The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-15

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asked; Il hope you will excuse my bold
ness, sir, but are you anybody in particu-
iarY just what the Colonel's reply was
IS not known, but we guarantee that he
was bewildered.
Within the last few weeks nearly every
Senator has been presented with a button
hole bouquet purporting to have com
from lady," We have often wondered
what "ATrs. Meeley,' docs with the extra
$500 she gets ia the incidental bill. We
know now.
dust think of it Four OF the Joint
Caucuss partisan bills put through the
House In single night Hasn't the Demo-
cratic minority of the House got single
parilmentarian who knows what chstruct-
ION and tillibuster mean?
The Democratic minorities of the two
houses oEght to fight it out on that line if
1t takes all Summer; and ii we were tho
minorityin either House the Summer would
be over before the infamy of the Joint eau
~ NOACuluuldtSu.
-Assemblyman Bell, of Newark. thinks
that an investigation would develop a most
shameful condition of affairs in the James
burg Reform School. He believes it to be
reeking in rottonness under its present
management, and that it should be inves-
tigated.
The fellows can laugh as much as the
please at Harrigan's bou iuet. He carried
handsome bouquet home with him We'd
neSday night It was done up in the On
Freshelder bill that he clinched by defeat
ing motion to reconsider the vote that
had passed it.
Colonel Moore was detailed to look
after the baggage of the Governors party
on their trip to Washington. He now
thinks seriously of resigning his commits
sion as Colonel and applying to the Penn
sylvania Roilroad COM any for a position
as baggage smasher.
1t looks as though Erred" Fish were
trying to steal Harrigan's non-partisan fire
and police thunder. The bill the Essex
Senator introduced at the close of the Sem
ates session last Wednesday is the exact
counterpart of the one that Mr.. Harriean
is progressing in the House.
The Office of County Auditor. which
the new tax bills propose TO create is a
responsible one. He is the superintendent
of all the Assessors in the County and the
adjuster and equalizer of taxes. His nav
in this county would be $4,000, which is
the largest salary the act allows.
Our Republican legislators will prob
ably open their eyes next Fall when the
discover how many of their constituents
denounce their course in seeking to strip
the Executive of the power which if not
vested in him by the Constitution has res
ed in him from time immemorial.
AS it looks now, the last year of Cover
nor Abbett's incumbency of the highest
office within the gift of the people of tn
State will be relieved of the many petit
annoyances to which the present Leqisla-
ture has subjected him. An overwhelming
Democratic majority in the next Legislature
is predicted.
By all means let Assemblyman Sees
bill making o Communication ticket writ of
right that no common carrier can refuse
to issue to any one offering to paw the
price for it become a law. There isn't a
more contemplate concern in the Sta
than that whose action has provoked thi
piece of legislation
Judge Dixon and the other commission
ers named in Mr.. Corbins bill to ascertain
what steps are necessary to enable the
State to purchase the property of the rail-
roads at first cost, with view of wipin o
out the irrepealable exemptions, are not in
the bill as presented to the Governor.
now empowers the Attorney General to
make tne enquiry.
= Tommy Flynn regards it as q great
triumph that after he had gone to all tn g
trouble to pass his abortion bill through
the House and Senate, and to have it
vetoed, and then to pass 1t in the House
over the veto, and set up the pins to over
ride the veto inIthe Senate, too, that the SEN
ate refused to pass it over the veto, because
the law is already upon the Statute books.
and Tommy Flynn didn't know it.
1t was Ex-Governor Bedle that, in his
capacity as counsel for the Morris & Essex
Railroad, made the point that Corbin's bill
for the repeal of the companY's charter was
special act needing publication of notice
under the constitution; and it was ex-Goy-
ernor Bedle who recommended the COM
mittee to call upon Attorney General
Stockton for his opinion; and it was Attor-
ney General Stockton who didn't agree
with Ex-Governor Bedle.
There seems to be no earthly necessity
for the voluminous bill prepared by the
special joint Committee on Taxation for
the assessment and collection of taxes on
miscellaneous property other than railroad
and canal property. The miscellaneous
corporation tax act of last Winter is work
ing splendidly, and as the present bill be-
fore the Legislature would conflict with
and embarrass the operation of last VIM
ter's law it should be promptly sat upon.
"A pretty good story is told of General
Bird W. Spencer, of the Governors staff.
while in Washington on Inauguration day.
The General, who was one of group, was
calmly smoking a cigar and talking, on
Pennsylvania avenue, when up stepped
miserable specimen of q Southern darkie.