The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-12-27
WHo THE CANDIDATES ARE.
Probabilities ms to Who Will Preside Over
the Business of the Next Legislature.

the Business of the Next Legislature.
TRENTON, Dec. 10. Three weeks from
next Tuesday and the wheels of the one
hundred and tenth session of the New
Jersey Legislature will have been set in
motion. A lively session is anticipated by
great many people, owing to the fight
which it is generally supposed will be
made by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
to secure the passage of a bill authorizing
| the construction of bridge across the
Kill Won Kull to Staten Island, thus afford
| ing an entry for that road into the metrop-
oils. On the other hand it is claimed that
there will be no fight worth mentioning. In
a conversation with a well known New
| York broker, a resident of your city, the
other day, was informed that people may
not be surprised to see an arrangement
consummated between the Baltimore and
Ohio and Reading people whereby the for
mer would in the near future land its pas
sengers in New York over the New Jersey
Central, and that the freight would be car
ried from Bay Way across the Sound on
floats to Staten Island, thence by rail to
the end of the island, and from there on
floats to New York. In. order to do this,
SO this gentleman told me, the Baltimore
and Ohio people would be willing to guar
antee big interest, not only on the
Centrals bonds, but on the COM
mon stock as well. If this be true
of course all chances of a fight in the State
| Legislature will have vanished. The great
est interest manifested in this city now
is over the Senate Presidency and House
Speakership. The former position prob
ably no man in the body could more cred
itably and with greater dignity fill than
MIR. Griggs, the Senator from Passaic. He
certainly is as brainy man as can be
found in the body, and were it not for his
bitter antagonism to almost everything anti
Griggs, he would no doubt stand first
chance. Senator Nichols is making a strong
fight for the honor, however, and no one
need be surprised if his great personal
popularity does not carry him through to a
realization of his ambition.
The candidates for Speaker are Mr.. Cor
bin, of Union Mr.. Parker, of Essex Mr..
Gangewer, of Burlington and the present
Speaker, Mr.. Armstrong, of Camden. The
brightest of these gentlemen is Mr. Corbin,
and it is no hattery to say that he would
give greater satisfaction to the people
throughout the State than any other man
who could be named, as he would give
CdbOA u15h41J W 1nO POoioAOA bAn1 any
Speaker the House has had for many
years. Mr.. Corbin, at the same time, is
the most likely of all the candidates. In
fact, the contest lies practically between
himself and Armstrong. Parker is vir-
tually out of the race. Gangewer
has really never been in it, although
in some mysterious way his name
has been mentioned 1t seems quite
apparent to me from all I can
gather that Armstrong will find it hard to
gather around him this year the same forces
which combined TO put him in the chair
last year, and without all of them he can
not succeed. Mr.. Corbin, therefore, seems
to be the most formidable as well as the
fittest of all the candidates named.
Toombs will no doubt capture the clerk
ship of the House, as party usage entities
him to. The same may be said of Mr..
Potts for Reading Clerk. The candi-
dates for Secretary of the Senate are Rich
ard B. Reading, of Hunterdon; Joseph L.
Hume, of Burlington, and Howard Nc
Sherry, of Middlesex. While the chances
are in favor of Mr.. Reading, Mr.. Hume is
making strong fight for the place. If Mr.
Hume fails in his fight for the secretary
ship, he does not expect anything at the
hands of this Legislature, as the post he
has held for several years-Journal Clerk
has already been pledged to another. E.
o. Chamberlin will doubtless be appointed
Reading Clerk, and Mr.. MeMurray En-
crossing Clerk. BUD.