partment of Labor and financed from the appropriation allotted to that department for the purpose of experimenting with the problems peculiar to its jurisdiction prior to the convening of the Legislature in order to furnish a practical basis for the recommendations contained in the report.

A bill has been prepared for introduction in the Legislature carrying out the recommendations in the report and empowering the establishment of the bureau under legislative authority, which I commend to your favorable consideration.

On motion of Mr. Richards, the usual number of copies of the Governor's message was ordered printed and that the report be received and filed.

The following message was received from the Governor, by the hands of Mr. Croasdale, his Secretary, which was read as follows:

To the Legislature:

STATE OF NEW JERSEY,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
TRENTON, January 8th, 1918.

Pursuant to communication from the Honorable Robert Lansing, Secretary of State of the United States, I am herewith transmitting Senate Joint Resolution number seventeen, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Sixty-Fifth Congress of the United States of America;

At the Second Session,

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the third day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States:

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following amendment to the Constitution be, and hereby is, proposed to the States, to become valid as a part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of the several States as provided by the Constitution:

"ARTICLE.

"Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

"Sec. 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate leigslation. "Sec. 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States. by the Congress."

CHAMP CLARK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOS. R. MARSHALL,

Vice-President of the United States and

President of the Senate.

I certify that this Joint Resolution originated in the Senate.

JAMES M. BAKER,
Secretary.

Mr. Richards moved that usual number of copies of the Governor's message be printed and the joint resolution be spread in full on the Minutes.

Which was agreed to.

The following message was received from the Governor, by the hands of Mr. Croasdale, his Secretary, which was read as follows:

To the Legislature:

STATE OF NEW JERSEY,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
TRENTON, January 8th, 1918.

I am herewith transmitting, pursuant to Joint Resolution No. 2, Laws of 1917, the report of the Commission to Investigate the High Cost of Living. Bills have been prepared covering

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the recommendations of the commission; one providing additional authority to enable municipalities to purchase food and fuel for sale at cost to the public, plus cost of administration of such operation, and the other establishes the Department of Fisheries to take over in the interest of the people of the State the product of the pound fisheries. The first bill is mainly an extension of an act passed by the last session of the Legislature, which expires on July 1st of this year, while the proposed bill extends for a period of six months after the conclusion of the present war.

While I am opposed to governmental competition with private enterprise, where such private enterprise is properly serving the public, I am sure it is universally agreed, in view of the wide discrepancy between prices paid the fishermen at the pound and the prices charged the ultimate consumer, that the State should take immediate steps to provide the practical remedy. The quantity or quality of the fish that swim in seas are in no way controlled or improved by the genius or enterprise of any private individual, company or corporation, but this food product is admittedly the property of the people. This fact once established and there is no question of the State's right to prevent manipulation which mulcts the pockets of the public.

This commission has given much time and study to this very intricate problem, and while no claim is made that a permanent, universal solution has been found, it must be admitted, in view of the fact that this is a field which is largely and more properly the subject of Federal legislation, that a long step in reduction of food prices will have been effected, with the successful operation of the department recommended.

I wish to take this opportunity of personally and on behalf of the State, thanking the individual members of the commission for the sacrifice and labor they have expended, without recompense, in considering this problem and in compiling this very comprehensive and practical report.

Mr. Richards moved that usual number of copies of the Governor's message be printed and the report be received and filed, Which was agreed to.

The following message was received from the Governor, by the hands of Mr. Croasdale, his Secretary, which was read as follows:

To the Legislature:

STATE OF NEw Jersey,
EXECUTIVE Department,

TRENTON, January 8th, 1918.

Pursuant to the provisions of Joint Resolution No. 4, Laws of 1917, I am herewith transmitting the report of the Commission to Investigate Institutions under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Charities and Corrections other than Penal and Correctional.

This commission has held numerous meetings with the Prison Inquiry Commission, and as a result of these conferences a bill will be introduced in the Legislature carrying out the recommendations in the two reports.

The members of this commission have given liberally of their personal time, and, in some cases, personal funds, to the end that a report based on a most careful study of the entire situation be presented for legislative consideration, and I commend the report and its 1ecommendations to your favorable approval. Respectfully,

[SEAL.]

Attest:

FRANCIS E. CROASDALE,

WALTER E. EDGE,

Secretary to the Governor.

Governor.

Mr. Richards moved that the usual number of copies of the Governor's message be printed, and that the report be received and filed.

Which was agreed to.

Mr. Richards offered the following resolution, which was read:

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Assembly concurring), That no further bills or joint resolutions (excepting the usual appropriation bills and bills submitted by special investigating committees) be offered in either house of the Legislature after the legislative week commencing Monday, January 28th, 1918, unless by the unanimous consent of the members of the body wherein such bills or joint resolutions are proposed for introduction.

And adopted by the following vote:

In the affirmative were

Messrs. Ackerson, Allen, Barber, Case, Conrad, Fithian, Florance, Haines, Hammond, Mackay, Martens, McCran (President), McGlennon, Munson, Mutchler, Pilgrim, Richards, Runyon, Stevens, Sturgess, Wells-21.

In the negative—None.

Mr. Richards offered the following resolution, which was read:

WHEREAS, The Legislature of 1917 provided, in Chapter 277, Pamphlet Laws of 1917, in item 91, as follows:

"For indexing the Journal of the Senate and Minutes of the Executive Sessions, and the Minutes of the House of Assembly, and other incidental and contingent expenses of the Legislature, twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($12,500.00)"; and,

WHEREAS, Chapter 158, Pamphlet Laws of 1914, requires that a requisition officer be appointed, and the acts regulating receipts and disbursements require the designation of approving officers for the payment of the necessary expenses of all divisions of the government;

Resolved (the House of Assembly concurring), That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Assembly be designated as requisition officers for the Legislature; and be it further

Resolved, That all statements of expenses of the Legislature be referred to the Committee on Incidental Expenses of the Senate and House of Assembly, respectively, and when approved by said committee, said approval shall be indicated by the signature of the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Incidental Expenses, for expenses of the Senate, and by the Chairman of the House Committee on Incidental Expenses, for expenses of the House of Assembly, together with the signature of the Secretary of the Senate, or the Clerk of the House of Assembly, respectively, and said bills, when approved, shall be forwarded to the Comptroller of the Treasury for payment.

And adopted by the following vote:

In the affirmative were

Messrs. Allen, Case, Conrad, Fithian, Florance, Haines, Hammond, Mackay, Martens, McCran (President), Munson, Mutchler, Pilgrim, Richards, Runyon, Sturgess, Wells -17.

In the negative-None.