COMMITTEE ON THE EXECUTIVE, MILITIA AND CIVIL OFFICERS RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
STATE OF NEW JERSEY CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1947
COMMITTEE ON THE EXECUTIVE, MILITIA AND CIVIL OFFICERS
Wednesday, June 25, 1947
(Morning session)
(The session began at 11:00 A. M.)
PRESENT: Barus, Eggers, Farley, Feller, Hansen, Miller, S., Jr., Smith, J. S., Van Alstyne, Walton.
Chairman David Van Alstyne, Jr., presided.
CHAIRMAN DAVID VAN ALSTYNE, JR.: We have a quorum.
Governor Moore, we thank you very much for coming to appear before this Committee and giving us your point of view with regard to the Executive Section of the Constitution. What we have done with some of the previous Governors has been to ask them to speak to us first and then, with their permission, we have asked them some questions. If that is agreeable to you, sir, will you take the floor?
FORMER GOVERNOR A. HARRY MOORE: Do I stand, or is it informal?
CHAIRMAN: Informal.
GOVERNOR MOORE: Ladies and gentlemen:
I have prepared some notes on thoughts which have occurred to me as possibly being of some value to your Committee. They refer to the subject of constitutional revision of the Executive Department of the State Government. I shall read them, since your Chairman says this is going to be recorded for posterity, and perhaps it would be just as well if they were part of the record. I shall try to confine myself to them. (Reading):
Having been honored by the people of this great State by election to serve as their Governor three times, I feel that I am perhaps qualified to extend to the Convention the benefits of my experience.
It would, of course, be impossible in the necessarily limited scope of these remarks to cover the entire subject of constitutional revision of the Executive Department, but I hope that I can convey to you the absolutely imperative necessity that certain specific changes in the present organization of the Governor’s status and powers be made by this Convention, if the business of the State of New Jersey is to be administered hereafter with efficiency, dispatch, a maximum
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