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TRENTON GOSSIP.
Whas is Said About Men and Things at
the State Capital.

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last in point of intelligence.
-Ex-Clerk Henry D. Winton returned
from New Orleans last Tuesday.
What in the world will Charcoal Dist
riot Colfax do with gold-headed cane2
The Governor vetoed only eight bills
last week, and yet he's not at all rufied.
ALI the Hudson membersvoted in favor
Of making Newark the Capitol of the State.
General Barney spread himself at the
New Orleans Exhibition on New Jersey
Day.
Senator Vanderbilt has no very marked
love for the new Riparian Commissioner,
either.
1t must be pretty near time for Cover
nor Albeit to issue his Arbor Day procla-
nation.
The Senate certainly had no compunct-
ion in sitting on Sammy Dickinson's Asses
sors bill.
-Prevades may be very good word,
Mr.. Speaker, but its bad grammar, all
the same.
We know why Eddie Fox don't want
the Capitol removed from Trenton, don't
we Eadie2
Yes, no doubt Speaker Armstrong told
the truth when he said he was abont to re-
tire to private life
Senator Smith did not gain anything
by voting against Miles Rosss nomination
in Executive session.
-Ex-Judge William I. Hoffman figures
as attorney for the State in some of the
railroad certiorari cases.
-Ex-Congressman II. S. Harris and son
of Chief Justice Beasley have formed a law
partnership at Belvidere.
And what's this latest scheme that pro-
proses to throw $4,000 year more into
Secretary Kelsey's Golfers?
Governor Abbett's veto of the District
Court bill must have been bitter morse
AO4 eAC OOAAb 41OCIt1R 14oAQ6.
-Schenck and Griggs both retire from
the Senate this year-and it's mighty big
pity that Youngblood is going out too.
I'VE have been told that Mr.. Murray il
a very comical genius; but we were neye
convinced of the fact until last Monda,
night.
Last Sunday "a convicts in Statei
prison at Trenton received the Sacrament
of Confirmation and joined the Catholic
Church.
The Republican Joint Meeting violated
the party's traditions refusing to max,
General Ramsey Supervisor of the State
Prison.
The luscious Senator from Essex il
altogether too previous. We wonder doe
he consider himself a judge of wha
'swork" is.
-O'Connor's amendment to Chapman's
educational bill worked like charm. Il
certainly knocked Jewett's motion to recall
in the head.
Whatever the political outlook of the
Senate may be next session the appoint
ment of Frank Huber as Bill Clerk would
be wise one.
What fools these mortals be The only
effect the District Court bill can have will
be to prevent tie removal of Judge J. Frank
Fort, of Newark.
-NotIa single opponent of Senate bill
No. 28 was present to protest against itt
approval at the time fixed for its hearing
before the Governor.
AT least three of the gentlemen named
by the Joint Caucus to take care of tn,
young ladies at the State Normal Schoo
travel on their shape.
Didn't Speaker Armstrong have ar
object in excusing the absent members
when Murphy's Capitol bill was up last
Wednesday morning?
Senator Youngblood's vituperative
language of Eddie Fox, in his speech
against item No. So of the Incidental bill,
was very contemplate.
Tommy Flynn didn't do it, even il
Sacketts item was stricken from the Incl.
dental bill. The ventilation of Con. Dono.
vans item was what killed it.
Was there ever anything more absurd
than the enthusiasm the Essex members
threw into the impossible task of moving
the State Capitol to Newark.
Charley Hendrickson, whom the Gov
ernor renominated for Prosecutor of the
Pleas of Burlington County, has been
Prosecutor for Is years there.
Charles t. Cowsnhoven the new law
Judge of Middlesex County had already
been on the bench there, and was, one
term, Prosecutor of the Pleas.
The gentleman whom the Joint Caucus
supplanted in the State Board of Educa-
ton with Col. Charles w. Fuller, is DR.. G.
K. Imbrie-who is himself Republican.
AT the Doctors request Governor Alb
bett on Wednesday recalled from the Sen
ate the name of DR.. Bodine for reappoint-
ment as Commissioner of the Sinking Fund
The lawyer, Griggs, who sought the
s., 200 Prosecutorship of Burlington County
under the auspices of Senator Smith, was
the House Engrosser's assistant last Win
ter.
-TommyFlynn shows wonderful shrewd-
ness in picking out the ''fat takes, as the
printers Say. Do you believe, he wanted to