Modern battles of Trenton .. . nking and Insurance Commis-sioner was created, withsearching functions. AState Tax Board was in-vested with such ransack-ing powers that no tax-payer in the State couldescape its scrutiny. TheState Board of Assessors,which made up the taxhills for the railroads, wasput under the heel of theChief Magistrate. Thecontrol of the StateLunatic Asylums wastaken out of the hands ofthose in charge and givento a new board of his appointment. The State Riparian Boardwere forbidden to make a lease of land without his expressapproval. The management of the State Prison, of th
Modern battles of Trenton .. . nking and Insurance Commis-sioner was created, withsearching functions. AState Tax Board was in-vested with such ransack-ing powers that no tax-payer in the State couldescape its scrutiny. TheState Board of Assessors,which made up the taxhills for the railroads, wasput under the heel of theChief Magistrate. Thecontrol of the StateLunatic Asylums wastaken out of the hands ofthose in charge and givento a new board of his appointment. The State Riparian Boardwere forbidden to make a lease of land without his expressapproval. The management of the State Prison, of the Nor-mal School, of the Boys Reform School, at Jamesburg; of theGirls Industrial School, at Trenton; of the Soldiers Home,the deaf and dumb retreats—of everything—was in his keep-ing. He was even authorized to draw money from the Statetreasury for any public purpose that commended itself to hisjudgment. The battery, with stones and missiles, of the big Clark threadfactories in East Newark, by an enormous mob of locked-out. J-tergeu. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 361 strikers, next furnished tiim with a convenient pretext formaking himself the master of even the local police forces every-where. There was no agency of repression in times of tumultexcept the militia, and to set the soldiery upon the citizens wasonly to inflame them to greater excesses. They could be muchmore smoothly and easily over-awed by the police, to the sightof whose blue coats and brass buttons as an emblem of author-ity the people had become accustomed. It was wise, therefore,so the more than plausible argument ran, that the Chief Magis-trate should have the police of the cities and towns subject tohis immediate orders in times of tumult. The bill creating aState Chief of Police, who upon the order of the Governorcould draft a posse from the police forces anywhere in the State,was the outcome of it. It encountered the opposition in theAssembly of Assemblyman John R. Hardin, John Neider ofEssex, Mitchell
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