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TRENTON NOTES.



The scheme is now for the House to
take recess during the progress Of the
Laverty trial.
County, had birthday party at his man.
sion at Tenafy the other evening.
The Prohibitionists will have State
Convention at Trenton May 26th, to nomi
nate q candidate for Governor.
Governor Abbett's veto of the Chase
bill plants him squarely against the DOM
nation Of the Pennsylvania Railroad in
State politics.
Major Peloubet says that his constit-
uents elected him with full knowledge
that he was opposed to the Washington
street bridge scheme.
How would Grub do az Republican
candidate for Office The name Is forcibly
suggestive Of the political loayes and fishes;
and that's what they are after
The naming of Minnie Schaffer's baby
after the two daughters Of Mr.. Laverty is
doubtless the work of some more ingenious
brain than that of the child's mother
The Newark Evening Nesos is authority
for the statement that the nav Washington
street bridge bill was introduced into the
Senate at the instance Of Gen. SeweIl.
These fellows that expect to seethe
legislative session prolonged away into May
will find that the country members have
some very decided opinions on that sub
ject.
lit is said that the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company have their agents around
the State buying up newspapers to aid
them in entering actively into New Jersey
politics.
-" Bill Potter, as the boys Familiarity
call him, who has been elected town asses
| sor Of Someryille for many successive
years, was defeated at the town elections
last week.
Now that the Hon. Terry Mcdonald
has got bis Paid Fire Department repeater
| through the House, he will probably have
the courage to call his constituents to
new conference.
MIR. Large showed himself to be very
small when he objected to in the Senate
Monday evening to allowing Senator Mich
OILS to put himself on record on a bill that
had been acted on during his absence.
Shoe Fly Herring's establishment must
be quite as gorgeous as his cravat He
says he keeps his cattle and horses-not
his horse but his horses, observe-in a
handso 0er building than even the Soldiers
Home at Newark. What grandeur But
then, perhaps, he lives up stairs
Keeper Laverty was served on Friday
with summons to appear before the Court
of impeachment on Monday morning and
answer the additional articles found against
him by the House last Thursday afternoon.
MIR. Laverty will have his answer prepared.
and will be prepared for trial ct that
time.
|
Senator Livingston asked Manager
Parker the other day whether or not the
managers would be prepared for trial next
tuesday. When Parker undertook to ex-
plain about the sickness of the strumpet.
minnie 6chatfer, Parker referred to her as
the SICK lady" s'Sick lohat did you say r.
asked Senator Livingston.
-Assemblymen Seymour and Noonau
don the black cap the moment they take
their places in the Assembly Chamber.
Inc black caps are not, however, of the
orthodox cut. They are designed to pro-
tect the weak points in their respective
heads from the i'll winds that play around
the Hudson corner Of the room.
Even miles of cranberry boys and
hundreds of thousands of money and
great personal beauty won't sometimes
save man from horse-whipping Here's
Uncle Eph. Emson switched the other day
by an indignant school-marm who didn't
like what he had been saying about her.
After ordering papers issued to certain
parties for admission to the floor of the
House, Speaker Armstrong ted GEORGE
Colfax to sign them ssBy order of the Ssr-
| geant-at-Arms, thus throwing the onus Of
denying gentlemen admission to the floor
| upon an inferior officer. But George Col
lax don't see it in that light and will not
| sign the passes.
| When the Senate had convened AZ a
Court last Tuesday morning and the an
1 pearance of the respondent was REQUIRED
President Griggs said, "The Sergeant-at-
Arms will call Patrick 81. Laverty." The
Sergeant, not up in his lesson, as Court
crIer, made an actual hunt through all the
committee rooms for Mr.. Laverty, In the
closets, under the tables, and in the Sena-
tors oyercoat pockets.
Gator wants special State Convention
to be held to declare against corruption.
with the idea that that will be erecting a
new issue into politics. A bigger novelty
would be party that would declare in
| favor of corruption. How can he expect
| to make platform for a third party when
either of the old parties would Guido
his convention in the vehemence of its
declarations in favor of political and official
| purity3
Governor Albeit very clearly shows.
IN his message vetoing the Chase bridge
bill that 1t has not been the policy of the
State, in times past, for her to hold for
her own use and enrichment the wealth Of
her great shore fro4t. That's the trouble
lhe State has given away her riches with
TOO free hand. Isn't it about time 10
INACCURATE the more selfish policy of hold
ing her natural advantages for all they are
worth, and Of exacting from those who
would use them the fullest possible measure
OF tribute?
Armstrong makes wonderful show of
holiness at the expense of the 'sThird
House.. But then the interests of his
friend, Culver Barcalow. Esq, of Somer-
| vile, are amply protected BY the desk
| s. Potter, also of Somerville. under the
/ thin guise that he is a newspaper man. Mr..
| Potter's business on the floor is to keen a
careful cord Of every bill, in its various
stages of progress to passage or defeat, not
| for newspaper use, but for the use of the
Pennsylvania Railroad lobby at Trenton.
And Armstrong knows it
There Is no piece of pending Lerisla-
| ton less necessary than that embodied in
Freddy Fish's bill giving the publication
of the public laws to some labor organ in
Newark. All newspapers are labor organs.
There is scarcely paper in the State that
has not a larger circle of labor readers than
readers of any other class, and labor or
gans are not seen by any readers who do
| not see and read the other prints, We are
willing to wager that the TATr1ER is read
by more laboring men than all the other
so-called labor organs in New Jersey have
on their lists.
The passage by the Senate of the act
fixing the rate of legal interest in New Jer-
sey at per cent. would be q fatal error
We say by the Senate, because the act has
already passed the House. We do not say
this alone, because the TATTLER is speak
ing for community of tradespeople who
are content to pay 6 or even more per
cent. for the use of money, but several of
our rural exchanges rise to remark that it