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TRENTON GOSSIP.


,0r.
The Trenton Times seems to be on the
wane.
Fish, Of Essex, is the young blood of
The Senate.
Speaker Armstrong is quite parlia-
mentiarian.
1t is regretted on all sides that Armit-
age is no more.
We knew the Democrats would get
something out of it
Mr.. Corbin has introduceda bill to abol-
ish capital punishment.
Last Monday was the greatest legisla-
tive Monday on record.
State Treasurer Toffey is the handsome
est man in the State House.
ED" Ellis is the boxing editor among
the Trenton correspondents.
Senator Gardner is one of the solid
members of that august body.
Alex Jacobus's pleasant features are
lHucn MISSED Dy Ola members.
Governor Albeit is often at his Office
as early as $50 in the morning.
Congressman Lehlbach was in the
Assembly Chamber on Tuesday.
The Legislature will, in all probability,
return by the middle of March.
Everybody seems happy over the reap
pointment of Comptroller Anderson.
The American House can compete
with any hotel in Trenton this Winter.
Senator Doughty is still seeming the
Commissionership of the Sinking Fund.
Chapman is the only Democrat from
Hudson returned to the Assembly this year.
The Democrats are jnbilant over Presi-
dent Schenck' appointment of Committees.
The shortest session of the Senate was
on Tuesday last It lasted just ten min.
utes.
This years Assembly, in general ap-
pearance, discounts the Assembly of last
year.
'Sam" Toombs has put up the price of
his paper since he got to be Clerk of the
Assembly.
William A. Ure, of the Newark Sunday
Call, is a frequent visitor at the Executive
Department.
Hires and whitehead Appellate are as
little missed by the Senators as if they had
never been with them.
The Paterson Press is quite right; Mr..
Griggs can afford to wait, seeing that he
can't do anything else.
Denny Mclaughlin and Jimmie Clarke
graced the lobby of the House with then
familiar forms last week.
Does the re-introduction of the Wash.
ington street bridge bill mean that the rail-
road love feast is at an end2
Senator Brinkerhoff's legal skill finds
recognition in his appointment to place
on the Judiciary Committee.
-s.Lou" Gosson and Cleary have swap
ped places on the True american and Tren-
ton Times SINCE last Winter.
1t is said that Frambach changed DUR
ing the night before the caucus from Jen-
kins to Armstrong for Speaker.
-Cul. Barcalow says the happiest man
in the State to-day is Enos w. Runyon, the
Engrossing Clerk Of the House.
Senator Carpenter calls the disappoint-
ed Griggs scribblers ''the cheap little
lobbyman of railroad pass reporters"
John D. Harrington's daughter was in
Trenton on Tuesday looking after her
fathers pardon. It wouldn't work.
Willard Fisk is the most systematic of
Private Secretaries, and is well liked by all
visitors at the Executive Department.
How do the s'Citizens" like 'sSammy ,
Dickinson for Chairman of the Municipals
Corporations Committee in the House?
Larry Motifs Democracy doesn't stand
in the way of his securing $500 clerkship
from Republican Assembly Committee
The present session of the Legislature
will in all probability be enlivened by a
gubernatorial reception at the State House
Dickinson is the one Hudson member
that secures an important House Chairman
ship. 1t pays to be with the winning man.
The twenty ninth annual meeting Of
the New Jersey Editorial Association was
held in the American House last Monday.
President E. F. G. Young, of the First
National Bank, visited the new State Treas
urer and Governor Albeit one evening last
week.
The unanimous selection of Colonel
Toffey for the State Treasurership was
pretty compliment to his worth and in
tegrity.
-Ex-Assemblyman Blodgett says that
President Schenck's committees are all
made up in the interest of the Pennsylva-
mia Road.
Senator Livingston, of Union, is de-
cided improvement in every respect over
his predecessor That isn't saying
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The Judiciary Committee of the Sem
ate, to whom all of Governor Abbett's APP
points are referred, is composed of two
Democrats and one Republican.