The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-02-01

considered as an endorsement Of his course
IN the Senate, and is heartily appreciated
BY his many friends. Senotor Nichols IN the
Bridgeton Pioneer.
The House took no action on Senate
20, supplement to last winters tax law
allowing the railroads to pay quarterly in
stead of annually, as not enough members
were present to pass it. 1t will be called
up the first thing tomorrow night.
1t is said that State Treasurer Toffey
proposes to remove Janitor Brown. It Will
be wise and popular move on his part.
The State House has never had less ac-
ceptable or less efficient Janitor than the
man who now Yields the keys there.
Why was the fake confession of
Charlie Wainwright, one of the defendants
IN the Toms River murder case, pub.
lished in the Trenton Times Because it
was clipped bodily from the Philadelrhi
Ne.oS. The Illness "specials" should be
read with good deal of suspicion.
Isn't the expert appointed by the city
OF Trenton to examine its accounts the
same expert who mis-read the Newark tax
books SO as to falsely charge certain
Mayor of Newark, on the eve of his re-slect-
ion, with tax delinquency, for which the
aforesaid expert was obliged to make pub
lie apology and amends the next day?
Out of the 1856 patients who have been
treated in the Trenton Insane Asylum
since its foundation 1893 died, 694 men
and 500 women. There were discharged
recovered 2,231, improved 1850, unim-
proved 241. escaped 20. Not insane Is,
removed to other institutions 363, thus
making total loss Of 5, 693 patients e, 7S2
men and 2,9l1 women.
So the bill that enables railroads to
pay their taxes quarterly is only cover
for clause that makes the State surrender
her right to take their property at cost, in
return for their surrender of their irrepeal-
able contracts. The State doesn't want to
make any terms with the railroads at the
sacrifice of any rights she now enjoys.
1t seems that ex-senator Vail is finding
out how it is himself in matters of libel.
He is said to have procured an Indictment
against some of his Railway neighhors for
hbeling him. The next thing will be to
convict them. Mr.. Vail appears to think
that the story told about him had much to
do with his defeat. We doubt it. There
were other causes for his defeat.-Plain-
field Times, Rep.
Some observers remark that the Re-
publican upset in organizing the Senate
was provoked by too much ring rule among.
the Republican managers In our Legisla--
ture. The Republican party has been.
! ''bossed" too much for its good by self-ap-
pointed leaders, and if the Sehenck deal is
the result of revolt from such methods it is
t not the deplorable thing sometimes repre-
sented. Plaiafeld Times, Rep.
Among the bills introduced Monday by
Mr.. Kelly, of Hudson, were the following:
An act requiring Registers and County
Clerks to index mortgages; an act author
king the Board of Chosen Freeholders Of
the several counties of the State to desig-
nate what shall be the legal book for the
! indexing of mortgages, deeds, wills and
other instruments of writing required by
law to be recorded.
An amendment to an act entitled Gan
act to regulate the holding of and to pre-
vent frauds in the primary elections of the
several political parties in the cities of the
State of New Jersey" The object of the
! amendment is to extend the act of 1884 SO.
that it will affect the election of members
or officers to the County Committee of
either party. Two of the above bills have
been reported favorably by the Committee
to whom they were referred, and ordered
to a second reading
E -Assemblyman Dickinson, Chairman of
2 the House Committee on Municipal Corpo-
s rations, agreed to give the Citizens Char,
ter a hearing in the Assembly Chamber
on Tuesday evening next. Subsequently
the Assembly loaned its chamber to the
Agricultural Society for that evening. Mr..
Dickinson has since succeeded in securing
the use of the Senate Chamber for Tuesday
, evening, and the hearing Will take place
, there.
There is good deal of equity in Mr..
O'Connor's bill combining mortgage to.
, the proceeds of the sale of mortgaged
!. premises for reimbursement. The argu-
ment that such bill would make mortgage.
security less valuable and therefore less
sought after by moneyed men can be urged
against it; but then it is beyond question
that the man who advances money on a
mortgage trusts the mortgaged property
and not the mortgage maker TO reimburse
HIM.
Private Secretary Fisk gave delight
full little supper at the State Street House
Tuesday evening to the newspaper cores
pondents. Among those in attendance
werc ed" Ellis, sWill' Hunt, E. o. Cham
berlain, 'Larry" Mott, Harry Benson.
"Bin" Potter, ''Sam" Semple, ''Tom" Fitz-
gerald, Charley Levy, Clarence and William
E. Sackett, and many other equally accom-
plished journalists. We didn't notice how
modest this paragraph is till we had writ
ten it. As it is needed for filing wen
have to let it slide.
i The other evening the customary reso-
luton for the appointment of a committee
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