The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-08

| democrat.
Page Jones, who is assigned TO the
clerk s room, is said to be one of the great
est Washers that has ever been in the
mouse. He stands in the door and watches
the ladies gallery. But somehow the girls
do not fancy him because he is from Glou-
cester County.
PRESIDENT Schenck will, It is said, dis
appoint the hope that he would prevent
tne passage of retaliatory or offensive politi-
cal legislation in the Senate. He is quoted
as sure to vots for the bill abolishing tn
Dlrector-at-Large and for the bills cutting
OH Governor Abbett's appointing powers.
If that charcoal district Sergeant-at-
Arms OF the House were worta powder
enough to blow him-up, the stranger who
surprised the Republican caucus. when
theyhad Governor Albeit under discussion
the other day, would never have been
allowed to hide himself in the House gal
lery.
Ii Cranmer, of Ocean, had got through
ms resolution permitting Senator Miller to
sing 'Ma ma where's my pa?" for the
benefit of the Senators, Inauguration Day,
the Cpae May democrat would have had the
"Hal ha! hal" on Cranmer and his fellow
Republicans of the Senate at the end of the
song.
Senator Griggs, of Passaic, and Assem-
blyman Dickinson, of this city, both made
strong efforts to prevent the Joint Caucus
from Juggling the Judiciary into politics.
They struggled hard to defeat the accept
ance by the Caucus of the bill vesting the
selection Of District Court Judges in Joint
Meeting, but it was not effectual.
On behalf of that non partisan machine
known as tine Joint Caucus, Assemblyman
Dickinson has presented bills diyesting the
Governor of the power of appointing Pilot
and Lunatic Asylum Commissioners. The
bills are supplementary to the other bills
taking the appointment OF District Court
Judges and other officials out of the hands
of the Governor and giving them all to the
Joint Meeting
Senate No. 28-Mr. Moons mysterious
railroad scheme-still slumbers in the Com
mittee. A substitute may be reported con-
lining the proposed street vacation to
Washington street, and making the vacation
possible, not by contract as Senate % pro-
posed. but by resolution or ordinance, which
can be repealed. The railroads think that
such bill may be special and therefore
unconstitutional.
Mr.. Barker has introduced a tenn
perance bill designed to take the place of
tie defeated prohibition amendment reso-
luton, which provides that the legal voters
of any township, town, borough or city
may determine the question of license or
no license by voting for and against it at
the municipal elections. Every city, under
the bill, can put into practice its own ideas
concerning prohibition, with full powers to
enforce them.
On Monday evening, February 23d the
Jewett Association was formed at the Am
erican House, Trenton, with the following
| officers Horny M. Jewett, president
John W. Simmons, Vice President Frank
H. Huber, Secretary Wilson Banks,
Treasurer. The Association gave its first
moonlight excursion to Albany, N. T., on
Thursday the 26th inst. Their first an
nual picnic will be given on the 4th of
July ut Ridgeway Park, Philadelphia.
-Flynn's abortion bill, which was passed
in the House Tuesday afternoon over the
Governors veto, was designed to affect the
case of young Paterson man who has fed
pending sentence for the offence of advis-
ing malpractice and who refuses to return
unless the court is allowed some discretion
as to the punishment to be inflicted. Under
the law as it stands now the court can not
give him less than two years Imprisonment
in the States prison. The idea of a fu-
gitiVe from Jersey Justice shaping the
course of Jersey legislation has the merit
of novelty, if it hasn't any other
The Windsor Hotel in Trenton is a
gorgeous temperance house that has been
generally patronized by the goody-goody
boys of the Legislature this year. Piety
does not seem to be excraciatingly remuner-
alive at any time, and Mr.. Woodbury. Holt,
the manager of the hotel, is beset by fnan-
cial endorsements. The Eother evening
General Rushing, who had endorsed for him
and refused to endorse for renewal, made
bitter attack upon him at the meeting of
Hollis creditors, but Mr.. Holt managed to
keep his 'holt" on the managership. all the
same Only the wicked places like ''Peters''
and Billy Early's can be made to G.
'Perhaps the smallest piece of work.
says Senator Carpenter in the Clinton
Democrat, (which New Jersey Legisla-
ture was ever put to was that of this week,
Wednesday, in 'reconsidering' tbs election
of two Commissioners of Deeds in this
county. They had been elected on recon-
mendations from their neighborhoods, but
after being elected were found to be
Democrats, and forthwith the Senate and
Assembly of our free and independent
State were called into majestic Joint con-
clave to undo their own solemn work of
the week before. Who will now say that
the Grand Old Party has not come down
to its day of small things2 The party
which can see political advantage in taking
acknowledgements of deeds at q little COR
ner of the State will of course beg hard be-
fore it gives up even the crossroads most