The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-29

PtaAialhe ntary lmpoSslb1llty.
Speaker Armstrong nearly broke his
neck trying to get on railroad train the
other day. So far as railroads are con-
cerned, Speaker Armstrong is brave even
to rashness.- Ne,oark Ne,os.
The appropriation allowed to the Ex-
ecutive Department is very insignificant as
compared with the Comptroller's and
Treasury Departments. But then Won
know the Executive is a Democrat.
"A member, under the rules, either is
OF is not entitled to vote upon question
put while he is outside the bar of the
House; but we know Of a young fellow
who seems to think it's just as he SAYS.
Ex-senator James T. Wiley has been
appointed postmaster at Elizabeth, N. J.
Mr. Wiley was last year appointed by Gov
ernor Albeit one of the Commissioners
under the bill for the relief of Elizabeth.
-Ex-Congressman George A. Halsey, is
said to have instigated the Morris Plains
Asylum political bill. Mr.. Halsey has been
permitted by many Democratic adminlstra-
tons to be one of the Asylum managers.
MIR. Gangewer gave his fellow Assem-
blymen neat slip by leaping from cloak
room window Wednesday night, and wasn't
found at the Pennsylvania Railroad depot
when House messenger hunted for him
there
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sey City.
If Speaker Armstrong has ruled once
that man outside the bar of the House
has no right to vote he has ruled SO forty
times. He only went back on himself when
it became necessary to accomplish par
tisan purpose.
Al Hoffman was in Trenton, Thursday.
He has been South. He says the New
Orleans Exposition is signal failure They
have no cotton exhibition at all. and this is
what everybody looks for. Al speaks well
of New Jerseys exhibit.
When Mrs. Meeley's extra 5000 allow
ance was reached in the Incidental Bill on
Wednesday night one member, whom the
very talkative janitress had evidently for
gotten, rose to question of privilege and
asked ''Where's my boquet?"
Speaker Armstrong seems to think
he owns the Assembly, but an elderly
editor once wrote of another not so ad-
vanced in years: s'He 5 young yet. and
can sit at his desk and sweep the cobwebs
from the ceiling with his ears
1t is sail that Ex-Governor Price, the
suave old veteran of former generation,
has attained large degree of favor at
Washington, and that any patronage doled
out to Bergen county will be subject to his
approval. Hdceensace Republican,
-Quartermaster General Perrine, since
the fire, has made his headquarters in the
Executive reception room. He has beau
tiful pine board table desk which is said to
have cost as much as one dollar and seven
teen cents But the General is happy all
the same.
The Rio Grande Sugar Company, Cape
May County, die thriving business last
year Up to December last, the State had
paid for the twelve months ending with
December, S3,S76 on sugar cane grown and
manufactured into sugar. amounting to
So, 75S, 9.-Bridgton Pioneer
-Apropos of pending bill appro-
priating money for monuments at the
burial places of New Jersey soldiers on the
field at Gettysburg, it is stated that New
Jersey is the only State in the Union that
has not yet honored her dead heroes buried
there with this mark of recognition.
Item % IN the Incidental Bill is for
services rendered a Committee of the
House, as was certified to by the Chairman
of the Committee, Ex-Speaker Captain
Stoney, who signed the bill which was APP
proved by the Committee of which DIR.
North is Chairman, and every fair minded
memger should vote for its payment
The Staten Island bridge scheme, it APP
pears, is merely ga feeler," something to
pave the way for an actual earnest at
tempt to pass the measure next year. This
gives the State timely warning, and it will
be advisable to make opposition to the
scheme an important qualification with
every candidate. -Ne,oart Advertiser
Mr. Dickinson's Assessors bill, which
passed the Assembly Friday, allows the ap-
pointment in all cities of three assessors
by the Mayor, who shall devote their time
regularly to the work for which they are
appointed. There is provision, however,
that the law shall go into effect in no city
till it has been voted on by the people,
1t is said that Senator Dreamer, of
Ocean county, contemplates introducing
bill providing that when the Prosecutor of
a county needs the service of the Attorney
General in a case and the Attorney-Gen-
eral cannot respond owing to other duties,
he shall detail substitute whose fee shall
be paid by the State, The act will prob
ably be made to apply, also, to the recent
Ocean county case
-Suppose-in discussing the question
whether the designations of Assemblymen
Chapman and Carson make it possible to
pass bill with thirty votes in the Assem-
bly-suppose the forty orth Jersey mem