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who cannot spe X the English language.
the object being, of course, to get the labor
OF parents and children at nominal price
and to bring both into competition with
our own citizens.
The annual report Of State Superin-
tendent of Savings Bank and Secretary of
State Kelsey, shows that on January 1895
the assets of all savings banks to be s29.-
l6S,SO7, and the liabilities except the sur-
plus $27, GAO, 800. leaving surplus over all.
liabilities of 81, 1893, 494.
VIII some one tell us what Democrat
can possibly gain by introducing a bun
combe political resolution into Repblican
Assembly; or vice versa? The fellow in
the minority got the worst of it 50 invaria.-
ably from time immemorial that he ought
to know how it is by this time.
The Paterson "Guardian" SAYS that If
New Jersey can't get Cabinet position
she will be satisfied with the appointments
OF Tom Terrell as Commissioner of Aor;
culture And, when You come TO think II
no man in the State has stronger claims Ia.
consideration by the new Administration
than the workingman member Of Com
gress.
Mr.. Kelly's bill, designed to nur;fv
primary elections, has been reported ad
versly and he allowed it to be inde6nitalv
postponed for two reasons: First becarss.
there was question whether the act proZ
posed to be amended is constitutional onS
8 econdly, because he detected the nower-
full hand of certain politicians whose abiI
ity to kill the measure could not he ove-,
come at present.
Lawyer Sam" Morrow, who died in
Newark the other day, narrowly escaned
being State Treasurer few years ago. The
House stood forty Republicans to forty-one
Democrats. One of the forty-one was
Kreuger, of Newark Morrow had been his
| counsel and he was very anxious to vote
for hirn and elect him. The Democrats bad
to wrestle with him for many DAYS before
they could get him straight and preserve
their majority.
The Railway Democrnt says that mem
bers of the New Jersey deleg, ton in Con-
gress, tits stated, have decided to urge upon
President Cleveland the appointment of
General George B. Mcclellan as Minister
to France to succeed Hon. LeviP. Morton.
The suggestion, it is alleged, came from
French officials of high rauk, who served
on General McClellan's staff in the Army
fthe Potomac during the Peninsular cam
paign of 1862.
Editor Mott of the Trenton Times, saws
the Vest Jersey Press, is being berated by
some of the brethren of the press for hay-
ing accepted committee clerkship which
pays only $780, Last year, it is said. q
denounced such an appointment as being
one not essential to the public service.
But the editor has married since, and NAV
have undergone change of mind as to
what was and what is right and proper in
thesmatter of clerkships.
Senator Carpenter, in the Clinton
Democrat, says that "twenty-eight of the
"a Democratic members of the Legislature
have united in a petition to President
Cleveland expressing the sentiments of the
New Jersey Democracy in favor of having
our State represented in his Cabinet in the
person of Attorney General John P.
Stockton. The other members (6) all ex-
pressed themselves as warmly favorable to
the movement, but thought it improper
that they should even seem to advise the
new President by an expression of their
wishes.
The Bergen County Democrat dresses
down the much absent Democratic Senator
from that county to the extent of saying
| that his s'absence from his seat during the
entire week has occasioned very great
deal of dissatisfaction among his colleagues
at Trenton. There are important meas
ures there which are delayed in ecnse-
quenoe of his protracted absence. As the
case stands, our county, thus far, has been
almost absolutely unrepresented In the
Senate, and we are suffering from this I'M
toward dereliction."
The annual report of the State Super
intendent of Public Instruction states as
the amount of money appropriated by the
State for the support of public schools 81,
496, 988; the township school tax, $685.
960.05; surplus revenue, $32, 551. 81; dis
trict and city tax for teachers salaries,
1925, 1862; district and city tax for build
ing and repairing school houses, 1924
845.l4; total amount for all school pur-
poses, So, Alb, $3.50. The value of school
property is s6,969, SO7; the number of
school districts, 1857; the number Of
school houses, 1886; the number of pri-
vate schools having rs pupils or morey
218; the number of teachers Male, S37,
female, 1850; average salary per month
paid to male teachers, $61. So, and to fe-
male teachers, $3.50; cost of education
per pupil, based on total school census,
Sc. 46; and the number of children the
school houses will seat, 193,603.
Private Secretary E. o. Chamberlain.
wanted to leave Trenton for Toms River
by the o'clock train last Monday morn
ing. He directed the porter to call him at
seven o'clock. The porter forgot himself
and failed to rap at Chamberlains door till
o'clock Chamberlain assumed however
that he had been called on time. and when
he looked at his watch to see how much