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TRENTON GOSSIP.
WAT is Said About Men and Things nj
the State Capital.

the 9th, if then
DIR. Bodine is by far the ablest of the
Sinking Fund Commissioners,
They say Armstrong is very good
Speaker-for the Reput licans.
The wise ones say that the Legislature
won't adjourn finally before April list.
-Ex-sheriff, now State prison keeper,
Lavertys son, James, is now in New Or
leans.
"A fellow can't but admire the partisan
ingenuity of those scheming Republicans
anyhow
Lager beer and the poor man seem to
be the sum total Of Holzworth's states
manship.
-Rx-Judge Ludlow McCarter was bob
bling around the legislative halls last Mon
day night.
1t looks at though Senator Brinker-
hoff's opposition has defeated Chattle's lit
tie water bill.
Hicks bridge bill is to be used as
handicap for Senate No. % in its trot
through the House.
Lawyer Carmichael, one of Rockwell's
the Toms River murderer's-c counsel, was
in Trenton last Tuesday.
Business of Importance took Senator
Brinkerhof out of Trenton in great haste
last Wednesday afternoon.
May be the fur wont fly when Cover
nor Albeit gets down to vetoing the Iegis-
lation restricting his powers |!
The latest conspicuous Republican
arrival in Trenton is Elson K. Rockwell,
the murderer of sJim" wainwright.
The Hon. Hiram Y. Smith, Member of
Congress from Iowa, and lady, visited the
legislative Chambers Monday evening.
If Senator Griggs isn't careful ssTom-
my" Flynn will knock him ont of the Re-
publican nomination for Senator next Fall.
The law against self murder ought in
charity to be enforced against the Republi-
can majority in the two Houses of the Leg
islature.
-"Shoofy" Herring iuttered his gor-
geous necktie in eloquent debate on the
Newark police bill in the Senate last We'd
nesday.
Assistant Secretary MacCrellish, of the
Senate, has the softest snap of any legisla-
tive attachee, and draws next to the high
est salary.
If we were as big as Senator Nichols
we wouldn't run from anybody, either.
We'd just stand our ground and-get
knocked OUT
Assistant Engrossing Clerk ''Scott"
Snyder, of the Senate, looks the exact
counterpart of 'tAllie" English, behind his
smoked glasses.
Senator E. Miller was here long enough
to draw his salary this winter. He has
actually been in Trenton tloo days during
the present session.
Every additional State document pre-
pared by State Comptroller Anderson is
fresh proof of the fact that he is one of
New Jerseys brainiest men.
1t is said that certain member of the
Legislature, from distant county, is better
acquainted with e'certain localities" in
Trenton than the Oldest residents.
-Harrigans bouquet was SO massive
that Jewett offered a resolution requesting
the Speaker to instruct the Sergeant-at-
Arms to provide a made-to-order vase for it.
-Kirkner, of Union, has been Just the
least bit cranF.ed this week But the boys
will pardon him when they know that he
was caught short on Lackawanna ten days
ago.
The Joint Caucus seems to have over
looked its biggest card. Why doesn't it
abolish the Governor? or, better yet, the
Democratic majority that made him Cover
nor2
1t certainly was not admiration for
Haines's, the dominic Assemblyman's
beauty that brought him the handsome
bouquet placed on his desk last Monday
night.
To abolish the Directorate Large with
one bill and then to pass an act curtaihng
his powers, is like killing bird and then
clipping its wings to keep it from flying
away.
On Monday, the 9th inst, Bill Clerk
Huber, Of the Senate. was presented with
handsome scarf pin anu pair of cuff but
tons by the pages, the occasion being his
birthday.
We met ssRube" the other day, and in
reply to the question, 'swhy were you re-
moved" he said: dunno boss. Reckon
dey thought was a candidate for Mr.. APP
gar's place"
The dissipation of young Mercer Beas-
ley is stigma on the escutcheon of the
family whose name he bears. He should
be removed from the Prosecutorship of
Mercer County.
Tommy" Flynn should husband his
strength with the Republican majority of
the House. Harrigan, with his One Free
holder bill, put it to the test the other day
and took bad fall out of him.
"A conductor on the Trenton branch of
the Philadelphia q Reading Railroad only
came to the door of one of the cars last
Mondsy afternoon. He had no buliness in
the car; everybody in it had pass
Wills, Of Morris, made his pretty
daughter in the House gallery blush the
other day every time he pointed his finger