The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-06-06

Governor Albeit returned to the Morris
and Essex Railroad deficiency question, on
the reassembling of the Legislature the
other day, with vigor that enforced action
upon the bill to bring that company to
terms. Having. in his annual message read
at the opening of the Legislature, shown
reasonable ground for the suspicion that
the railroad had, by making false returns
as to the salue Of its taxable property to
the State, cheated the Treasury of the Com
monwealth out of about $50, 900 annually
for the last twenty years-a round million
in all-he proceeded to show in his Special
Message OF Tuesday last, that even on their
own figures they had not paid all they
should that for two years they had paid
no tax on their tunnel property on the
plea that it was unavailable, and that in
these little items alone the Company had
cheated the State out OF over SEC, 900. The
Legislature could not stand mp against
demand for q simple enquiry into the facts,
and 30 passed the act authorizing the At
torney General TO make it. If as result
of Governor Abbett's comneAdabie persis-
tence in this matter, the State Treasury is
enriched by over million dollars Of ar.
rearages, he will have added to his already
achieved reputation of being Governor
who accomplished practicable results.
The point blank refusal of the Republi-
can legislative joint caucus to consent to
the'local option law, or to high license, or
to anything else that will please the tem-
perance sentiment of the Sta e, shows how
utterly specious and fimsy the pretence Of
Republican sympathy with the temperance
movement is They were not asked to
commit themselves to prohibition, nor
sven to local option, but only to
some aggressive movement against the
saloon element, and they positively
refused. That rather administers the
coup dc-grdcc to the Republican temperance
movement, and the managers of that
hood-winking scheme viii find it inpossi-
bic to wean Prohibitionist anywhere from
the orohiRiHQa nQYement The Prohibi.
ton party is going to make mighty big
haul out Of the Republican ranks this Fall.
The effect win not be noticeable alone in
the gubernatoriai ngnt. The Prohibition-
lists viii turn and rsnd the party in the AS
ssmbly Districts, about which Republican
managers are especially solicitous, and DE-
cisive Democratic majority on ie.ns bailos
viii be the izssltabls outcome Of Ii.
The material tor the foolish sensation the
canine experiments was bxoueht 70 this
ofice ;ust tour months aee. > We declined I'd
' sse X. 81 Ne ground that. ss phyaiosans
ara known u BE- III ths lime experimans;no.
sor soiant,6o information. v;sh docs ana
oats and rats and mice. and whatever a,aa
thev can net hold Of for tha puynosa. ths,a
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.ssion - 81. rrrrs,r. ccr,t .s..,ns 80.
ia Tax Act had bean rendered ins,staa
that C,evrnor Ahhsts Ma n-ars,.a ~.
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sustaining the bill, that "after careful
review Of ell the facts, il is sonvinced that
Benator Griegs prepared il. The Sdte Ga
settes absurd partianship frequently makes
it laughing stock wherever 1t Is seen.