times it was placed upon the cal- ' t endar as a special order of business 1 i- 1 but not moved by the Majority 1 ■-j Leader, who was apparently sway- I i- 1 ed by the influences, evidently de- 1 . : termined for partisan political ' f reasons, to jam the bill through. It 1 e : was not until the night prior to the •' 1 final adjournment of the Legisla- I i. tive session that enough votes were I 1 1 finally obtained by all of the de-il sj vices and expedients to which j c > [partisan political methods could i'i . |be applied to jam the bill through !<? , | the Assembly by a bare majority if , of one vote. |l "J "All sentiment of those affected]'1 Mby the law was ignored; all pro-)' •'tests were unheeded and the parti[san political game was played to j'1 ■| the limit. The advice of members! the Assembly from those couu1 1 ties in which the shell fish industry is important were 'overridden ' s | by men fi ike interior counties I who have knowledge whatsoever! | of the problems involved or the " needs of this great industry. The 81 j was never read in either House |fr jas required by the Constitution. In h | every stage of its movement, tliel .title was taken for a supposed |bl [reading and it is very doubtful if dl than five or six members of of I the Senate and a dozen members of t,-. Jtlie Assembly ever had any inti-jor knowledge of the contents of | the measure. It was rewarded as dr 'a hodge-podeo. makeshift proposi- • j"[

■ i tion. i j I I. "During the perd'-n-v of the l measure in the Legislature it was! ' I stated on more than one occasion that a 'deficiency' of $1,600 was;' shown in the present administra- '. tion of the shell fish industry of j the State. This statement- was t upon the fact that the reve- * nues from the leases and licenses i' of the industry fell $1,600 short of the total appropriations, when, as t i a fact, there had never been anv 'l I expressed desire or intention upon the part of the State to look to this 1 as a producer of revenue. "The great item in the cost of » administration is the policing of ' tht* grounds to prevent violations of the lows. The total salaries paid t HI those connected with the in- i ' dustrv is an insignificant item • compared with many other De- '" 1 : partments of the State producing . no revenue at all. As a fact, the ^ ' 1 State, last year, appropriated near- ] jly $200,000 for the various phases i iof agriculture. No one. for a mo- ( ' ' ment. would dispute the value and ' ' importance of such an appropria-j' I tion. hut no one has suggested a j , 1 .'deficiency' in that Department. ], > nit hough the revenues were less ] - than $20,000. Nor. does anyone I ' suggest for a moment that there is] 1 a 'deficiency' in the Public Utilis ties Board because its revenues do j - not meet its expenses, nor of any I V ! of the many other State Depart- ' • ments which require large sums of j - money, hut have no revenues. "It was also stated during the i ' discussion on the hill that the new ' department would bring about a 1 saving of $10,000 a year in the adt ministration of the shell fish in-' * 'dustrv. As a cold proposition, not! J one dollar can possibly be save a J and no higher degjee of efficiency _ : will be possible because the new s department has been given no J power or duty to extend the ln- - 1 dustrv, to increase any of the revenues or to do anything which the f

i present Commissions have been i unable to dp. "It has been necessary for the • administration of the shell ! fish industry to have men familiar with its requirements upon the . ground to look after all of the de- ■ tails surrounding the issuance of for grounds and licenses for . This detailed work cannot . done with efficiency by one man [ connected with a central board. It giving entirely too much power to one person and will not work out to the satisfaction of the oystermen themselves, to the betterment of the industry or to better results for the State. The new dei part ment will be obliged to appoint agents under some name to perform the duties now performed the .several superintendents and : members of the Commissions' who i will be going out of existence on ' 1st. These duties cannot be , performed by men without com- 1 pensation. so that in the whole aspect of the new law. the opposition | of the Commissioners was based, I upon their experience and know]-: edge of the industry, convinced . j firmly that the bill would be a serjious detriment and drawback to | progress in the great industry. For j these 'reasons and these alone, -the i Commissioners were opposed to the , j bill. * ; Freckle-Face and Wind Bring out Ugly Spots — 1 1 to Remove Easily j Hire's u chance. Miss Freckle-face, to i I a remedy for freckles with tile guar- I | antee of a reliable dealer that it will not 1 1 cost you a penny unless it removes the j I freckles; while if it docs give you ai < complexion the expense is trifling. - Simply get an ounce of offline— dou- j . ble strength — from Jas. Mecray or any I and a few applications should'! show you how easy it is *to rid yourself , the homely freckles and get a beau- [ complexion. Rarely it more than Re sure to ask the druggist for fhcjF strength cthine as this is the j _ prescription sold under guarantee of mon'-y hack If it fails to remove I , f rut.l-1...

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a CHARITY TO CLAMS I Of the hundreds of thousands e of clams burn every day, statistics, inform us that not more than ten and six-fifths per cent eyer die a r natural death. It seems to be the: p ultimate fate of his clamship to! . pass in his final check in some C dreadful or, violent manner. Some meet their finish at fashionable r summer hotels where they, in all] ' their stately luscious splendor, are i hastened into luxurious stomachs! t 'mid wines and cordials of the r highest order, while others fritter' their lives away in cheap and un-1 couth restaurants. Then, also, • - son\e find their way into tolerably-, - respectable homes where the in- - door life soon has its depressing' effect upon them and, before- the] hand of death can lay claim to' them, they are hustled into the ' ' i stew pan. But of all the debasing I and unworthy ends of this classic! | j' Anodonta Cvgnea" (or clani, ac-j , | cording to the vernacular of the I j East Side) is that of Christian] I martyrdom, when he is mercilessly j slain and rushed into chowder at a| | church sociable, environed by common cabbage, carrots, leeks, toma- ' toes, and everything foreign to his- ' nature — and sbrved up at ten : cents a plate. — "Zim" in Cartoons I Magazine. I;

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