The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-01-25


doubtful if there is a man in the county or
State who has more extended or accurate
knowledge of the value of real estate andof
matters pertaining thereto"
Larry Mott doesn't probably think
that Clerk tor the Committee on Judiciary
and Revision of the Laws is such horri-
bic outrage upon the taxpayers as he used
to.
The Camden Posi- ikens Trenton as
compared to that city to "simpIy pretty
little country village" We can not but
admire the sublime assurance of the Cam
den Post.
Clerk Van Cleef, of the State Board Of
Assessors, is up to his eyes in figures. He
is preparing the tables that are to de corate
the forthcoming report of the Board to the
Legislature.
-Ex-Assemblyman Camniade is not to
be told to stop smoking in the Assembly
Chamber while there is no session. with
lmpunity. even by the biggest man in that
onyention-Armstrong.
How little bad feeling is stirred up BY
political contest is shown by the fact that
John Mullins, whom Colonel Toffey defeat
ed for Sheriff, is on the Colonel's Official
bond as State Treasurer.
The first act passed this session was
House bill No. 70, appropriating $4,000
to defray the expense of the New Jersey
Commission to the New Orleans Exposition.
The vote was 46 too.
Who's the man that dared to call our
erudite Assemblyman Chapman a wind
bag2 Possibly some newspaper fellow who
hasn't the mental subtlety to grasp Mr..
Chapman's finished logic.
Parker, the new member from Essex.
was very prolific in his debate last Tuesday.
on the question of the powers of commit
tees; but he can't teach our Chapman any
thing about parliamentary usages.
Afraid that the Governor may be par
tisan in filling State offices, the Republic
cans propose to entrust the duty to that
highly impartial and bipartisan machine
commonly known as the Joint Caucus,
Among the Senators, Mr.. Brinkerhoff
is on the COMMITTEES on Judiciary, Riparian.
Rights, of which he is Chairman. and a
member of the Senate Joint Committees on
Federal Relations and Deaf and Dumb
Asylum.
The Morris Jerseyman can find excuses
for President Schenck but none for Mr..
Youngblood. 1t seems to us that the rea-
sons that justify Mr.. Schenck also justifes
Mr.. Youngblood. But then the Morris
Jerseynadn is prejudiced.
The State Gazette advises Chairman tn
shut up his mouth. 'sHe talks too mu< b
with that part of his anatomy" observes
the editor. Pray, Brother Cloke, what
part of his anatomy would you have the
honored member from Hudson talk with
The only orthodox part of his anatomy for
him to talk with is his mouth.
1t is not for the glory or for the gelt
that's in it that Howard McSherry has con-
sented to become President Schencks Pri-
vate Secretary. It is the acquaintance
with the run of affairs in New Jersey that
: the place will bring him that he was after.
McSherry has level head.
-Assemblyman Corbin distinguished
himself by insisting that the House minutes
shall be printed from day to day. The
clerks say that it will be physical impos-
sibility to live up to the rule unless the
clerical force is largely increased. But the
idea is good one, even if it does seem to
be impracticable,
On many of the House Committees the
Democrats are represented by minority
of one. The rule has heretofore been that
the minority should be represented by two
in committee of five. The Newark Jour
nal charges that Mr.. Armstrong had his
political bile stirred up by the preference
shown to some capable Democratic Sena-
tors by President Schenck.
Senator Carpenter, who nominated
President Schenck at the organization of
the Senate, has this to say about the mat
bOA IL LIS PsiPOA1 bAc OlLAbOu D6DtOCFULs
The machine managers did their work; picked
our their for the Ito them all important place;
but two Republican Senators chose to decline being
machine-managed; and the Democrats of the SEN
ae in the interest of the State as against the selfish
designs Of the managers stood by them to q man.
upset the machine quickly that the managers
couldn't make any sort of shift to save It. All they
could do was to sweat and swear about it when the
catastrophe was over but they have kept that up
ever since and will good while yet for it will be
years before they their machine solidly right
side-up again. Placed in the chair as he is, indie.
pendent Of any party's or any corporations con-
| troll, he can. and we believe he will, stand as q
sturdy guardian Of the interests Of the State as
against improper partisan legislation or that which
favors corporate powers at the expense Of the
people.
State Treasurer Toffey, by descent
comes into possession of the historical five
500 bills with which some one-no one
knows who, of course-tried to bride
Assemblyman Shinn, three years ago,
in the interest of the Water Front
Grab Bill They are five orphans; no
one owns them. Shinn wasn't allowed
to have them, though he yearned after
them, because henever legally owned them,
and the very mysterious individual who
sent them has never dared to claim them
for fear Fof giving himself away. At the
same time the State has no title to them.
| and the ouerrv is what shall he dome with