The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-08
TRENTON GOSSIP.
What is Said About Men ard Things at
the STATE CAPITAL

IN Jersey City last week.
The Senate sat down heavily on the
five per cent. movement.
Tom Flynn is a side partner of ex-
Sergeant-at-Arms Con Donovan.
Things looked blue around the Ex-
ecutive Chamber last Monday night.
-Assemblyman Carson has assumed
charge of the postoffice at New Brunswick.
The G. O. P. looked awful glum
around the Legislative Halls last Wednes-
day.
-Harrigan ran his one Freebooter bill
through the House pretty Sticky the other
day
Senator Miller, Of Cape May, is a can
didate for Collector of United States Reve-
nues.
-Sargeant-at-Arms Tablatt, of the House
of Assembly of New York, is royal enter
tainer.
-And now Billy Fielder is working him
self up as candidate for Postmaster of
Newark.
Z We think its the Home Nesos that drove
Editor Babcock out of the New Brunswick
postofice.
+ That was high old debate Tuesday
between Flynn and Harrigan over Cover
nor Abbett's veto.
-Assemblyman O'Connor finds that
Plank Road Company pretty tough Gus
toner to tackle.
-Assemblyman Besson, of Hoboken, is
good legislator. He has conscientious
regard for his constituency.
The pretentious Masonic Temple be-
ing put up on State street is sadly wanting
in architectural grace and beauty.
The Constitutional Convention bill
may squeeze through the House, but won t
the Senate eyerlastingly crush it?
The State Board of Education will
elect a successor to State School Superin-
tendent Apgar on Thursday of next week.
x-Congressmen Cutler and Fielder
are candidates for appointment by Presi-
dent Cleveland as Commissioners of Agri-
culture.
-Assemblyman Carson, who has just
been made Postmaster of New Brunswick,
is said to aspire to the Middlesex State Sen
-Assemblyman Chapman would make
a good State Superintendent of Public In
struction, His appointment would be a
wise one.
The biennial session bill hobs to the
surface again with the usual accompani-
ment of figures showing the economy of
the scheme.
Senator Sewell has had his brotAer-in-
law. Edward NJ Heyl, appointed an as
sistant insp ector general of the army, with
the rank of Major.
Mr.. George D. Scudder mas been ap-
pointed as acting Prosecutor Of the Pleas
by the Mercer Court, to act for the bal
ance of the present term.
"A mighty big opposition has been
against the passage of House No.
273-Mr. Corbin's Labor and Charity con-
solidated bureau scheme.
The members have returned from the
inauguration of q President to engage in
the broils attending the election of Consta-
bles in their respective townships.
The Bordentown Register says that it
is definitely known that the Jersey City
Abattoir bill has met with obstacles in the
Assembly that will insure its defeat.
The little clique of 'sCitizens" who
want to run things in their own interest in
this city, are damning Assemblyman Dick
inson, but his Republican friends stand
warmly by him.
The fact that Assemblyman Corbin
voted against the City Charter has elected
comment among those who know
that Assemblyman Corbin is the
law partner of Mayor Collins.
@ Patriarch Wildrick's latest claim to dis
tinction is that he grew to be eightY-two
years old the other day. And the Assembly
gave him bran new clock to tell off the
days of his life with.
If President Schenck is mug wump
or an ex-mug wump he didn't show it in
his rulings the other day when he perempt-
orily sat down on the Inauguration day
resolutions as being out of order.
-AssemblymanC Carson s withdrawal from
the House to become Postmaster of New
Brunswick will not decrease the Republi-
can majority in the Assembly. Flynn, the
keen-witted member from Passaic, will step
into his shoes.
Clarke Mills, an assistant in the bill
room II the Assembly, visited the Morris
town Asylum on Friday last and did not
return until Tuesday. Weatherbee, the
bill clerk, thought the authorities of the
asylum had mistaken him for patient.
-Assemblyman Heck was the only Re-
publican who voted for the "Citizens"
Charter. The other votes for it were cast
BY Assemblymen Kelly, Clarke, Besson,
Chapman, Harrigan, Hughes, Larson,
Eohn Martin, O'Connor, Wade and Winton.
"A man named Hendrickson, in South
Jersey, has just come into possession of
'ver 81, 900 back pension-and, we have it
IN the authority of Adjutant General Stry-
Ier that another of JERSEYS Soldiers re-