The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-04-18
THE DEAD LE01sL4TURE.
What They Haven't accomplishments
of the Bjlls Passed md Lost.

Of the Bills Passed and Lost.
TnENToN, April IL Since the TArrLEn
issued its last number the Legislature Of |
the State has closed up its not over worthy
career and the constituents of the sixty |
members Of the House draw a sigh Of re-
lief that such is the case. IT is with feel
ing of regret that the worthy citizens of |
the State contemplates the renewal of the |
session. The Court of Errors and Appeals |
NAV fail to dispose of the constitutionality |
Of the tax law Of 1884, at its special session |
in May; and if it does it may not SO decide |
as to require further legislation. Anything,
so long as to avoid any further legislation |
by tho body which has just disbanded. If
they do get together in sufficient numbers
to make tax laws by which the railroad
companies shall be compelled to pay their
"1sites" into the State treasury, it may be
set down here, forever, that the last state
of that legislation will be worse than the
first
While the House as q body was not up to
the average, there were some men in 1t
who, had they been in the maj ority, be
they Democrats or Republicans, could have
made record for the Legislature of 1886,
which would have shed its brilliancy over
SEINE of the dark pages of the history of
the State but unfortunately, they were in
vast minority, and its record, instead,
could gather light from the darkest pages
heretofore recorded. There were men,
too, who stood out in bold relief by reason
OF their strong tendencies in particular di-
rections. Wayne Parker, for instance, can
be designated as the king of the railroad
legislators; while Besson and Hudspeth,
both clear-headed and honest men, and
both-and we say it with a good deal of
pride from Hudson, made as good Az anti
monopolist team as ever graced the legis-
lative chambers. What has been "a
of the House, will apply also to the
Senate, except perhaps that there the
n G. men are in the minority. 1t has
been session of schoolboy luminosity,
however in this branch of the Legis atnre,
Indeed it has been season of 81 did
and g didn't" and g dare you to knock
the chip off my III ,ulder.' Here, though,
has presided man With dignity, with
brains, and a spirit of fairness withal, that
Is not always found embodied in the pre-
siding officer of this august body. Nichols
has been sore on Griggs all through the
session. just as ii it was Griggs's fan t that
his fellow-senaters saw fit to choose him as
their presiding officer. Griggs, os the con-
tfdfy, uha neNtI 81 iuucn do dppt1Icu "
notice Nicholas little thrusts at him. The
Holman of the Senate, Yousgblood, wends
his way home this Spring never to return,
sHd many is the man that wishes the same
we're true in the case of Freddy Fish. But
there's one satisfaction, he's only got one
year. He is positively the lightest manEin
either Hoase, and may be said to be all
sound and fary-and l should say nous
tache. I had almost forgotten that. and
yet to forget it is to forget what ears it
entirely. Thirteen long weeks have
elapsed since tn, Legisla ure convened,
during which about 500 bills made their
appearance in the House, and about 900 in
the Senate. Eight of the bills sent to the
Governor for approval were vetoed notably
among which was the famous Chase bill, a
Pennsylvania RAILROAD measure to prohibit
thu col siructon f bridge by the Bat
more q Ono Rallroad over ArLrur Kun.
This bill became law, Notwithstanding
the Governors objections, having been
passed over the veto. About $3.50, 900 was
appropriated by the Legislature as follows
For rebuilding the State House, $225, 600;
for Improvement of Trenton Lunati,
Asylum, 100000; for the Reform School,
SIS 1000; for Water, $1,000; for the construc-
ton to the memory of the fallen heroes at
sewerage in and around the Morris Plains
Asylum. $4,000; for sewerage in and
around the Deaf and Dumb Asylum,
5000; for a Soldiers Home, $50, 900; for
the Childrens Home, $4,000; for the H.
dustrlal School, $1,000. Among the moro
prominent bills passed we're Taxing prop
critics of corporations same as individuals
giving cities that now have nom, Boards of
Assessment two bills in the interest of the
West Shore Railroad; providing compen-
sation for the National Guard while in
camp empowering Freeholders to buy
private roads and bridges; Combining
State Prison contracts to State residents
Incorporating the Knights of Labor; Labor
Bill, providing for five arbitrator, whose
decision shall be final Electing Hoboken
City Treasurer for three years Register
ing dogs in cities /; Chase Railroad bill In
creasipg Hoboken police force Extending
the Registration Act to cities Of
5000; Authorizing bridge at Bergen Cut;
making the City Attorneys term five years;
authorizing a tunnel under the gap at
Washington street; permitting the Chancery
Clerk to reside anywhere in the State; in
creasing the pay Of police in cities; author
appropriating $1,000 annually for extra
perintendent; making mortgage records
evidence after 20 years; giving Police JUS
tees jurisdiction in all cases of vice and
immortality; limiting sewerage expenditures
in cities to $50, 0C0, $4,000, and $50 600,
according to population; author zing the
sale OF land in-fse for taxes; empowering
the release Of insane persons by County
Physicians; the General Board of Health
bill; abolishing Riparian Commissioner
(Ogilby); incidental bill; joint resolution
providing for the inquiry into the advisa-
bility of erecting strictly female prison
Nun of Kenmare's bill; requiring summary
investigation of city accounts on applica-
ton of Mayor; BessoL's Elevated Railroad
Bill; fiung the salary of the Prosecutor of
the Pleas of Hudson at 81, 900; Oleomar-
garine Commissions Bill; fixing Treasurer
Earle's clerks salary at ST. 500; amending
the Police and Fire Commissioners Act;
authorizing the Board of Finance of Jersey
City to increase City Clerk SCOTS clerical
force; regulating the salaries of law judges
according to population; authorizing the
construction of the Hudson County Boule-
ward; the Sorghum bounty bill; providing
for paid fire department in Hoboken; the
Elizabeth Council salary repeater; setting
off Elberon from Long Branch.
prominent bills lost: Constitutional Amend
ment 5 per cent bill; Morris and Essex Rail
road bill; County District Court bill; Paid
Fire Department bill; Grand Jury Clerks
bill; Washington Street Bridge bill; Limit
ing the amount for the publication of the
laws in newspapers to $50, 600; Anti Plate |
Law Printing bill; Prohibiting the employ
ment of convict and tramps on city inn
provements; Enabling County Boards to |
fix compensation of Canyassing Clerks;
Supplement to Pavonia Building and Loan
Association Act; Requiring the stamping of |
all goods made in the State Prison; Local |
Option bill; Warrent and Bridge bill; Cent |
mile bill; Repeating the Elizabeth Relief |
Commission bill of 1884; Noonan's Anti
Railroad Insurance bill; Making the terms
of office of Chosen Freeholders, two years;
Providing for High License; Marriage
License Law similar to the one recently |
passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature:
Authorizing the CONSTRUCTION of Shin |