The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-05
SENATOR EVERITT KICKS
AND THE BILL STICKS.
The Jury Commission Repeater,
the Redistrieting Bill, and
Other Pending
Measures.
The werts Bill Adopted.

1He w eTtS tbIll kAQOpLcus
Especial to the Jersey city Ne,cs]
TRENTON, March 5, 1Ss9.-The Demo-
cratic joint caucus has just adopted
Bakers town option amendments to the
Werts bill 9Whether the dissatisfied MEM
bers of the House will vote for it is uncer
tain.
Especial to the jersey CITY Neiosl
TRENTON, March 4, 18s9.-Senator Moses
K. Everitt has come back from Hunter
don county with vigorous kick in the
shape of demand that the Werts' excise
bill shall be passed as amended by the
Democratic caucus, and without any
Baker founces. Senator Philip Pontius
Baker has brought those founces
back from Cumberland county in
the highest style of the type
writer's art and some pencilled in
terlineations of his own. Assembly
man Eliphalet Hoover has imported
an idea from Warren county that the
granting of licenses would be left to the
county courts. Then the neighbors could
say whether they wanted saloon among
them and whether one was needed, and
could thus secure practical local option.
Other members, doubtless, have sugges-
tiens, but the kick and the fiounces were
reasons enough why the Werts' bill was
not presented in the Senate tonight.
President Werts said privately that it
was down on the programme for the even
ing, but his manner added that he had
been disappointed before and might be
again. AT fifteen minutes to ten O'Clock a
recess was taken till ten, and the eleven
Democratic Senators crowded into COM
mittee room where Senator Baker took the
wrappings off his fiounces and exhibited
their graceful hang. Senator Eyeritt took
0ffh yf11-o raffrn
and expatiated on its vigor and stay
ing qualities. Senator Bogert did not stay
long in the room, but he explained that
while he did not believe In taxing grocery
stores as high as saloons, 1t was the heat
that drove him out 1t was hot. Senator
Baker complained of it, too, but the Re
publican Senators laughed afterward, and
said they were cool enough. The merits
of the kick and the fiounces were eX-
planned to the other Senators, who gave
the puzzle up for the evening.
HEATED AT TIMES.
The conference, it is understood, was
heated at times. Senator Everitt was ac-
cused of trifiing with the bill, and dis
position was manifested to stand no more
nonsense The final result is that DEM
ocratic caucus will be held tomorrow
and each member be put ON record,
whether he is a Democrat or an Independ-
ent Many of the Democrats speak bit
terly tonigif- their associates, though
there is s.-l hope of putting the bill
through Baker is one of the hopeful
The debate in the caucus tomorrow is
certain to be earnest. Even if Mr.. Everitt's
kick is restrained, Mr.. Hoover will offer
his idea as an amendment, and he says he
will press it in the House If it is rejected
in the caucus. The people down his way
he says, demand that the towns shall have
the same privileges as the cities. Mr.
Baker declines to give out the text OF his
amendments yet.
The Senate passed the repeater of the
Jury Commission bill A delegation of
Sheriffs was present to see the act DONE
The repeater gives the selection of jurors
back TO them. Tonight Assemblyman
Feeney is sending dispatches to absentees
calling ON them to come to Trenton to put
the bill through the House.
THE REDIsrRICTING BILL.
The Redistricting bill was ordered to
third reading i'll the Senate with less of q
Republican howl than had been expected
Senator Gardner, the Republican leader
went through the same old performance
of describing it full of glaring inequali-
ties; but Senator Edwards, through whose
hands it passed, cited figures to show that
the bill had been drawn up with the
greatest fairness. One Illustration was
district in Hudson county, where 5000
votes were required to elect a Democrat,
county, on occasion, $500 votes elected a
Republican. All such inequalities were
done away with. The bill will pass the
Senate, but there may be trouble in the
House. Among other reasons, Frank Nc
Dermit's district has become Republican,
while he would like to continue to sport
his diamond headlight in the Legislature.
The House is used to sensations 1t
likes sensations and Is fond of fun, which
sometimes is carried pretty far. But to-
night it proved that it did draw the line
somewhere Rev. Mr.. Lucas, of Trenton,
is on the other side of that line. This
gentleman had one of his parishioners on
trial here last week on charge of libel
and the jury acquitted the parishioner
The papers printed as much of the testi-
mony as they could, but the part
that was omitted was also the
in the saloons and on street corners. With
the black eye administered by the jury,
Rev Mr. Lucas was invited to open the
session of the House with prayer. Will
I. Scudder, member of the Committee
on Clergy, is given the credit of the sug
gestion. Speaker Hudspeth, may not be
as great in the pulpit as he is in the
Speakers chair, but he objected strongly
to the selection, and so did other members.
The result was that it was intimated to
Rev Mr. Lucas that his services would
not be acceptable. The praying was done
by JOnQUntn CODle, UIe meuDef lrOIu
Ocean who resembles Neptune in gen
eral way.
AS sunshine follows storm, joy followed
grief in the House tonight The merry
sound of wedding bells drove away mem
ories of a funeral dirge; the lilies and
roses strewn in fancy over the bier of
bride had scarcely fallen when orange bios
SONS were scattered in honor of bride
BY rising vote, with sympathetic coun-
tenances, the members adopted a resolu-
ton expressing their sense Of the loss met
with bv their colleague, Edward p. Far
rell Then, with shouts of laughter, they
congratulated their colleague, Daniel M.
Kane, who has just been married.
The last of the course of entertainments
held under the auspices of the Young
Mems Christian Association will be held
at the Second Presbyterian Church, Thurs
day evening, March IA. The New York
University Glee Club will entertain the
audience.