The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-01-31

AAtt4NA V&A NV&A1rs
What is said About Men and Thlngs
At the state Capital.
Tt is Senator Gardner who fires bills
at the Secretary's desk ssfor the President I"
"A. Maud Willis is the only pupil from
the city attending the State Normal School.
The Paterson Press is urging the
making of Paterson City into county by
itself.
Trenton had better postpone her moral
eonvnlsion till the Legislature has gone
home.
Titus is large man but he catches
cold easily, because he's "little bare
headed"
Senator Brinkerhof has introduced a
bill under which the Cartaret Club propose
to organize.
-BiII-clerk Frank Huber is the only
Senateoficer who was elected by unan-
imous vote.
We wonder If the House viii make a
aTerry" bile example of the member from
the Second district.
-Hudspeth has achieved the reputation
among the members of being an unusually
bright Assemblyman.
Speaker Armstrong signs for TIE official
and social companionship Of ex-Assembly-
man Sam Dickinson.
The TArrLER has no hesitation in pro-
nouncing Assemblyman Pintard the hand
soonest man in the House.
The final vote on the Staten Island
bridge was not fair test of the strength
of the anti-bridge sentiment.
-Underhill still calls it bis deestrict. "
But he is an intelligent legislator notwith-
standing the provincialism.
in the Joint Committee on building
and grounds, Parker is the only one in
favor Of the removal Of the Capitol to New
ark.
The Legislature seems to be sound
/ over the bridge question 1t has passed
the act for the bridging of-Rancoeas
Greek.
-"Quits shows pretty clearly that the
memorial to Congress was not permitted to
stand in the way of the Staten Island bridge
itself.
Col. Charles W. Fuller will probably
act as counsel for Downes & Winch, the
prison contractors, in their fight against
the State.
Secretary John T. Van Cleefs report
from the State Board of Assessors is 9
model that other State officers might profit
ably follow.
President Griggs was absent from the
Senate on Wednesday to act as counsel fol-
the defendant in Patersons sensational
shooting case.
Some of the Assemblymen have found
another name for it. They call it patriot
ISM The men of former years gave it tn,
undignifed title of Doodle.
Gen. T. A. Carman, formerly Comp.
troller of this city, but afterwards Cnie
Clerk in the Agricultural Bureau at Wash
ington, is living in Trenton.
i Assemolyman Pearson is earning tn,
credit of being the straightest man in the
House. There are a good many scrupu
lous members in both Houses.
| Terry Mcdonald will know all about i
before tomorrow evenings session. TIL
Election Committee will take final actor
on his case tomorrow afternoon.
Bennett of Ocean, one of the scribe
of the Assembly, is Beginning to think nov
that his old friend Rockwell killed his othe
old friend Wainwright at Toms River.
We know what we say when we declar
that Senator Brinkerhoff is not candidat
for denomination, and could not be induce,
to accept it il it were rendered to him.
-Assemblyman Noonan's bill puttiny
railroad and individual taxation OH tn
same basis strikes the nail on the head
That's equal taxation that Is equal taxation
Senator McPherson's "Ponderosity O
Particularly and Tommy Noonan's Scr
cumstantial Rami6cations stand side b.
side as gems of New Jersey political htera
ture.
Assessor DolIard of Hoboken want
the Legislature to reward his effort to re
elect himself by passing bill giving hin
three years of the place, instead of one 81
now.
Barker Gummere is now engaged, OF
behalf of the State, in trying to knock GU
the only provision of the Railroad Tax Ae
that he was retained by the Railroads t.
draw
| -Chase's bill forbidding the construc
ton of bridges over navigable waters with
out the approval of the plans by the Legis
lature is said to be on the statute books
already.
If Assemblyman Parker has improved
the ventilation of the Assembly Chamber
his inverted smoke stack hanging from tn
centre of the sky-light has certainly spoiled
its beauty.
1t was funny, wasn't it to hear Court
landt Parker-dyed-in-th Republi
can as he is making aplea for State Right
before the House Riparian Committee tn,
other evening.
What The cent a mile railroad far,
scheme in its little bed so early in the ses
sion How will members manage TO pa,
their hotel bills if this kind of thing is tx
go on unrebuked?
Senator Livingston. with beer-drinkiRy
Elizabeth in one part of his district ant
holy Plainfeld in the other, is sorely per
picked to know what stand to take on tn,
temp erance question.
Who's the unfortunate Attorney Min
turn is trying to knock out of the Hoboke1
City attorneyship with his bill providing
that none but a counselor-at law can bs
City Attorney there2
Brown, the Chief Of the State House
Scrub Brigade, and Widow Meeley arr
having a lively time of it. But the widow
is getting on the soft side of the members
with true widowly tact
Assemblyman Dayton has not ye
offered bill legisIating himself with his
Assessorship for ten years. He is in favol
of such Ten-year of Office Act, but ht
hasn't the cheek to offer it.
The Senator from Hudson can safely
stand against the Staten Island bridge, be
cause here is the natural railroad terminus
of the State. But how in heavens name
are the other Senators to get there?
Fits Manual shows that Hudson
County has had 14S Assemblymen and Il
Senators, all told. OF the Senators, one i:
Governor, another was United States Sen
ator, and third Chancellor of the State.
Nothing could be more childish thar
these brushes between Senators that tht
papers are so careful to parade before
their readers. It is seldom that a single
fash of wit distinguishes such an encoun
ter.
The report of the Lunatic Asylum Com
missioner to the Governor is the shortest
yet. 1t is only fourteen lines long But
then the twaddling report of the State
Board of Vital Statistics will make NJ
for it,
-AssemblyIn an Peloubet made gallan
charge upon the bill taxing personal prop
erty where found, one day last week but
the House repulsed him and pushed il
through. They We're too many for the fiery
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