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Mr. Richards offered in nomination the following officers and moved their election to their respective positions:

Assistant Secretary of the Senate-William F. Groves, of the county of Union.

President's Secretary-John Pomfret, Jr., of the county of Passaic.

Chaplain-Rev. Edward G. Read, of the county of Union. Supervisor of Bills Robert M. Johnston, of the county of Atlantic.

Assistant Supervisor of Bills-William H. Bibgood, of the county of Morris.

Second Assistant Supervisor of Bills-Howard F. Woolston, of the county of Somerset.

Journal Clerk-William S. Stiles, of the county of Salem. Assistant Journal Clerk-Franklin S. Walker, of the county of Camden.

Second Assistant Journal Clerk-Charles H. Lincoln, of the county of Gloucester.

Calendar Clerk-George W. Hurlburt, of the county of Ocean. Bill Clerk-John Z. Demarest, of the county of Bergen.

Assistant Bill Clerk-Thomas S. Mooney, of the county of Burlington.

Sergeant-at-Arms-J. Albert Harris, of the county of Cape

May.

Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms-Frank Chew, of the county of Cumberland.

Secretary to Committee on Appropriations-Owen W. Kite, of the county of Mercer.

Clerk to Committee on Printed Bills-Frank Chiaravalli, of the county of Somerset.

Clerk to Committee on Appropriations-William H. Heisler, Jr., of the county of Burlington.

Clerk to Committee on Stationery and Incidentals-William M. Wright, of the county of Mercer.

Committee Clerks-George E. Kaegi and David Stegman, of the county of Essex; Orin E. Payne, of the county of Ocean; Lorenzo Carey, of the county of Gloucester.

Stenographers-Alfred H. Sapp, of the county of Cape May: John Thaler, of the county of Mercer; William Sauerhoff, of the county of Camden.

Doorkeepers-William A. Kinney, of the county of Morris: Herman Davis, of the county of Cumberland: Ernest Van Iderstine, of the county of Essex; Samuel Kleinfeld, of the county of Salem; Albert E. Bullock, of the county of Passaic.

Gallery Keepers-Samuel Reynolds, of the county of Ocean; George Hauck, of the county of Bergen; John Barnes, of the county of Mercer.

File Clerks-William O. Oliver, of the county of Bergen; Frank DeLuca, of the county of Cumberland; John May, of the county of Morris; Herbert D. Sloate, of the county of Passaic.

Pages Edred Hibbs, of the county of Camden; Raymond Schroeder, of the county of Essex; C. Leslie Hudson and Andrew Sella, of the county of Mercer.

The officers nominated by Mr. Richards were then elected 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, Richards, Runyon, Stevens, Sturgess, Wells-20.

In the negative-None.

Senator-elect Pilgrim having arrived, on motion of Mr. Richards the oath of office was administered by Senator Munson. Mr. Richards offered the following resolution, which was read and adopted:

Resolved, That unless otherwise ordered, the daily sessions of the Senate shall begin at eleven o'clock in the forenoon and at half-past two o'clock in the afternoon.

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

Resolved, That the number of copies of the Legislative Manuals apportioned by law to the State Senate be distributed on the same basis as at the session of 1917.

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

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be and he is hereby directed to furnish each member, clerical officer and reporter one copy of Members' Pocket Calendar of Legislature of 1918.

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

Resolved, That 1,000 copies of each bill, joint resolution and concurrent resolution, daily memorandums and gummed synopsis sheets be printed for the use of the Senate.

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

Resolved, That the Committee on Stationery and Incidental Expenses be authorized to procure bill files and the necessary stationery and supplies for the use of the members and officers of the Senate.

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

Resolved, That the President of the Senate is hereby directed to instruct the State Printer to mail to each member of the Senate, at his residence and business address, at least one copy of each bill and resolution, both Senate and House, as soon as the same is printed.

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

Resolved, That the Sergeant-at-Arms be instructed to report daily to the Secretary the absence without leave of any of the officers and attaches of the Senate; the complete report of such absentees and the time lost to be furnished to the Committe on Appropriations at the closing of the session, and that a pro rata reduction be made by such committee, and a copy of their report be furnished to the Comptroller.

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

Resolved, That 800 copies of the Weekly Senate Journal be printed, and the State Printer be directed to mail copies to each member of the Senate and House and to the clerical officers of each body.

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

Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of New Jersey (the House of Assembly concurring), That the State Printer be directed to furnish to the State Library, as soon as printed, for the use of the Legislative Department of said State Library, and for exchange of said State Library with the State Libraries and Legislative Reference Libraries of other States, twenty copies each of all bills and joint concurrent resolutions introduced in the Senate and House of Assembly, as well as printed committee substitutes; also forty copies of each weekly installment of the Journal of the Senate and Minutes of the House of Assembly, and forty copies each of the gummed slips containing synopses of Senate and Assembly bills introduced.

Mr. Richards offered the following resolution, which was read: Resolved, That the rules of the last session of the Senate, as

printed in the Legislative Manual for 1917, pages 647 to 657, inclusive, be and the same are adopted hereby for the government of the present session,

With the following amendment, page 22, new paragraph 71: No standing rule or order of the Senate shall be suspended unless by the consent of a majority of the Senators elected, nor rescinded or amended but by the same number, and one day's notice shall be given of the motion for rescission or amendment. Adopted by the following vote:

In the affirmative were:

Messrs. Allen, Case, Conrad, Fithian, Haines, Hammond, Mackay, McCran (President), Mutchler, Pilgrim, Richards, Runyon, Stevens, Sturgess-15.

In the negative were—

Messrs. Ackerson, Barber, Florance, Martens, McGlennon, Munson-6.

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

GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.

GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATURE:

You are about to write final chapters of the story of how Our State Government was made an active partner with industrial, commercial and human energy in the development of New Jersey's wonderful natural resources. It will be a vitally interesting story. It will record the task of bringing a State Government, a vague thing as usually viewed, nearer to the people. Not the operation of an experimental laboratory of democracy, but simple adherence to the old compound of ordinary business principles will be the general theme. The story will picture government, not as frequently portrayed, a deterrent to individual initiative and enterprise, but as a helpful agency of coöperation. Its pages will show government operating in concert with accepted business customs of directness, dispatch, economy and efficiency, rather than in accord with partisan habits of lost motion, procrastination, extravagance and mismanagement. You will feel a sense of pride as factors primarily responsible for a rearrangement of public affairs which will have enabled the State household fully to measure up to

the limitless opportunities of New Jersey, thoroughy to mine the rich ore of its undeveloped assets, smoothly to coöperate with the Federal Government in that greater national growth. and position to which New Jersey is entitled by the importance of its geographical situation and its commercial advantages among the States of the Union.

FUTURE POSSIBILITIES OF PRESENT WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT.

It is essential to get the proper atmosphere in order to keep the objectives of a business form of State Government ever before us. Therefore, I ask your indulgence while I defer for a moment reference to immediate legislative needs and digress to the possibilities of the future New Jersey, to the entirely plausible results in years to come of progressive steps already undertaken or in process of incubation. For instance, the crea tion of the New York-New Jersey Port and Harbor Development Commission, constituting the first step in the National partnership in big things of New York and New Jersey.

To-day this body is serving the Federal Government, along with Cabinet officers and other executives, as the War Board of the Port of New York. Already the Federal War Department is spending millions on the acquisition and reclamation of thousands of practically idle acres on the Raritan River and Newark Bay so that they may be transformed into gigantic port terminals calculated, eventually, of course, to expand New Jersey commercially and industrially at the same time as such projects relieve congestion at the Port of New York, the National institution, and supply a very positive war-time need. Does not this reveal the splendid opportunity of capitalizing our waterfront assets, not merely as a war expediency, but under all conditions?

FACILITIES NEED OF THE HOUR.

With necessary Federal coöperation, cultivation can be given to New Jersey's commercial and industrial soil that will produce a harvest of benefit to the whole country. Opportunity in the past found us sleeping at the switch. We are obliged to ask housewives and business men and shopkeepers to save at

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