The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-03-07
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What is Said Akoss men and Thihks

Ihe t0Wn eiestions all over the State
take place on Tuesday hekt.s
The ship canal scheme beats all the
bridge and anttbridge schemes in getting
through the Legislature.
Governor Ludlow as in Trenton last
week, 1t is said for the first time since he
was the States Executive.
1T seems to us that that sorghum mill
IN Salem County has had about as much of
the State money as it deserves.
VIII the Bergen Assemblymen relieve
the anxiety of the Englewood Times by
MASKING known which of them has had
twins
! ,-Ex-Senator Miller, of Cape May, came
away from Washington with the conviction
that, nationally at least, Democracy is the
deadest kind of failure.
-Wolverton wants to know if the Penn
sylvania Railroad is not as much foreign
corporation as the Baltimore and Ohio.
Echo answers, "Why, cert
WING is it that doesn't know the differ
ence between a glass inkstand, and a
marble gavel block? Hill
Why, of course.
The discussion pro and con on the
amendment offered by Senator Young
blood to Griggs' newspaper bill last Mon
day was so lengthy that it made Senator
Brinkerhoff tired
The Trenton Times has begun its illus
trations little too late 1t should have
commenced by illustrating some of the
enabling text of its testimony published
during the Schafer trial
=" The Big N" was the taking title of a
handsome little brochure which was distri-
buted on Members desks last week. 1t
proved to be the short hand reports of the
arguments for the Staten Island bridge.
The Hoboken Council and the Hobo
ken Board of Education are engaged in a
row as to which of them shall be permitted
to waste the State school money appor-
toned to that beer drinking community.
The Report Weekly is authority for
the statement that Rufe Blodgett's removal
from Ocean County to Long Branch was at
the instance of Staff Little, who hopes to
make him next Senator from Monmouth.
The Republican Joint Caucus enforces
its g non-partisan" legislation by selecting
Republican Stimets to masquerade in the
noH-partisan State Board of Education as q
DEMOCRATIC successor to Judge Randolph.
-Underhill wants to give the j. P.'s con-
current Jurisdiction with the District Courts
in landlord and tenant cases. The motto
of the Legislature should be to give the
]. P.'s concurrent jurisdiction over nothing
"A new charter for Jersey City gets into
the House by way of Hoboken. and the
Hon. Terry Mcdonald was not the channel
either. The special function of the Hobo
ken end Of him is to beat Paid Fire Depart.
ment bills
The ''Belle- Mead" butter fellow get:
at the Trenton House is from United
States Senator McPherson's farm. Peter
Katzenbach says it is not a Democrat,
scheme to corrupt good Republican stom.
achs, either.
-Ex Senator Beekman, Staff LittIe's
shadow in the State Senate before white.
faced Applegate's time, and one of the
hardest drinkers during his term in either
branch of the Legislature, has bloomed out
as temperance orator.
/ -Assemblyman Pintard s oleomargarine
committee went to Newark the other day
to take testimony. The first native he
scooped II his net was prominent Repub-
lican Alderman of that city who was forced
to confess that he had sod oleomargarine
steadily.
The Argus, in one editorial paragraph
solemnty admonishes the Legislature to gel
down to work, and in the next makes 6
wild shrek for the legislative extinction OF
the sparrows. DIR. Gosson seems to have
an exalted notion Of the functions of the
New Jersey Legislature.
Chief Justice Beasley is becoming
known as the champion upsetter of legisla
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the health laws are such tumble and med
ley of verbiage that they are imperative
and advises new legislation at once on the
whole subject. Many of them he says are
unconstitutional.
Upon the respectable newspaper ed
itors of the State Griggs' indecent publica-
ton bill cannot possibly reflect, and it is
good in that it prevents the publication OF
obscene and lewd matter. All the same
the newspaper men cannot but admire the
bold stand taken in their behalf by Sena.
tor Youngblood.
Tom Noonan got off two very large
words in his argument in favor of the pas.
sage of the bill providing for extra pay fol
election clerks last Monday. A member
jumped to his feet and moved that the
words be taken down. Speaker Armstrong
said that the words had not reached the
clerks desk yet, and then they all laughed.
When Tom Noonan had finished his
argument on Wolverton's motion to recon-
NIT the substitute to the Chase i'll, Gour-
ley rose to point of order, and humor-
ously stated that Lord Beaeonsfeld's
remark of Minister Gladstone would apply
very forcibly to the gentleman from Hud-
son. He was "iutoxicated with the exu-
berance of bis own verbosity."
The opposition to the Staten Island
bridge is not peculiarly Hudson County
growth. Last week rousing meeting in
Elizabeth opposed it, and the same night
the citizens of South Amboy declared against
IT, These meetings were both moved
by local considerations. They say it will
destroy the commerce of waters in which
the business men of both are interested.
-Assemblyman Lawrence is a daisy. He
had not voted at all on the motion to
recommlt the substitute for Chases rail-
road bill in fact, he seemed dazed when
his name was called. Alcott stood behind
him all.the same, and, when his name was
called, said, "The gentleman votes no. :"
Mr.. Beckwith saw the whole thing. and
manfully spoke up that it was a disgrace
AVA WIG ASOoO W 0AAOW bQOA tulnRS W D6
done.
Justice Stahl has been frequently
spoken of as the possible candidate for the
United States Marshalship. At any rate
he was down to the White House last week.
and had an interview with President Cleve-
land, too. He came away with the gentle
mans autograph not only that, but he
got Rose Cleveland's autograph INTO the
bargain. 1t has been suggested that in
order to get rid of him Grover introduced
him to Rose and told her to give the gen
tleman her autograph.
Gator says he didn't cry bit at the
meeting of the Committee of One Hun
bred. Newbold had growled because Gator
had consented to the expunging of the
clause directing the Court to build the
bridge at Washington street if the Board
of Works didn't. 81 found 1 could get
votes for the bill without that clause" he
says, that / could not capture with it
and when Newbold aspersed my motives
in consenting to its elimination from the
bill, defended myself with some warmth,
and that's the whole of that storyi"
When the Hon. Terry Mcdonald as
sured his Hoboken constituents that if
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