The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-04-05

says; "The bureau has nothing left but the
salaries of the officials, but drawing these
Is really the most important part of its
work
The Legislature has passed number
OF the most clearly unconstitutional bills
this session evidently in the happy belief
that they could readily be passed over the
Governors veto.
The ridiculous report that Governor
ALBEIT had decided to appoint Senator
ochen'k, Judge of the Middlesex County
Pleas, was on eyerybody's tongue in the
State House Thursday afternoon.
-K.rkner says he is confident that the
action of the Legislature in stripping the
Governor of his power of appointment will
react against his party. Personally he
esteems the Governor very highly.
| Senator Smith thinks that his boasted
expenditure of $4,000 in Burlington
County for his own election ought to make
him Governor of that county; but Governor
Albeit doesn't seem to agree with him.
1t is hardly safe to sell ''oIeo" now. as
under the new law, just approved by Gov
ernor Albeit, there is fine of 5000 for the
making or selling of imitation butter, and
one-half of the sum goes to the informer.
The last time ex-Assemblyman Edward
Parker Curtis Lewis, brother.in-law or
something else of the late George Washing
ton, sought an Office was when he ran for
Freebooter in Hoboken and got all of 400
votes.
Some one must have been hit between
the eyes by the Hattie Arnold story in last
Sundays TATTLEB. The papers intended
for tie members were stolen before they
could be served. as usual, at the members's
desks.
Sees bill making grace on promisory
notes expiring on Sunday payable on Mon
day instead OF Saturday, would, if it had
been adopted, have put New Jersey out of
line with the rest of the world on that
question.
Secretary Van Cleef, of the State AS
SCISSORS, has heavy and delicate job on
hand. 1t is the preparation of the returns
on the part of the State to the thirty-six
! certioraries the railroads have taken out
against the tax act.
1t is hard to conceive how some of the
Republicans had the cheek to seek the
Governors advice and aid in drawing some
of their bills, when it is considered how
mercilessly those same men have pursued
him all through the session.
-Assemblyman Parker's history was a
little misty the other evening when, in dis
: cussing the State House question, he re-
marked that Trenton was made the Capitol
in 1890, because she was equally distant
from the British troops in New York and
Philadelphia.
:, old Ezra Miller, of Bergen, has been
missed from the deliberations of the SEN
ate this session, but all the same lie was
elected for something else than to stay in
Trenton just long enough to sign his war
rant and draw his pay. He should be re-
placed next Winter if he can't do better
than he has done tor the past two years.
What could haSakbeen the standard
of Democracy in the Republican Joint eau
Gus that selected the Democratic candidate
for the partisan" boards the other
day. Itsan elegant display of non-partis-
anship when the Republican Joint Caucus
picks out the representatives of the DEM
: oeracy on the State Board. Somehow or
other they seem to have overlooked ''Tom-
my" Flynn as very available" sort of a
Democrat for their purpose.
Benny Vail was knocked out of the
Normal School appointment which the
Caucus had selected him for. The New
ark Advertiser says that there was already
l a Union County member of the Board, in
. ex-Chancellor Williamson, and that Mr..
Coombs acceptably fills the place. 1t may
said, however, that it was Mr. Schenck,
/ who is said not to be friendly to Mr.. Vail,
who discovered these facts and who deem
ed them so important that he threatened
to bolt the joint meeting if Mr., Coombs
was not retained.